Image via Wikipedia Choqok the new and impressive micro-blogging client for KDE is one of the best clients for microblogging sites. The tool available via the default repositories of Ubuntu does not support the latest OAuth authentication of Twiiter. This means that it wont be able to connect to twitter. You will need the latest […]
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htop is a simple and wonderful tool to view the current memory usage on a Linux box. The tool is upgraded version of the top command, providing users some interactive menus and even mouse based control of sorting and menu access. To install htop on your ubuntu system, execute the following command in a console: […]
KleanSweep is a wonderful application to help you clean up the unnecessary files from your computer. KleanSweep searches and finds Empty files and directories, Broken Symlinks, Backup files, Orphaned Files, Dead menu entries, Obsolete thumbnails and Duplicated files. Using KleanSweep is as straight forward as choosing what you are searching for and selecting the directory […]
Grub is the default boot loader for Ubuntu and it comes with a huge set of options that you might be inclined to tweek when ever you choose to debug a problem during bootup. The simple quickfire way to make Grub do what you want is to edit it just before the boot process occurs […]
Ubuntu has a neat application to split large files into smaller chunks(for emails or to burn into disks). The application splits files into the format <filename>.<extension>.<part>. The same application can be used to rejoin the files to recreate the original larger file. Spliting: To be able to split file you need the application “lxsplit”. It […]