Clipgrab is an program that downloads videos from popular online video sites like youtube, vimeo ect and saves the video in the format of your choice. The application is very straight forward to use and provides a good set of options that make it easy for the user to customize their download. Clipgrab requires the […]
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: […]
Image via Wikipedia Ubuntu by default does not play encrypted DVDs. This is because most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System), which restricts the software that can play a DVD. To enable you must install the libdvdcss2 package to allow Ubuntu to play DVDs. For that you need to run the following […]
Kepas is a KDE4 file transfer tool. It discovers your local LAN for buddies (KDNSSD) and lets you transfer files or Klipper(KDE Clipboard) entries from a tray icon or using drag and drop with the Kepas plasmoid. Kepas has only one requirement, that it must be installed in all the systems that are expected to […]
While updating a Debian based system, you may encounter an error as follows: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2836CB0A8AC93F7A This is a feature of the apt-get package manager that checks the authenticity of servers while updating Debian. It just means […]