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 […]
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Sometimes we find a file in our filesystem with a weird non realistic name, which was probably created by mistake. There can be hundreds of reasons why this file got created but due to its unique uncharacteristic name its almost impossible to delete the file in the usual way(right click delete or rm on command […]
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Managing Collections with Tellico
Image by *Luana* via Flickr Tellico is a versatile collection manager for Linux. The KDE based application is designed to handle almost any type of perceivable collection and convert it to a easily manageable solution. If you have a huge collection of movies, music, books, comics ect and regularly lend them out, Tellico is the […]
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Playing DVDs in Ubuntu
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 […]
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 […]