Subscribe via RSS

Social

www.flickr.com
Clicking on these helps me out

Search Site
Hobby Photography
Twitter
Amazon Stuff

Entries in linuxapps (12)

Thursday
Jul302009

Firefox Screen Space on Netbooks

Got a netbook computer? No doubt you struggle to get more screen real estate while using your web browser. If you are using Firefox in Windows or Ubuntu, here's a small tip to give a little more screen space than the default "full screen mode". Mozilla does not support this on their site.

However, there's an extension called Autohide, that gives you more control over which toolbars to show/hide/autohide when in your browsing sessions. Once you install it go to Tools -> Add-ons -> Extensions -> Autohide -> Options to configure it.

Download - Autohide

Wednesday
Jun102009

Linux based Backup/Cloning Applications

Having already covered cloning and backup solutions for OSX and Windows, here are some Linux based solutions I use from time to time.

My favorite Open Source solution is by far Clonezilla. Clonezilla allows you to do bare metal backups/Images and restoration of partitions/volumes or whole drive duplication. It comes in 2 flavors, Clonezilla Live, and Clonezilla SE (server edition) for massive deployment supporting multicast. It supports ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, xfs, jfs of GNU/Linux, FAT, NTFS of MS Windows, and HFS+ for the Mac OS. Providing maximum flexibilty for cloning GNU/Linux, MS windows and Intel-based Mac OS.

Click to read more ...

Wednesday
Jun032009

Run Linux from USB drives

UNetbootin, is a unique little application for Windows and Linux users. It allows the creation of bootable USB drives loaded with your choice of the various Linux distro's available alonside other utilities.

Choose any of the distro's provided via the application download, or simply provide your own .iso image. A computer running Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista, or Linux is required.

UNetbootin Website

Thursday
May212009

RadicalCodex - For eBooks & Digital Comics

In the past I have used ComicbookLover for archiving and viewing my collection of digital comic books. It's an excellent application, however it is (OSX only). Increasingly, I have been aggregating a growing number of documents and ebooks in the form of Text & PDF's in addition to the comics. So I've been looking for a more versatile cross-platform solution that can handle & organize such tasks.

Enter RadicalCodex, an eBook and digital Comic Book reader ,organizer, syncer and converter.

RadicalCodex currently supports .txt, .pdf, .cbr, .cbz, .zip, .rar and supports conversions to Amazon's Kindle & the Sony's PRS-505.

The software costs $19.95 to register, and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. You can find the different versions at:

Thursday
May142009

Recover your lost Data

Have you ever accidentally deleted some data files? Ever pull out your memory card from your camera, only to find that the pictures somehow got corrupted once inserted into your computer? Maybe you deleted a partition?

Most of the time, your data is still there. Unless you have already written over it, the table of contents has been corrupted or the location to your deleted file is gone. There are several data recovery tools to help you in such a case. Best of all, they're free

If your data loss is due to something a bit more complicated like a bad or missing sector, then you may want to try Spinrite from GRC. It's not free ($89.00). However, short of real physical damage, this tool can sometimes bring hard drives back from death. Well worth its price.