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Speed up your Downloads with JDownloader

By • Jul 23rd, 2012 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

JDownloader is a java-based download management tool that completely automates the downloading process in popular file sharing sites like Rapidshare and Megaupload. It offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, it can circumvent captcha, auto-reconnect and let you “pause” downloads where its not permitted.

Nitro To-Do List Manager for Ubuntu

By • May 18th, 2012 • Filed under: Google Chrome & Chromium, Open-Source, Ubuntu

If you’re looking for a utility that’s more powerful than a text editor but is still light on your system then consider Nitro, a basic, free to-do lists manager that offers Dropbox and Ubuntu One Synchronization. Nitro also supports Smart Lists – lists based on self-defined criteria, easy editing and Quick Search. It’s clean interface […]

How-to Install SopCast in Ubuntu

By • May 18th, 2012 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu

This simple guide can be used to install SopCast in Ubuntu 11.10, 12.04 Precise Pangolin, 12.10 Quantal and later versions of Ubuntu. SopCast player adopts the P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology to broadcast video and audio over the Internet. I’ve written about Sopcast on previous occasions;  here and here. Then installing SopCast in your Ubuntu was a little […]

How to install Miro 5 in Ubuntu

By • May 5th, 2012 • Filed under: Freeware, Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) has released the next major version of Miro open video downloader and player. Miro 5.0 adds several improvements other concerning video playback. “The latest release of Miro will allow you to clean up your music collection by changing titles like Track 01 to their real title with a single click! […]

How to install Cisco VPN client on Ubuntu

By • Mar 10th, 2012 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

This is a quick guide on how to get Cisco VPN client on Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 and future versions. All you need to install is the NetworkManager that includes support for Cisco IPSec VPN. Launch your command-line interface or terminal and copy and paste the underlying code; sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc It installs network-manager-vpnc, […]