Linux Tips and Tricks
Getting your Linux box to use Bluetooth could lead to many issues, there are many solutions out there and these solutions usually differ with the Linux distro. Using my old Motorola A1000 and with this guide from ars technica at hand, I succeeded in getting my phone Bluetooth-connected with my Ubuntu Desktop, using a Bluetooth adapter given that my old Sony Vaio doesn’t have an embedded Bluetooth support – I now download and upload video, mp3 and more
Following the two solutions offered by ars technica, I found the OBEX file transfers in Nautilus solution easier even though it does not provide full access to phone’s files – with Obex you can’t access your phone’s address book.
The Bitpim solution is a bit more tedious and unreliable but it gives you full access to your device – Bitpim is very powerful and unstable so take care when you use it.
All these are Open Source/Linux solutions that permit you to use just one package and access most of your Bluetooth phones.
If there are other solutions out there let us know in the comments.
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The web application formerly known as Webrunner, now Prism is available as a prototype for download. The Prism prototype provides a cross-platform way to integrate Web applications with the desktop environment by making it possible to launch them as a separate process. Each of your favourite web applications or web site could have a launcher on your desktop or applications menu, and they would all run on different windows without toolbars. More»
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Whilst in Windows the Swap is a file, in Linux systems it is a partition and this partition is very important to the system when it needs more memory(RAM) than it is physically present. It is often said that 512MB of RAM in Linux is equivalent to 1024 RAM in Windows – this is also because of the big hand the Swap space gives to the memory. A complete guide on how to configure your Swap has been provided by Linux.com. The major advise they give is to make your Swap partition twice that of the physical memory – but not bigger than 2GB. So if you have 256MB of physical memory then get 512MB of Swap space.
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DownloadHelper is a Firefox extension offers and easy and alternative way to download your favourite video from sites like MySpace, Google video, DailyMotion, YouTube etc. It also extracts audio and picture galleries.
DownloadHelper signals to you with an animated icon 
what video you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. If you find yourself on a page with a video you could instantly download that video using the menu of DownloadHelper. More»
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Tracker is an efficient, lightweight, search tool and indexer. It trawls through your hard drive to index existing files and data stores so that they could easily be found.
Tracker is an object database, these objects can also have extensible user defined metadata and tags to create rich first class objects.
Tracker does on your disk what Google does on Internet. To find a file it is enough to remember the something the file’s metadata contains. More»
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what video you could download; by simply clicking on the menu beside the DownloadHelper icon. If you find yourself on a page with a video you could instantly download that video using the menu of DownloadHelper. 
