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Trying to get the best out of Get-You

By • Feb 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video

Get-You is a free and open source tool for Mac, Windows and Linux, that provides video clips from various channels like YouTube, DailyMotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Yahoo-Video, GoogleVideo, Metacafe, Netlog, ContsantComedy etc. It is no cutting edge project, no, better get Miro, but it’s worth a try — Often the video you’re searching for is not […]

Ubuntu:Complete your XBMC Media Center with YouTube Playlists and Give it Better Looks with XBMC Skin Manager

By • Feb 14th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia, Open-Source

XBMC Media Center (formerly XBox Media Center) is a free and open source application for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Xbox, that can turn your Ubuntu 8.04 LTS or 8.10 into a veritable media center platform, with video playback, streaming video, audio, images, playlist playback, slideshows and more. – If you’ve been using Microsoft’s […]

Ubuntu: How to send Text Messages with Skype for Linux

By • Feb 5th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Voip

For several reasons, I often prefer sending text messages to making a call – Text messages often give me a sense of privacy and discreetness especially at work. Being a huge Skype user, the absence of this feature for the Linux version of Skype has always been a problem… Skype is neither open source nor […]

Ubuntu: CCleaner Cleans-Up your Browsers and Applications running in Wine

By • Jan 24th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source

Ubuntu+Wine: I just asked myself, if CCleaner is such a powerful tool in Windows, cleaning your Internet Cache, Cookies, Internet History, removing temporary and unnecessary log files and more, then why can’t it do the same with the browsers and applications I run on Wine in my Ubuntu desktop – Ubuntu 8.04

Blue-tify your Ubuntu Looks with Blubuntu

By • Jan 19th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

Tired of the default brown theme Ubuntu packs-up? If you don’t want to waist time looking for an efficient and well polished alternative, then get Blubuntu. It simply beats the default brown theme, and turns every thing blue, including your desktop and if you want, your Login Window.