28 July 2010
Tips/Tricks
Front-end old-style terminal interface, for web services like those provided by Google and Yahoo.
command
aliases
parameters
function
web
(search,s,w)
[keywords]
google web search
news
(n)
[keywords]
google news search
more
(m)
get more results
blogs
(blog,b)
[keywords]
google blog search
read
(rss,r)
<url>
read feed of url
feeds
(feed,f)
[keywords]
google feed search
place
(places,map,p)
[address]
google maps search
translate
(trans,t)
[lang1] [lang2] <words>
google translation
images
(image,i)
[keywords]
google image search
video
(videos,v)
[keywords]
google video search
clear
(c)
clear the screen
wiki
(wikipedia)
[keywords]
wikipedia search
help
(man,h,?)
[command]
displays help text
cd
<command>
change mode
site
(in)
<url> <keywords>
search in a specific website
open
(o)
<url>
open url in new …
16 July 2010
Applications,Foresight,Linux,Tips/Tricks
There are many applications out there for Linux that can import to your computer. But we will list 3 of them, probably the best 3 open sourced applications out there today.
F-Spot
F-Spot supports 16 common files types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, and others.
Import your photos from your hard drive, camera (including …
18 April 2010
Applications,Foresight,Linux,Tips/Tricks
More and more users, specially Linux users are starting to use Chromium instead of Firefox.
So here is a list of useful plugins that I use:
If you use Google Reader and don’t want to use anything else for RSS feeds, then use these:
Google reader RSS Subscriber
Google Reader Checker or Google Reader Notifier …
9 October 2009
Tips/Tricks
This book has been built by dozens of people in the Git community, and is meant to help you learn how to use Git as quickly and easily as possible.
To read it online: http://book.git-scm.com
Or download in pdf format: http://book.git-scm.com/book.pdf
8 October 2009
Developing,Foresight,Tips/Tricks
Read about Gnome-Shell – Bleeding edge + installation too.
The GNOME Shell redefines user interactions with the GNOME desktop. In particular, it offers new paradigms for launching applications, accessing documents, and organizing open windows in GNOME. Later, it will introduce a new applets eco-system and offer new solutions for other desktop …