Linux category
Feb 09
Scribus is an desktop open source page layout program with the aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF and Postscript, primarily, though not exclusively for Linux. While the goals of the program are for ease of use and simple easy to understand tools, Scribus offers support for professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, more »
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Feb 08
Windows equivalent : CuteFTP, SmartFTP Ubuntu equivalent : FileZilla FileZilla is free, open source, cross-platform FTP software, consisting of FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It supports FTP, SFTP, and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS).
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Feb 06
Windows equivalent : Adobe Photoshop, Paint.Net Ubuntu equivalent : GIMP Basic GIMP GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and more »
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Dec 19
Windows equivalent : 3D Studio MAX Ubuntu equivalent : Blender Blender is a professional-level 3D-modelling application, capable of helping you to produce photo-realistic results. It has many advanced features, and can handle the animation, rendering, post-production and interactive playback of your models.
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Dec 16
Microsoft Visio is a diagram program for Microsoft Windows that uses vector graphics. An application program that replaces the open source operating system is DIA. Dia can be used to create several types of diagrams and flowcharts. She has special objects to make relationships between models (tedia2sql can be used to create SQL DDL), Unified more »
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Dec 15
Screenlets is the name of both a set of independently-developed widget applications and the widget engine which runs them. The engine runs primarily on X11-based compositing window managers, most notably with Compiz on Linux. Like Google Gadgets for windows. Installing sudo apt-add-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install screenlets
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Dec 12
Some time ago I came into possession of a smartphone, cheaper it is true, but it does its job. The thing that attracted me to it it’s Android, at that time was version 1.6, and as a Linux user I had some pleasure to do some tests with this acquisition. As in title this smartphone was bought from Orange and it has a custom Android default image based on Android 1.6 . more »
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Nov 18
Windows equivalent : MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger, QQ, AIM, Gtalk, ICQ,IRC Ubuntu equivalent : Empathy, Pidgin, Emesene Empathy is an instant messaging client which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM protocols. Empathy is installed by default on Ubuntu, however you may want to make sure you have the latest more »
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Nov 14
AbiWord is a free and open source software word processor. It was originally started by SourceGear Corporation as the first part of a proposed AbiSuite. Development stopped when SourceGear changed their focus to Internet appliances. AbiWord was adopted by some open source developers and AbiWord continued to be developed. AbiWord supports both basic word processing more »
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Nov 10
After a while I hit the need to make some savings in the life of the monitor to shut down before waiting closing time. I searched the internet and found a way to make buttons (shortcuts) on the screen or the menu, and accessing them to bring my laptop to the desired state.
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