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F.lux: software to make your life better
During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.
monitor  software  windows  macosx  linux  screen  color  light 
june 2011 by roel
Linux Chrome now with Flash & extensions « ☠ I could not think of a blog title ☠
The Linux version of Chrome has been coming along fairly quickly, the latest build of Chrome for Linux now works with Flash and has extension support. It is also possible to configure the options (although there are still some TODO stubs so setting a proxy isn’t possible). Tested under Ubuntu 9.04 64bit.
linux  ubuntu  browser  flash  chrome  ppa  chromium  howto 
july 2009 by roel
KeePass Password Safe
KeePass, the free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
password  passwords  manager  software  application  linux  windows  opensource  mac  privacy  tools  security  utilities 
july 2009 by roel
Thèmes
Some nice Ubuntu Themes (aka Gnome themes).
ubuntu  linux  themes  gnome  desktop  design 
july 2009 by roel
Spotify under Wine - Spotify
This article documents how to run the Windows version of Spotify in Linux, using Wine. The installation instructions are specific for Debian, but might work without problem in Ubuntu and the general instructions might apply for all system capables of running Wine. It runs fine on FreeBSD 7 too.
spotify  linux  howto  ubuntu  debian  wine  streaming  audio  tips 
june 2009 by roel
OpenTTD
OpenTTD is an Open Source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe
software  opensource  mac  windows  linux  games  osx 
june 2009 by roel
Shutter - Featureful Screenshot Tool
Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website - apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.
software  tools  application  ubuntu  opensource  screenshots  utilities  linux 
march 2009 by roel
HOWTO: Run Ubuntu 8.10 On the Asus Eee PC 1000 | Just Well Mixed
The Eee 1000 comes preloaded with a special customized version of Xandros Linux, but since I run Ubuntu at home I wanted to do the same on my Eee. This turned out to be a little more complicated than I’d hoped it would be, since the bundled Xandros has been tuned by Asus to work with the Eee’s hardware, and generic Ubuntu has not. Now that I’ve got these issues resolved, I thought I’d write up how I did it in case it might help others who want to do the same thing.
linux  howto  ubuntu  eee  netbook  eeepc 
march 2009 by roel
Battle for Wesnoth
The Battle for Wesnoth is a free, turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme. Build up a great army of humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, trolls or any of the other races and beat those who dare to oppose you. Fight a desperate battle to reclaim the throne of Wesnoth, or take hand in any number of other adventures...
software  windows  games  macosx  linux  videogames  strategy  turn-based  rpg 
january 2009 by roel
Go-OO - Your Office Suite
Go-oo has built in OpenXML import filters and it will import your Microsoft Works files. Compared with up-stream OO.o, it has better Microsoft binary file support (with eg. fields support), and it will import WordPerfect graphics beautifully. If you are reliant on Excel VBA macros - then Go-oo offers the best macro fidelity too. If you expect your spreadsheets to calculate compatibly, or you get embedded Visio diagrams in your documents, you'll want Go-oo.
windows  opensource  openoffice  linux  software  tools  spreadsheet  wordprocessor  application 
november 2008 by roel
Pingus - Welcome
Pingus is a free Lemmings-like game covered under the GNU GPL. It features currently 22 playable levels and runs under a wide variety of operating systems (Linux, Windows, etc.)
windows  osx  linux  games  software  opensource  macosx 
november 2008 by roel
About Incognito - Incognito LiveCD
Incognito is an open source LiveDistro based on Gentoo Linux assisting you to securely and anonymously use the Internet almost anywhere you go, e.g. your home, work, university, favourite Internet café or local library. Incognito can be used from either a CD or a USB drive and has several Internet applications (Web browser, IRC client, Mail client, Instant messenger, etc.) pre-configured with security in mind, and all Internet traffic will be anonymized.
anonymity  privacy  linux  operatingsystem  livecd  usb 
november 2008 by roel
Ubuntu: A User's Look at Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Author Keir Thomas has dropped by with an end-user's perspective on the all-new Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). This is something Keir knows all about, having written two best-selling books about Ubuntu: Beginning Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu Kung Fu (recently excerpted here).
ubuntu  linux  lifehacker  review  userexperience  usability  users 
november 2008 by roel
BBC Internet Blog
This week, we're really happy to be sharing some work we've commissioned to deliver BBC content (mainly radio shows from the BBC Audio & Music team) on demand for users of GNU/Linux.
linux  ubuntu  bbc  video  audio  application  content  totem 
october 2008 by roel
Color Management in a Nutshell « Linux Photography
The idea behind Color Management (CM) is to define colors in a device-independent way, that is: what you have on your screen would look (as much as possible) the same on someone else’s screen or printed on your printer. Think about the problem this way: the “most green” color on your screen can be quite different from the “most green” color on your printer, so how do we cope?
colormanagement  linux  photography  image-editing  print  screen  colourmanagement 
october 2008 by roel
Decibel Audio Player Homepage
Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL license) audio player designed for GNU/Linux, which aims at being very straightforward to use by mean of a very clean and user friendly interface.
ubuntu  software  opensource  linux  player  audio  music  application 
october 2008 by roel
How to make Picasa default photo manager in Ubuntu
I found a great tip at the Ubuntu communities Picasa page demonstrating how to use the Nautilus file manager as Picasa’s default.
ubuntu  picasa  linux  photography 
october 2008 by roel
The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time
The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between the Palace Museum and IBM. The goal of the project is to provide the means for a world-wide audience to celebrate and explore aspects of Chinese culture and history.
software  linux  virtualworld  china  history  fun 
october 2008 by roel
How to Use more than 3GB RAM on 32-bit Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Geek
Currently It seems that the current 32 bit editions of Ubuntu can only take advantage of 3GB (sometimes a little more) of physical memory. Desktops and gaming rigs using 6 and 8 GB of RAM are ubiquitous now.I am having a ubuntu desktop with 5GB RAM and i want to use all the available memory for gaming.
ubuntu  tweak  memory  linux  tips 
october 2008 by roel
Håvard Berland : NEF Workflow, D70/D70s on Linux/Unix
This document describes my own workflow for processing RAW pictures from D70s to my linux computer. All steps here should work equally well on D70 and on other operating systems as long as you are able to install the software needed.
workflow  raw  photography  linux  nikon  photo  software 
october 2008 by roel
oiepoie » Working with Nikon RAW (.nef) photo’s on Linux
After a little bit of searching on Google i discovered that a Nikon NEF image contains four JPG images, so you don't need to convert the NEF to JPG, but you can just extract the desired jpg image from the NEF file.
raw  photography  nikon  linux 
october 2008 by roel
Use ColorVision Spyder to produce an ICC monitor profile under ArgyllCMS / Linux « Linux Photography
OK, I was very enthusiastic in my last entry to see my Spyder calibration device supported in ArgyllCMS. So much that I didn’t read any documentation and just typed the first command that I came across and behold, my Spyder started measuring patches. Great! However, typing the first command I came across didn’t quite produce a working icc profile.
calibration  colourmanagement  photography  image-editing  hardware  monitor  display  color  colormanagement  linux  ubuntu  howto  tips 
october 2008 by roel
Gears FAQ - Gears API - Google Code
How do I run Gears on my 64-bit system? There are two ways to do so.
gears  google  linux  64bit 
october 2008 by roel
Google Gears in 64-bit Linux
As per the time of writing, Google Gears is not available for 64 bit Linux. As it is open sourced, some smart people at it’s user group has been able to create an unofficial patch to fix the problem and released the binary for it.
google  gears  linux  64bit 
october 2008 by roel
Ubuntu Kung Fu | The Pragmatic Bookshelf
Ubuntu’s rise to power has been rapid, historic and well-deserved. It’s the best Linux distribution ever, but most people only use a fraction of its power. Award-winning Linux author Keir Thomas gets down and dirty with Ubuntu to provide over 300 concise tips that enhance productivity, avoid annoyances, and simply get the most from Ubuntu. You’ll find many unique tips here that can’t be found anywhere else.
ubuntu  linux  learn  howto  books  reference  tips 
september 2008 by roel
Evolution Mail - Reply with templates | BeezNest
Welcome the “Templates” plug-in for Evolution. The plugin has been developed by Diego Escalante from our specifications and you can just install it as a Debian/Ubuntu package and activate it in Evolution. From then on, a new directory called “Templates” is created in your main/local e-mail box. Feed any e-mail there and it will appear in the “Reply with template” menu when you right-click on an e-mail.
evolution-mail  ubuntu  linux  plugin  application  software  gnome 
september 2008 by roel
Linux color management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux color management has the same goal as the color management systems (CMS) for other operating systems: to achieve the best possible color reproduction throughout an imaging workflow from its source (camera, video, scanner…), onto imaging software (CinePaint, Digikam, GIMP, Krita, Scribus ...) and finally its output (monitor, video projector, printer...). In particular, color management attempts to support WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You GET)) on-screen previewing (soft-proofing) ability for color work such as retouching prior to printing.
photography  ubuntu  linux  photo  monitor  colourmanagement  colour 
september 2008 by roel
How To: Use a Bluetooth Phone to Lock/Unlock Ubuntu
An intrepid user at the Ubuntu Forums has detailed the installation and setup of BlueProximity, a free Linux app that turns a Bluetooth phone into a proximity-based security device for your computer. Yes, that's exactly how it sounds: Your laptop locks itself down when you step a certain distance away, and opens again once you're in range.
ubuntu  software  security  mobile  linux  lifehacker  bluetooth 
september 2008 by roel
.:: thin liquid film - main page ::.
thin liquid film (TLF) is an application which allows linux users to quickly and easily convert video files into a format suitable for playing on the video capable ipods.
video  ubuntu  linux  ipod  opensource  software  application 
september 2008 by roel
FrontPage - XreaL Wiki
XreaL will be a non-commercial multiplayer only first person shooter based on a heavily modified Quake 3 Arena engine (id Tech 3). The aim is to push the rendering technology until it can be compared with current commercial titles and then to produce a playable Total Conversion.
linux  game  programming  gaming 
september 2008 by roel
SourceForge.net: DiscSpan
DiscSpan allows you to backup a directory of files to multiple DVDs on the Linux platform. If you had 20GB of photos, it would prompt you for 5 DVDs. It performs the backup at the file-level, meaning that a complete copy of each file is stored on a disc.
linux  backup  dvd  photography  application  software 
september 2008 by roel
pyTivo - Trac
pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video to the TiVo. However, pyTivo is able to load MANY more file types than TiVo Desktop.
linux  tv  pvr  multimedia  movies  mediacenter  software 
september 2008 by roel
The World According to Marcus Furius » Furius Video Converter
This project is a simple command line interface designed to easily operate ffmpeg the “hyper fast video and audio encoder” to facilitate the encoding of videos in Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible formats on a Linux system.
commandline  terminal  linux  encoding  video  ipod  script  application 
september 2008 by roel
gotoandlearn.com - Getting Started With AIR on Linux
Getting Started With AIR on Linux - In this tutorial Mike Chambers explains the basics of how to get setup with AIR on Linux
video  tutorial  linux  air  adobeair 
september 2008 by roel
LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts.
You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do.
unix  tutorial  terminal  tips  tools  ubuntu  linux 
september 2008 by roel
Blueman Project - News
Blueman is a full featured graphical bluetooth manager for Linux.
linux  wireless  ubuntu  software  application  bluetooth  connectivity 
august 2008 by roel
Get-You in Launchpad
Get-You is a tool for downloading, searching and watching videos from videosites like Youtube, Dailymotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Yahoo-Video, Google-Video, Myspace-Video and many more!
download  youtube  video  online  application  software  linux  windows  mac 
august 2008 by roel
Show us your .bashrc! - Ubuntu Forums
"I've only recently started playing with the ~/.bashrc file and want more ideas to play with. Please share your bashrc file and show all of us what cool and handy things you can do with bash."
linux  bash  tips  ubuntu  forum 
august 2008 by roel
Linux - Lifehacker
Posts Tagged “Linux” @ Lifehacker
linux  lifehacker  tips  howto 
august 2008 by roel
rubyripper - Google Code
Rubyripper is a front-end application written in Ruby (well, duh) that, like most other linux CD rippers, uses cdparanoia. It differs from most of them because it “tries to deliver a secure rip by ripping the same track multiple times, and correcting any differences”.
linux  software  audio  ripping  encode  opensource  application  mp3 
august 2008 by roel
Feature: Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux
You love working inside your Linux desktop, but at the most inconvenient times you've got to reboot into Windows—whether to open a tricky Office file, try out a Windows application, or even just play a quick game. However, with some free tools and a Windo
windows  xp  virtualization  virtualbox  ubuntu  tutorial  howto  linux 
august 2008 by roel
Index of /~swolchok/gears
A directory with builds of Google Gears for 64bit Linux.
google  gears  firefox  software  addons  64bit  linux  ubuntu 
august 2008 by roel
30 Gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu experience
A list of nice themes for a Gnome linux desktop.
ubuntu  linux  themes  gnome  desktop 
july 2008 by roel
Linux.com :: Using Adobe Flash and other 32-bit applications on 64-bit Linux
The easiest way to do this is probably just installing 32bit Firefox and the aconmpanying plugins.
linux  debian  ubuntu  howto  java  flash  firefox 
july 2008 by roel
Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard - Make Tech Easier
You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.
ubuntu  linux  mac  desktop  theme  howto  gnome  customization 
july 2008 by roel
Main Page - VikingWiki
Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show Google maps and/or Terraserver maps under it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position,
gps  linux  maps  software  application  opensource 
july 2008 by roel
Webcams that just work with Ubuntu Linux
Murray found a webcam that seamlessly works with the latest Ubuntu.
camera  hardware  linux  ubuntu  video 
july 2008 by roel
[all variants] Comprehensive Multimedia & Video How-to - Ubuntu Forums
A very complete howto explaining what you need to do to convert a new Ubuntu install into a pc that plays all types of multimedia.
ubuntu  howto  multimedia  linux  software  media 
july 2008 by roel
Ubuntu Productivity » Blog Archive » Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment
I have a passion for photography and have become heavily entrenched in the tools available on Mac OS X, such as Aperture and Photoshop. This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow wit
photography  linux  ubuntu  software  raw  photo  editor  application  management 
july 2008 by roel
The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Ubuntu Kung Fu
Ubuntu’s rise to power has been rapid, historic and well-deserved. It’s the best Linux distribution ever, but most people only use a fraction of its power. Award-winning Linux author Keir Thomas gets down and dirty with Ubuntu to provide over 300 conc
ubuntu  linux  book  tips  howto 
july 2008 by roel
Referencer
Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file.
bibliography  linux  gnome  opensource  reference  software  application 
july 2008 by roel
Home - SVG Icons - o7a.net
As the most used open vectorial format, SVG is more and more required by GNU/Linux desktop environments for icons. However it is rather laborious to find a software svg icon on the web. That's why, with the few of means I have, I created this website.
svg  icons  linux  desktop  graphics  icon 
july 2008 by roel
Glom - Glom
With Glom you can design database systems - the database and the user interface. The design is loosely based on FileMaker Pro, but with a separate database server. Its simple framework should be enough to implement most database applications.
database  linux  gui  postgresql  gnome  software  applications  business  data 
july 2008 by roel
computertip - Ubuntu Linux 8.04
Tips en trucs voor beginners met Ubuntu Linux 8.04
linux  ubuntu  tips  howto  nederlands 
june 2008 by roel
Six Annoyances in Hardy Heron Ubuntu
I’m a huge fan of Ubuntu Linux. I’ve used many flavors of Linux over the years, and Ubuntu is my favorite by far. So it pains me to write this. For my needs, Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is worse than 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). I cannot recommend Hardy Heron a
ubuntu  linux  review  hardyheron  software  usability  article 
may 2008 by roel
Linuxart » Blog Archive » Super-useful inputrc
All lines except the last enable nice readline & bash cursor movement (control + arrow keys and what not) while the last line turns on case insensitivity for tab-completion, enabling you to have folders and files of mixed case characters while not having
bash  linux  shell  tips  unix  configuration  mac 
may 2008 by roel
Backups
Straightforward backup advice
backup  howto  rsync  mac  linux  computer  data  tutorial  unix 
may 2008 by roel
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer
With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation and performin
linux  ubuntu  usability  design  experiment  article  blog  consumer  computer  desktop  gui  research 
may 2008 by roel
User:Apachelogger/Project Neon - Amarok Wiki
Project Neon is the codename for an Amarok internal all mighty project, aiming to provide nightly binary packages of the most recent Amarok code base. It makes the current development easily available for everyone.
music  player  amarok  linux  application  software  beta 
may 2008 by roel
What's new in 8.04 | Ubuntu
Hardy Heron (aka Ubuntu 8.04) offers new features, and a lot of improvements.
ubuntu  linux 
april 2008 by roel
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