Posts Tagged ‘ Softwares ’

Generate Hardware Information on Linux!!!

You can generate a nice report (HTML or XML format) of your laptop/desktop hardware information by executing this command: lshw -html > sysinfo.html You may need to install it first… For Debian and Ubuntu users installation is simple.. sudo aptitude install lshw You can find the detailed information about lshw from the following page: http://www.ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter [ READ MORE ]

Why is Software Development Addicting???

So what is it about software development that interests geeks like us….. After putting a little thought into it, for me it comes down to two words, new and challenging… It’s these two words that makes software development so addicting as well as fun.. As developers we are always looking for that high, however [ READ MORE ]

Google Adds “Swirl” to Image Search!!!

Google has launched Google Image Swirl, a new image discovery tool that visually clusters similar images. It automatically organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups. Swirl uses algorithms, metadata, and facial recognition software to distinguish between structures, places, people, and even time of day in digital images. For example, if you search for “New Delhi,” [ READ MORE ]

What is Considered a Good Application???

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine What is a good application? or lets put it this way what defines a good application? It’s not just one thing, of course, there is no magic formula for making a good application. What makes [ READ MORE ]

What is a Software Devlopment cycle???

Well according to Wikipedia : A software development cycle is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process. I’l  share with you for the first time the details of the cycle. The [ READ MORE ]

Set Twitter Tweet as status message in Pidgin!!!

While browsing the net you would have heard about Twitter. Twitter is basically another name for micro blogging. In twitter you just have to sign up, then update a single line(“what you are currently doing?”) whenever you can. Its just so simple, no fuss about making a profile or writing down about the movies you [ READ MORE ]

Green Verticale Line's while playing movies in VLC!!!

Sometimes while playing movies or videos in VLC you may have noticed that green vertical bar comes up on the video and the color of the video gets distorted. I didn’t know at first what causes it but after playing around with it a little i found out that Xgl causes these line to come [ READ MORE ]

Installing Adobe Air and its applications on Ubuntu 8.10!!!

Adobe AIR Environment is one of the hottest new technology around, it allows us to easily create cross platform Internet rich applications and widget that are Internet ready. To install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu 8.10 follow these steps.. Open Terminal window from (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal ) and issue the following command in the terminal window. wget [ READ MORE ]

Compress Pictures In Linux(Modified)!!!

I got the script to move the new compressed images into a new folder that would be located in your home folder. As i explained before you need imagemagick installed on your system to run the script. In ubuntu it can be installed by typing in the terminal sudo apt-get install imagemagick Heres the script : #!/bin/bash # A script [ READ MORE ]

Compress Pictures In Linux!!!

I have made a script to compress a set of images so that they can be mailed as images taken form a digicam are normally of 10 or 15MB and to upload a set of images is a pain in the ***. Firstly you need to install package Imagemagick… In ubuntu you can install by [ READ MORE ]