Block Selecting, The Killer Feature of Vim
Without any doubts Vim is one of the best and most efficient text editors, which comes with a lot of features.
The block selecting feature of Vim is one of the many features Vim has to offer that you cannot find in most GUI based text editors as far as I know. You can use Ctrl+v to select ...read more
Published on: Dec. 26, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 2
Google Chrome OS, Useful or Useless?
A few days ago Comcast did a favor for me and stopped transferring network packets from the Internet to my house. This frustrating moment of my life lasted for quite a few hours. Fortunately, I had some unwatched movies on my computer to catch up with.
After Comcast started to feed me fresh packets from Google, Youtube, ...read more
Published on: Dec. 21, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 0
My Thoughts on Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.10 was finally released on 10/10/10 as promised. I did a system upgrade on my 5 years old Dell Latitude laptop from 10.04 and did a fresh installation of it on my friend's Gateway Netbook.
I have been using Ubuntu since Ubuntu 6.10 on my Dell laptop. My impression of 10.10 was pretty much like my other impressions ...read more
Published on: Oct. 17, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 0
Moonlight vs Flash - on Linux Support
Microsoft Silverlight is the biggest competitor of Adobe Flash. One of the biggest advantages of Flash over Silverlight was its Linux support. But things are getting changed now. The Moonlight is the open source project that tries to implement MS Silverlight on Linux. Even though Moonlight doesn't provide a full support of Silverlight, however, it's been doing a ...read more
Published on: Sept. 17, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 0
5 tips and tricks to speed up your bash experience
Sometimes performing certain tasks on command line could be time consuming. This article introduces you to five tricks that can speed up your experience with bash. This article is mostly for new Linux users, but experienced users may find some of them interesting.
- Executing commands in history using Ctrl+r
Just press Ctrl+R and start typing a ...read morePublished on: Aug. 23, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 0
Top 4 Android Apps for Linux Lovers
Android is getting more popular everyday as you hear new android powered smartphones coming to market more than ever. Since Android is made on top of Linux kernel it is very popular among Linux lovers. There are many useful and interesting apps on the market, but not all of them are as interesting as the following apps for Linux ...read more
Published on: Aug. 10, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 0
How to test Android apps on your phone on Arch Linux
In order to test/run your android apps using your phone on your Arch Linux machine you need to do the following:
- Download Android SDK
- Unpack it somewhere.
- Create the following file as root: vim /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
- Paste the following code in it(Change user to your name):
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c01", MODE="0666", OWNER="user"
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0bb4", ATTRS{idProduct} =="0c02", ...read morePublished on: July 15, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 16
Starting Gmote at startup on Linux
Gmote is a very cool android app that enables you to control your computer remotely using your Android based cell phone.
After installing it on your cell phone, you need to install the server version on the computer, you're trying to access remotely. The good thing about this app is that, it supports all the major ...read more
Published on: June 21, 2010 --- Number of Comments: 3