AWN – The Super Sexy Dock for Linux
If you are a Mac OSX fan, I am sure you love the dock functionality of OS X. We have docks for Windows like Object Dock etc. but so far none of them have come up to terms with the OS X Dock. Well finally Linux has a dock, that I believe is a lot more better than the dock in OSX. I am not a Linux user, and I still use Windows XP as my default OS, but with every passing day, i am itching to try out Ubuntu.... Read The Rest →
Gimme – Desktop Organizer for Linux
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It’s designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day. Gimmie can be run either as a stand-alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet. Gimmie uses an innovative tabs-based approach to categorize everything on your computer. Not just the applications you have installed. You can quickly find friends, documents, computers on the network, notes, music, and just about everything else in a few clicks.
Linux Gets Prettier for all those Windows Fans
Well If you have been itching yourself to switch over to Linux and didn’t like the UI that Linux currently has, then time has finally arrived for you to switch over to Linux in the form of an amazing distro of Linux called Vixta ( I’m pretty much sure Microsoft Lawyers are working on Trademark Infrigement case as I speak). Well the aim of Vixta is pretty much simple, and this is how it reads : Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in... Read The Rest →
OpenOffice 2.3.0 is Now Available
OpenOffice.org one of front runners of the Open Source Office Alternatives is gearing up to launch its next major upgrade to the OpenOffice family on the 17th of September. While there is still a couple of days to go before the official launch, you can download the final build of OpenOffice 2.3.0 from the FTP site of OpenOffice. The Latest release contains a lot of bug fixes and added features that make OpenOffice one of the best open source Office suites out there. Some of the features that will make... Read The Rest →
How to Flush DNS in Different OS'es?
Most DNS clients cache the results of name resolution requests. This speeds up name resolution if multiple lookups are done to the same address, such as is common when browsing the web. Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically. How to Flush DNS in Microsoft Windows In Microsoft Windows, you can use the command ipconfig /flushdns to flush the... Read The Rest →
