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Bash Script: Create simple select menu using select statement

Published on 2012-05-16 15:35:17

Here is simple bash script which creates an simple options selection menu using bash 'select' statement, fee free to modify/copy and use this script to suite your requirement. $ cat select.sh #!/bin/bash # Selection menu items goes here SELECTION="option1 option2 option3 quit" select options in $SELECTION; do # here using the if statements you can perform the required  operation if [ "$options" = "option1" ]; then     echo "You have selected $options" elif [ "$options" = "opti [..] > read more

Bash Script: Creating and using Read-only variables

Published on 2012-05-16 13:25:50

Here is an simple bash script showing the trick to create the read-only variable, feel free to copy and use this script. $ cat declare.sh #!/bin/bash # Declare the variable as readonly declare -r AGE=25 echo $AGE # Try to change the value of this readonly variable # you should get an error message AGE=34 echo $AGE Output: $ ./declare.sh ./declare.sh 25 ./declare.sh: line 9: AGE: readonly variable 25 > read more

Bash Script: Check Servers Availability using ping command

Published on 2012-05-15 14:57:22

Here is the simple bash script to check the server availability using simple ping command, for this you need to create a simple txt file ("server.txt") containing the hostname or ip address of the servers that you want to check ... $ cat server.txt google.com yahoo.com redhat.com > read more

Lightweight Email reader for the GNOME desktop - Geary

Published on 2012-05-15 10:00:00

Geary is a lightweight email reader for the GNOME desktop. Geary includes the following features:  * Basic support for viewing and composing HTML email  * Send and receive email  * Reply to all and forward email  * Optional spell checker  * Keyboard shortcuts  * Organizes emails into conversations  * Supports Gmail and Yahoo Continue Reading... > read more

Web Application Vulnerability Scanner - Webvulscan

Published on 2012-05-14 10:00:06

WebVulScan is a web application vulnerability scanner. It is a web application itself written in PHP and can be used to test remote, or local, web applications for security vulnerabilities. As a scan is running, details of the scan are dynamically updated to the user. These details include the status of the scan, the number of URLs found on the web application, the number of vulnerabilities found and details of the vulnerabilities found. After a scan is complete, a detailed PDF report is emaile [..] > read more

Bash Script: Increment the loop by some value on each iteration

Published on 2012-05-11 14:56:10

Below is the simple bash script which show the way of incrementing the for loop by the value of "2" on each iteration: #!/bin/bash for i in {1..10..2} do > read more

Bash Script: Get the length of any given String

Published on 2012-05-11 13:22:47

Below is a simple script to get the length of any string. #!/bin/bash echo "enter the sting: " read str; countStringLength() { > read more

Bash Script: Check if variable is integer or not

Published on 2012-05-11 13:00:53

Below is a simple bash script to check if any given number is integer or not ... #!/bin/bash echo "Enter the value: "; read num; checkInteger(){ > read more

Desktop Configuration Application for Unity - Unsettings

Published on 2012-05-09 10:00:06

Unsettings is a graphical configuration program for the Unity desktop environment that lets you change some oft the Unity settings. Unsettings can only change your user’s settings, you can’t use it to change global settings or do anything else that needs root privileges. You can use Unsettings to change the themes for GTK, window manger, icons and cursors. But it doesn’t support the installation of new themes. With Unsettings you can switch off the global menu and the overlay scrollbars [..] > read more

Convert an HTML Pages or Websites to PDF in Ubuntu - HTMLDOC

Published on 2012-05-08 10:00:00

HTMLDOC is a program for writing documentation in HTML and producing indexed HTML, PostScript, or PDF output (with tables of contents). It supports most HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4.0 syntax, as well as GIF, JPEG, and PNG images. HTMLDOC can be used as a standalone application, in a batch document processing environment, or as a web-based report generation application. No restrictions are placed upon the output produced by HTMLDOC. HTMLDOC is open source software under the terms of version 2 of th [..] > read more

Adding Virtual Hosts in Apache2 under Ubuntu

Published on 2012-05-07 10:00:03

The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of running more than one web site (such as www.foo.com and www.goo.com) on a single machine. Virtual hosts can be "IP-based", meaning that you have a different IP address for every web site, or "name-based", meaning that you have multiple names running on each IP address. The fact that they are running on the same physical server is not apparent to the end user. Apache was one of the first servers to support IP-based virtual hosts right out of the bo [..] > read more

Speed up the website using mod_spdy for Apache

Published on 2012-05-04 10:59:16

mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This allows for faster page loading and more efficient bandwidth utilization when loading https URLs in SPDY-enabled browsers. SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features that can dramatically reduce page load time:  * SPDY allows client and server to compress request and response heade [..] > read more

Recover Deleted Files using Scalpel under Ubuntu Linux

Published on 2012-05-03 09:30:00

If you have accidentally deleted files from your hard drive, don't panic! You can easily recover deleted files whether you are using a Windows PC (NTFS) or Linux OS. You can undelete files with almost guaranteed success. The most important thing is to act as soon as you realize that the files are lost. When a file is deleted from your computer it is not really deleted. It is simply removed from the database of files in the folder. Even though you can no longer see the file in the folder, it [..] > read more

Install & Manage Fonts under GNOME desktop - Font Manager

Published on 2012-05-02 09:30:02

Font Manager is not intended to be a professional-grade font management solution, but rather a simple application suitable for the needs of most desktop users. Although designed with the GNOME desktop environment in mind, it should work well with most major desktop environments such as Xfce, Enlightenment, and even KDE. Font Manager currently allows the user to:  * Preview installed fonts  * Compare installed fonts  * Easily install or remove fonts  * Easily activate and deactivate install [..] > read more

Install/Configure Music Server using DAAP - Tangerine

Published on 2012-05-01 09:30:00

Tangerine is an application that allows you to publish music over the local network (streaming music server), using DAAP. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. There are several clients that you can then use to connect to it, such as Apple’s iTunes, Banshee, and Rhythmbox. Music files can be specified either by a directory, or can be automatically discovered using Beagle, Google Desktop, or Spotlight. Recently you can also specify which music player you use and share the songs in it’s co [..] > read more

Multimedia (MP3, MPEG-4, AVI, DiVX, etc.) support in Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Published on 2012-04-27 09:30:04

Why doesn’t Ubuntu support MP3 ‘out of the box’? Ubuntu cannot include support for MP3 or DVD video playback or recording. MP3 formats are patented, and the patent holders have not provided the necessary licenses. Ubuntu also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer. That doesn’t mean you can’t play .mp3 files in Ubuntu, it just takes a bit of work (not much). Follow these instruction [..] > read more

Simple and Easy Task Manager for Linux - Nitro

Published on 2012-04-25 09:30:02

Nitro is a light task manager, that presents via a simple yet fancy interface a place to add, edit and manage task lists with due dates, importance level and logbook support. Nitro Features:  * Smart Lists: Use smart lists to organize your tasks depending on when you want to complete them.  * Drag and Drop: Easily organize your tasks with the power of drag and drop.  * Search: Instantly search through notes and tasks with Nitro's ultra fast search.  * Notes: Use notes to easily keep you [..] > read more

Free, Easy, Personal Accounting Application - HomeBank

Published on 2012-04-24 09:30:02

HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs. HomeBank benefits from more than 16 years of user experience and feedback. It is available for ~50 languages on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, MacOSX. HomeBank features General  * direct add of payee and categories from the register dialog  * auto completion whenever possible  * dual pad of cheque and au [..] > read more

All in one - Multi-Panel Tabbed File Manager for Linux - SpaceFM

Published on 2012-04-23 09:30:10

SpaceFM is a multi-panel tabbed file manager for Linux with built-in VFS, udev-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration SpaceFM Features:  * Lightweight - Written in C with GTK2 stability, inotify kernel and libudev support  * Responsive - Built-in vfs runs fast with low resource usage (no gvfs, etc)  * Flexible - Can appear very simple or very complex depending on configuration  * Multiple Windows - A single instance opens multiple windows  * Multiple Panels - [..] > read more

Stock Market Observation Tool for Linux - Grism

Published on 2012-04-13 14:03:01

Grism is an open source stock market observation tool. It allows you to easily track the evolution of stock prices through watch-lists, portfolios and charts. Grism uses Yahoo! Finance for its quote data. This means that with Grism, you can observe stocks, ETFs, indices and mutual funds from every major stock market in the world. All you need is the stock's symbol that interests you. Grism Features: Watch-lists - Monitor the evolution of a stock's price from a starting price through th [..] > read more

Educational Software Suite and Games for Children's - GCompris

Published on 2012-04-12 09:30:01

GCompris is completely free educational software suite which contains a wide range of activities. It offers various activities aimed at covering a variety of fields such as the functioning of the computer, using the mouse and keyboard, general learning, reading, writing, foreign languages, algebra, as well as various activities such as memory and logic games, scientific experiments etc. In GCompris you will find many individual software packages which together make up the complete GCompris suite [..] > read more

Convert Audio and videos from one format to the other - Panther - Panther

Published on 2012-04-11 09:30:02

Panther is free and open media converter that you can use to convert your music and videos from one format to the other. No more format incompatibilities! Just convert your song your video to the format you want! Featuring a simple and easy to use interface, it can get you started on your conversion task within a moment. A fast conversion engine and also features a simple UI for newbies and an advanced one for the pros! Special features include reducing the size of audio without affect the qual [..] > read more

Media Collection Manager - Griffith

Published on 2012-04-10 13:59:04

Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web. Griffith is a cross-platform application and is known to run on GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS X systems. Probably, it will run on other POSIX compatible operating systems where a gtk+ environment is available, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris. Gr [..] > read more

Improve Battery Life of a Portable Linux Computer - Jupiter

Published on 2012-04-03 09:30:05

Jupiter is a light weight power and hardware control applet for Linux.  It is designed to improve battery life of a portable Linux computer by integrating with the operating system and changing parameters of the computer based on battery or powered connection. Additionally, Jupiter provides quick access to some of the commonly needed hardware controls like screen output and resolution, WIFI, and bluetooth. If you use Linux on a portable computer, let Jupiter take the effort out of going mobil [..] > read more

Text Based RSS/Atom Feed Reader - Newsbeuter

Published on 2012-04-02 09:30:02

Newsbeuter is an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other Unix-like operating systems. Newsbeuter's great configurability and vast number of features make it a perfect choice for people that need a slick and fast feed reader that can be completely controlled via keyboard.Newsbeuter features: * Subscribe to RSS 0.9x, 1.0, 2.0 and Atom feeds * Download podcasts * Freely configure your keyboard shortcuts * Search through all download [..] > read more

A Hierarchical Note Taking Application - Cherrytree

Published on 2012-03-30 09:30:02

Cherrytree is an hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. Cherrytree Features:  * rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strike-through, small, h1 and h2)  * syntax highlighting (only when the rich text is disabled in the current node)  * images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file  * lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch b [..] > read more

Movie Creator from Photos and Video Clips - ffDiaporama

Published on 2012-03-29 09:30:02

ffDiaporama is an application for creating video sequences consisting of  * titles, fixed or animated.  * images or photos, fixed or animated.  * movie clips  * music These sequences are assembled into a slide show by means of transitions of sequence to produce complete videos. The following options are available:  * Refocusing of images and photos  * Cutting of video clips  * Notes (addition of text) for images, photos, sequences and animations  * Graphical filters on the images and th [..] > read more

Ottawa Linux Symposium Invites all Linux Enthusiasts [June 26-29]

Published on 2012-03-27 14:09:35

Since 1999 the Linux Symposium has always tried to provide a comfortable collaboration environment for technical people working on all aspects of the Linux Project. Linux Symposium have done best to provide a vendor neutral academic-style conference where developers, administrators, and users all feel at ease and are able to work together towards a common goal. One major change for 2012 is that Linux Symposium will be making the requirement of a formal paper an option for presenters. Presenters [..] > read more

Accelerate HTTP/FTP Downloading Process using Axel under Linux

Published on 2012-03-23 09:30:03

Axel does the same thing any other download accelerator does: it opens more than one HTTP/FTP connection per download and each connection transfers its own, separate, part of the file. It may sound weird, but it works very well in practice. For example, some FTP sites limit the speed of each connection, therefore opening more than one connection at a time multiplies the allowable bandwidth. Be forewarned that some FTP operators don't like it when you do this. It is better to open the additio [..] > read more

Stressful Application Test - Stressapptest

Published on 2012-03-22 09:30:01

Stress testing is a form of testing that is used to determine the stability of a given system or entity. It involves testing beyond normal operational capacity, often to a breaking point, in order to observe the results or the system crashes. Stressapptest is a user-space test, primarily composed of threads doing memory copies and directIO disk read/write. It allocates a large block of memory (typically 85% of the total memory on the machine), and each thread will choose randomized blocks of me [..] > read more

Molecular Graphics and Modelling System - Avogadro

Published on 2012-03-21 09:30:00

Avogadro is a molecular graphics and modelling system targeted at molecules and bio-molecules. It can visualize properties like molecular orbitals or electrostatic potentials and features an intuitive molecular builder. Avogadro Features include:  * Molecular modeller with automatic force-field based geometry optimization  * Molecular Mechanics including constraints and conformer searches  * Visualization of molecular orbitals and general isosurfaces  * Visualization of vibrations and plott [..] > read more

Build Your Own Ubuntu based GNU/Linux Distribution - Ubuntu Builder

Published on 2012-03-20 09:30:03

Ubuntu Builder is a simple tool to build your own distribution. It allows to download, extract, customize in many ways and rebuild your Ubuntu images. You can customize i386 and amd64 images. Ubuntu Builder Installation: You can install Ubuntu Builder by downloading the latest version package (here) and installing it using Ubuntu software center by double-clicking on the deb file.  After successful installation, you can open the Ubuntu Builder from Unity 'Dash" Continue Reading... (P [..] > read more

How to use apt-cache under Ubuntu Linux

Published on 2012-03-19 09:30:01

apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT's package cache.  apt-cache does not manipulate the state of the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting output from the package meta data. showpkg displays information about the packages listed on the command line apt-cache showpkg firefox Stats displays some statistics about the cache apt-cache stats Dump shows a short listing of every package in the cache. It is primarily for debugging. apt-cache dump fir [..] > read more

Security Auditing Utility for C, C++, PHP, Perl, and Python code - RATS

Published on 2012-03-16 09:30:04

RATS is a security auditing utility for C, C++, PHP, Perl, and Python code. RATS scans source code, finding potentially dangerous function calls. The goal of rats is not to definitively find bugs (yet), but to provide a reasonable starting point for performing manual security audits. The initial vulnerability database is taken directly from things that could be easily found when starting with the book, "Building Secure Software" by Viega and McGraw. Installing RATS: Open the terminal and type [..] > read more

Security Check for Application Binary - BFBTester

Published on 2012-03-15 09:30:03

BFBTester is great for doing quick, proactive, security checks of binary programs. BFBTester will perform checks of single and multiple argument command line overflows as well as environment variable overflows. BFBTester can also watch for tempfile creation activity to alert the user of any programs using unsafe tempfile names. While BFBTester can not test all overflows in software, it is useful for detecting initial mistakes that can red flag dangerous software. BFBTester Installation: Open t [..] > read more

Linux Remote Desktop Client - Remmina

Published on 2012-03-14 09:30:01

Remmina is a remote desktop client written in GTK+, aiming to be useful for system administrators and travelers, who need to work with lots of remote computers in front of either large monitors or tiny netbooks. Remmina supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent user interface. Currently RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP and SSH are supported. Remmina is free and open-source software, released under GNU GPL license. Remmina project comes with two separated packages. Remmina main pro [..] > read more

Complete Linux Media Player - Guayadeque

Published on 2012-03-13 09:30:00

Guayadeque is a music management program designed for all music enthusiasts. It is Full Featured Linux media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the Gstreamer media framework. Some of Guayadeque Features  * Play mp3, ogg, flac, wma, wav, mpc, mp4, ape, ...  * Configurable crossfader engine  * Configurable Silence detector to avoid listening to silence between tracks  * Read and write tags in all supported formats  * Allow to catalogue your music using labels. Any track [..] > read more

OpenSource Weblog (Blogger, WordPress and others) Client - BloGTK

Published on 2012-03-12 09:30:00

BloGTK is a weblog client that allows you to post to your weblog from GNOME without the need for a separate browser window. BloGTK allows you to connect with many weblog systems such as Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, and more. BloGTK is written using Python and PyGTK, and is designed to be fast and simple to use. BloGTK is open-source software released under the BSD license, which means that it is completely free for use. Here is a list of weblog platforms known to work with BloGTK 2.0:  * [..] > read more

Download Videos from YouTube, TED, Dailymotion and other online video sites - Movgrab

Published on 2012-03-09 09:30:01

Movgrab is a command line application to download video's from all those pesky sites that insist you use a big fat browser that runs flash in order to see their content. It's a command-line app written in straight C and does not require to install any other dependency packages. Download and Install Movgrab: Download the latest Movgrab source tar file - here Open the terminal and type following command to compile and install Movgrab: tar -zxvf movgrab-1.1.8.tgz cd movgrab-1.1.8 ./config [..] > read more

Network Scanner (Discovering and Managing Application) - AutoScan-Network

Published on 2012-03-08 09:30:03

AutoScan-Network is a network scanner (discovering and managing application). No configuration is required to scan your network. The main goal is to print the list of connected equipments in your network.  AutoScan-Network Features:  • Automatic network discovery  • TCP/IP scanner  • Wake on LAN functionality  • Multi-threaded Scanner  • Port scanner  • Low surcharge on the network  • VNC Client  • Telnet Client  • SNMP scanner  • Simultaneous sub-networks scans w [..] > read more

Create Your Own Customized Ubuntu System - Remastersys

Published on 2012-03-07 09:30:03

Remastersys is a tool that can be used to do 2 things with an existing Debian,  Ubuntu or derivative installation.  * It can make a full system backup including personal data to a live CD or DVD that you can use anywhere and install.  * It can make a distributable copy you can share with friends.  This will not have any of your personal user data in it. The resulting ISO file can be used on any other PC that still meets the original minimum requirements of Ubuntu or Debian.  Things like t [..] > read more

Record / Play Keystrokes and Mouse Movements - Xmacro

Published on 2012-03-06 09:30:02

The XMacro package contains two simple, C++ programs (xmacrorec and xmacroplay) for recording and replaying keyboard and mouse events on an X server. This functionality is achieved through the XTest extension. The programs are heavily based on the xremote utility of Jan Ekholm (chakie at infa.abo.fi). xmacrorec: Grabs all the control over your local display and send the mouse and keyboard events to the remote display. In the meantime it emits KeyStrPress, KeyStrRelease, ButtonPress and ButtonRe [..] > read more

E-Mail, RSS Feed and Tweets Notification Application - CloudSN

Published on 2012-03-05 09:30:00

Cloudsn is a gnome application that check for new mails, tweets, feeds etc. It is developed for Gnome and tested in debian and ubuntu. Cloudsn try to implement the MVC pattern and it separates the providers, configuration, indicators and notifications The providers check accounts against different services. Currently cloudsn has these providers implemented:  * GMail  * GReader  * Pop3  * IMAP  * Twitter  * Identi.ca The indicators are a list of accounts and its unread items indicating th [..] > read more

Open-Source Folder Comparison and Synchronization Tool - FreeFileSync

Published on 2012-03-02 09:30:02

FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is optimized for highest performance and usability without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces. FreeFileSync Key Features:  * Detect moved and renamed files  * Copy locked files (Volume Shadow Copy Service)  * Detect conflicts and propagate deletions  * Binary comparison  * Full support for Symbolic Links  * Run as a batch job  * Multiple folder pairs  * Support very long path names > 260 characters  * Tr [..] > read more

GUI Interface to Compress & Optimize Image Files - Trimage

Published on 2012-03-01 10:00:12

Trimage is a cross-platform GUI and command-line interface to optimize image files via optipng, advpng, pngcrush and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype (currently, PNG and JPG files are supported). All image files are losslessly compressed on the highest available compression levels. Trimage gives you various input functions to fit your own workflow: A regular file dialog, dragging and dropping and various command line options. Trimage Installation: If you're on Natty (11.04) or oneiric ( [..] > read more

Utility to Search Google via your GNOME menu/panel - Googlizer

Published on 2012-02-29 09:30:02

Googlizer  is a panel launcher for the GNOME desktop, although is by no means restricted to use in the panel, or within GNOME. It takes the  X selection,  sends  it  to  either the Google search engine ( , or local equivalent), or an arbitrary search URL specified on the command  line, and  then  passes the results to the user’s preferred browser in GNOME. This browser then starts up and shows the results of the search. It is not designed to be invoked from the command line; but is s [..] > read more

Quick File and Folder Preview for Ubuntu Linux - Globus-Preview

Published on 2012-02-28 09:30:04

Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. It’s based on Apple’s “Quicklook”. Globus-Preview allows instant access to a variety of file types without the need of opening their default application. It allows you to take a quick look at the content of a file on the fly, saving you valuable time and CPU resources. Video and audio files can be navigated on preview mode by dragging the slider of the progress [..] > read more

Text To Speech and Translation Application For Ubuntu Linux - Gespeaker

Published on 2012-02-27 09:30:02

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. eSpeak uses a "formant synthesis" method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings. eSpeak is available as:  * A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin.  * A shared libra [..] > read more

Embedding Terminal in Nautilus - Nautilus Terminal

Published on 2012-02-24 09:30:01

Nautilus Terminal is a terminal embedded in Nautilus, the GNOME's file browser. It is always open in the current folder, and follows the navigation (the "cd" command is automatically executed when you move to an other folder). Nautilus Terminal features:  * It always follows your navigation in your folders.  * It supports Copy/Paste (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V).  * It supports drag & drop of files and folders.  * It can be hidden/shown when you want (with the F4 key).  * It is resizea [..] > read more

Tool to Repair Frequent Boot Problems - Boot-Repair

Published on 2012-02-23 09:30:00

Boot-Repair is an simple tool to recover access to your Operating Systems.  * Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )  * Free (GPL open-source license)  * Safe (automatic backups)  * Can recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Seven).  * Can recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint...  * Can recover access to any OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux..) if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu or derivative.  * Can repair MBR-locked OEM computer boot if the original boot-sector has been saved by Clean-Ubiqui [..] > read more

Free Video Editing Tool - LiVES

Published on 2012-02-22 09:30:02

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features. LiVES mixes real-time video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or frame-rates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard [..] > read more

Linux System Information and Benchmark tool - HardInfo

Published on 2012-02-21 09:30:01

Benchmarking means measuring the speed with which a computer system will execute a computing task, in a way that will allow comparison between different hard/software combinations. It does not involve user-friendliness, aesthetic or ergonomic considerations or any other subjective judgment. HardInfo is a tool which provides the various hardware and software information about the current system and also got the capability to perform some basic level of benchmark tests on Linux systems. It can al [..] > read more

Manage Ubuntu Boot Loaders (Plymouth, Burg & Grub) - Super Boot Manager

Published on 2012-02-20 09:30:02

Super Boot Manager is a boot manager to manage the boot loader for Linux systems, boot-loader in particular is a software that allows us to select and boot different operating system on same computer. Super Boot Manager allows you to manage the three most commonly used Boot loader for Linux (Grub, Burg and Plymouth), allowing you to install and remove them safely. You can also customize the splash screen with a certain theme instead of the usual text interface. Super Boot Manager can be install [..] > read more

Audio Tag Editor for Linux - Puddletag

Published on 2012-02-17 09:30:03

Puddletag is an audio tag editor (primarily created) for GNU/Linux similar to the Windows program, Mp3tag. Unlike most taggers for GNU/Linux, it uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags you want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. The usual tag editor features are supported like extracting tag information from file-names, renaming files based on their tags by using patterns and basic tag editing. Then there’re Functions, which can do things like replace text, trim it, [..] > read more

RAW Image Converter for Digital Camera - Rawstudio

Published on 2012-02-16 09:30:00

To get the best quality out of your digital camera, it is often recommended that you record your pictures in RAW format. This format is mostly specific to a camera and cannot be read by most image editing applications. Rawstudio will convert your RAW files into JPEG, PNG or TIF images which you can then print or send to friends and clients. You can also upload photos directly to Picasa, Flickr and Facebook galleries. It has a graphical user interface, so you can simply open a RAW file and exper [..] > read more

All-in-One Performance Monitoring Tool for Linux - Nmon

Published on 2012-02-15 11:41:40

nmon is a systems administrator, tuner, benchmark tool. It can display the CPU, memory, network, disks (mini graphs or numbers), file systems, NFS, top processes, resources (Linux version & processors) and on Power micro-partition information. Data is displayed on the screen and updated once every two seconds, using a dumb screen. However, you can easily change this interval to a longer or shorter time period. The nmon tool can also capture the same data to a text file for later analysis and g [..] > read more

Simple and Fast GTK2 Audio Editor - mhWaveEdit

Published on 2012-02-15 09:30:03

mhWaveEdit is a graphical program for editing sound files. It is intended to be user-friendly and robust. It does not require a fast computer. Even if mhWaveEdit was originally built for editing wav files, it's also possible to load and save in a few other formats. mhWaveEdit always supports wav and raw files, but if it's compiled with the libsndfile library, mhWaveEdit supports a couple of other formats as well. If mplayer is installed, mhwaveedit can open all formats that it supports [..] > read more

Testing Linux System for Stability and Performance - System Stability Tester

Published on 2012-02-14 09:30:01

System Stability Tester tries to test the system's stability by calculating up to 128 millions of Pi digits. It supports multiple calculation algorithms. For the moment only two have been implemented. The Quadratic Convergence of Borwein and Gauss-Legendre, the algorithm SuperPi uses. The testing process includes the creation of two or more threads. After each step of the calculation, the results of all the threads are compared. Any differences between them are reported. There is also the o [..] > read more

Examines Source Code and Look for Security Weaknesses - Flawfinder

Published on 2012-02-08 09:30:03

Flawfinder searches through C/C++ source code looking for potential security flaws and produces a report describing the potential flaws found in source code, ranking them by likely severity. Flawfinder works by using a built-in database of C/C++ functions with well-known problems, such as buffer overflow risks (e.g., strcpy(), strcat(), gets(), sprintf(), and the scanf() family), format string problems ([v][f]printf(), [v]snprintf(), and syslog()), race conditions (such as access(), chown(), ch [..] > read more

Task Automation Tool for Ubuntu - Actionaz

Published on 2012-02-07 09:30:01

Actionaz is an application that allows you to execute many actions on your computer such as emulating mouse clicks, key presses, showing message boxes, editing text files, etc. Tasks can be created using a simple editor or using the EcmaScript (JavaScript) programming language for more customization. You don't need to known any programming language to use it: its intuitive interface allows you to create action lists (scripts) using drag & drop. Advanced users can use JavaScript (EcmaScript [..] > read more

UI Based Password Manager - Figaro's Password Manager 2

Published on 2012-02-06 09:30:01

Figaro's Password Manager 2 (FPM2) is a program that allows you to securely store the passwords. Passwords are encrypted with the AES-256 algorithm. If the password is for a web site, Figaro's Password Manager 2  can keep track of the URLs of your login screens and can automatically launch your browser. In this capacity, Figaro's Password Manager 2  acts as a kind of bookmark manager. You can teach Figaro's Password Manager 2  to launch other applications, and optionally pass [..] > read more

Setup and Configure Bandwidth Limiting Module for Apache2

Published on 2012-02-03 09:30:00

mod-bw is an Apache 2 module provided to solve the problem of limiting users’ and virtual hosts’ bandwidth usage. The current versions can set virtual hosts’ and users’ bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed, requests-per-second speed and the maximal number of simultaneous IP connections. mod-bw Features:  * Lightweight bandwidth limiting module for Apache2  * per-user bandwidth limiting  * per-virtual host bandwidth limiting  * per-destination bandwidth limiting Limiting:    * [..] > read more

Install Zeitgeist and Zeitgeist Activity Journal Under Ubuntu

Published on 2012-02-02 11:38:51

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user's activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. It is able to establish relationships between items based on similarity and usage patterns. All of the information is stored in one central database for quick access and any application can easily add it’s own data to the mix. There are several user interfaces which show the informati [..] > read more

Utility for automatic management and monitoring of Information Technology Systems - Monit

Published on 2011-06-23 10:41:01

Monit can start a process if it does not run, restart a process if it does not respond and stop a process if it uses too much resources. You can use Monit to monitor files, directories and filesystems for changes, such as timestamps changes, check-su > read more

Download or Stream Video/Audio files from Youtube - Gmediafinder

Published on 2011-06-21 10:06:00

Gmediafinder is a software to search stream an/or download audio or video files form YouTube and other similar sites and you also don't required browser or flash player, Gmediastreamer support full screen mode (double click on the video), visual > read more

How to Install Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

Published on 2011-06-20 09:11:00

Unity is a shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment developed by Canonical for its Ubuntu operating system. Unity debuted in the netbook edition of Ubuntu 10.10. It is designed to make more efficient use of space given the limited screen siz > read more

Recover deleted files using Foremost

Published on 2011-06-15 01:19:00

Foremost is a console program to recover files based on their headers, footers, and internal data structures. This process is commonly referred to as data carving. Foremost can work on image files, such as those generated by dd, Safeback, Encase, etc > read more

Keed track of Configuration file changes under /etc - etckeeper

Published on 2011-06-13 23:31:00

etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. I > read more

How to reinstall GRUB 2 in Ubuntu using Live Distribution CD

Published on 2011-06-13 01:53:00

GRUB 2 introduces many new changes. GRUB 2 has better portability and modularity, supports non-ASCII characters, dynamic loading of modules, real memory management, and more and is totally different from its predecessor, menu.lst doesn't even exi > read more

How to Measure the Throughput of a Network- Iperf

Published on 2011-06-09 11:57:48

Iperf is a commonly used network testing tool for measuring maximum TCP and UDP bandwidth performance (throughput) of a network. Iperf allows the tuning of various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, datagram lo > read more

How to Create ISO-9660 CD-ROM filesystem images - genisoimage

Published on 2011-06-08 11:27:36

genisoimage is a pre-mastering program to generate ISO9660/Joliet/HFS hybrid filesystems. genisoimage takes a snapshot of a given directory tree, and generates a binary image which will correspond to an ISO9660 and/or HFS filesystem when written to a > read more

Scan for Potential Security flaws in source code - Graudit

Published on 2011-06-06 23:11:00

Graudit is a little script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. It's comparable to other static analysis applications like RATS, SWAAT and flaw-finder while keeping the tec > read more

Opensource Profiling and performance tunning for .Net Applications - SlimTune

Published on 2011-06-05 22:46:00

SlimTune is a free profiler and performance analysis/tuning tool for .NET based applications, including C#, VB.NET, and more. It provides many powerful features, such as remote profiling, real time results, multiple plugin-based visualizations, and m > read more

How to Upgrade Ubuntu Using an Alternate ISO Image

Published on 2011-06-04 11:42:00

If your computer is not able to run the standard Desktop installation CD, you can use an Alternate installation CD instead. The Alternate CD also allows more advanced installation options which are not available with the Standard LiveCD. To upgrade > read more

UI Forensic Tool for File Information - FileInfo

Published on 2011-05-30 18:08:00

FileInfo is an GUI forensic tool for Ubuntu Linux written in Python, that helps you in identifying files with specific values for certain attributes in order to search and sort these files and present the results in an easily readable tabular fashion > read more

How To Generate QR Code under Ubuntu Linux

Published on 2011-05-06 10:56:00

A QR Code (it stands for "Quick Response") is a mobile phone readable barcode - simply encode a URL into the QR Code and then point a mobile phone (or other camera-enabled mobile) at it. If the device has had QR Code decoding software insta > read more

SQL injection Tool - Havij

Published on 2011-05-04 21:10:00

We are NOT responsible for any damage or illegal actions caused by the use of this program.  Use on your own risk! SQL injection is yet another common vulnerability that is the result of lax input validation. Unlike cross-site scripting vulnerabili > read more

Allow Remote Ronnections Acess to MySQL Server

Published on 2011-05-02 11:26:00

MySQL by default allows you to connect to it via localhost, you can not connect to MySQL server directly from some remote IP address. To enable remote mysql access you just need to perform a little editing in the mysql configuration file. Open the > read more

Secure Encryption and Decryption of files and streams - ccrypt

Published on 2011-04-21 13:16:00

ccrypt is a command line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cip > read more

Protect SSH server from dictionary attacks using iptables

Published on 2011-04-20 12:05:00

iptables is built on top of netfilter, iptables is the packet alteration framework for Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x. It is a major rewrite of its predecessor ipchains, and is used to control packet filtering, Network Address Translation (masquerading, portf > read more

UI Application for Image Batch Processing - Phatch

Published on 2011-04-19 04:14:00

Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Image Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub) folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, ... and more in minut > read more

Checks existence of open proxy - proxycheck

Published on 2011-04-18 05:46:00

Open proxies of various kinds are used nowadays for various evil things like sending mass spam, hacking into your machine, making denial of service attacks (DoS) and the like. Every such machine should be either secured properly or turned off permane > read more

Test your hacking skills - WackoPicko

Published on 2011-04-14 05:06:00

WackoPicko is a website that contains known vulnerabilities. It was first used for the paper Why Johnny Can't Pentest: An Analysis of back-box Web Vulnerability Scanners found: http://cs.ucsb.edu/~adoupe/static/black-box-scanners-dimva2010.pdf W > read more

UI Application for checking websites and HTML documents for broken links - linkchecker

Published on 2011-04-13 11:47:00

It's easy to do a manual check for broken link for a small sites but it's not possible for carrying out the same manual tasks when you sites contains 1000's web pages and these pages keep's on getting added or deleted at the same time > read more

Create jigsaw puzzle from pictures with Picpuz

Published on 2011-04-12 07:07:00

Picpuz is an on-screen "jigsaw puzzle". You can take almost any image file and break it into many pieces which you can then reassemble using the mouse. You can control the size of the puzzle and the number of pieces (tens to thousands). Yo > read more

Free and Open Source network access control (NAC) system - PacketFence

Published on 2011-04-10 14:06:00

If your network is a breeding ground for worms, PacketFence is for you. If you have no idea who connects to your network and who owns a particular computer, PacketFence is for you. If you have no way of mapping a network policy violation to a user, P > read more

How to read the content from the RAM (Random Access Memory)

Published on 2011-04-08 13:24:00

RAM Stands for "Random Access Memory,". RAM is made up of small memory chips that form a memory module. These modules are installed in the RAM slots on the motherboard of your computer. RAM (random access memory) is the place in a computer > read more

Graphical Desktop Wiki - Zim

Published on 2011-04-05 13:11:00

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a ne > read more

Introduction to Linux Based and Reseller Web Hosting

Published on 2011-03-30 07:17:00

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by the > read more

Tool to Detect SQL Injection - SQLInject-Finder

Published on 2011-02-21 21:35:00

SQL injection is yet another common vulnerability that is the result of lax input validation. Unlike cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that are ultimately directed at your site’s visitors, SQL injection is an attack on the site itself—in parti > read more

Penetration Testing data management and reporting tool - MagicTree

Published on 2011-02-20 21:38:00

MagicTree is a penetration tester productivity tool. It is designed to allow easy and straightforward data consolidation, querying, external command execution and report generation. In case you wonder, "Tree" is because all the data is stored in a tr > read more

Transparent Caching ftp proxy server - frox

Published on 2011-02-17 22:15:00

Frox is a transparent FTP proxy that runs under Linux and *BSD. It should also work on other UNIX OSes that use ipfilter. Frox Features:  * active - passive mode conversion for data connections.  * It supports caching of FTP downloads, either thro > read more

Install Flash 8 or Flash CS3 on Ubuntu Linux - Wine

Published on 2011-02-16 21:55:00

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes. I > read more

How to Remove old and un-used Kernel from System and Grub Menu - Ubuntu Linux

Published on 2011-02-15 21:57:00

The kernel is a piece of software that, roughly speaking, provides a layer between the hardware and the application programs running on a computer. In a strict, computer-science sense, the term 'Linux' refers only to the kernel - the software that Li > read more

UI Application to take System Backup and Snapshot - TimeVault

Published on 2011-02-14 21:40:00

Backing up data can be difficult, especially when you only want to copy files that changed since the last backup. It can be even more troublesome when you have to remember to start the process manually,or you have to delete old backups to make room f > read more

Get Security Information about your PHP environment - PhpSecInfo

Published on 2011-02-13 22:04:00

PhpSecInfo provides an equivalent to the phpinfo() function that reports security information about the PHP environment, and offers suggestions for improvement. It is not a replacement for secure development techniques, and does not do any kind of co > read more

Protect MySQL Database from SQL injection attacks - GreenSQL

Published on 2011-02-10 22:29:00

GreenSQL is an Open Source database firewall used to protect databases from SQL injection attacks. GreenSQL works as a proxy and has built in support for MySQL and PostgreSQL. The logic is based on evaluation of SQL commands using a risk scoring matr > read more

Web Application Security Scanner by Google - Skipfish

Published on 2011-02-09 21:32:00

Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a num > read more

Framework to Find and Exploit web Application Vulnerabilities - w3af

Published on 2011-02-08 21:38:00

You may use this tool at your own risk! w3af is a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework which aims to identify and exploit all web application vulnerabilities. The framework has been called the "metasploit for the web", but it's actually much > read more

Detail Memory Reporting Tool for Linux System - smem

Published on 2011-02-07 21:56:00

smem is a tool that can give numerous reports on memory usage on Linux systems. Unlike existing tools, smem can report proportional set size (PSS), which is a more meaningful representation of the amount of memory used by libraries and applications i > read more

Ubuntu based Penetration Testing Distribution - Blackbuntu

Published on 2011-02-06 22:25:00

Blackbuntu is distribution for penetration testing which was specially designed for security training students and practitioners of information security. Blackbuntu is Ubuntu base distro for Penetration Testing with GNOME Desktop Environment. It's c > read more

How to add CD-ROM to the sources.list file in Ubuntu / Debian Linux

Published on 2011-01-30 22:29:00

If you'd rather use your CD-ROM for installing packages or updating your system automatically with APT, you can put it in your sources.list. Open up your terminal and type following command to add CD-ROM to your sources.list file sudo apt-cdrom add > read more

Linux Remote Support Software - Bomgar

Published on 2011-01-29 21:43:00

Do you use both windows and Linux? Wish you could remote into Windows from Linux and to other Linux distributions? Well, you can. Just like when using a Remote Desktop Connection between Microsoft platforms (or remoting between Linux machines), you c > read more

How to test DNS server for host Resolution

Published on 2011-01-24 22:22:00

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a standard technology for managing the names of Web sites and other Internet domains. DNS is an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names (example - google.com) are alphabeti > read more

Text Watermarking and Watermark Recovery - Snowdrop

Published on 2011-01-19 21:54:00

The traditional watermarking relies on embedding some information in a binary file (such a proprietary format document - Adobe PDF, MS Word or multimedia files) to identify the origin of a particular copy. Watermarking can be combined with steganogra > read more

Real-time user logins monitoring tool - whowatch

Published on 2011-01-18 22:07:00

Whowatch is an interactive ncurses who-like utility that displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides standard informations (login name, tty, host, user's process), the type of the connection (ie. tel > read more

Linux Small Business Server (SMBs) - Zentyal

Published on 2011-01-17 21:39:00

About 99% of companies in the world are small and medium businesses (SMBs) and generate more than half of the global GPD. But in times of crisis, this is the most vulnerable segment of the economy and therefore, the one that most urgently needs to re > read more

Dynamic Managing the swap file creation & deletion - Swapd

Published on 2011-01-16 22:15:00

Swap or virtual memory is a technique used to write some memory content, not used at the moment, to the hard disk to make room for a process which needs more memory now. swap is said to be 1000 times slower than having "real", physical memory. By us > read more

Linux Distribution Specially for Children – DoudouLinux

Published on 2011-01-14 04:56:00

DoudouLinux is a computer environment designed for children that is as simple to use as a gaming console. It is freely downloadable and contains about 50 applications that were selected on the basis of being easily accessible for children and/or dedi > read more

Kills all of the user's processes - Slay

Published on 2011-01-13 22:29:00

Slay is a simple yet very handy shell script that kills all of the processes belonging to a specific user and displays an (optional) "Your current session has been terminated." to the user being booted. slay finds and kills all the user's processes > read more

UI Application to find and remove orphaned libraries under Ubuntu - GtkOrphan

Published on 2011-01-12 21:51:00

GtkOrphan (a Perl/Gtk2 application for debian systems) is a graphical tool which analyzes the status of your installations, looking for orphaned libraries. It implements a GUI front-end for deborphan, adding the package-removal capability. This soft > read more

Speed up web site using HTTP accelerator - Varnish

Published on 2011-01-11 21:30:00

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance web accelerator. It uses the advanced features in Linux 2.6, FreeBSD 6/7 and Solaris 10 to achieve its high performance. Some of the Varnish features include:   * A modern design   * VCL - a very > read more

Parental Control System on Ubuntu Linux - Nanny

Published on 2011-01-10 22:22:00

Nanny is an easy way to control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email. You can also decide at which times of the day they can surf the net, email or c > read more

Automatic SQL injection tool - sqlmap

Published on 2011-01-09 21:53:00

Whatever you do with this tool is uniquely your responsibility. If you are not authorized to punch holes in the network you are attacking be aware that such action might get you in trouble with a lot of law enforcement agencies. sqlmap goal is to det > read more

How to Reset Windows (NT / 2k / XP / Vista / Win7) password using Ubuntu - chntpw

Published on 2011-01-06 22:03:00

chntpw is a Linux utility to (re)set the password of any user that has a valid (local) account on your Windows NT / 2k / XP / Vista / Win7, by modifying the crypted password in the registry's SAM file. You do not need to know the old password to set > read more

Advance Music Player and Organizer - Clementine

Published on 2011-01-05 22:19:00

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching, organizing and playing your music. Clementine Features:   * Search and play your local music library.   * Listen t > read more

Utility to Optimize / Compress JPEG files under Ubuntu Linux - jpegoptim

Published on 2011-01-04 21:32:00

Jpegoptim can optimize / compress jpeg files. Jpegoptim support lossless optimization, which is based on optimizing the Huffman tables. So called, "lossy" optimization (compression) is done by re-encoding the image using user specified image qualit > read more

How to Disable SELinux in Fedora 14

Published on 2011-01-03 21:49:00

SELinux is a security enhancement to Linux that allows users and administrators more control over which users and applications can access which resources, such as files. Standard Linux access controls, such as file modes (-rwxr-xr-x) are modifiable b > read more

Easy steps to tune-up your Ubuntu / Kubuntu Linux System

Published on 2011-01-02 22:08:00

Below are few very simple and easy steps to fast tune your Ubuntu / Kubuntu Linux system. Disable IPv6: IPV6 got many new exciting features but if you are not on an IPV6 network, I don't think there is any benefit to having this protocol enabled. > read more