Archive for May, 2008

Changing default applications

  • May 31st, 2008
  • Posted in How-to

In Ubuntu 8.04 it’s surprisingly hard to change default applications to something of your liking. Sure you can right-click a mp3 file and set it to be open with the player of your choice, but that’s not enough. What if you want dvd’s to be opened with vlc instead of totem? What if you want [ READ MORE ]

Miro

Miro is a open-source cross-platform application, the program can read RSS feeds and it will let you download and manage the videos in those feeds. Besides that it can also download videos from url and bittorrent and it will let you import all the videos on your harddrive and create playlists for them. All of [ READ MORE ]

Ubuntu Stories

  • May 20th, 2008
  • Posted in News

A few days ago I got an email from a friendly person called “Karol Fabjańczuk” about a new website to promote Ubuntu. A quote from the email describes the purpose of the website rather nicely. Some time ago I’ve got an idea to add my small brick to Ubuntu wall doing what I can do [ READ MORE ]

Cracking rar, 7z and zip archives

Everyone comes across password protected archives every now and then. But what when you can’t remember the password or never knew it? The easiest thing would be to ask the creator of the archives, but if that’s not possible, it’s time to do a brute force attack on the archive[ READ MORE ]

Battle Of The IM’s

Today I’m having a look at most Instant Messengers that can handle the MSN protocol. I’m not very happy that I use this protocol but it’s the only one used in this part of the world. I’ll take a better look at 7 IM’s and rate them according to my biased opinion[ READ MORE ]

Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 36 other followers