Free Software Linux

Q: How can I order my favourite pizza by using Linux command line interface? A: Well… You can use Pizza Party application written by Cory Arcangel and Michael Frumin! Here are some features this outstanding application provides:

For jailbroken iPhones: For some reason or another, the mobile Safari browser on some updated iPhones and iPod touch models seems to constantly drop cookies, making iPhone-friendly sites like Google...

If you downloaded fresh Firefox 3 installation e.g. from here and tried to install it in Debian Etch, you might notice that latest version of the popular browser requires GTK+ 2.10 while Etch contains only 2.8:

You've always been able to email yourself with a phone call through voice-to-text service Jott, but with the introduction of Jott Feeds, Gmail (and Google Apps) users can now have a summary of their...

You already know that Phishers employ various methods to phish your critical data and there are certain ways to protect your data, and one of the ways to protect yourself is by employing the secure connection techniques like HTTPs and checking for that small lock icon in your browser.

Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that...

Yesterday someone asked me the process of downloading Videos from Youtube and i was kind of surprised to hear that question. Its surprising to know that many people still are unaware that they can download their favorite videos from video sharing websites like Youtube, Google Videos, MetaCafe, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, Spike etc.

A friend of mine, who runs his cyber cafe in Bangalore asked me this question yesterday. As his computers are used by other users, he wanted to block access to the control panel. In this post, i will explain how you can block access to Control Panel in Windows XP. Follow the steps mentioned below to block access to Control Panel in Windows XP. This setting prevents Control.exe, the program file for Control Panel, from starting. As a result, users cannot start Control Panel or run any Control Panel items. 1.) Click on Start –> Run. 2.) Type in GPEDIT.msc and hit Enter. 3.) Group Policy window is displayed.

Gizmodo editor Brian Lam takes his MacBook with him everywhere, but he's not a big fan of the bulky power cord that accompanies his laptop. Instead, he opts for a slimmer, ungrounded PlayStation...

This post is about refining your search results in Google using 2 interesting hacks. When doing a Google search, you can refine your search and eliminate a number of irrelevant search results by using the intitle: and intext: commands. intitle: ‘intitle’ only looks for text that’s in the title of a webpage. In this case, title doesn’t mean the title on a page. It’s essentially the text between the <title> </title> tags in the HTML code of a web page. Therefore, lets assume you want to search for information on say ‘ Learn Java’, type intitle:”Learn Java” in the Google Searchbar or Searchbox. ( See figure below)

This post is about an interesting hack to bypass the login passwords in Windows. Application of this hack will result in Windows logging you on everytime as a certain user ( Please do remember at this point that this trick is useful if you are the sole user of your computer. ) Follow the steps mentioned below to apply this trick

• Click Start -> Run.
• Type Control userpasswords2
• Press Enter.

In one of my previous post, i had written about steps one can take to save mobile battery and make it go longer. However, as we become more technology oriented, saving the battery for longer playback time becomes a concern; iPod is therefore no different. In this post, i shall be talking about a few simple steps which one can take in order to get more juice out of his/her iPod battery.

Often we notice that our Windows machine takes a lot of time to Shut down. One of my reader has dropped me a mail writing about the issues like Long wait time for a non responding program to end etc etc. For all such dismayed readers and for all those willing to learn something new, i present this post targeted at shutting down windows machine ( read: PC) instantly. As all of you know, Windows uses a registry mechanism for many reasons. Some of them being :

• Separation of “machine” settings from “user” settings.
• Support for different settings for different users.
• A centralized location for shared software.
• Roaming support.
• Registry level Security.

Also, it must be noted that playing with registry settings can cause harm to your system. Therefore be very cautious about the edits you do with your registry settings.

Often on the internet we land up in situations, wherein the search returns exactly what we intend to figure out; however, upon following the link and checking the website, just doesn’t show us the content we came looking for. This usually happens because the owners of such websites usually try to trick the end user to buy or register something. Whenever a request is usually made over the internet, the request also carries something called as “Header”. The Header information has information pertaining to the browser, the user -agent etc. In case of Google search engine bot ( which keeps crawling the web), this user-agent is “GoogleBot“.

Many of us do know about the command line tool available in Windows. However, not many know that Windows does provide a command for changing the color of console output, which by default is WHITE. Follow the steps mentioned below to change the color of the command window

• Press Start
• Click on Run
• Type Cmd and press Enter.
• Type Color 9 to change the color of the console output to Blue.

In general, the syntax of COLOR command is COLOR [attr] attr Specifies color attribute of console output Check out the image below to have a look at the various values attr parameter can take.