Archive for the ‘Free Utility Software’ Category
13 November
Posted by baskoro
When you download a movie from file sharing sites like rapidshare or megaupload, sometimes the movie files is splited into small part. Usually they compress it with winrar. In windows, there will be no problem to extract that splited rar files. But how did you do it in Linux? Click here to know how to do it
Tags: File Management, Linux
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27 October
Posted by baskoro
If you read my tutorial about how to transfer files between phone and PC, maybe you think it’s still too hard for you to do. Some newbies prefer to use GUI than bloody hell console. Because GUI application usually easier to use than console-based one. Now i’ll tell you about a free and open source software that act like nokia PC suite in linux. Especially in file transfer feature. What’s its names? Read more here.
Tags: Free Open Source Software
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25 October
Posted by baskoro
For college student that facing thesis or final project, they can get resources from papers or journals written by experts around the world. But for them to get the paper they want is a hard thing sometimes. They must search in website that provide journal one by one. It can take much time, of course. But now there is an open source application that can help you not just search, download, and import journal from sites like ACM, IEEE, PubMed, and CiteSeer, but also manage them in your computer like iTunes did. Read more to know which application can do that.
Tags: Citation, Journals
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17 October
Posted by baskoro
For debian or ubuntu or linux mint users, apt is a powerful tool to install program/package into their system. But in order to work properly, apt must be configured. Especially from where did it obtain software package.So you must edit your sources.list file that usually exists in /etc/apt directory.
APT can obtain software packages from many types of repository like web server, ftp server, file system or cd-rom. So, it’s your job to configure apt so that it knows where to download software packages. You can add many repository in single sources.list file. Maybe you want download software packages from ubuntu mirror site and CD, or maybe from many mirror. You can add each repository in a single line in sources.list file. Read the tutorial.
Tags: Advanced Packaging Tool, Linux Mint, Ubuntu
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13 October
Posted by baskoro
Many people doesn’t like linux because it is hard to install in their computer. Especially if they want some dual-boot thing. One mistake can delete their existing operating system or maybe damage their partition. Because of that many people won’t install linux. But now there is a program that can install linux into your computer without create any new partition in your harddisk. Besides this linux installation act like a installed program in Windows. How can us do that? Read it here
Tags: Ubuntu, Wubi
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7 October
Posted by baskoro
Transferring files between mobile phone and PC is an important thing for some people. Usually, they transfer music files, like mp3, from their PC to their mobile phone so they can listen to their favourite music everywhere with their phone. In Windows, this thing is easy. You can use software like Nokia PC Suite or else. But how did you do that in linux? Read the tutorial now
Tags: Mobile phone, Nokia PC Suite
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