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Posts tagged mac
Ubuntu Tweak: Colorize your ubuntu
Dec 7th
Okay, lets not forget the reason for bringing this post up beside ubuntutweak being a great tool; the reason was i wanted to show you mac like switching using mouse. (more…)
Devilspie: Easy workspace management
Dec 7th
At any single instance of time i have Following stuff opened: Terminator (don’t know what it is? check this article), Home Folder, SwiftFox (check this article if you don’t know what is swiftfox), Thunderbird, KeePassX, Opera, Twinkle, Gnote, Firefox(in wine, for some shockwave video lectures), Pidgin, skype, xchat, virtualbox, and probably a totem window as well.. (more…)
Linux alternate of open command in Mac/Windows
Nov 13th
i have been to mac world once when i was into iphone development (which was fun) and there i came across the “open” command which can be executed on terminal and mac opens the file in the right application for you, great, isn’t it? I came back to linux world and was missing that but never had much time to check around. The other day i found some time so here are my findings (from google, stackoverflow and etc), my conclusions: (more…)
Rich Cross-Platform Desktop Applications Using Open-Source Titanium
Oct 7th
Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. At a high level, Titanium competes directly with Adobe AIR, although it differs from AIR in three major ways. First, Titanium is open source; it’s licensed under the Apache Public License (version 2). Second, Titanium is fully extensible; Titanium extensions can be written using a number of popular languages, including C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python. Finally, Titanium opens up user interface programming to popular languages like Ruby and Python—a job More >
Gnome Do: Do it faster than before
Oct 3rd
I spend my day on laptop and thus hate to take my hands off keyboard for mouse or touchpad. I like launching and using programs from keyboard all the time. So i found Gnome Do which is a great tool, a lot of plugins to integrate into commonly used programs such as firefox, pidgin, evolution to increase productivity. There is also something like this in KDE, i think its called katapult. (more…)
