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Use Your Android Cellphone as a Mouse

Posted on June 14, 2013 by gnairooze

Turn your android cellphone to a wireless mouse using ulimate control from negusoft. You only need to setup Ulimate Mouse Lite app on your cellphone. Then setup ucontrol receiver on your PC. It supports Linux, Mac and Windows. After setup … Continue reading →

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Install Shrew Soft VPN client on Ubuntu 13.04

Posted on May 6, 2013 by gnairooze

The following post is based on the original post in stackoverflow site . The answer done by JapSlap and Kate Gregory. I’ve just added some dependencies based on my installation experience and some configuration. Step 1: download shrew soft package … Continue reading →

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Remote Desktop Client

Posted on April 26, 2013 by gnairooze

I’ve been using Remmina Remote Desktop Client for a while now. But recently it kept freezing on rdp remote connection with a windows machine. It was so frustrating, till I used rdesktop. Please use the following command to install it … Continue reading →

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My Office Apps

Posted on April 13, 2013 by gnairooze

My Office Apps: LibreOffice: usually the libreoffice site contains more recent version than the one in Ubuntu Software Center. Tomboy Notes: note taking app Xmind: it is a nice cross platform mind mapping app. You can find it here.

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My Network Apps

Posted on April 12, 2013 by gnairooze

My network apps: Shrew Soft VPN Access Manager: can import cisco vpn files. The setup is very easy from Software Center in Ubuntu 12.04, but you have to install it manually in Ubuntu 12.10. You can use this article for … Continue reading →

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My Media Apps

Posted on April 12, 2013 by gnairooze

My Media Apps are VLC: the popular cross platform media player TvTime: It is a simple tv tune app gmtp: it is a GUI for mtp service on Linux to connect to mtp devices (e.g. Nexus 4). You can use … Continue reading →

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My Graphics Apps

Posted on April 12, 2013 by gnairooze

Currently,I’ve only one app Gimp. It’s a very nice app. It’s an alternative to adobe photoshop in a way.

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My Development Apps

Posted on April 12, 2013 by gnairooze

I’d like to share with you my current development apps. MonoDevelop: from Software center. Qt Creator: from the qt-project not from Software center. Geany: from Software center. Java JDK: I’ve followed that article Aptana Studio: it depends on Java JDK. I’ve download it from … Continue reading →

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