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Posts by Christoph
Record Skype calls with Linux
29. Jan 10
Sometimes you need to record a telephone call, e.g. when you do a interview via phone and create an audio-blog afterwards. The Skype Call Recorder is a simple program to do this, it is a little tool to record the audio of your Skype calls. It’s licensed under the GPL and the author created packages for all mayor Linux distributions. He offers package sources for Ubuntu/Debian too, but the packages are not signed, so better stick to the .deb files.
After you installed Skype Call Recorder you’ll find an entry inside “Applications -> Accessories” to start the program. When you start Skype Call More >
Secure and unique passwords with PwdHash for Chromium
22. Nov 09
I really like Google Chrome or Chromium when it comes to get the best performance out of a outdated computer. With Firefox the fan of my notebook gets pretty fast pretty noisy. With Chromium pages load faster and without much strain on the cpu.
But I dearly miss my beloved Firefox extensions. One of them ist PwdHash. With PwdHash you can give every website a secure and unique password. You don’t need a password manager or tricks to remember your complicated password. PwdHash creates a hashed password out of a master password and the URL of the webpage. This way you have unique and More >
Time to boot of Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 2 and Windows 7
06. Oct 09
For many people the time to boot up their system is quite essential. Every second counts. Especially when it comes to comparisons of operation systems, 5 seconds less waiting seems to proof that one system is better that another… Well Mark Shuttleworth announced for Karmic further improvement on the boot time, and it looks like the Ubuntu developers did a good job.
On YouTube there’s a video which shows two (nearly) identical laptops. One runs Ubuntu Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 2 and the other one uses Windows 7 RC. The windows system uses a Intel Core2 Duo Mobile T7250 which runs at More >
Evince 2.28 for Windows
26. Sep 09
The world of free PDF-Readers for Microsoft Windows just got a little bit larger. With the release of GNOME 2.28 Evince, the PDF-Reader of the GNOME desktop enviroment, has been ported to windows…
New Artwork for Ubuntu Karmic 9.10?
24. Sep 09
Version after version Canonical promised a new look for Ubuntu, but since Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 the desktop appearance didn’t change much. A couple of polished icons here and there, a new slightly different wallpaper with every release, but nothing special. The main color stayed a bright orange for more than three years.
With the latest updates of Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 things changed. It looks like that the Artwork team takes up the “old” bronze tone from Ubuntu Breezy Bager 5.04…
Paint Mono… Paint.NET for Linux
10. Aug 09
Paint.NET is a popular graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It’s easier to use than Adobe Photoshop/GIMP but far more powerful than MS Paint. The program is build on the .NET Framework, so that it can be ported to Linux thanks to Mono. Two years ago Miguel de Icaza announced that he ported Paint.NET to Linux, but only now I can confirm that his port works…
Dropbox-Beta syncs data inside lan via P2P
08. Aug 09
Dropbox evolves slowly step by step. Until now Dropbox clients could either up- or download data to/from dropbox. But they couldn’t sync files between computers inside a LAN. This will change with future releases and if you’re interested you can test the new LAN Sync feature already with the latest public beta of the new Dropbox 0.7.x .
Windows 7 Fail and Congrats at KDE
05. Aug 09
Since the first public screenshots of Microsoft’s Windows 7 the KDE Community noticed the remarkable similarity between Windows 7 and KDE 4. Could it be possible that Microsoft’s design team took a good look at the brand news KDE 4? Well, we don’t know. But what we know is that people can’t see the difference.
The German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published today an article about Windows 7 and illustrated it with a computer showing KDE4. Mika1860 from the German ubuntuusers.de Community stumbled upon this article and made a quick scan…
Improve your Screencasts with Key Status Monitor
08. Jul 09
On the internet you stumble quite often upon screencasts which try to explain software tools or guide you through applications. The most popular site are probably ShowMeDo, who offer screencasts about FOSS software, Screencasters at heathenx.org who do videos on Inkscape or e.g. Ubuntu Screencasts with screencasts on Ubuntu linux.
When you watch such a video and the Author follows his usual work flow you’ve got a little problem. Imagine you want to learn how you delete all files inside a directory. The author hits “Ctrl+A” and after that “Del” and all the files are gone. When you see this inside a video, More >
Nathive, the usable image editor
17. Jun 09
One thing that is still missing on Linux (or to be more precise on GNOME) is a easy to use and modern image editor. The GIMP rocks, but it fails in terms of simplicity. Many people need a simple to use image editor. They don’t need fancy masks, layers and hundreds of brushes. They need basic tools, nothing else. They want to mark screenshots with hand painted arrows, they want to mark Auntie Lucy on a picture of Grandma’s Birthday etc. with a little bit of text. You don’t need The GIMP for this…
On Windows a lot of people use More >
