An introduction to Linux compression or what the heck is a tar.gz file?

If you’re new to Linux and intent on peering under the hood a bit to see what makes things work, then you’ve probably encountered a range of files which are compressed in various formats. This guide is meant to be a quick and easy way to distinguish what’s what in compressed files. It’s [...]

Videoronk delivers mashup: Google video, YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace

Videoronk, a video search and download service, delivers ease of downloading and instant gratification: just type in your query, say “Vista Windows” and Videoronk serves up a listing of downloadable videos, thumbnails and links to directly download videos from Google Video, YouTube, Metacafe, MySpace and more…
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Store, organize, and share bookmarks with Pocket

Pocket is an online application that allows users to store, organize, retrieve, and share bookmarks. It’s a fresh idea on social bookmarking, and a little more complicated than services like del.icio.us.
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Store, organize, and share bookmarks with Pocket
Originally from Download Squad by Chris Gilmer

How to Become a Successful Linux User

In the six and a half years that I’ve been handling the mail here at linux.org, I’ve had to handle thousands of queries on a wide range of Linux topics. I’ve been fortunate, I think, in that a lot of these mails contain simple questions on basic setup issues. They’re easily answered and both sides [...]

SlideShare: Lovable child of YouTube and Powerpoint

SlideShare is a service that lets you upload Powerpoint or OpenOffice presentations and have them be playable on the web, via a handy navigation toolbar. (If you’re using unsupported presentation software, such as Keynote, simply export the file to PPT format before uploading to SlideShare.) This way, the presentations have a permanent URL for easy [...]

Google Groups launches new beta

Hot on the heels of a major overhaul of Google Reader, Google has announced a brand new beta version of Google Groups. The new Google Groups, which is currently living at groups-beta.google.com, is slicker in every way, and also “fits in” a little better with the growing family of Google web apps. In fact, some [...]

UNIX File maintenance tools, tips and how tos collection

IBM developerworks has published excellent set of tips and howtos.
From the article:
Systems administrators can use a number of programs to maintain files in a UNIX system from the command line. In this tutorial, you’ll experiment with commands, such as cd, cp, and tar, to navigate a UNIX file system from the command line and [...]

Super Grub Disk to fix Windows and Linux boot problems

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or cdrom oriented towards system rescue, and more specifically to boot and restore of boot. This is a good tool for new Linux users. This software works with following platforms (features):
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Super Grub Disk to fix Windows and Linux boot problems
Originally from nixCraft by [...]