Ok, I am a linux guy and most of you will be thinking that why I am writing this . Let me say , even though many people are agreeing with the statement Ubuntu is always better than Windows , there are a lot of people how think that Ubuntu has too few applications available for use . Ubuntu would be more secure , most faster and more stable , but is it up to par with Windows in doing things , like can we use photoshop cs 4 in linux , or can we play assassins creed 2 in Ubuntu . I am not promising you that you could , but I assure you that you can make your ubuntu linux much more better in doing things . Let me show a handful of essential applications for your linux machine which would transform your ubuntu to a real star performer , doing almost everything you can do in windows . Ok , here is it :

1. WineHQ – If you were a  windows user , you might sometimes need to carry your favourite app to ubuntu. WineHQ is good at running such windows stuff . If you need to know if your favourite app runs on linux you can check this here . To download wine, check out this link .

2. VirtualBox – Most of you might be familiar with VirtualBox , from Sun Microsystems , a nice virtualization software which is available for free . There are many commercial virtualization softwares like vmware , which is much more powerful than virtualbox . To see a list of virtualization softwares have a look at this .

3.Scribus – Scribus is an opensource desktop publishing tool available for free . Scribus offers a modern and easy to use interface .and even supports advanced and professional features like CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and  PDF creation.What to say more, visit its official website .

4.Gimp – Available by default in your Ubuntu machine . If you are interested in photo-editing  gimp would be a good start .Read more about gimp and how to use gimp .

5.Blender – Blender is an opensource 3-d content creation suite available for free . Blender is as effective as other commercial software like maya , 3-d max etc , without taking you in to complex processes. Blender is definitely worth a look , you can even watch  how powerful is blender viewing the blender, gallery page .

6. Other crazy stuff like vlc player ,firefox, evolution ,pidgin , openoffice , k3b disc burner , songbird , x-chat etc are definitely worth a look . Here are a few tutorials and reviews on getting in touch with various nice free software programs , take a look at them .

7.If you are interested in making your linux an eye-candy , then opt for compiz .Compiz offers a stylish look without sacrificing too much system resources . Oh ! , I know you need to make your linux appear similar to mac os , here it is it mac4lin .

Windows is never equivalent to Linux as both are distinct operating systems . I , here present my personal opinion .

A  portable application can be run from your usb drive or external storage device rather than installing it in your computer . If you need to carry your applications to where ever you go , then you should be aware of the best of portable applications. This collection of portable applications consists of more than 15 applications.

Vlc player – One of the best , multimedia players available . It is a good option to carry this superb media player as it is capable of playing almost anything under the sun .

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MediaPlayer Classic – Just like vlc player it supports a lot of video formats , and its huge collection of video codecs make it an excellent choice for  multimedia freaks.

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CDBurner XP – Portable freeware for burning dvds and cds . CDBurner XP is capable of even burning bluray and HD dvds. CDBurner XP even offers features for burning iso images and is a freely available software.

FastStone Capture – FastStone Capture is a screen-shot utility , which supports a lot of features like  floating Capture Panel,shortcut keys , resize function crop function, text annotation, print support , e-mail, zoom  and lots more.

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VDownloader – As the name suggest , VDownloader is small tool for downloading videos from  the internet .

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Notepad ++ – Portable edition Document editor , which has advanced features like indentation and language support . Because of its ease of use and stability , it is usually kept as a replacement for notepad.

Portable OpenOffice – The complete office suite for your computer , and that too for free . Portable OpenOffice is really worth carrying  as it supports almost all document formats . Generally considered as an alternative to Microsoft Office.

Foxit PdfReader – A nice small pdf reader which even offers portability . Foxit Reader is a free software and considered as an alternative to adobe acrobat reader.

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Pstart – Portable launcher , absolutely free of cost . Pstart is completely rid of ads or spyware .

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CCleaner – CCleaner is a small tool that can take care of all your computer , from repairing registries to erasing your web browsing history .

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?torrent – Bittorrent client that is portable , and  small with a simple and clean interface .

Portable Firefox -  Firefox , not to mention it’s name . Everyone around here had been using firefox , for long days . Ya ,there is a portable version for your favourite web browser .

TrueCrypt Portable – Having unencrypted data on your harddisk can be a security risk , when the data contained is important . TrueCrypt can take care of all your data , ensuring privacy .

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Portable Antivir Personal Edition – Portable antivirus comes in handy , when you are in a strange computer . Run your antivirus and things will be fine and you can work in full confidence.

Pidgin – I have heard a lot of Pidgin freaks crying , when pidgin was removed from Ubuntu 9.10 with empathy . Pidgin is an  instant messaging client  .Pidgin can take care of your AOL ,Yahoo, MSN and much more.

Feel free to post your comments . If any nice applications other than this are known to you, let me know please post it here .

Are you looking for free windows software alternatives ? . Here we will be making your life simpler , with a list of free alternatives equivalent to the commercial ones.Can’t wait reading , here it is.

1.MOZILLA FIREFOX

Offers better browsing with improved security features and addons, simply make this stuff really amazing .Firefox is worth a try,  if you haven’t done that yet.

2.GIMP

Gimp can be considered as an alternative to the Adobe Photoshop.I agree it is not as advanced as Photoshop ,but it is constantly upgraded and contributed that it will surely overtake Photoshop.Recommended for starters in Photoshop.

3.NOTEPAD++

Not just an alternative to Notepad , but this stuff  offers more advanced features,  like programming language recognition and intendation matching. Notepad should be definitely replaced with Notepad ++.

4.7-ZIP

Advanced compression tool than built in compression tools.It supports the best compression format .7zip.Definitely worth a try.

5.VLC PLAYER

Not to mention the name , better alternative to Media Player , with enhanced format support. Usually plays anything and inbuilt volume booster.

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Please post your comments , I will be extending this list.

I know you need to shift to Linux from Windows as you can’t afford the side effects of windows. If you are having this feeling then this article is really for you. Like you i too, was a user of Windows and decided to shift to Linux when i was fed up with it. This was mainly because of the virus attacks and lack of stability of Windows . You know once i installed windows XP four times a day. One of my friends advised me to take a look at Linux . I have taken his advice , but soon came back to windows , when i found it was not right for me. But more and more nasty windows events took place and i made my mind to shift to Linux and the first Linux distribution in my life was Knoppix. Later i came to use Ubuntu and the journey in my Linux world continues.
Let me say, these days almost all programs which are for Windows are available for linux, atleast something like that do exist. Here are a list of few programs you should not miss when shifting to linux.
1. vlc player for linux , Mplayer also recommended.
2.Mozilla Firefox (available by default for most distributions).
3.OpenOffice
4.If you are an IRC freak then consider, Xchat
5.Interested in Virtualization , Virtual Box from Sun is a good option.
6.Amarok Music Player
7.For bittorrent clients consider Deluge , Azure, or Ktorrent .
8.K3B for cd burning.
9.GIMP image editor
10.Gwenview , default image viewer for KDE.
11.Text Editor Nano or Emacs or Vi(advanced).

Personally it is best to start with Ubuntu and if needed you can change to other advanced distros. Now Ubuntu 9.10 is available.If you are too skeptic about your Windows XP, then there is smooth shuffle program for linux which transforms your old XP to a virtual machine. Download any Linux distribution and feel the spirit of free software.

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1.Download a website

Here is a simple way to download a whole website without actually visiting all the pages.First up all go into the directory you wish to download the whole website using the command line and type in the following

wget-r-p-k-E http://www.example.com/dir/
Note  -E is to create .html extensions to XHTML or text files.Omit if not needed.It is however not possible for all type of sites  :-)

2.Five ways to logout from bash

1.logout
2.exit
3.CTRL+d
4.export TMOUT=1
5 kill -9 $$
Dont use the fifth one when you are the root since it will kill some essential processes.

3. To change the root password

The first step is to reboot the system.When grub loads up, move the arrow key up/down to highlight and select the Linux kernel and press e to edit the GRUB commands before booting.Next, move the arrow key up/down and select the Linux kernel and press e again
Give a single space and then type the word ‘single’ at the end of
of the line.Hit ENTER key.Then press b to boot up with the single keyword, which will boot Linux into single user maintenance mode.Now you will get a command prompt ready to accept your commands.Voila!!!! you are done.Now just enter the ‘passwd’ comand to reset your password(without prompting for the older one ).Reboot and you are now the ROOT.However this is not working in all linux distros.

4.Play videos in RAR file without extracting

Just type in command line
unrar p -inul /path/to/movie_folder/movie.name.r00 | vlc -
Video will start playing from your vlc player in just a few seconds.
You can use other players instead of VLC if you wish.

5.Text based browsing

You may use elinks or links in text mode to browse websites from a console.Here’s how to get started

elinks http://www.reviewglitz.com
This will open up our site in your browser.

Hope you enjoyed our tips.Enjoy browsing our site!!!.

Once the market was over crowded with stuff which copyright for each and every thing.Now the situation has changed with more people indulged in software development combined with the ethic of serving the soceity everything has changed upside down.Now we hear of Linux and Free Software very often.The sentence  “live in a world with out walls “had never been so true.ok,Let us consider some of the cases in the field of softwares.

Linux is becoming so popular that it is a common word in our life.Even small children are aware of linux.It is becoming a great rival over windows.Take a look at various distros to see how much they have evolved .See nimblex that definitely blew my mind.Internet Browser world  has been taken over by firefox taking  IE* to behind the curtains.Gimp is slowly replacing Photoshop.I will not say it is at present as advanced as photoshop it is evolving fastly that one day it will get over photoshop.The multimedia world have been taken over by Vlc player.It is so stunning that in their website the no of downloads are uncountable.It plays almost everything and much more advanced than its competitors.Notepad in all computers have been replaced by much advanced notepad++ which is simply magnificient.Torrent clients are now replaced by Bittorrent.The world of virtualization is available to everyone with sun virtual box.

Microsoft office is having a hard time with openoffice.Much better and  what you say ,it is a free bear.Consider the wikipedia with almost everything you have to know or you need to know.Consider source forge where you can find every thing you need to develop something.Let me say one thing frankly i cant list all the advancements and alternatives it is because the list never ends.The time i have finished this article new one might have released.Foxit reader replacing adobe reader ,7zip replacing winrar etc,are some of the few advancements.What to say antivirus will be replaced by Clamwin antivirus .The case is not different for other stuff.Databases are replaced by mysql and much more.

If interested take a look at 10 free softwares for windows you shouldnt miss.

Yes the world is going to change everything we see now is being changed with time …..

It is always essential to have a right media player to play the files that are available.As the number of file extensions increases the need for the right player too increases.It is always hard to find the best ones as there are a lot of players available outside.According to my experience the ones i was interested in are the following
1.VLC Player
VLC player plays almost every file format.It is much more advanced than other players and comes under a GNU license.Everyone can easily get the source code and if needed they can modify it for their own needs.This is available for both Linux and Windows os.It is absolutely free.

2.Winamp
Player from nullsoft which is a well known player since 1997.It is a very good player for playing audio files but not much better in case of video files.It has a modern interface and offers easier use.It has a lot of skins available over the internet and a lot of sound enhancement options too.But Winamp pro comes with a price tag of $19.95.

3.Windows Media Player
This is an inbuilt player in the windows os .A large amount of people have been using this for years.It is stylish in appearance and has a good amount of codecs too and is available for download as a kit.It has sound enhancement options like DFX.Micorsoft has been constantly updating this player to better standards.

4.KMPlayer
I came across it only a few months ago.But it has a lot of good options which makes it an excellent player.It has a large range of known file formats bundled to the installation file.It has the advantage of playing all the files in a folder with selection of only one file thus avoids the pain of making a playlist.

5.Real Player
A nice player with advanced video streaming features and specific movie formats .It is being used by a lot of people and has a pleasant appearance.It is also available with more advanced features that comes with a price tag.