Twitter on the Terminal: Now tweet from Command Line

Hi Folks,
Recently I came across a special feature ot Twitter that enables you to access it from the terminal. To use this feature we need “curl”. Ubuntu users can download curl using apt-get by the command
sudo apt-get install curl
Once you have it, open your text editor and paste the following shell script

#!/bin/bash
#http://anshumanpandey.wordpress.com
echo “TWITTER ON YOUR [...]

Keryxproject.org: Get Your Packages offline

Hello Friends,
I was surfing through the net and came across this great site http://keryxproject.org . So what is Keryx, Keryx is a portable, cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. Keryx is free and open source.
I found this important because many [...]

Configuring Evolution Mail For GMail using IMAP

Evolution Client Mail configuration for GMail using IMAP
In this tutorial I am going to show you how to configure the Evolution Client Mail for GMail using IMAP.
For those of you who do not know about IMAP. It stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and hence as you’ll see be used to configure the reception [...]

Installing OpenOffice.org in Ubuntu 8.10

Installing OpenOffice.org 3.0 in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10)
Hi Guys,
Recently I had used Ubuntu 9.04 and I found OpenOffice.org 3.0 as the default office software provided in it, but as we know it is not
the same in the case of Intrepid Ibex. So I thought of installing the same in 8.10. In this tutorial I’ll be [...]

How to Export Data from OpenOffice.org Base

After an overwhelming response of the esteemed readers to my post about How to Import Data From Spreadsheet into OpenOffice.org Database, I decided to add a post about exporting the data out of OpenOffice.org Base to a word processor or a spreadsheet application.

What is the need to export the data?
If you are just concerned with [...]

How to Import Data From Spreadsheet into OpenOffice.org Database

There are certain times when we have data in a spreadsheet and we want to get it into our database. So how to go about it. I’ve thus designed a small tutorial for the same.
Here we go:

First open you spreadsheet of table in OpenOffice.org Calc and give name to the columns in the table.

Then [...]

GNU/Linux Live CD – Your Recovery Manager

A Linux Live CD can be used to save data
You don’t have to convert to Linux full-time to need Linux. In fact, a Linux live CD is a great thing to have if you’re a Windows user. There are lot of Windows and Mac users who thought they’d lost all their precious personal data (documents [...]

Screen Resolution Problem

Screen Resolution
This topic is very common and most of us know how to fix things pertaining to screen resolution. So the troubleshooting is quite simple. Recently I was on Ubuntu IRC and found that a guy had a very annoying problem with his screen resolution. After going through the regular menus of System—>Preferences—->Screen Resolution he [...]

GRUB Splash Images- Change & make your GRUB fully yours

How To Change GRUB Splash Image
When I say GRUB splash image I mean a background for your GRUB menu. So those people who have tried using Fedora Core or RedHat enterprise Linux its the blue(or red for some) image behind the menu with Fedora or Red Hat written.
This tutorial deals with how to create [...]

Ubuntu…For Newbies…

Lets Play around!!!
Here are few things that’ll make you know your Ubuntu 8.10 better. You can open the terminal and start typing in.
To find what version of Ubuntu you are using type in the following command
lsb_release -a
To find the version of the kernel
uname -r
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’sudo’ elevates Administrator level rights. For this purpose we can use the [...]