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5 handy tips with GIMP everybody should know

Describing themselves as “a disruptive open source software company”, Open-Xchange - a team made up of some of the key developers of OpenOffice, has announced the launch of OX Documents, a cloud-based office productivity suite, featuring OX Text, an in-browser word processing tool.

South Korea was under a huge cyber attack recently and according to Symantec, the code used in the attack was tucked inside a Windows malware to target Linux computers. This is a very interesting case, according to the security firm. "We do not normally see components that work on multiple operating systems, so it is interesting to discover that the attackers included a component to wipe Linux machines inside a Windows threat," said the company on its blog.

SoX is a cross-platform command line audio utility tool. SoX is very handy if you need to do some simple tasks with music or audio files right from the terminal. To be more specific, SoX is usually used for converting and edit audio files; changing audio attributes; adding audio effects and other advanced sound manipulation features.

Raspberry Pi isnt just a toy for geeks to play around, it's also a cool tool to serve the convivial folks. Recently, a project called "Bartendro" has met its fund-raising goal - $135000- on Kickstarter. According to the author of the project, Bartendro is a “precision cocktail dispensing robot,” the project founders say, that “makes tasty drinks quickly and repeatably without the mess.” Plus, it’s portable and can be taken to events and parties.

In today's article, I will show you how to create a simple fading gif image with GIMP. I will use the image below as the sample.

We know that demand for Linux skills is increasing but the supply still remains low. And because of that, the current average salary for Linux pros in the USA is high, over $90k/ year, which is really awesome. That's why if you want to work in the IT industry in the near future, investing in a college degree in Linux would be a very great idea.

How to make Chromium/Chrome launch Thunderbird when clicking on mailto links

Normally, when you want to rename a single file, you would use the "mv" command. However, if you have a bunch of files to rename, the faster and more efficient command is "rename".

If you are a power user who spends a lot of time with the terminal, having the weather info displayed in the terminal whenever you open it could be somehow handy. A tool to get the weather info is weathe-utils. This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather conditions and forecasts.

Yesterday, I just posted an article about Ubuntu is still not profitable. It was really a surprise to me because Ubuntu is the most popular Linux distro and it has been around since 2004. And this makes me wonder that if even a big distro - backed up by a big company - like Ubuntu cannot become profitable, how the small distros are doing?

Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distro and to many people, Ubuntu has even become the synonym of Linux. However, one interesting fact I just learned today is that, despite being around since 2004, Ubuntu hasnt brought any profit to Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical yet.

I just checked gnome-look today and found many new GTK themes that just got uploaded recently. If you need some new themes for your Linux desktop, here are some that look good in my opinion:

How to change the password remember time of sudo

The battery of my netbook is getting senile and one small trick I use to save the battery life is to disable bluetooth at boot. The trick is very simple, just use a text editor (as root) to open the file /etc/rc.local and before the last line, add the following line:

How to make Chromium/ Chrome open magnet links in Linux Mint

How to customize the font and color of the panel clock in Linux Mint Mate

I'm not talking about a text-based email client that allows you to read and send mails on the terminal like Mutt here. In this article, I will show you a simple way to send emails via the command line. The tools you will need are "msmtp" and " heirloom-mailx". These two are in the repository of most distros so you can install them easily. In Ubuntu-related distros, "heirloom-mailx" is installed by default so you just need "msmtp" then.

How to mount and transfer files to Kindle Fire HD on Linux

How to use crontab to schedule tasks