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Link: Send an SMS Text Message from the Command Line

When you think of sending out text messages you probably think of the iPhone or an Android, and the command line doesn’t cross your mind, but thanks to the ever-useful curl command, you can send out a SMS text message to any phone number right from the Terminal.

Note that while this article comes from an OS X-related site, the technique shown should work in just about any version of Unix or Linux, as long as the curl command is supported.

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Send an SMS Text Message from the Command Line (OS X Daily)

Link: Restore the classic Firefox theme in Firefox 29

It won’t be long before Firefox 29 goes from being a beta build to rolling out to all of Mozilla’s users. When that happens, the new Australis theme will become the default — and not everyone is happy about that.

Fortunately, you’re not stuck with the new theme if you don’t like it.

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Restore the classic Firefox theme in Firefox 29 (Liliputing)

Link: Power of Linux wget Command to Downloand Files from Internet

Wget is the command line, non interative , free utility in Unix like Operating systems not excluding Microsoft Windows, for downloading files from the internet. Most of the web browsers require user’s presence for the file download to be completed. But wget allows users to start the file retrieval and disconnect from the system. It will download the files in the background. The user’s presence can be a great hindrance when downloading large files.

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Power of Linux wget Command to Downloand Files from Internet (LinOxide)
Related:
Wget. Resume, limit rate and run it in background (G. Garron)
Download an entire website with wget (ugly duck)

Link: 10 URLs That Every Google User Should Know

Where can you get a list of every ad that you have clicked on Google? Where should you go if you don’t remember your administrator password? What are your interests as determined by Google?

Here are 10 important links that every Google user should know about. They are tucked away, somewhere deep inside your Google dashboard.

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10 URLs That Every Google User Should Know (Digital Inspiration)

Link: Hybryde Fusion: Get 11 Desktop Environments in One Distro [Linux]

If you have been a long-time Linux user, you probably are using your favorite distro, or a desktop environment that can improve your productivity. But what if you are planning to switch from Windows to Linux and you are not sure of which distro to use? To make thing worse, you do some research and find that there are a ton of desktop environments out there and each distro comes with more desktop environments. So, which one should you choose?

That is really a hard to solve problem, and that is where Hybryde Fusion comes into play. It is basically a distro that comes pre-installed with eleven different desktop environments so you can test out each and every one of them and see which one you like. Hybryde Fusion is great for testing and is not meant for live production use.

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Hybryde Fusion: Get 11 Desktop Environments in One Distro [Linux] (Make Tech Easier)

LInk: A Raspberry Pi Fridge/Freezer Temperature Monitor and Alarm Project

I’ve been blogging about my experience in Road Test reviewing the Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle. As a part of this Road Test I’m creating a Fridge/Freezer Temperature Alarm system for our local food shelf, Channel 1. You can see where this Road Test started for me here
In this post I’ll bring together all the steps required to build your own Raspberry Pi powered temperature monitor project.

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The Complete Channel One Temperature Monitor and Alarm Project – The Ultimate Raspberry Pi Bundle (element14 Community)

Link: Finding Your Raspberry Pi’s System Information

The Raspberry Pi has a lot of system information available like details about the CPU, the current temperature of the processor, the amount of memory and so on. Not all of the information is available in one place; however, if you know where to look, you can discover quite a lot of interesting data about your Pi.

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Finding Your Raspberry Pi’s System Information (Make Tech Easier)
Related:
How to Overclock Your Raspberry Pi (Make Tech Easier)

Link: How to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux

A 48-bit MAC address (e.g., 08:4f:b5:05:56:a0) is a globally unique identifier associated with a physical network interface, which is assigned by a manufacturer of the corresponding network interface card. Higher 24 bits in a MAC address (also known as OUI or “Organizationally Unique Identifier”) uniquely identify the organization which has issued the MAC address, so that there is no conflict among all existing MAC addresses.

While a MAC address is a manufacturer-assigned hardware address, it can actually be modified by a user. This practice is often called “MAC address spoofing.” In this tutorial, I am going to show how to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux.

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How to spoof the MAC address of a network interface on Linux (Xmodulo)

Link: Tweak Ubuntu Unity: Get a dock-style launcher and Unity Dash

Figure A

One of the biggest complaints I receive about Ubuntu Unity is that the Launcher is locked to the left side — with no way to move it. Up until Ubuntu 11.10, there was a hack through the Compiz Config Manager that allowed you to move the Launcher to the bottom of the screen. It was unstable, caused crashes, and finally was removed as a solution. Eventually, from the developers of Unity it was declared that the option wouldn’t ever find its way into the configuration of the Launcher. Why? The main reason, I believe, is that it causes issues with the Unity Dash (there could be a plethora of other reasons, I’m sure).

This morning, though, I had an epiphany. Why try to break Unity to get the launcher on the bottom, when you can add a couple of apps and have the best of both worlds? You can still get the amazing functionality of the Dash and not have to be relegated to a launcher on the left side of the screen? When that hit me, it only took me a couple of seconds to realize what needed to be done to achieve what you see in Figure A above.

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Tweak Ubuntu Unity: Get a dock-style launcher and Unity Dash (TechRepublic)
Related:
Restore Application Window Menus in Ubuntu’s Unity (Linux Tips)

Link: Browse Internet as Nobody knows what you are doing, Simple SOCKS Proxy setup under Linux

As you may know ISPs can see those links you visit from your devices while using their service, this thing bother me and many users who knows about this stuff. Simply we can use SOCKS proxy using SSH. This approach is useful to surf web because things will be encrypted and your local administrator or ISP won’t be able to see what you are doing, they just can see encrypted packets are floating. 🙂

Also this method won’t eat much of your bandwidth but a little difference you may notice while testing your bandwidth using speedtest tools.

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Browse Internet as Nobody knows what you are doing, Simple SOCKS Proxy setup under Linux (NoobsLab)