Deleting your files isn’t good enough. Not even if you empty the recycle bin afterwards. Nor is formatting the drive. There are plenty of ways to recover data in such circumstances. Instead, you need a specialist program that can wipe the entire drive by storing random data onto every part of it, multiple times.
Source: Disposing Of A PC? Nuke The Drive First. | Gizmo’s Freeware
FFmpeg is a powerful command line tool for manipulating your media files. Here are some of the FFmpeg commands you should know for media conversions.
Source: 10 FFmpeg Commands You Should Know for Media File Conversions – Make Tech Easier
FFmpeg with an optional library vidstab can stabilize and smooth out shaky video on Linux. Here is a quick how-to and example video!
Source: Video Stabilization Using VidStab and FFmpeg on Linux (scottlinux.com | Linux Blog)
There are many password managers for Windows and OS X, but here we’ll look at some of the best password managers for Linux. With so many online accounts on the internet, it can be tediously difficult to remember all your passwords. Many people write them down or store them in a document, but that’s plain insecure.
Source: 10 Best Password Managers For Linux Operating Systems (Fossbytes)
There are many screencasting tools for Windows & Mac; ironically, there’s no dearth of applications on Linux. However, SimpleScreenRecorder is one of them.
Source: Perform Screen Recording in Ubuntu with SimpleScreenRecorder (Make Tech Easier)
GNOME Sushi adds a macOS style ‘Quick Look’ feature to Nautilus. Just select a file and tap the spacebar to see a larger preview.
Source: How to Add Mac OS X’s ‘Quick Look’ Feature to Ubuntu – OMG! Ubuntu!
Time Machine is a great service for backing up your computer, and by default it doesn’t use much CPU power to do it. That’s great most of the time, but sometimes you need to get stuff backed up as soon as possible. Defaults-Write points out the Terminal command for doing so.
Source: Temporarily Speed Up a Time Machine Backup With a Terminal Command (Lifehacker)
At the beginning of chapter 4 in TLCL there is a discussion of GUI-based file managers versus the traditional command line tools for file manipulation such as cp, mv, and rm. While many common file manipulations are easily done with a graphical file manager, the command line tools provide additional power and flexibility.
In this adventure we will look at Midnight Commander, a character-based directory browser and file manager that bridges the two worlds of the familiar graphical file manager and the common command line tools.
The design of Midnight Commander is based on a common concept in file managers: dual directory panes where the listings of two directories are shown at the same time. The idea is that files are moved or copied from the directory shown in one pane to the directory shown in the other. Midnight Commander can do this, and much, much more.
Source: LinuxCommand.org: Midnight Commander
Take a picture of a printed document and get its text in a few seconds, straightaway on your mobile.
Source: Scan Documents To Obtain Text, No More Heavy Typing | Gizmo’s Freeware
We’re all aware The GIMP is the best free alternative to Photoshop — but is there a way to make it look like Photoshop, too?
Source: This Theme Pack Makes GIMP Look and Work Like Photoshop – OMG! Ubuntu!
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