Month: July 2014

Link: 25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management

This article explains how quickly you can learn to install, remove, update and search software packages using apt-get and apt-cache commands from the command line. This article provides some useful commands that will help you to handle package management in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.

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25 Useful Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management (Tecmint)

Libk: Transmageddon: A Video Transcoder For Linux And Unix Systems

Transmageddon is a video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer. It supports almost any format as its input and can generate a very large host of output files. The goal of the application was to help people to create the files they need to be able to play on their mobile devices and for people not hugely experienced with multimedia to generate a multimedia file without having to resort to command line tools with ungainly syntaxes.

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Transmageddon: A Video Transcoder For Linux And Unix Systems (Unixmen)

Link: Video Monkey – an excellent free video encoding (format converter) application exclusively for Mac OS X

We came across this fantastic free video format converter software for Mac OS X users, and wanted to bring it to your attention. It’s simpler to use that some other, possibly better known programs, yet it is capable of producing very good quality video conversions.

Video Monkey is a free video encoding application exclusively for Mac. With it you can encode multiple videos, automatically add metadata from sources like theTVDB.com andtheMovieDB.org, and then add them to your iTunes library, all at the touch of a button. The UI is simple and intuitive and lets you encode almost any video to many Apple and non-Apple formats. It uses the super fast ffmpeg encoder for high quality results. Whether it’s converting recorded TV shows, or transferring a video to a format for use in other video editing software, Video Monkey is a great way to simplify all your encoding needs.

Full description at software about page:
About Video Monkey (Video Monkey)
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Video Monkey

Link: How to Find if a Windows Process Is Virus or Legitimate

In case you don’t know, Windows runs a lot of processes in the background, without you knowing. To verify that, simply launch the Windows Task Manager (by right clicking on the taskbar and select “Task Manager” from the list or by pressing “Ctrl + Alt + Del” and selecting Task Manager). Once you are in the Task Manager, navigate to Details tab and you will see a whole bunch of processes which are related to a whole bunch of programs (some of which autostart by itself) running in your Windows machine.

Of course, most of the processes’ names don’t make any sense because of their cryptic naming conventions (igfxpers.exe, etc) and there is no telling if that specific process or processes are legitimate or a virus running in the background to sabotage your PC. That said, you don’t have to be a Windows expert to verify if a running Windows process is legitimate or a virus. All you have to do is to use a free software which can give you all the details you will need.

Full article here:
How to Find if a Windows Process Is Virus or Legitimate (Make Tech Easier)

Link: Linux Basics: How To Find Size of Directory Commands

This is the first in a series of posts in coming where I’ll be writing about some basic commands that that will be of good use to new users.

Note: This is targeted at people little or no command line experience..

How can I as a new user to Linux display directory properties from the terminal?

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Linux Basics: How To Find Size of Directory Commands (Unixmen)

Link: How To Install Simple Screen Recorder 0.3.0 On Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 And Derivative Systems

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Simple Screen Recorder is a screen recorder application, with support for X11 and OpenGL. Having a simple and intuitive GUI built by using the Qt libraries, it enables the users to easily record both the entire screen (having multi-monitor support also) or parts of it only, or OpenGL applications.

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How To Install Simple Screen Recorder 0.3.0 On Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 And Derivative Systems (LinuxG.net)

Link: Systemback: Restore Your Linux System To Previous State

A couple of months ago, we have described an awesome tool called TimeShift that can be used to restore your Linux desktop to the previous working state in Unixmen. In the same series, today I introduce a new tool named systemback.

Systemback is an open source, system backup and restore application. Using Systemback, we can easily create backups of system and users configuration files. In case of problems, we can easily restore the previous state of the system. There are extra features like system copying, system installation and Live system creation.

Full article here:
Systemback: Restore Your Linux System To Previous State (Unixmen)

Link: How to Use Linux Commands in Windows with Cygwin

Windows command-line tools have advanced a lot with PowerShell, but Linux has had a much more usable terminal for many years. Here’s how you can get the best of both worlds with Cygwin, a ‘nix-style terminal for Windows PCs.

In today’s lesson, we’ll explain how to get Cygwin running, but stay tuned for future articles where we’ll explain how to use it for all sorts of different things.

Full article here:
How to Use Linux Commands in Windows with Cygwin (How-To Geek)
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What Is Cygwin And How To Install Cygwin On Your Windows PC (Stugon)