In a world where money speaks the idea of getting something for free appeals to everyone. With softwares on the market going for well above thousand dollars, a good freeware is always revitalizing. Freewares, built by very talented generous programmers who want nothing but appreciation for their ingenuity is always a great alternative to all those pocket emptying software available on the market. Besides being free these products are sometimes even better than their cash [...]

In the 1st edition of Flash-tutorials we got ourselves comfortable with flash’s interface. In this tutorial we will start with object-modeling. Object-modeling, basically means designing objects. This is an important part of learning flash; your animations are only as good as your objects. Creating great objects will allow you to create a better looking animation. Enough of the chit-chat then so let’s begin. Objects, in the real world are something that is tangible and within [...]

Linux has more than 650 commands and every command has its own set of options all performing different operations. Going through each and every one of these commands will be a very tedious task. However limiting yourself to only a few of them is never an option. The trick here to learning all these commands, is to categorise them according to their function. By doing this, you will know atleast the basic commands and have [...]

1.  Everything in Linux is a file including the hardware and even the directories. 2. # : Denotes the super(root) user 3.  $ : Denotes the normal user 4.  /root: Denotes the super user’s directory /home: Denotes the normal user’s directory. 5.  Switching between Terminals §  Ctrl + Alt + F1-F6: Console login §  Ctrl + Alt + F7: GUI login 6.  The Magic Tab: Instead of typing the whole filename if the unique pattern [...]

Facebook chat is a light-weight Instant Messaging (IM) Tool integrated directly into your Facebook account. It allows you to chat with all your Facebook friends without having to download or install any plugins or software. Launched way back in April 2008, Facebook chat has been growing at a tremendous rate. Back in June 2009, Facebook announced that Facebook Chat sends more than 1 Billion Messages per day.Its been more then a year now, and considering [...]

Vim, the more advanced form of the earlier Vi editor(found in the older versions) is one of the most powerful text editors in the Linux Platform. Slight alterations in the configuration files can be of the upmost importance and can change the whole setting of the system therefore learning the basics of navigation of this text editor is a minimal prerequisite for any Linux novice. Everything in Linux is a file, from all the software [...]