Tips

Linux Command Line Tips

June 10, 2007

PixelBeat has nice compilation of some of the commonly used Linux terminal commands. The commands are also categorized and should help in finding the right command/command usage for the task at had. Link: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html Also note the comment in the above page: Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, [...]

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LockNote

February 13, 2007

Steganos LockNote is the one of the simplest application to store/retrieve confidential data. If you want to store E-Mail account passwords, bank login details etc in a secure way, LockNote is the application to use. It is also very secure since the information is encrypted using a password and it uses AES 256bit encryption. There [...]

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Unix – Make Directory Tree in a Swipe

January 22, 2007

If I wanted to created a directory tree say /first/second/third this is how I used to do it, till now. $ cd /$ mkdir first$ cd first$ mkdir second$ cd second$ mkdir third$ cd third Today I learnt that you could do this in a single swipe using the -p option! mkdir -p first/second/third And [...]

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Definition Search in Google

January 7, 2007

If you are searching for a meaning of a word or a term, the Definitions feature of Google Search should come in handy. Till now if I wanted to quickly lookup a meaning for a word say preposterous, I used to search in Google with this keyword preposterous+meaning To see a definition for a word [...]

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Camel-Case Search in Eclipse

December 26, 2006

I have extensively used Eclipse for the past 2 years and as with every other IDE, the first thing I do is to find out/use the keyboard shortcuts in the application. Eclipse is a great IDE to work with and I should probably start a series of posts which might help me and others in [...]

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Google Search does math too

December 21, 2006

I was talking to my brother the other day on phone and I had to quickly convert 4lbs to Kg’s. I was about to search in Google for a unit converter and he reminded me that I could do this easily in Google Search itself ! I just had to enter “4lbs in Kg“ in [...]

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100 Linux Tips and Tricks

November 12, 2006

Nope I am not going to write a post listing the 100 Linux Tips and Tricks. I am just going to attach a nice book that I found while searching through by E-book collection The book is pretty good for new Linux users and can help them to quickly get started on Linux ! I [...]

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