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Pimp Your Ubuntu With Ubuntu Tweak!

In: Apps

Ubuntu has grown to be one of the easiest distros to use which propelled it to be the most popular Linux flavor currently available. But guess what? Tweaking Ubuntu has can get a lot easier! The aptly named Ubuntu Tweak is designed to give you direct access to some of the hidden settings. Think of [...]

Howto: Chromium Browser On Linux With Flash

In: Apps

Chromium is the Open Source project behind Google’s browser Chrome. It aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all  users to experience the web. Indeed as I type this on Chromium on an Ubuntu laptop, I can truly feel the speed. While Chromium on Linux is still in the pre-release stage, [...]

Firefox 4.0 Screenshots Released

In: Apps

Just a month ago Mozilla gave us the final version of Firefox 3.5 giving us a lot of nifty features like HTML5, private browsing, smarter session control among others. But Mozilla aren’t the kind of people who sit on their laurels, they already posted screenshots of Firefox 3.7 a week ago, and today we have [...]

Howto: Add Your Facebook Friends to Pidgin

In: Apps, Howto

This is pretty straight forward yet awesome! Get all your friends on a real chat client instead of that annoying and crippled Facebook chat window! All you need to do is install a little package called pidgin-facebook. If you are on a Debian system just download this package and install it using the GUI or [...]

Nmap 5.0 Released: Most Important Since 1997!

In: Apps

If you don’t know what Nmap is then this probably doesn’t interest you and/or not “1337″ enough. What’s wrong with you?
Today, insecure.org announced the release of Nmap 5.0, which they consider the most important release since 1997. Their release notes detail the most important changes:

The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss Army [...]

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