I can understand how tedious is to convert the size and format of different types of digital images into a consistent format one by one.
To get rid of that you can use Converseen, a batch image conversion tool that 
lets users convert and resize multiple images automatically. It’s easy to use, and allows you to convert images in a lot of different formats.
Google’s own Web browser chrome which was and is liked by many geeks for it’s speed and simplicity is now available on Mac and Linux platforms too . So , you can just download it and enjoy Chrome browser in your own Operating system be it Linux Mac or Windows.
For Linux and Mac only beta version is available right now, which can be downloaded from links given below ,
Newbie’s to Linux often face the dilemma of where to install or put the binaries of any software app they wish to run on their Linux. If that app comes with a installer it’s ok but if not then It’s tough time , well here I would recommend some important points to consider while choosing the directories for installation of your Apps etc.
If you own a Web server or a VPS and would like to see how quick it is at delivering your website pages and how efficient is it’s response time then you can try the following cUrl command from any other Linux Box and test your results, while this test will give you response time of your own website , you can still compare it with response time of popular websites like nytimes.com and lifehacker.com to get an idea of how much you lag behind them ( You can be quicker in response time too , if you have a mighty server !! )
Most of us have a old Computer or laptop that we wish to revive but modern day OS like Windows Xp, Vista and even Ubuntu are too much demanding in terms of resources ( including processor and RAM ) . After looking on various forums and Blog articles, I have selected Vector Linux and Puppy Linux as my choice , My friends system is a 500Mhz celeron with 256 MB RAM and 10GB of hard Disk .
I chose puppy Linux and vector linux as both of them are far better in terms of looks and applications that come bundled with both of them , another very strong contender is Damn small linux ( but believe me Guys it’s so damn small , that it barely is good for a average user , leave it for Geeks ) , both Vector linux and Puppy linux come with GUI environments with Web browser Mp3 and audio/video playback support and Drivers for your hardware and are well suited for the average linux user or even a novice.
You downloaded a PDF file and you are only interested in particular pages say 23-56 and the rest of it is useless for you, then you can use the GhostScript utility to extract these range of pages as a new PDF so you can save on size, and gain on reading confidence ( I hate books with huge no. of pages .. ) .
You can do this via this command
Hello friends, I searched the Internet for a decent video converter that converted 3gp video from my mobile to wmv, mpg or any other common and easily playable format. I tried several of them but the winner was Format Factory as it converted / transcoded my video easily with no anomaly in playback speed, quality etc. I would recommend Format Factory to you people as it helped me a lot and I researched the web and found out that it is very trusted and reliable converter of all the free video converters available. It works equally well for other formats including mp4, mkv, wmv, avi, xvid and others.
This is for newbies in Linux who are trying to learn Linux and in the meantime require to install several apps most of them are available in the repository ( Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora etc .) , installing from repository is very easy but if you download a tarball or a compressed archive of the software package source code then you can easily install it using these commands at your terminal ( command interpreter )
Assuming ,
tar -zxvf mytarball.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install
assuming that you are in the directory where you downloaded the tar.gz file, for more details on this and how it works, you can read a well written article by Joshua Price here, I dont think it would be worthwhile to repeat the same steps and explanation here .
