Type-Ahead is a free and easy to use, predictive" text editor. Type-Ahead  tries to guess what you were going to type next. Type-Ahead also  supply the   word for you.Type-Ahead written in java language .Requirement for the Type-Ahead is java 1.3 and later.

Type-Ahead should look like a simple, empty editor, like this:

Type-Ahead is 100% clean which means it  does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, Trojans and backdoors.This software product was tested thoroughly and was found absolutely clean therefore, it can be installed with no concern by any computer user.

Download here

subtitle Search is an easy to use application designed to search for a movie title and return a list of subtitle download locations in different languages.

SubtitleDownloader is a handy, easy to use tool designed to enable you to search for subtitles files on different romanian sites, according to movie name or imdb id.

Various Features added in SubtitleDownloader are as:

• This tool offers support for multiple video file subtitle search, download and rename.
• It also has a special feature to search an entire folder for video files without subtitles with the same name as video

• Subtitledownloader  download and rename all subtitles files in the video files locations. Filter subtitles found according to movie name or imdb id. It uses best match algorithm to search  and filter the subtitles.

Started as a mini project, Linux Mint has now managed to gain a fairly large following over the years.

Distrowatch ranks it as the third most popular Linux distro, after Ubuntu and Fedora. In many ways, Linux Mint is Ubuntu simplified.

Linux Mint 9 is based on the recently released Ubuntu 10.04. If you are an existing Mint user, you will feel right at home, since this release looks and feels the same as Helena. The planned metallic visual refresh was dropped from this release due to performance issues. However, this is not to say that there aren’t big changes in this release.

Featured improvements in this release: 30,000 applications catalogued and reviewable both online and in the new software manager, brand new incremental backup tool for both data and software selection, menu transparency and editable items, USB and Windows installers, 3 years support, look & feel improvements.

New features at a glance:

• New Software Manager
  • 30,000 packages
  • Review applications straight from the Software Manager
  • APT daemon
  • Visual improvements
• New Backup Tool
  • Incremental backups, compression, integrity checks
  • Backup/Restoration of the software selection
• Menu improvements
  • Editable items
  • Transparent menu
  • Always start with favorites
  • “Add to” shortcuts
• Desktop settings
  • Changes apply immediately
  • Additional options
• Better look & feel
  • Backgrounds
  • Welcome screen
  • Update Manager
  • 
• System improvements
  • Windows installer
  • Husse quotes
  • USB Creator
  • Default software selection
  • Local repository and Gnome-PPP
  • Apt hold/unhold/held commands
• Project changes
  • Community Website
  • CD & DVD
  • Community Editions
  • OEM installation disks
  • USA/Japan distributors disks
  • 32 & 64-bit
• Upstream improvements
• • Faster boot
  • Long Term Support

For a complete overview and to see screenshots of the new features, visit: “What’s new in Linux Mint 9“.

It is based on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Linux 2.6.32, Gnome 2.30 and Xorg 7.4, Linux Mint 9 "Isadora" features a lot of improvements and the latest software from the Open Source World.

Some of the major changes in Linux Mint 9 are:

Known problems:

Moonlight

• Upstream issues

To get more information about these problems and their solution, read the “Known problems” section of the release notes.

Important information:

• Java and OpenOffice.org-base
• OEM disks
• Distributors disks for the USA and Japan
• Tomboy Notes
• Local repository and Gnome-PPP

To get more information, read the “Important information” section of the release notes.

System requirements:

• x86 processor (for both 32 & 64-bit versions)
• x86_64 compatible processor (for the 64-bit version)
• 512 MB of system memory (RAM)
• 3 GB of disk space for installation
• Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolution
• CD-ROM drive or USB port

Upgrade instructions:

• To upgrade from a previous version of Linux Mint follow these instructions.
• To upgrade from Linux Mint 9 RC, simply apply any level 1 and 2 updates (if any) available in the Update Manager.

Download:

Linux Mint 9 is available for download in 32 and 64-bit via torrent and HTTP as:

• A live CD
•  
• A live DVD (containing the same software as the live CD plus Sun Java 6, VLC, OpenOffice.org-base, F-Spot, Samba, additional wallpapers and ttf-dejavu)
• OEM installation disks (for manufacturers, to pre-install Linux Mint 9 on computers without setting up a user account)
• US/Japan distribution disks (for magazines, companies and distributors in the USA, Japan and countries where the legislation allows patents to apply to software and distribution of restricted technologies may require the acquisition of 3rd party licenses)

Download Link:

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

Or

http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=44

Sources: www.linuxmint.com

Many times you are encountered with the problem when you are trying to restart apache2 in Ubuntu operating system.

It gives the error message something like this :

vmware@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart   * Restarting web server apache2                                                apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName  [Mon Apr 12 17:37:43 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName [Mon Apr 12 17:37:43 2010] [warn] NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts

and when you try on your Localhost (http://localhost) the error seems to be appear like this :

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart  sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu   * Restarting web server apache2                                                apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName  apache2: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for ubuntu  apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down  Unable to open log

The Solution of this problem is :-

In this type of problem  you seem to be missing a VirtualHost section or a NameVirtualHost declaration in your configuration.

You either need to remove the NameVirtualHost line, or fix your virtual host configuration

You can run netstat --tcp --listening --programs to show all listening sockets as well as the application listening on each port. You’ll be looking for *:www or *:80 in the "Local Address" column. Once you know the application listening on port 80, you can determine the best method of solving the problem.

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.

Converseen is an easy to use image batch converter and thumbnail creator written in C++ with powerful Qt4  libraries.

Francesco Mondello an Italian developer employed the Qt4 framework and Image Magick libraries in Converseen. “I used Qt4 because it’s easy to use and powerful, and allows you to create software that fits in well with the look and feel of KDE and GNOME,” he says.

He posted the project on SourceForge.net because “it’s the best way to share open source software. I appreciate being able to create a web site for my project, and I love the download counter.” To publicize its availability, Mondello announces new releases on Qt-Apps, freshmeat, and on the project’s web site.

With converseen you can:

• Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
• Create one or multiple thumbnails.
• Create "converted" thumbnails.
• Compress images for your pages.

Source: sourceforge.net

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 ,

Google Chrome for Linux ( Ubuntu/Debian/OpenSuse/Fedora ) Download

Google Chrome for Macos Download ( For Mac OS X 10.5 or later, Intel only)

So, download the appropriate version for your OS , be it Mac or Linux and though it is still in Beta ( Google keeps stuff in beta for long periods ) you can still count on it to work flawlessly.

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 are using some package manager like Synaptic (Ubuntu) , YUm or apt-get then the locations are automatically chosen for you and are in most case /bin or /usr/bin for the executables .

If you are installing LAMP then install it to /opt or /etc directory and while you can keep the WEB ROOT at /var/www or in some other Linux’s at /srv/www

As I told you, Apps tend to be installed in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, or in some cases /opt. If you’re developing your own software or modifying an existing package /usr/local/bin is probably better as it signifies a user edited binary file

To Learn more about significance and usage of filesystem hierarchy of Linux , Download this PDF from pathname.com , or read it  Online ( HTML) version here

Pictorial representation of Linux FileSystem

Here are two images, I found on the internet which explain the various Directories under Linux file system in brief within a small single page image.

(Click on image to Expand it )

Here is another one much colorful and Web2

Hope this helped you understand to some extent , meaning and importance of various directories under Linux root filesystem.

(Image credit goes to the creator, If you are the one just notify me in comments and I will update it here in Post )

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 !! )

So, just login to your shell and type this

curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} \n" http://yoururl.com/

change the yoururl.com  to your own URL which you wish to test , and then test it for other popular websites like twitter, mashable or some other not so popular websites and see the difference.

Terminology

Connect : Time taken by cUrl to connect to the site ( dependent on your client Server’s bandwidth and Network )

Time To First Byte (TTFB) :– Time taken to receive first byte after connect ( How quick your Apache is , lower the value the better )

Total time : The last data is the total time for the site to finish loading. (Largely due to your PHP/ any other server side language performance )

So have fun, testing your Website I will write more about Website optimization and Apache, PHP as I have just shifted to a self managed VPS and I keep on learning new things and new ways to optimize it .

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.

Puppy Linux Features

• Easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
• Booting from USB Flash drive, minimise writes to extend life indefinitely.
• Extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
• Boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
• Have all the applications needed for daily use.
• Will just work, no hassles.
• Will breathe new life into old PCs
• Load and run totally in RAM for diskless thin stations

  Vector Linux Features

• Kernel version 2.6.22.14 with popular sata, ide and scsi drivers.
• Glibc-2.5
• X.org 7.3 is the default X window system. Compiz-fusion on deluxe CD
• New graphical and text package management with Gslapt and slapt-get.
• New VL-Hot system for automounting usb devices like pendrives and external drives.
• Optionally HAL system for automounting devices
• Easy on your system resources, should run fine with a minimum of 128mb of ram
• Reguires 2900 megs of disk space for full install (but you should have more available for additional programs and swap space)
• Laptop support including pcmcia, apm, and TuxOnIce.
• Usb support via Udev
• Most available Linux hardware drivers are included.

• XFCE-4.4.2 desktop system with additional plugins. More window managers available on the deluxe CD.
• Fully customized KDE-3.5.8 available on the deluxe CD version.
• Full compliment of office applications- OpenOffice-2.3.1, Koffice on deluxe CD
• Internet ready with SeaMonkey, Firefox, Opera, Dillo, Pidgin, Xchat and more.
• Mplayer, flash, acrobat reader and java more available on the deluxe CD.
• GQview and mtpaint for viewing, manipulating and editing graphics files
• The Gimp-2.3.4 a very sophisticated image editing program available on the deluxe CD
• XMMS to play most music formats. Amarok plus many others on deluxe cd
• A full compliment of GUI programs to handle email, file management, text editing, sound manipulation, file compression, desktop themes. Deluxe CD has many more.

• Full development suite with most common libraries, compilers and related tools.
• Gcc G++ updated to version 4.1.2. Binutilities-2.17.50.0.17
• Chestnut Dialer and PPP setup wizard for easy connection to the net via your modem.
• VI style text editors, mutt for email, lynx text web browsing, Midnight Commander file manager, ncftp, telnet, ping, finger and all the basic networking applications and daemons.
• Vim, apache, mysql, Emacs, samba, screen all available on the deluxe CD version.
• Added security with a built in firewall, port sentry, openssl and openssh..
• Enhanced USB support with udev
• The default file manager (midnight commander) will install uninstall all software packages including rpms, slps, debs, tgz, and tlz.

Vector Linux comes in various editions , hardware requirements for which are enlisted below .

Standard Edition: Pentium 200 or better, 96MB RAM, 2.1GB hard drive space for system only, more for your data.

SOHO Edition: Pentium 750 or better, 128MB RAM minimum, 3.1GB hard drive space for system only, more for your data, video and monitor capable of 1024×768 resolution at 24 bits color.

Light Edition: Pentium 166 or better, 64MB RAM minimum, 1.8GB hard drive space for full system – more for your data.

Live Editions: Pentium 750 or better, 256MB RAM minimum, video and monitor capable of 1024×768 resolution at 24 bits colour. For the Beryl version you will need a modern video card.

My personal preference is vector Linux even though both are based on SLAX and have package managers, but Vector linux  provides some good administration and configuration options and It looks well supported and offer quick paid support and also free support via their forums and wiki and due to it’s large download size it also has more Apps and more drivers so most of your drivers would get recognized quick . 

Have Fun

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

$ gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER \
       -dFirstPage=22 -dLastPage=36 \
       -sOutputFile=outfile_p22-p36.pdf 100p-inputfile.pdf

Remember to change the following params here 

100p-inputfile.pdf             Change it to your own input PDF file  

-dFirstPage=22                 Change it with your starting page range

-dLastPage=36                  Change it to your range’s  last page

-sOutputFile=pages22-36.pdf    Change it to any arbitrary filename of your own

This is the easiest and the fastest method to achieve a page range extract as it uses the native GhostScript utility which is available in every distro of Unix/Linux Nowdays , so you can use it without installing any package or utility .