One area that I have always found lacking on Linux is a good Dictionary software. I have tired quite a few free and 
opensource dictionary software for linux, some very good, but non had the WOW factor to keep me using them again and again. Well that was until I stumbled (no pun intended) on Artha (yeah I know free software apps and their funny names 
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A for Artha, The Awesome offline Dictionary for Linux
Saturday, February 27th, 2010How to safely remove PPA Repository from Ubuntu
Sunday, January 10th, 2010We sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, when I stumbled upon (no pun intended) a packaged named ppa-purge. (more…)
Encode and sync music to your portable music player in linux
Monday, September 14th, 2009Ok so today turned out to be a not so good day for me, and like all not so good days I try do something which would distract me, something i love doing. Hence this post. Nope I don’t want to talk about it.
So some months ago I got me an E71 Nokia phone, among other things I was hoping to use it as a music device so I slammed in an 8gb memory card, and was all set but for one factor: 60% of my music collection are in ogg format and nokia default music player does recognize ogg. Sure there are some 3rd party music apps for E71 which can play ogg files out of the box but they all lack the kind of integration which you get with the Nokia default music player. While in confused mode I decided to call up a friend nucco and he gave me the tip about .is_audio_player.
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