Posts made in January, 2009

• Download Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

  Linux
  

  If you’re starting off or planning to start off on using Ubuntu, here’s something you should refer to. Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is one book you should check out. The book is an easy to follow guide which starts you off with how to get and install  Ubuntu on your PC and then goes [...]

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• Ease into your News Feeds using Feedly

  General Stuff
  

  If you are spending a lot of time going through your feeds using Google Reader, here’s a firefox addon which you shouldn’t miss out on. Feedly takes your feeds from Google Reader and displays it in a magazine like format. This format’s easier to scan through than Google Reader’s display format. I’ve been using this [...]

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• Manage EC2 though AWS Management Console

  Services
  

  Image via CrunchBase Just got an email from Amazon with their announcement of the beta release of the AWS Management Console. This helps users manage their EC2 resources though an easy to use web interface. No more third party browser addons and custom code to check the status of EC2 instances and playing around with [...]

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• PHP functions in Javascript using PHP.JS

  Javascript
  

  PHP programmers usually have to handle HTML & Javascript front-end coding as well and I’m sure a lot of us have been frustrated with the lack of those easy to use PHP functions in Javascript like those array, encode/decode and string functions. Here’s a Javascript project which provides you just that. PHP.JS is an open [...]

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• Blog from your Ubuntu Desktop

  Linux
  

  There is a small utility in Ubuntu called Gnome Blog which allows you to blog directly from your desktop. If you are running firefox on Ubuntu, click on this link to install the package or enter the following command in your terminal sudo apt-get install gnome-blog Once installed, right click on an empty area on [...]

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