Simple Desktop File Sharing with Giver

Published in December 19th, 2008

With Giver, you can share files between desktops on your network with absolutely no configuration necessary. Other Giver clients are automatically discovered using Avahi.
Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Other people running Giver on your network are automatically discovered and you can send files to them by simply dragging the files to their [...]

Install VirtualBox 2.1 in Ubuntu 8.10

Published in December 18th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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Use virtualization software? Check out VirtualBox 2.1, which adds some exciting new features:

Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems. Testing a 64-bit desktop is now much easier thanks to VirtualBox supporting 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts. It’s pretty impressive that this is even possible!
Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL. Don’t get too excited about [...]

Configure Port Forwarding to a VirtualBox Guest OS

Published in December 17th, 2008

Posted by Tom in tips

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Running a server as a guest in a VirtualBox virtual machine isn’t much good when you can’t network with the guest OS from your host machine. Instead of setting up host interface networking, you can simply port forward though VirtualBox’s NAT. Once port forwarding is set up, any computer on your network will be able [...]

Animated Wallpaper on your Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop

Published in December 15th, 2008

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Have some spare CPU cycles to burn? Using a utility called XWinWrap you can use screensavers, videos, and other applications as your desktop wallpaper.
One drawback is that you will not be able to use desktop icons with XWinWrap due to a limitation in Nautilus. Compiz desktop effects are not required, but a fairly powerful [...]

Transform Ubuntu into a Media Center with XBMC

Published in December 9th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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This guest article was written by Vivek Kumar from TNerd.com, a blog focused on technology news, tricks and tips and Linux tutorials.
Linux has come a long way in support for multimedia and graphics. Today we will see how to transform Ubuntu 8.10 into a media center platform. You can achieve this using various software like [...]

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