How to Create LIVE USB Linux from Windows XP / Vista

LiLi USB Creater is a tool that help you create a portable and bootable USB stick running Linux system using iso image files. It is not a Linux Utility, It is a free Open source Windows application. This Software is tested for install and configure any of these Linux Distributions : Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint and many others.

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How to Run DOS Applications and Games in Ubuntu / Debian Linux

DOSBOX RUN DOS APPLICATIONS AND GAMES IN UBUNTU LINUX
The Fundamental Operating System DOS is still alive. For basic study purpose, DOS is Used in most of the Universities. Now Also people like DOS games. The Famous C language Compilers are woking only is DOS. You can Make a virtual DOS environment Linux.

sudo apt-get install dosbox
(Your can use Synaptic Package Manager and search for dosbox)

After Installation you can make a folder xxxxx in your home directory
(eg: $mkdir mydos)

copy your favorite dos programs and games like Turboc, dave, digger etc in this directory

Now you can run dosbox by typing dosbox in a terminal or
by select it from menu

You will get a small dos window with Z:\> prompt

in Z prompt type the following

Z:\>mount c /home/xxx/mydos
This command for mounting your dos directory to C Drive
(in my case my dos files are in /home/shibu/mydos )

Now You are ready for running your dos programms

Z:\> c: ( change drive to c:)
Z:\>dir (this will list your dos files placed in /home/shibu/mydos)

if ther is our old famous digger game

Z:\>digger and Enjoy it.

How to install Android sdk 1.6 in ubuntu 9.04

Google released android 1.6 sdk. Most of the ubuntu users need to install android for start development for the next generation Mobile devices.



Android SDK is built around Java . So, you have to install Sun Java before trying to install Android. Look at this post for details about installation of sun java development kit on ubuntu 9.04.

Here you can see a very good tutorial for installing android 1.6 sdk

View Some Magic with Ubuntu Easter Eggs

Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes. Here You can see some simple easter eggs in Ubuntu.

OpenOffice Easter Egg

Select OpenOffice Spreadsheet
Applications-->Office-->OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet

Type the following in an empty field

=GAME("StarWars")

Gnome Easter Egg

Type the following in Login Screen when it ask for username

Require Quarter Then press enter

nothing will happened

now you can enter your username and password as usual

now you can see a surprise before login

don't worry press OK to continue

Howto Extract camera settings and Picture information from a image file using ExifTool in Ubuntu Linux

ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. Modern Digital Camera including Canon, Minolta,Konica, Nikon, Pentax store all the settings you used, such as aperture or shutter speed along with the picture. For extracting the camera settings and Picture information , you can use ExifTool. ExifTool is requred for profesional editing of some Picture Files.

Howto Install in ExifTool ubuntu
Open a terminal and type the following

$ sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

Check a image file for its settings

$ exiftool UNS_1850.JPG
ExifTool Version Number : 7.30
File Name : UNS_1850.JPG
Directory : .
File Size : 4 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2009:08:21 11:25:32
File Type : JPEG
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model Name : NIKON D200
Orientation : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution : 300
Y Resolution : 300
Resolution Unit : inches
Software : Ver.2.00
Modify Date : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
Y Cb Cr Positioning : Co-sited
Exposure Time : 1/200
F Number : 10.0
Exposure Program : Manual
ISO : 200
Exif Version : 0221
Date/Time Original : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
Create Date : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
and more................

5 Exciting 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu linux is rich with exciting graphics utilities, Here you can see simple but very useful 2D Graphics Design tools for Ubuntu Linux. Yes welcome to the fantastic world of ubuntu graphics.

Xara Xtreme, ( apt-get install xaralx) This is simple, easiest vector graphics drawing program. It is very userfiendly, it is very nice, which is not usual in this kind of applications.


Ktoon, (apt-get install ktoon) KToon is a 2D Animation Toolkit designed by animators (Toonka Films ) for animators, focused to the Cartoon Industry.

Synfig, (apt-get install synfig synfigstudio) Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package Beware you have to apt 2 packages: synfig (the application) and synfigstudio (the graphical interface to use it), so install both.


Skencil, (apt-get install skencil) Skencil, another good vector graphics drawing application. It has many clipart libraries included. Features like Bézier Curves, Transformed text and images, Bézier curves, rectangles and ellipses can be used as guides, Gradient fills, Blend groups, Writes EPS files


MyPaint, Although it lacks of layers, it is a simple but superb natural painting program. It has many interesting artistic brushes, and you can do your own. The brushes are pressure sensible , supports unlimited canvases, undo's making of it a very "living" and artistic way to paint. Download deb package from here dpkg -i packagename

gt5: Disk Usage Browser for Ubuntu Linux

gt5 is a graphical alternative for command line Disk usage utility "du". It is very useful for finding the size of each folders in your system.

$ sudo apt-get install gt5

• displays the diskspace used by files and directories within a directory
• optionally provides links to the files, so you can also browse them
• displays entries with their size and the percentage of their parent

More details and usage see here