Showing posts with label Softwares. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Softwares. Show all posts

22/05/2020

How to monitor hardware temperature using Psensor on Linux?

So as we all are well aware of the damages coming in existance in our laptop or desktop hardwares just because of critical temperatures.Now,reasons for high temperature could be any,but as far as it's under our supervision,we can just save our system from getting damages by actions on time.

Psensor is a very useful application available on linux.It shows up most of the supported hardware temperatures,it doesn't stop here,there are mor,check'em out in this post.

Features:
  • Psensor can detect CPU,GPU,motherboard,Harddisk drives,cpu fan speed,cpu usage etc. with a graphical interface as well.
    psensor
  •  You can set an alarm for critical temp. , by setting the high threshold temp. for individual hardwares.It's really helpful as you just dont't need to keep checking temperatures mannually all time around.

13/05/2020

htop Process Viewer to monitor Processes on Linux

htop is a process viewer based on ncurses, running on your Linux system,very similar to top.If you have used top previously to view processes then you're going to feel right at the same home.But, htop stands itself above top by providing extra features.htop comes with ability to scroll up-down and horizontally as well,so it becomes easier to view the complete list of processes and commands of each processes.
htop process manager
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Some HighLights of htop
  • htop is a text-mode process viewer for Linux/Unix based systems.
  • htop performs real-time monitoring of processes running on the system.
  • htop is very similar to top.But unlike top,htop supports scrolling vertically and horizontally as well.
  • Mouse scrolling and selection is available to perform options like killing,renicing.
  • Specific processes can be searched by names and locations.
  • Multiple processes can be tagged and a task can be performed for all the tagged processes.

18/01/2018

Wavebox - All in one hub for Gmail, Outlook, Slack and more

Hey guys, ever wanted to use multiple cloud services at one place without going through login process and multiple browser windows every time? Well, there is an interesting software to handle this with ease and beautiful user interface. Wavebox is capable of handling multiple cloud services, email services, social media services, websites in one single hub.
Wavebox on Ubuntu 17.10.1
Wavebox brings all your virtual world together under one roof. Once you set up Wavebox with all your virtual accounts, all it remains is to access them with one click. Wavebox can aid you greatly in work, as you can access your services with fewer clicks instead of opening multiple apps or browser windows. Moreover, it consumes very less ram compared to multiple browser windows. Wavebox is also a secured platform to access your services. Every web app used on Wavebox is in sandbox mode. Wavebox use scoped OAuth2 to link accounts for maximum security.

Wavebox offers extensions like Boomerang, Gmelius, Dropbox, Grammarly, Mixmax, Clearbit, Todoist and it will increase in future. Wavebox also has an amazing feature, it can sleep apps. Once you put an app in sleep mode, it will stop using processing power, but you can still receive notifications of that service as it stays logged-in.
Wavebox on Ubuntu 17.10.1
It is very easy to set up Wavebox. All you have to do is choose your desired service and log in, it will be saved as a web app within Wavebox. You don't need to login repeatedly to access that particular service. You can set various accent colors and folder options for multiple services. You can even add custom websites and web apps to Wavebox.

Wavebox is free to use but you can get some extra features in pro version. Wavebox is available in MacOS, Windows, and Linux. To download Wavebox go to official website.

01/05/2017

Discord - voice and text chat for gamers

Hi guys, it is been a long pause on our website due to our exams and stuff but we are now back with more interesting stuff for you guys. Today we are going to meet Discord. If you are into online gaming and MOBA type games then you must have used or heard about Discord. It is one of the most versatile app out there for voice and text based chat. There are other apps like Skype or Teamspeak but Discord is unique in it's own way. Let's get to know more about this app.
  • Cross-platform - One of the most important thing about discord is that this app is cross-platform. You can use it in Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, Android and even a web version if you dont like to download and install the app. In Linux we used it on Ubuntu and Arch without any problems.
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  • Stable - This app is seriously stable. It is even more stable then OS sometimes (LOL). It worked smoothly on mobile, on both Ubuntu and Arch. We also used it on windows and it didn't disappoint us there too. Discord consumes very low amount of ram and CPU usage.
  • Features - Discord probably have more features compared to skype or teamspeak. Most of all it is completely free of cost. It gives IP & DDoS protection. It also gives browser support, mobile support, in-game overlay, multiple channels, bots for customization and entertainment, friend lists, direct messaging, low latency, etc. 
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  • android app for discord
  • Connectivity, fun & bots - Once you get used to discord and made friend over it, you will start to enjoy it even more. There are lots of customizations to channels, one can make separate channels for different games or can merge them all at one place and categorize them. Another fun part of discord is the bots. There are lots of different bots for discord. They can simply manage and moderate your channels, play music while you are having a voice chat or not, can play various games, can predict future (no, but yes :P ) and do many more stuff. bots work same across all the platform and same commands can be used to manipulate them. You can simply have a concert in discord with hundreds of people listening to it. 
So give this app a try, we are damn sure this won't disappoint you at all. For downloads and more information just head over to http://discord.gg
 

10/01/2017

Sandboxie - a unique tool to run certain program in isolated space

Ever thought of running a program on your PC which do not interfere with any other process? If yes, then you should have heard about Sandboxie. Sandboxie is unique way to run any program in an isolated space and does not let it interfere with anything else. This also gives an advantage to test a certain program without worrying about its effects on system. In the below screenshot, you can understand the mechanics very well.
Sandboxie on windows 10

You can also run a web browser in Sandboxie. Whatever you download or save will be accessible only inside Sandboxie, however you can transfer files from sandbox to your system. Running a web browser in sandbox gives you privacy as it won't effect rest of the system. you can create multiple sandboxes to manage your programs and processes.
Sandboxie on windows 10
Sandbox is like a layer between your system and the program. You can simply delete the whole sandbox and nothing will be changed. Only the contents in the sandbox will be gone but system will remain safe and intact. This can be very useful in testing unknown programs.  You can configure sandboxes according to your need and try out different programs in an isolated manner. This tool is supported in windows 7/8/8.1/10. Only latest version supports windows 10. Give this tool a try. Maybe you will like it and find it very useful in your day to day life.

To download Sandboxie - CLICK HERE

30/12/2016

How to get detailed information of running processes in Windows?

When using default task manager, one can do pretty much all the things needed. But there are times when you just want to know some more about a process or need some more details that default task manager can't provide. To solve this problem or to give this extra advantage, there is an application named process manager. One can get various information of the system and processes using this tool.

From where should download this application?
You can search this application on any search engine or you can simply go to this website and download it for free.

What can I do with this application?
Well, you can do everything that default task manager do plus there is a bonus of more information. By using this application, you can see the list of current running processes. You can decide which to keep and which to kill. Moreover, you can see detailed information of what DLL a process using or which particular handles are opened by a process. There are two panes, upper pane show list of processes running while lower pane shows DLL or handles used by that particular process. In a simple way if you want to pinpoint a particular DLL and which process is using that DLL, you can do it with this application. Good thing about this application is that there is an option to replace it with default task manager, so you can always open it using default ctrl+alt+del combo.
process explorer in windows 8.1

20/12/2016

How to know the details of your Windows PC easily

There are times when we just don't know the specs of a PC. It can be a friend's PC or your own (but bought by mom) and you really want to know the inner things hidden in that PC. Well, it is simple, there are few tools to find that but we prefer HWiNFO. It gives some very detailed knowledge of your PC's inner self.
HWiNFO 5.40
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 This lightweight tool is very useful for identifying and knowing more about your PC hardware. This tool gives a variety of information, it can be either summary of the whole system or information of single hardware. As soon as you start this tool, it will analyze all the hardware and provide best possible information about it. As you can see in below screenshot, it has a variety of categories to provide you with individual information of particular hardware.

06/12/2016

How to encrypt folders and files on Ubuntu/Linux Mint/ Debian/ Linux?

When it comes to security of our secret and highly sensitive data and files then, we really don't tend to take more risks.The best way to keep our files and folders secure is encryption of files and folders.
Wondering how to do it?
Well, there are many tools available for encryption on Windows, Linux.But today we are about to cover some tools for Linux.The Windows Version should be published real soon.

What is Encryption?
As written on webopedia:Encryption is the most effective way to achieve data security. To read an encrypted file, you must have access to a secret key or password that enables you to decrypt it. Unencrypted data is called plain text ; encrypted data is referred to as cipher text.

So,Now here are two cool tools to do your encryption work
GnuPG: GnuPG is one of the best encryption tool available.It is a command-line tool, so newcomers to Linux would be thinking to avoid it, but it is so easy for any individual user.On most of the Debian based Distros GnuPG is pre-installed, so no need of externally installations.
GnuPG

05/12/2016

Itch.io - your portal to Indie world

Recently we have been doing some weird things and suddenly we found out something which is very satisfying to a gamer's urges. Now if you are into gaming, then you simply can't say no to wonderful Indie games. We have encountered with such site which is dedicated for Indie developers to publish their games. So what you will get on Itch.io? A paradise full of Indie games. On Itch, there are tons of Indie games for all three platforms i.e. Windows, macOS, Linux. More on it, Itch also provides a dedicated client for PC to manage all your games easily.

Itch client
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Itch provides proper categorized solution to all your Indie needs. You can buy games here and you can even sell your game here with a simple registration in site. Many free games are also there. There is dedicated category to Linux and macOS. As you can see in below screenshot there are 7031 games for Linux, that is pretty high for Indie games.

10/11/2016

Ninite : A cool tool to manage your apps

You bought a new PC or formatted your old one and you are going to install all the apps again from their respective sites. Why do all this, when you can Ninite!

What is Ninite? Ninite is simply a tool which lets you install many important free applications which we use in daily life. All you have to do select apps you want and Ninite will create a custom installer for you which will install all the apps at once.
Ninite
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Ninite includes variety of important applications and keeps them updated all the time. This will save your time to install all the apps separately. Ninite is free of all the toolbars, crapware or adware. It also installs all the apps in their default location. Ninite skips all the reboot requests while installing, verifies all the digital signature before installing, all the apps are official, totally junk free, keeps your apps up-to-date and ignores already updated packages, identifies PC architecture automatically and install apps accordingly, downloads apps in default PC language. Most of all it does all the work in background and you just have to relax.
Ninite
While you can install all this, all you have to do run the same installer again anytime and it will update all the apps if available. So guys, try out Ninite and save your time.

04/10/2016

How to manage runnig processes using Terminal on Linux

Managing and monitoring background running processes are not only basic needs as per view of performance control but security is also a concern in this cyber linked world.
Previously we have posted htop Process Viewer to monitor Processes on Linux which was an alternative way to access the background running processes and applications with control to manage them by the single click and count.
Today we are going to talk about the terminal commands, used for managing and viewing the processes running on your system.
Here are some commands to manage running processes:
  •   Type in the following command to get the details about the runnimg processes without details.
    username@pcname:~$ps
  • ps aux command will also list the running processes but with a details.So instead of getting only name-list of the running processes,if detailed process monitoring is your need then this command will help you up.
    username@pcname:~$ps aux

03/10/2016

NetBeans IDE 8.2 Download is available now

NeatBeans doesn't need an introduction but still who doesn't know about NetBeans IDE then NetBeans IDE is an IDE(integrated development environment) that supports multiple programming languages like JAVA,HTML5,JAVAScript,C/C++,PHP etc. Well,It's vastly used by many coders and developers for developing mobile,pc or web applications.
NetBeans has a great set of pre-installed tools that makes coding and developing more convenient and easy on fingers.The GUI builder really makes the things easy on head when it comes to developing JAVA SE applications.

NetBeans is now available in 8.2 version with better improvements and better support.According to the release details page,the new NetBeans 8.2 comes with code analysers and editors to work with latest JAVA 8 technologies.Others aren't left behind,Other languages have also new improvements and enhancements with new and some old but improved tool-sets.

08/07/2016

KDE neon 5.7 is released

A little while ago KDE team has announced that they will be realsing their own Linux distribution and to add cream on this they did. KDE neon is based on Ubuntu and uses latest KDE plasma desktops and other KDE features. New version of it i.e. KDE neon 5.7 is released for public and developers.
KDE neon 5.7Image source
KDE neon 5.7

05/07/2016

Dopamine 1.0 released- A beautiful music player for Windows PC

If you are music lover and you have huge load of music on your PC then here is Dopamine, a cool looking and awesome music player for Windows.After many improvements since last 2 years,finally Dopamine 1.0 is here avaialble to download.It supports various formats of audios like wav,mp3,ogg vorbis,flac,wma and m4a/aac.
We used this amazing and beautiful music player for a while and here are our few impressions and a quick review of Dopamine 1.0 .

  •  After downloading the player and installing it, this is the welcome screen to greet you. Its looking beautiful from the very begining.
Dopamine music player for windows

04/07/2016

KDE Plasma 5.6.5 is now available for Kubuntu 16.04 LTS

The Kubuntu developers have announced the availability of the latest KDE Plasma 5.6.5 desktop environment, along with KDE Framework 5.23.0 in the Backports PPA repositories for Kubuntu 16.04 LTS users. Plasma 5.6.5 brings various bugfixes and new 5.23 framework introduces new fixes in KWallet, KWayland, Breeze and many more.

According to sources KDE Plasma 5.6.5 is the last maintenance release for the KDE Plasma 5.6 desktop environment series. Good news is if you're using Kubuntu 16.04 LTS, you can now upgrade to the KDE Plasma 5.6.5 desktop environment. 

To update to latest KDE Plasma 5.6.5 just open up terminal in your Kubuntu and add the following Repository:
ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

After adding the following repository,make an update command run and then wait for all the KDE Plasma 5.6.5 and KDE Frameworks 5.23.0 packages to be downloaded and installed. When the install operation finishes, please reboot your computer. That's it! You now have the latest KDE Plasma 5.6.5 in your Kubuntu 16.04 LTS.

08/06/2016

Oracle released VirtualBox 5.1 beta 2

Many of you are using VirtualBox to run multiple OS on a single machine. For those people there is a good news, Oracle has released the second beta of VirtualBox 5.1. There are a few minor changes and fixes from beta 1. The changelog of beta 2 is as follows:
  • GUI: don't crash when showing the Beta popup message window
  • GUI: multi-screen, full-screen layout fixed for Windows host (Qt5 regression)
  • GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
  • SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
  • Settings: fixed regression with disabling audio
  • Settings: fixed regression with saving snapshots (only.Box file is corrupted needing manual repair, disk images are intact; 5.1 Beta 1 regression)
  • Linux installer: Several path fixes for deb/RPM packages for older Linux distributions where we ship our own Qt5 libraries.
  • Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18
 You can download the latest beta from here. But remember beta version is bleeding edge type, so you better know what you are doing. Anyways, happy booting multiple OS on your machines.

04/06/2016

Whatsie an unofficial WhatsApp client for linux.

Recently we posted about WhatsApp client of windows PC, now we are posting about WhatsApp client for Linux (but it's unofficial). WhatsApp is very popular messenger around the world so why not have an client for linux too. To fill this gap there is Whatsie, an unofficial WhatsApp web client for Linux. It is open-source and cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It offers many features like auto correct, themes, native notifications, etc.
whatsie linux based whatsapp client
whatsie linux based whatsapp client
whatsie linux based whatsapp client
To install Whatsie in your Debian/Ubuntu/Mint and derivatives just hit up terminal and type in following commands:






Alternatively you can visit the Project Page to download deb and rpm packages as well as the source code directly. So those who are using Linux can try it out and enjoy WhatsApp web on your Linux system.
 Source

Say hello to Marlin, a smart and lightweight file manager for linux

While there are file managers like Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar, etc. Marlin is quite a good alternative for these. Marlin is one of the lightweight file manager and it is based on gtk3. It has some cool features which should be there in every file manager like tabbed browsing, networking support (SSH, FTP, Windows share, HTTP and HTTPS), multiple-views, configurable toolbars and interface, plugin framework and much more to be discovered.
Marlin file manager

Marlin file manager

Marlin file manager

Marlin file manager 
 To install this file manager all you have to do is open up terminal in your Debian/Ubuntu/Mint based system and type in the following commands:



Thats it and you will have Marlin in your system to play with.

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03/06/2016

Tor Browser 6.0 is here.

Most of us know what tor is and what are it's uses. So good news is new version of tor browser is here. Tor browser 6.0 is available for download from the official site. This browser is based on Firefox 45-ESR.
The Tor Browser Team is proud to announce the first stable release in the 6.0 series. This release is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release brings us up to date with Firefox 45-ESR, which should mean a better support for HTML5 video on Youtube, as well as a host of other improvements.
Beginning with the 6.0 series code-signing for OS X systems is introduced. This should help our users who had trouble with getting Tor Browser to work on their Mac due to Gatekeeper interference. There were bundle layout changes necessary to adhere to code signing requirements but the transition to the new Tor Browser layout on disk should go smoothly.
The release also features new privacy enhancements and disables features where we either did not have the time to write a proper fix or where we decided they are rather potentially harmful in a Tor Browser context.
On the security side this release makes sure that SHA1 certificate support is disabled and our updater is not only relying on the signature alone but is checking the hash of the downloaded update file as well before applying it. Moreover, we provide a fix for a Windows installer related DLL hijacking vulnerability.
(source - torproject )

01/06/2016

Xtreme download manager for ubuntu and other derivatives

People who shift from windows to Linux often wonder if there is any download manager in Linux, just like there was IDM in windows. For such people, there is an alternative to IDM called XDM. This download manager has many features that are there in IDM. XDM is based on Java, it has pause and resume capability of downloads. It also has browser integration. To install XDM in your Ubuntu based system, you just have to hit the terminal and type in below commands.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps        
sudo apt-get update        
sudo apt-get install xdman
XDM for ubuntu

 So guys, why not give it a try. We personally use it and works like a charm. Happy downloading.

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