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Frozen Bubble – Free Game for Linux, Windows, Mac, and Mobile

If you’ve worked on Mandriva Linux, you’ve probably played Frozen Bubble. I remember the first time I played it a few years ago; I decided to keep Linux just for this game. =P

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The game features penguins shooting coloured frozen bubbles to form groups of the same colour so they disappear. The object is to clear the whole screen before a bubble passes the line at the bottom. The game features 100 levels and includes a level editor.

Originally for Linux, Frozen Bubble is now available for Windows, Symbian S60 mobile phones, and even Mac. Besides that, there’s also a browser version of the game that can be played on your browser provided you have the Java Applet installed.
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Choose your Frozen Bubble:

List the content of a Folder in HTML format with DirHTML

DirHTML is a free portable program that creates a list of the content in a folder and saves it as an HTML page.

You can choose what type of files to include, which folders to exclude, the sorting of the output, the format of the output (XHTML 1.0, HTML 4.01, etc.),  file date, file size, and lots more. You can also choose to save all these settings as a batch file so you can run it later in one click.

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The HTML file output is pretty old school, but we’re not complaining. It does what it’s supposed to do. Check out the screenshot below.

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Download DirHTML v4.84 (can be run in Wine under Linux)

Rainlendar 2 – The Coolest Little Desktop Calendar

If you’re looking for a light weight calendar with an integrated to-do application that’s free, Rainlendar 2 is probably the best choice.

The application takes a little over 25MB of memory, fully loaded, and sits anywhere you want on the desktop with a very pretty transparent interface. Rainlendar can list all the events for the day in a neat list, and can also list all of your To-Do notes as well. Check out the screenshot below.

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The days marked with a star indicate an event or activity on that day. There’s an option to keep an alarm for the event, which can go off a little while before the actual start of the event. Rainlendar can also contain more than one calendars, for example for your personal and business lives. You can assign categories to events, such as ‘Birthday’ or ‘Anniversary’ which means that the event will recur every year.

The pro version of the software has the ability to sync with Google Calendars. A very handy feature. For me, the best feature in the pro version is the ability to show Outlook calendar events, since I sync all my devices with Outlook. Makes me contemplate buying the pro version, but the EUR 9.95 tag is a little too much in my opinion.

Download Rainlendar 2 for free. Available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

HG’s Five Text Processing Tools for Linux

Any Linux Distro has many text processing tools installed by default. We can use these tools to get some of the desired outputs. Although every precautions have been taken in writing this post , still if you find some error please notify us [ WE are HUMAN and to ERR is Human ;-) ]

So here starts a short guide on various text processing tools.

1) tail
Short Description : output the 10 last lines of files

usage

$tail /your/path/to/file

the above command will display last 10 lines of the desired file. With the following arguments [ or in technical term switch ] you can get more out of it

$tail -n 2 /file/address

The above will display last 2 lines of your desired file [ you can change the value 2 with your own variable ;-) ]

$tail -f /file/address

This command is very useful to watch log files of ur Linux Box. This switch append the output with the changes in the file
$tail -v /file/name
This command will print the absolute file address of the file and then will output the last part of that file

2) head
Short Description : output the first 10 lines of files

usage
$head /your/path/to/file

The above command will display first 10 lines of the desired file. The “ head” command can be further customized with following switches

$head -n 4 /file/name
The above will print First four lines of your desired file [ please change value from 4 to your desired number / variable ]

$head -v /file/name
It will print file name and then will produce the head output :D

3) grep
Short Description : print lines matching a pattern

grep is really nice utility for searching a text withing a long file . It prints that line where the text is found

usage
$grep search_string /file/address
The above command will search for search_string in /file/address named file [ replace the search_string with what you want to search and /file/address with your file address]

4) sed
Short Description : stream editor for filtering and transforming text.

Usage
$sed -e 's:search:replace:g' /file/name

The above will produce output by replacing search string [ it will not change file ]

Now the main tool that is spell checking tool

5) aspell
Short Description: spell checking utility

usage
$aspell check /file/name
will check /file/name for any error and prompt if spelling error found. User then can replace correct spelling and it will be saved in file

$aspell list < /file_name
This will list of misspelled word from /file_name

So this was some shortlisted and commonly used text processing tools . Please note that this was basic text editing strings which are/may_be commonly used . For further info refer to each utilities manual entry ;-)

Creating Your Own Yum Repository

YUM or Yellowdog Updater Modified is an interactive, automated update program which can be used for maintaining systems using rpm. In short, Yum is an automatic updater and package installer/remover for rpm systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. Yum makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update each one using rpm. Learn to make your own Yum repository.
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