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Install Open Workbench and JRE on Wine in Linux Mint

What is Open Workbench?

Open Workbench is a Project Planning Software comparable to Microsoft Project. There are mixed views on whether it is truly open source or not but as it is considered a very good alternative for Microsoft Project and it is free to download, it is something I as a Project Manager would want to know about. After all some of my clients are going to be using this. :)

How to edit PDF in Linux - The easy way.

Background

Recently someone asked this question to me and after some search on Google I came across mentions of PDFedit, Scribus, flpsed, Gimp, PDFMod and even the openoffice plugin for importing PDF and I tried all of these. PDFescape is probably a good solution but is only online and limited to 30 pages in it's free avatar. If your aim is similar to the one stated below, these tools are way too complicated (PDFedit), limiting (PDFescape) or ineffective (rest of them). So, Let's start with the usual what was my aim question.

Objective

To be able to highlight and put his own annotations, highlights and comments in the lecture notes that he gets from his college lecturers in pdf and be able to print the amended notes from any platform. (Linux / Mac / Windows.)

Part 2 - Configure Epson S515W on Linux Mint / Ubuntu 10.04

While the majority of settings are covered in my previous post here I found that each time I switched off my printer, it used to change it's IP address and I had to repeat Steps 7 to 16 each time. My printing and scanning needs are pretty limited so I never bothered working out a solution until today and knowing what I now know, it was quite a simple and quick solution I should have done this on the first place. Anyway as they say better late than never. 😄

So to carry out the magical transformation to your printing experience follow the steps below:

Glympse

Every now and then we come across something that has a strong potential, something that is a great phenomenon in making and Glympse to me is that idea.

The simple to use and highly effective application available on android market for free that allows you to share your position during the travel in real time.

MMC Convert media files on Linux

I have been using Mobile Media Converter for almost a year now and it is such a great tool. I think it is a must have at-least on Linux. It not only converts almost all popular media formats into other formats but also has an inbuilt youtube video downloader which comes very handy for converting all the free official(and unofficial) song videos into MP3. Let me spell it out, how it all works.

Logitech Ex100 - Wireless Keyboard and Mouse not working? Read on..

Today for some unknown reason suddenly my Logitech Wireless Keyboard and Mouse - Model Number EX100 (Logitech Cordless Desktop EX100 (920-000879)) stopped working and very stubbornly denied to work despite my repeated attempts on all obvious and logical steps - resets, battery change and such.

After trawling through the internet for some time I figured that I am not alone in facing the issue but surely have been hit quite late by it. It appears Logitech was more than happy to replace it at one point.

Time for a bit of show-off

Hey Hey I made an Android app named "Sai Satcharitra". It's a very basic app and all it does is helps people read Sai Satcharitra on their Android Smartphones, something that can also be achieved by maybe converting the text ino a pdf, epub file etc.

Google Voice + SIP2SIP + Ikall = Free international Calls to known contacts

Background

Second post in succession on the topic but believe me when I get a new gadget I try getting all information and then once I have had the stuff working I have to make a post right away or I will forget and hence this post. This post also overrides the previous posts. Right then, let's get down to business.

Objective

We aim to make free international calls and there is nothing illegal in this set-up, not to my knowledge.

How?

Google has introduced Google Voice and allows free calls to all US numbers. This can be done using their google talk plugin in the gmail browser.