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NixNote An Unofficial Evernote Client For Linux
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NixNote An Unofficial Evernote Client For Linux

Evernote is arguably the most popular and powerful note-taking tool available. You can save notes in different forms like text, pictures, videos, voice memos, and web pages. There are clients available for the web, desktop operating systems (Windows and Mac) as well as mobile devices (Android and iOS) but none for the Linux desktop. There are a few third-party options available including GeekNote, Everpad and NixNote.   NixNote is a popular unofficial Evernote client for Linux desktops.

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6 Best Linux Distributions For Programming
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6 Best Linux Distributions For Programming

Do you need a Linux distro for programming? For starters, there aren’t any distros that are specifically targeting programmers per se. It doesn’t really matter, as a Linux distribution is mostly the same as the next one in regards to what software you’ll be able to use on it. But then again, there are a few distros available that will be preferable due to the way they have been built up. You should also consider the kind of programming you’re into, whether web-based or system or application prog

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10 Best Linux Task Managers
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10 Best Linux Task Managers

One of the most important things for Linux users is task management, because all operating systems have mistakes, and Linux isn’t the exception yet. Sometimes, I have troubles with specific applications that collapse and the processes do not stop, it’s very weird, but sometimes it happens. So I use the Linux task manager, find the process and finally, I kill it.   Also, you can use a task manager for other purposes as well as software testing or maybe you want to see the performance of your s

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All You Need To Know About Swap Partition In Linux
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All You Need To Know About Swap Partition In Linux

So somewhere while installing your favorite Linux distro you came across the word “Swap” and now you are here to know what is Swap. Well, I will tell you it in the simplest sense.   What Is Swap Space? Swap is a replacement or better say less-used alternative for RAM( Random Access Memory). Let’s say that when you have 512mb RAM and you are running a game and RAM suddenly gets full. Then what? There comes the role of Swap. The OS moves the less used background running applications

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Vivaldi Internet Browser Continues To Grow With 1.6 Release
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Vivaldi Internet Browser Continues To Grow With 1.6 Release

So the browser wars continue. What is the best browser available for your Linux desktop? Mozilla Firefox continues to be the default web browser for the most Linux distros but you could always choose Google Chrome which is the most popular browser around. Notwithstanding these, there are a couple of other web browsers which continue to make a point why you should choose them. One of these browsers is Vivaldi. Vivaldi 1.6  version was released not long ago with quite a handful of features

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Pithos A Pandora Client For Linux
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Pithos A Pandora Client For Linux

Pithos is a Linux client for the internet radio website Pandora. It basically allows you to listen to music from Pandora without opening your browser.   Getting Started With Pithos Start the application by searching for it in the Dash if you’re running Ubuntu or Mint Menu if you’re running Mint. When it loads for the first time, you need to provide it with your Pandora username and password, specify the quality of the music and set up other options but you can ignore them

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Top 10 Notepad++ Alternatives for Linux Users
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Top 10 Notepad++ Alternatives for Linux Users

Notepad++ is a favorite text and source code editor amongst developers and the general public but it is only available for use on Microsoft Windows. Fortunately, there are quite a few capable or even better Notepad++ alternatives for Linux. Let’s take a look at 10 Best Notepad++ alternatives for Linux. 10 Notepad++ Alternatives For Linux 1. Vim Editor Vim is probably the most popular editor in the Linux community. It is a free to use and open-source editor which is very custo

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Screen Recorders In Ubuntu
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Screen Recorders In Ubuntu

There can be so many reasons when you need to record your screen. When I started using Linux, I used to record my screen whenever I had any problem and upload it to Linux communities. Today I sometimes record my screen for demonstration purposes in my tutorials. Similarly, you can record your screen in Linux. In this article, I’m going to mention 5 Best screen recorders in Ubuntu. So let’s get started!   Best Screen Recorders In Ubuntu 1. Simple Screen Recorder Simple sc

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What Is Android Development Kit (Features And Installation)
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What Is Android Development Kit (Features And Installation)

Are you interested in writing android apps? Well, Google has worked really hard to make doing this as simple as it can be. Previously, you needed to download Eclipse and the Android Developer Tools separately and getting it to work was quite a hassle. With Android Studio, Google has provided a very simple and straightforward tool needed to start developing Android apps. Android Studio comes with a full-blown IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with a code editor, a ton of automa

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Atom Text Editor For Linux (Features Review + Installation)
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Atom Text Editor For Linux (Features Review + Installation)

On the surface, Atom is the modern desktop text editor you’ve come to expect. Pop the hood, however, and you’ll discover a system begging to be hacked on. How To Install Atom Text Editor? To get started with Atom, we’ll need to get it on your system. Installing Atom should be fairly simple. Generally, you can go to https://atom.io and at the top of the page, you should see a download button where you can download a Debian package or RPM package either from the main Atom website or

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Kodi - The Ultimate Media Center for Linux
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Kodi - The Ultimate Media Center for Linux

Kodi is a free and open-source media player application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi media center was originally created for the Microsoft Xbox and called Xbox Media Center (XBMC), the software has continued to evolve, spawning a community of its own. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms including Linux. It is also available on Windows, Mac OS X, Kodibuntu, iOS, Android, and Raspberry Pi. It features a 10-fo

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5 Alternatives To Microsoft Office In Linux
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5 Alternatives To Microsoft Office In Linux

Microsoft Office is the de-facto standard office suite there in the world, but unfortunately, it is not available to us, the “free” folk on Linux. Sure there are quite a few numbers of ways to use it on Linux, either by using a virtual PC or employing ….. Which also allows you to run it on Linux. Either way, the experience might not be the best. Fortunately, also, this has also allowed for the creation of some very capable alternatives on Linux, and today, we’d take a look at 5 of the very to

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