Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

WordPress

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Setting up wordpress on Ubuntu 10.04

How to Backup WordPress

The best plugins for WP are listed

  • WP-DB-Backup – by far the best backup tool.

MySQL

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Backing Up and Restoring Your MySQL Database

drop database databasename;

Best Network Security Tools

Friday, July 30th, 2010

These are the networking security tools I have used:

  • nmap – A very powerful tool to check what ports are open on what machines and tells what machines are on your network.
  • wireshark – Packet sniffing tool that reads and tells were the internal network packet attack might be coming from.

Video Tools

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

DVD to AVI tools:

More tools for this here: SuperUser answers.

Software for OS X

Friday, April 16th, 2010

After using OS X for a few weeks now I am learning what the best software out there is for it.

Below is some of the good free software for OS X:

Paid Software:

  • Adobe CS4 Master Collection
  • Camtasia
  • Microsoft Office 2008
  • RealVNC Enterprise

Some other random but I found useful information:

Must have Ubuntu Packages

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

These are packages that I use and recommend on my Linux Ubuntu box.

System Tools

  • Filelight
    Displays a circular graph of the space used by your files, so you know when you
    have big files (for example, images of your work) that if you backup them you’ll save space.
    sudo apt-get install filelight
  • gdmap
    Displays space used by files, but with squares.
    sudo apt-get install gdmap
  • gParted
    Interface for partitioning your hard disk drive, and make it a bit easier, without having to reinstall everything.
    sudo apt-get install gparted
  • aptoncd
    Just for Ubuntu and Debian. Allows to backup your packages installed in a CD so you can have them ready to
    install in another computer.
    sudo apt-get install aptoncd
  • htop
    sudo apt-get install htop

Programming/Editor Tools

  • PDFedit
    Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + command line interface.
    sudo apt-get install pdfedit
  • Bluefish
    sudo apt-get install bluefish
  • Meld
    A simple but powerful small tool that can compare two files or directories and tell you the differences, or merge them.
    sudo apt-get install meld
  • vim
    sudo apt-get install vim

Music Tools

Photo Tools

  • sudo apt-get install xaralx

Networking Tools

Media Players

Downloading Tools

GUI

Additional

More Great Sites

This is great site to get applications

Other great lists of packages:

SugarCRM

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

SugarCRM is a commercial open source CRM.

Some of the best instructions on installation –
Installing SugarCRM on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
Installing SugarCRM Community Edition

Virtual Machines

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Virtual Machines software I recommend.

Linux I recommendations:
VMWare
Xen

I hear this is good as well, though I have never tried it:
VirtualBox/

Ubuntu

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

One of the best articles on initially configuring an Ubuntu system is from Slicehost, it goes into

      Changing your port
      Updating you firewall

Some general command line tools:

% lsb_release -a (What version of Ubuntu are you running?)
% cat /etc/lsb-release (What version of Ubuntu are you running? )

Some tools I find useful when doing upgrades:

Here is a great article upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 (Gutsy to Hardy).

Excel

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

My list of useful things you can do in Microsoft Excel 2007:

How to Create a Drop Down List

Validation with Lists:

VLOOKUP FUNCTION:

One of the best free add-ins I have seen for excel is ASAP Utilites.