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28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know. Periodic Table of the Elements - Josh Duck. Linux How-To Articles, Tips, and Guides. How To Enable the Android Market in the Google Android Emulator. Would you like to try out apps from the Android Market on your PC?

How To Enable the Android Market in the Google Android Emulator

We recently showed you how to run Android in an emulator on your PC, so here’s how you can install apps from the Android Market in the emulator. Getting Started First, you’ll need to have the Android Emulator setup on your computer. If you don’t already have it installed, check out our article about Installing and Running Android on Your PC with the Android Emulator. Now, download the new Android Virtual Machine that has the Android Market installed. Once the download is finished, you can open the file in your favorite archival program. Open your Android virtual machine folder; you can do this easily by entering the following in your Explorer address bar: %userprofile%/.android/avd Copy the files and folder you just extracted to the .android/avd folder.

In your .android/avd folder, open the new AndEmu.ini file in Notepad. Embrace your inner penguin! Many thanks to Nemoder, who took the time to produce this article looking at enjoyable Linux games that you may have overlooked before now.

Embrace your inner penguin!

Top 10 Lesser Known Linux Games We’ve all heard of open source games like Tuxracer and Wesnoth, and of commercial games like Quake and Unreal Tournament but there are a number of lesser known Linux games that deserve some more attention. Not all these games have the latest 3D graphics but what they lack in state of the art visuals they more than make up for in depth of gameplay and replayability.

You Can Switch to Linux! - Page 1. We just posted an updated version of this guide, which uses the latest version of Ubuntu, 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).

You Can Switch to Linux! - Page 1

I’ve written about Linux in Maximum PC quite a bit over the last three years. You see, I’m intrigued by the prospect of a free, open operating system, one that’s available for everyone to use and modify to suit their own purposes. Rather than a monolithic operating system vendor telling me that I’m not allowed to do something, there’s an entire community of developers who are working to make whatever features I want possible! To me, that’s the essence of what computing should be about—enabling choice. 7 cool Linux projects. As autumn begins, the nights start drawing in and you're no doubt itching for new things to do with your Linux box.

7 cool Linux projects

Well, we asked our projects expert to rustle up 7 great things you can do on your penguin-powered machine - host a photo album, make sweet music, create stop-frame animations and more. Read on to get cracking! When you use your Linux machine every day, it's easy to forget that there's a world of experimentation, creativity and fun lurking behind the package manager. In our biased opinion, Linux is the best possible operating system for those who like to play with new software. There's so much variety, and unlike most software on other operating systems, it's all completely free. The only problem - if you can call it that - is that there's too much choice, and it's often difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff in the bewildering number of applications that are available.

Linux Keyboard Shortcuts: Safe Way to Exit During System Freezes. In Windows, when your system hangs, you can always press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, wait for the Task Manager to open, and kill the process that doesn’t respond.

Linux Keyboard Shortcuts: Safe Way to Exit During System Freezes

However, Ctrl-Alt-Delete don’t always work the way you want it to leaving you no other option but to do a hard-reset, and perhaps as a result corrupt your data kissing your important files goodbye. In Linux, when your entire system freezes, there are plenty of safe ways to exit and get back on track immediately. Alt + SysRq + (a selection of other keys) will do the magic trick. Note: 'SysRq' key is equivalent to the 'Print Screen' key. Alt + SysR + KKill all processes (including X), which are running on the currently active virtual console. Alt + SysRq + ESend the TERM signal to all running processes except init, asking them to exit. CWiiD. Since the Wii Remote uses bluetooth to communicate with the console, it's relatively straightforward to use it to control a computer.

CWiiD

The most obvious way is similar to the main menu on the Wii console - point the remote where you want the cursor to go, and press A and B to left and right click. There are also options for tilting the Wiimote to move the cursor around, which is useful if you don't have a sensor bar available. sudo apt-get install libcwiid1 lswm wmgui wminput. Linux Guide/Distributions. A distribution is a type of Linux.

Linux Guide/Distributions

Linux comes in a large number of distributions, some of which are designed for everyday use, and others designed with a specific task or device in mind. We'll discuss some of those differences below. Most Linux distributions have a special type of CD, called a live CD. If you insert this CD and then restart your computer, the live CD will run Linux on the computer while avoiding changing anything on your computer as much as possible. For example it won't normally install any files on your PC, but run only from the CD. HTML5 ADVENTURE CALENDAR. Do you know which more things VLC media player can do? VLC is the favorite media player for most people because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups.

Do you know which more things VLC media player can do?

No hunting for codec. The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years of the Linux Operating System. Change or Reset Windows Password from a Ubuntu Live CD. If you can’t log in even after trying your twelve passwords, or you’ve inherited a computer complete with password-protected profiles, worry not – you don’t have to do a fresh install of Windows.

Change or Reset Windows Password from a Ubuntu Live CD

We’ll show you how to change or reset your Windows password from a Ubuntu Live CD. This method works for all of the NT-based version of Windows – anything from Windows 2000 and later, basically. And yes, that includes Windows 7. Note: If you have files on your hard disk encrypted using built-in Windows encryption, they may not be available after changing the Windows password using this method. Exercise caution if you have important encrypted files. You’ll need a Ubuntu 9.10 Live CD, or a bootable Ubuntu 9.10 Flash Drive. The program that lets us manipulate Windows passwords is called chntpw. Installation: 32-bit Open up Synaptic Package Manager by clicking on System at the top of the screen, expanding the Administration section, and clicking on Synaptic Package Manager.

The Rescue Remix provides a Free-Libre Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu. Space Odyssey Gnome-Shell + Cinnamon GNOME. Gnome shell theme inspired by a desire to create a shell theme with space as subject !

Space Odyssey Gnome-Shell + Cinnamon GNOME

Requirements: a) gnome3.2 b) Cinnamon 1.1.3 / 1.2 c) MGSE (optional - for mint menu users) If you dont use mint menu or bottom panel, you can remove the bottom panel section from the gnome-shell.css file. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: a) Wallpaper by liquidsky64 => b) Icons: Awoken c) Starship enterprise image taken from web and modified to suit as activity button and corner ripple. hope you enjoy this theme. as always, your suggestions and comments will go a long way in my self learning and improvement !