Unfortunately, it’s difficult to find very many icon sets that are pre-packaged for the excellent Rox-Filer file manager. There’s hope though! It’s relatively easy to take any icon set you find from GNOME-look.org or other resources and convert them for use with ROX.
1) Find an icon theme you like, and unpack it somewhere you can […]

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The Linux Community comes through yet again. Google Desktop for Linux is now available as a package for Puppy Linux.
Even though the “native” desktop search tools like Beagle can require lots of processing power and RAM (I never could run Beagle effectively on my low-powered, 1.6Ghz 256MB RAM laptop), Google Desktop runs like a champ. […]

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Linux is hands down the most customizable desktop operating system in existence. Just head over to DistroWatch and tell me I’m wrong. So, it’s perfect for productivity…There’s almost nothing that can’t be done. So why not make your own OS? Taylor it to your needs specifically. Like the previously mentioned Puppy Linux, other distros provide […]

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It’s true that this blog is fairly Ubuntu-centric (though I try to incorporate tips that will work on any Linux distro), mainly because it’s what I’ve found to be the most productive distribution for me. Lately I’ve been using another distribution on my lower-powered machines that you may or may not have heard of […]

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So, I was just emailed at ton of full-resolution, high-quality digital pictures for inclusion on another website I manage. These desperately need to be resized for web use, and in a hurry. So, I did a quick Googling, found some great solutions.

Solution #1: Nautilus-Image-Converter is a sweet Nautilus extension that automatically adds resize & […]

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