Install Safari on Ubuntu

Ubuntu users lack the number of options available as compared to the PC or Mac users. Main browsers they can use are Firefox, Chromium, Google Chrome & Opera.

In this post I will be writing a tutorial on how you can install Safari on Ubuntu.So, without any further ado we will start.

• Install Wine

Wine is a known Windows emulator for Linux. It is used to run Windows programs on Linux. We will be installing Wine first in order to install Safari on Linux. To install wine you need to open up the Ubuntu Software center and search for Wine. Or, you can simply go to this website and follow the instructions.The install will take a while. Or, you can install it via the Terminalusing the following apt syntax.

sudo apt-get install wine

After installing Wine you need to install core fonts and the flash (windows version) using winetricks. To do this input the following in the terminal.

winetricks corefonts flash

• Install 7zip

Installing 7zip is our next step as this will be needed to run Play on Linux. Ignoring this will give you an error related to 7zip.

sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

• Install Play On Linux

Play on Linux will help us create an environment to run Safari easily. To install Play on Linux you need to download it from this website. Choose the Ubuntu version as we are doing this for Ubuntu.

After installing Play on Linux, open it. A new window will open up which will look like the screenshot below.






 

Now click Install. Click Internet and then click Safari. Click Install.



Now the package will download some required packages and start installing Safari on Ubuntu. Keep following the wizard and you will have Safari installed on Ubuntu.



So, we have successfully installed Safari on Ubuntu.



But lets keep in mind that if you want to experience the real internet browsing experience use the browsers that are built to run on Linux by default and not the browsers that run with Wine.

11 Free Linux Apps Your Business Needs Now

The good news is that there are free and open-source alternatives for virtually every package a small business might need, and most of them are excellent. Whether or not you've already made the switch to Linux -- there are, after all, myriad security and other reasons for doing so -- these free apps can be just what any small business needs to succeed.

1. Office Productivity: OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org 3 (also known as OO.o) is a fantastic open-source alternative to Microsoft Office. With components for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, it is available in many languages and works on all common operating systems, including Linux, Mac and Windows. All data gets stored in an international open standard format, and the software can read and write files from Office as well. Perhaps best of all, the interface is so familiar and intuitive that you might not even realize you're using anything new. You can download and use OpenOffice free of charge.

2. Accounting: GnuCash

GnuCash is a personal and small-business financial-accounting software package that's also available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Both powerful and flexible, GnuCash lets you track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. Among GnuCash's key features are double-entry accounting, small-business accounting, invoicing and more. Data can be imported from programs such as Microsoft Money and Quicken, while it can be exported to spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel. Once again, thisfree software's interface is so intuitive and familiar that if you've used other accounting programs before, this one will be no problem.

3. Desktop publishing: Scribus

Scribus is a free program that offers professional page-layout capabilities for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows desktops. Scribus supports professional publishing features including CMYK color separations for both press-ready output and PDF creation. I've found the software can do just about anything the paid packages can, and it's comparable to InDesign or Publisher, for instance.

4. E-mail: Zimbra

Zimbra Desktop is free e-mail and calendar software that runs on any Linux, Mac or Windows computer. The tool offers e-mail, contacts, calendar and document capabilities all in one application, and it lets users read e-mail from any POP or IMAP e-mail account, including Gmail, Hotmail or business e-mail. Owned by VMware, Zimbra works both online and off, and there's no limit to the size of your e-mail storage. As an added bonus, it's also available in 20 languages.

5. Web page editing: KompoZer

Much like Microsoft's old FrontPage, KompoZer is a tool for anyone who ever works with a Web page. Downloadable for free and compatible with Linux as well as the usual other alternatives,KompoZer is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor, meaning that you can edit Web pages visually as well as by working with the raw HTML code. The free software is extremely easy to use, making it ideal for nontechnical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking Web site without necessarily needing to know HTML.

6. Graphics: GIMP

GIMP, which stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program," is a free and open source alternative to Adobe's pricey PhotoShop product. With an interface very similar to PhotoShop's,GIMP offers capabilities including photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. I believe GIMP will satisfy all but the highest-end professional graphic designers. It's perfect for making Web graphics, retouching product photos and creating marketing materials, and any images created can be saved in an array of common formats, including PSD Photoshop.

7. Backup: Amanda

Amanda is a backup and recovery solution that lets you set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts to a single large-capacity tape or disk drive. The software can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Linux, Mac OS or Windows. Currently, it's used to protect more than half a million servers and desktops around the world. A sister service to Amanda, meanwhile, is Zmanda, which provides paid backup in the cloud.

8. HR management: OrangeHRM

OrangeHRM is a free package for human resources management. With modules for personnel information management, benefits, recruitment, employee self-service, leave, and time and attendance‚ the software also offers optional paid services including training, support and customization.

9. E-mail campaigns: phpList

If your business runs e-mail campaigns, phpList can be a great tool. The software is free to download, install and use, and it's easy to integrate with any Website. Ideal for newsletters, publicity lists, notifications and many other uses, phpList is designed to manage mailing lists with up to hundreds of thousands of subscribers. A Web interface lets you write and send messages and manage phpList over the internet.

10. Project management: OpenProj

OpenProj is a free project-management package that substitutes nicely for Microsoft Project but works with Linux and Mac as well as Windows. With more than a million users, OpenProj's installed base is second only to that of Microsoft Project itself--which, of course, costs a heck of a lot more. Gantt charts, PERT charts and all the other capabilities offered by Microsoft's software are in OpenProj as well, and existing Project files can be easily imported.

11. Antivirus: ClamAV

Even if you're running Linux, it's still a good idea to use some kind of antivirus software. Originally designed for Unix, ClamAV is a nice package that's now available for Linux as well as for Windows and a number of other platforms. The tool offers built-in support for almost all mail file formats as well as popular document formats including Microsoft Office, HTML, RTF and PDF. With a virus database that's updated multiple times per day, ClamAV is, of course, also free.

iZoom

iZoom is a simple application designed to allow you to easily resize and crop your photos for optimized display on your iPod photo, on the web, or in email messages to friends. Built using Java, iZoom is available for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. Currently, JPEG is the only supported image format.

DropBox

DropBox is by far the easiest way to share files if you are on a low budget and do not want to be bothered with server side issues when sharing files with clients. Since it’s an application that runs in the background, you can leave it running and it does the file updates on the machines seamlessly. You have a 2GB limit for the free accounts, 50GB for the Pro account at $99.00 per year or a 100GB for the Premium account at US$199 per year.

Another useful aspect of this app is that you can sign in and access your files from any browser, not necessarily from your Mac. The file sharing is done over SSL and encrypted with AES-256 before storage, so they are safe. From the visual side, a blue sync mark shows when the files are syncing and a green check mark appears when it’s done. What’s best, it’s that it’s not just for Mac, it’s compatible with Windows and Linux.



Every time you update a file, Dropbox transfers what was updated from the original uploaded file, so working with large Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign documents is a breeze. If you need to share files with users that don’t have Dropbox, you can use your Public folder and all the files in that folder will be given a unique link so you can send that for a direct download. And if you accidentally delete a file, you can “undelete it” from the web interface. Overall, it’s a time saving application when you want a fast way to share files with clients or co-workers.

New iOS 5.1.1 Untethered JailBreak Absinthe 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJlySuaQtBs&feature=player_embedded

The new jailbreak for iOS 5.1.1 has finally arrived and is easier then ever to jailbreak your iOS device. This Jailbreak is one of the easiest untethered Jailbreaks to date. The process is so simple I dont even have to explain how to jailbreak your device and you will be able to jailbreak your iOS device with the click of 1 botton.

The process is simple:
1. Go to link: http://greenpois0n.com/?p=324
2. Scroll down and download the jailbreak for your OS (Windows,Linux, or OS X)
3. Open the Program
4. Plug your Device into your computer
5. Click Jailbreak
4. Enjoy

ClipGrab - awesome tool to download videos from Youtube

When it comes to downloading videos from Youtube, the first tool that most Linux users think of would be youtube-dl. Youtube-dl is actually a very powerful tool but many people prefer using tools with a graphic user interface, and the best video downloading application for Linux with a GUI in my opinion is ClibGrab. ClibGrab has many useful and interactive features with a very easy-to-use interface. Besides Youtube, ClipGrab also supports other popular video hosting sites, namely MyVideo.de, DailyMotion.com, Vimeo.com and MySpass.de. More than that, the new version of ClibGrab comes with the YouTube search function integrated so you can search for your favorite videos directly on ClibGrab, without going to youtube to copy-paste the url links as with the older versions. ClipGrab also has the converting options for you to choose the format and quality of the video.

Since it has a very intuitive interface, it's very easy to use ClibGrab. You can either search for youtube video directly on ClipGrab or just copy-paste the video url into the link box, choose the desired video format and quality then just hit " Grab this clip" and the downloading process will begin. ClipGrab will auto assign the name of the video to the video file name so it will be easier for you to manage your video library ( if you use youtube-dl, you will need to include the output option to change the name of the downloaded video file). ClipGrab also supports parallel download, means that you can download many videos at the same time. After the downloading finishes, there will be a notification appearing on the system tray.

If you use Arch Linux, here is the AUR package for ClipGrab. If you use Ubuntu or other Debian-based distros, you can use the following commands to install ClipGrab:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install clipgrab 




15 Most Interesting Linux Facts

Linux is one of the world’s most powerful and popular operating system. Linux operating system was developed by Linus Benedict Torvalds at the age of 21. At present there are more than 300 flavors of Linux available and one can choose between any of them depending on the kind of applications they want. If you are new to Linux read, Top 5 Advantages of Using Linux Os

Linux is a freeware and generally speaking its free from Virus and other malware infections.  In this post I will share few Linux facts which may or may not be know for many of us.

15 Most Interesting Linux Facts

1. Only 2% of the current Linux kernel written by Linus Torvalds.


2. The Linux kernel version is written in the programming language C.


3. The first commercial distribution GNU / Linux was Yggdrasil was launched Lice-CD format in 1992. Red Hat was one of the first distributions to settle within companies and data centers in 1999.


4. A guy named William Della Croce Jr. registered the name Linux and demanded royalties for use of the mark. Later, he agreed to assign the trademark to the true owner, who is Torvalds.


5. Countries such as Russia, Brazil and Venezuela have put their focus on Linux as a basis for interoperable management , cost efficient and technologically independent.


6. U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Submarine Fleet, Federal Aviation Administration uses Linux in government offices. Indian state of Tamil Nadu uses Linux for education purpose.


7. 90% of the world’s most powerful supercomputers using an operating system GNU / Linux, in fact, the top ten of supercomputers use Linux. In fact, the penetration of Linux in data centers is very high, 33.8% of the world runs on Linux servers compared to 7.3% does so in a Microsoft operating system.


8. The name of the penguin, Tux , is not entirely clear. On the one hand, it is said that the origin of the name comes from the fact that penguins appear to be wearing a tuxedo, which in English is said max tuxedo tux and is abbreviated. In contrast, another source comes from the letters of the logo of Tux are Unix Torvalds.


9. Torvalds wanted to call the kernel Freax (a combination of “free”, “freak”, and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like), but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was hosted for download, the download directory called kernel of Linux Torvalds.


10. Debian was one of the first GNU / Linux that was constituted and organized as a community of developers.


11. Linux is present in highly critical applications such as Japan’s bullet trains, traffic control, San Francisco, the New York Stock Exchange, CERN, many air traffic control systems or control of nuclear reactors of submarines and ships many nuclear war.


12. Linux programmers are often associated with living “isolated” in the world, however, over 75% of the code developed for the Linux kernel came from private sector developers. In fact, large technology companies like Intel, Google, IBM, AMD, Sun Microsystems, Dell, Asus, HP, Analog Devices, Oracle, Novell or Red Hat help developing applications, contributing to the core or pre-installing any GNU / Linux their machines. In fact, during the 2003 Super Bowl (which paralyzes the United States and remains glued to the TV for many Americans), IBM delivered a beautiful ad talking about Linux and open source options.


13. The GNU project in 1991, had no drivers and kernel, that’s what led to Linus Torvalds to address the Linux kernel development. If GNU had had, perhaps, Torvalds had not been put to work on that.


14. The Linux kernel is now the most widely ported operating system, running on a great variety of operating systems.


15. World known companies such as Google, Cisco, Facebook, Twitter, Linked in etc use Linux as their main operating system.