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One major drawback of Dropbox is that it only syncs files placed inside the My Dropbox folder. Here’s how to get around that limitation.

I dual boot Linux Ubuntu and windows 7 and share the same folders and documents. With Linux selecting a location for Dropbox it names the folder as “Dropbox” When Windows selecting a location for Dropbox it names the folder as “My Dropbox”. I want to use the same folder across two OS’. This is how [...]

Sometimes you may need to make a GIF file from a video for using it as an avatar or different purposes. Today i will show you two ways to make a GIF from a Youtube video : 1 – Using mplayer 2 – Using Avidemux + ffmpeg + Gimp (More detailed = More customizable) I [...]

Firstly, in case you don’t know, Dropbox is a cross-platform service for file sharing, synchronizing and backup. The application is free, along with basic use of the service (up to a limit of 2GB). However, by referring users to create a Dropbox account, both the user who is referring and the user who created the [...]

In the Linux operating system, all filesystems are contained within one directory hierarchy. The root directory is the top level directory, and all its subdirectories make up the directory hierarchy. This differs to other operating systems such as MS-Windows which applies a separate hierarchy for each device and partition.

When you do not know the name of the command you need to carry out a particular task, you can use apropos with a keyword to search for it. This utility searches for the keyword in the short description line (the top line) of all man pages and displays those that contain a match. The [...]

The 1unix2dos utility is part of the 1tofrodos software package; give the command 1sudo aptitude install tofrodos to install the package. Gibe the following command to convert a file named memo.txt (created with a text editor) to a DOS-format file: $ unix2dos memo.txt Without any options unix2dos overwrites the original file. You can now email [...]

The script utility records all or part of a login session, including your input and the system’s response. It has its advantages. For example, when you 1cat a file that has captured a 1vim session, the session quickly passes before you eyes. By default script captures the session in a file named 1typescript which will [...]

First, what I need is a SSH Client and Putty is a good candidate. Putty is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. You can download at its homepage Putty’s hompage. After downloading Putty, let’s try to log-in SSH Server with 2 ways discussed [...]

Please note that backing up personal files to their servers is against their terms of service (UNLIMITED Hosting Space not disk space), so if they catch you they will probably delete all your files and suspend your account!