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GShutdown is a tool for Ubuntu which performs and schedules system shutdown, logout and restart. To install it open up a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install gshutdown
After installation you can find GShutdown under Applications -> Accessories.
And here it is:

As you can see it’s really simple to use. Just enter the time [...]

This is the easiest way to download youtube videos to your personal computer if you’re using Ubuntu. All you have to do is to install YouTube-Dl. It downloads YouTube videos from the command line and works on Linux, and Mac OS.
To install YouTube-Dl open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
To download [...]

If you’re an Ubuntu user and you have your own blog then you might find this really interesting and useful. Everybody likes posting images to their blog, right ? But what if you have a bunch of photos and you need to rename (for search engines) and resize (to fit your blog layout) them [...]

Everybody likes Google Chrome, right ? Well, now you can have Chromium on Ubuntu as well.
But first, let’s clarify something: Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project. Right now Google’s browser is only available on Windows.
I know I installed Windows on my [...]

We all know that CakePHP has the Session component that allows us to login and logout users and to show them messages that appear only once:
<?php $this->Session->setFlash(‘Random message that appears only once’); ?>
We can style this message the way we want but what about having these kind of messages that are style differently depending on [...]

We all know that developing a website in CakePHP is very easy and also fast. Here’s how to create a multilingual website fast.
First open app/config/bootstrap.php and set the languages you want available for your website:

Configure::write(‘Config.languages’, array(
‘ro’ => array(
‘language’ => ‘Romanian’,
‘locale’ => ‘rum’,
[...]

You might have noticed that when you insert a software CD or a game cd the cd drive icon shows the game or software logo as icon. Ever wanted to do something like that? Well, here’s a short and easy tutorial to do so:
First of all find an icon. I suggest [ Icon Finder ]. [...]

Here an interesting trick to set multiple homepages in Firefox. Suppose you want to set Sava’s Place, PantherKut and BabyDoll as your homepages then all you have to do is:

Go to Tools -> Options -> Main
In the When Firefox Starts drop down menu choose Show my home page
In Home Page give your homepages separated by [...]

There comes a time in life when you need to use multiple databases for a website you have to build .
I came across this “problem” when I was working on a portal website and I had to make sure that users can login with the same details on any website that company owned.
So [...]

I used to keep Windows on my home PC just for playing Utopia.
Utopia is a medieval fantasy game played on the web directly through your browser – no downloads necessary. It is one of the most long-standing games online, and has been available to play for free since 1998.
To make your life easier some [...]