With compiz enabled you can play with the opacity of your windows. This is done by putting your mouse over the window, pressing ALT and scrolling with your mousewheel. Now I wanted to try something different, I wanted all my windows, menus, popups, dialogs and tooltips to be transparent by default. This can easily be done with tweaking compiz in the CompizConfig settings manager. For your desktop to be useable, I suggest to use a very dark theme with light icons and a rather clean wallpaper. So in this tutorial I will explain how to get a completely transparent Linux Desktop.

Surfraw stands for 'Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW'. It's a command-line shell program for interfacing with a big number of web-based search engines. With Surfraw you can search google and wikipedia a.o. from the command line. The results will be displayed with a browser of your choice. I suggest a text browser like links2, to keep it text based. Read more to find out how to install and use it.

I managed to get Itunes 7.3.0.54 running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron using wine 0.9.59 . First I setup Pulse Audio Server following this tutorial I found on ubuntuforums.org : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776739 . This will take care of a bug that is responsible for Ubuntu Hardy Heron not being able to play sound simultaneously from different applications, after the installation. Itunes doesn't need a introduction.

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. It's a program that allows you to recreate the hardware of old Arcade gaming machines like Double Dragon, Altered Beast, 1941 (and the like), Golden Axe and many others.
In this tutorial I will explain how to install 1941 for MAME and gxmame which is a front-end for MAME.

Some time ago I bought a used IBM T41 laptop. It came with an official windows XP license (my first one!!! :). But since I tried that OS and didn't like it, I installed Ubuntu 7.04 at that time, for a dual boot setup. I kept XP on there for several reasons: I might sell it, to try out windows software and for gaming. But the partition is so small, and I never use it, so let's get on with how my IBM T41 reacted on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.

Ubuntu comes with a good system monitor. If you like to keep an eye on your system all the time, you can put up to 6 indicators on your panel. (Just right click on your panel, 'add to panel' and select 'system monitor'. Right click on a graph and select 'preferences' to edit it.)

But If that isn't enough, there's always Conky. Conky is a very configurable, light-weight system monitor that among others displays system stats on your screen, like in the screenshot.

This tutorial will explain how to submit track info to last.fm (audioscrobbler) when you use cmus. For those who don't know it, cmus is a text-based music player for unix-like systems and it just rocks!