How to become comfortable with vim

Vim is an extremely powerful text editor based on vi. It has been around for 20 years but one of the main problems that users have is that they have no idea what to do when they first use it:

SpiderOak : A powerful way to backup and sync your files

When it comes to a file syncing, there are quite a few options that are available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Dropbox is probably the most widely used such program. Users of Ubuntu can use Ubuntu One to sync files between Windows and smartphones. You also have lesser known but very good programs like Wuala and the upcoming Sparkleshare.

I would like to introduce you to SpiderOak, which is a powerful file syncing/sharing program available on several Linux distributions and as well as on Windows and Mac. What does SpiderOak do that the alternatives don't? Well, read on and find out.

1 year of Tux Crazy

A short update to let you know that Tux Crazy is one year old today! I started Tux Crazy in order to move from YouTube to my own website so that my content could have more depth and I'm very happy that my website is active after a year. There was a drought of updates during the summer because of the incredible amount of exams that I had to write but I decided to commit to a weekly update system in September, which is working out very well.

This past year, I've written 28 articles, with a total of around 18,000 words. I hope to write more and better articles over the next year so stay tuned.

Ubuntu 11.10 review: On the right track

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Ubuntu is seen as Open Source's answer to commercial Operating Systems such as Windows and Mac OS. It's simple, fast and seems to have been created keeping the non-geek users in mind, which is necessary if Mark Shuttleworth wants to realize the goal of 200 million users in 4 years.

How to join lines of broken text on Linux and Windows

Broken lines are a major formatting inconvenience. If you copy text from a PDF file, for example, you might have to manually join every single line; until now. I've written this tutorial to spare you of that inconvenience and will show you how to easily join multiple lines together on various text editors on Linux and Windows.

How to create 3D animated maps using OpenShot on Linux

OpenShot is a video editor that runs on several Linux Distributions and is, in my humble opinion, one of the two best video editors (along with Kdenlive) available on Linux. Using OpenShot and Blender, we can create several impressive animations, one of them being the following 3D map animation.

New York to New Delhi from Tuxcrazy on Vimeo.

Updated Ubuntu and Fedora Wallpaper Pack

In anticipation of the new Ubuntu release, the Ubuntu and Fedora Wallpaper pack has been updated for a second time with various modifications. The last update was in December, 2010.