Category: Google

7 Must have Google Tools for Linux Users

| December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments

Google has changed our lives permanently, no one can deny it. The amount of innovation it brings to the table is almost dizzying. Just a decade ago, if someone told you that a company would offer street views, 5 GB of email storage, satellite pictures of the whole globe…etc you would have been laughed at.

Here you will find some great apps and tools that will generally improve your experience on your preferred Linux desktop, though it is geared to the Ubuntu user (that’s my current distro) any of the below is available for all distros:

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How Can I Find Lost Computer Files?

| December 18, 2008 | 0 Comments

The dreaded lost file syndrome: You know that somewhere on your hard drive, the file you seek is happily sitting, awaiting you. But you just can’t find it, and you can’t even remember the name of it.

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Back Track 3 – A Hacker’s Dream

| October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments

BackTrack 3, put on by the amazing folks at Remote-Exploit, has grown to become the industry standard for a complete Linux penetration testing (aka “hacking”) platform. BackTrack 2 was the first real release of the distro back in March 2007 and was built off a combination of WHAX and the Auditor Security Collection. The system has grown since then but has remained very configurable on the user-end, with a lot of support for customizable scripts and custom kernels. BackTrack aims to be quick and effective. Backtrack provides a thorough pentesting environment which is bootable via CD, USB or the network (PXE). The tools are arranged in an intuitive manner, and cover most of the attack vectors.

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