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Have you ever wanted an simple way to monitor whether a network connected device is on or off. This script may be useful if you wanted to know if your children have gone to bed at the right time or stayed up beyond their bed time. There are many other uses for this script like monitoring devices that wake on lan etc.

In Part 6 of this Gtkmm tutorial series I will show you how to change the color and style of a button by changing the child widget of the button. I will also show you how to show and manage child windows.

While installing the Boxee+ hack on my media center I found out that all my movies needed to be saved in individual folders of the same name. This needs to be done for Boxee+ and XBMC to display fanart. With thousands of files, this was going to be a huge manual task. After searching for a tool to complete this task I decided to make one.

I have started developing a Gtk front end for the Linux uTorrent server. I know there is a Web UI but you can not click magnet links in web pages to add them. I was developing this for myself but if there is any interest in the project I will make it public.

In part 5 of this Gtkmm tutorial I will be showing you how to use the treeview control and markup in a label. In this simple application there is a text entry used for entering text into a treeview. The label next to the text entry will turn red if there is no text entered in the text entry when the button is pressed.

Just like the Hobbit’s tale I had a short trip there and back again, but mine was to Windows 8.1.

In part 4 of this C++ Gtkmm tutorial I will show you how to use the label and entry widgets as well as send parameters with a Gtkmm signal. In this tutorial the code will demonstrate a very simple login application.

In part 3 of this Gtkmm tutorial I will explain how to connect the buttons to signals and show dialogs when they are clicked.

In part 2 of this C++ Gtkmm programming tutorial I will explain how Gnome containers are used and how to create widget objects that are managed by Gtkmm.

This will be the first in a series of C++ Gtkmm tutorials leading up to a simple game.

I have created a very simple script to help with downloading Youtube videos. The script will display a list of available formats, ask what format you would like to download and correctly name the file that is being downloaded.

Nautilus file manager has removed many features to simplify the application. Some of the features that have been removes are the tree view and being able to edit the file path. This tutorial is how to install the Nemo file manager from Cinnamon and set it as default in Ubuntu. The following will install and configure Nemo which is a full featured file manager in Ubuntu.

Erich Hoover has managed to get Netflix working through wine on Linux. PPA is available.

This is a simple tutorial on how to enable USB support in VirtualBox.

After a recent Ubuntu update Youtube has tinted the sky orange and people blue. This article will help resolve this issue.

Have you been waiting for the Steam beta… Well the signup is nearly here!

You can start Empathy hidden so Unity or Gnome Shell can receive chat messages and notify you of them.

I have not been a fan of Unity and I had a hard time accepting it. I am a full time Linux user since Red Hat 3 which was around 1996 and had a hard time with the new user interfaces Gnome and Ubuntu were introducing.

There is a chance that Valve’s visit to the Linux operating system may just come and go. There are a few things that you can do to make sure that this does not happen.

Have you ever wondered how to dump thousands of files to a text file and sort them alphabetically? This tutorial will show you how to do it and create a bash script.