Diff Linux command — Find the difference in files the easier way.

In Linux you can use diff command to find the differences in file.

What is interesting is that you can use &#8221;diff -u&#8221; to list the differences with &#8217;+&#8217; and &#8217;-&#8217; rather than sometimes confusing &#8217;>&#8217; and '<&#8217;.

Running the regular diff between two text files to see the differences is not so elegant for the human eye to decode. Luckily there are plenty of tools out there to make this easy.

feedly– addon for firefox if you have a lot of subscriptions for Google reader.

Download feedly <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8538">here. Feedly is the way to go if you have lot of subscriptions or otherwise too if you would like to see some changes in the way the google reader looks. Here&#8217;s the description:

A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Frienfeed, Delicious and YouTube.

and a screenshot:

Managing your remote site locally – sitecopy.

If you are managing a remote site, web server that you do not have direct access to (terminal or ssh) and you have to do it with cpanel, then I know how much pain it is. I had the same issue until recently when I discovered <a href="http://http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/" target="_blank">sitecopy.

Description of sitecopy:

sitecopy allows you to easily maintain remote Web sites.  The program will upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files from the server which have been removed locally, to keep the remote site synchronized with the local site, with a single command. sitecopy will also optionally try to spot files you move locally, and move them remotely.  FTP and WebDAV servers are supported.

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Diary and Journal on your linux Desktop

<a href="http://digitaldump.wordpress.com/projects/rednotebook/" target="_blank">RedNotebook is a diary and journel for the *nix OS. This is a great software with some very good features.

This is available on fedora repo and hence to install you can just type:

sudo yum install rednotebook

Some features to note are:

• Enter text for individual days and navigate using a fancy calendar
• Add Categories to days and fill them with small content
• Tag your entries
• Format your text bold, italic or <span style="text-decoration: underline;">underlined
• Insert Images, files and links to websites
• Links and mail addresses are recognized automatically
• (Live-) Search
• Automatic saving
• Backup to zip archive
• Word Clouds with most often used words and tags
• Create a template for each day
• Export the journal to HTML, Latex or plain text
• RedNotebook is Open Source Software, you are free to use and redistribute it under the terms of the GPL

RFC Reader – Elegnant way to read RFC and other text documents.

You can find RFC Reader <a href="http://download.cnet.com/RFC-Reader/3000-2383_4-10557406.html" target="_blank">here.

Description of the tool:

RFC Reader is a professional tool for reading RFC document. It can generate a section directory tree. And it provides lots of features to help you reading RFC documents, such as bookmark, highlight, search, and automatically record where you are reading. Version 3.2 is optimized and it is free now! You can use it without any limitation.

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Nice articles to spend some time.

Get intoxicated with all kind of crazy languages in the world of computers.

<a href="http://www.tuxradar.com/content/programming-languages-melt-your-brain" target="_blank">http://www.tuxradar.com/content/programming-languages-melt-your-brain

A quite useful vim guide.

<a href="http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/03/03/vim-cheatsheet-revisited/" target="_blank">http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2009/03/03/vim-cheatsheet-revisited/

12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows.

Just for FUN.  Some cool wallpapers.

<a href="http://www.bablotech.com/2009/01/26/12-wallpapers-in-which-linux-criticizes-windows/">12 Wallpapers in which linux criticizes windows.