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Change the Keyboard Layout in Fedora 15 {LoveLock}

By Vivek on May 26, 2011 in Featured, Fedora, How-to | 11 comments

Fedroa 15 was released a while back and as much as it has shown some tremendous improvements, I fail to understand why should it be rocket science to do something as simple as changing the keyboard layout. With Gnome 3 making Fedora 15 shine, it should be easier to just type “keyboard layout” in the search box to come to the screen for changing the...

Unity Opera

By Vivek on May 10, 2011 in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu | 9 comments

Kyle Baker of Kyleabaker.com has written a lovely script to unite Opera with the new Unity interface of Ubuntu 11.04. Unity Opera has the following features: Count: Total number of tabs open appears on the launcher Icon and is updated in real time as you open or close the tabs. Note: The private tab counts is not shown For complete list of features, download and...

By Vivek on May 7, 2011 in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu | 14 comments

When you install Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04 using the software center you get the stable version on your machine. However, if you want to flirt around with the latest features you will need the Dev channels to be able to use the developer version of Chromium. Let’s see how to update the channels to dev version to install the latest developer version of Ubuntu...

Phatch: Simple Batch Image Processing Tool for Ubuntu

By Vivek on Feb 10, 2011 in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu | 10 comments

Have a lot of images/photos which you want to process. Whether it is resizing, shrinking, applying shadow or watermark or tag, phatch is perfect tool for Linux. Phatch which stands for Photo+Batch, is a wonderful tool for Linux to easily batch process your photos. Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image...

By Vivek on Jan 3, 2011 in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu | 7 comments

LibreOffice the forked open source suit emerging from Open Office is now available in Launch pad PPA. The current version of LibreOffice 3.3 RC 2 can now be installed using a PPA on Ubuntu. A Word of Caution: Installing LibreOffice will lead to complete removal of Open Office. So if you are using Open Office and want to keep it then this method is not suitable....

By Vivek on Dec 20, 2010 in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu | 11 comments

Want to use the full capacity of your CPU on Linux. Now you can change the CPU frequency on the fly on your Ubunut using Indicator-CPUfreq. The utility is fairly simple to use and can be added to the panel. Download the DEB files from indicator-cpufreq_0.1.1-public.deb (Maverick) indicator-cpufreq_0.1.1-public.deb (Natty) Now you can unleash the true potential of...