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Change the Keyboard Layout in Fedora 15 {LoveLock}

1 year ago

by Vivek in Featured, Fedora, How-to

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 layout of keyboard. However that is not the case. So in order to change the keyboard layout (different language keyboard layout) follow the steps below:

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Unity Opera

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu

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 instructions to install checkout the post by Kyle Baker at Unity Opera.

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Install Chromium Dev version in Ubuntu 11.04

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu

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 11.04.

Adding the dev channels repository to your Ubuntu Repos:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:chromium-daily/dev sudo apt-get update

Once you have added you can start your update manager to update chromium (currently 12).

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Phatch: Simple Batch Image Processing Tool for Ubuntu

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu

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 formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, … and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and More >

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Install LibreOffice 3.3 on Ubuntu using PPA

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu

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.

Install using the terminal:

sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libreoffice

Also, install the following packages for better compatibility with your

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Monitor and change CPU with Indicator-CPUfreq

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu

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 your CPU on Ubuntu.

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XBMC 10.0 (Dharma) with built in addon support

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu

XBMC is an open source media player for Linux, Mac and Windows. XBMC 10.0 code named Dharma has been released and now has addon support.

Hardware acceleration has been added in windows (Vista or 7) via DXVA2, CrystalHD has been added for all platforms (best supported in OSX and Linux), VDPAU support has been improved in Linux, and VAAPI support has been added for the hardware that supports it in Linux

Installing XBMC 10 on Ubuntu is fairly easy.

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Boxee: A social media center for Ubuntu 10.10-Fix the libdirectfb dependency issue!

2 years ago

by Vivek in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu

Boxee is a fantastic media center application and rocks wonderfully well with Linux. We wrote about how to install Boxee on Lucid Lynx. What’s interesting is that the new version of Boxee plays wonderfully well as a almost full fledged social media center integrating services like facebook, twitter, buzz, digg and flickr.

Also, it has some amazing apps and channels like ted.com. You can also add your personal feeds.

Boxee Beta from boxee on Vimeo.

I tried installing it on Ubuntu 10.10 and was surprised to receive some dependencies issue after downloading it from official site. The deb file More >

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