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Convert your Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) box into a media center with Boxee.

Boxee is a  cross platform home theater PC (HTPC). It brings the power of social media center to your machine. It’s pretty neat and I sort of like it. I was trying to see if it’s available for Lucid and it’s officially not available  at least not the PPAs. So I tried to install it [...]

[ More ] March 3rd, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Hardware, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Use OpenDNS in Lucid Lynx for faster nameserver resolution

Strangely, my Ubuntu machine doesn’t resolve nameservers fast enough when I am connected to my ADSL wifi connection. This doesn’t happen on my Windows 7 machine. So, I decided to change my DNS servers to OpenDNS. And I found significant improvement.
OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet [...]

[ More ] March 1st, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

I think I have waited enough and now it’s time to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 code named Lucid Lynx. If you have just too much of stuff to worry about on previous versions of Ubuntu, I’d suggest to wait for the final release in April. That’s right the current release is alpha (not even Beta) [...]

[ More ] March 1st, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

How to install Firefox 3.6 stable release on Ubuntu 9.10 using PPA

The purpose of this post is to give the users the flavor of Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). We will only focus on using the PPA repository for Karmic Koala. We will see how to upgrade to Firefox 3.6 which was already released a few months back.
Open the terminal window and type the [...]

[ More ] February 20th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Install IceCat 3.6 on Ubuntu 9.10

IceCat is a GPL version of Mozilla Firefox. Which means it’s totally free and does not have the non-free Firefox art work. Another reason to have IceCat on your machine is because you can have another browser to open side by side Firefox which has the same features as that of Firefox. You can install [...]

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Browser, Featured, How-to, Ubuntu |

Alarm Clock for Ubuntu

Did you feel a need for alarm clock on your Ubuntu machine? Well most of us don’t need it however, if you are just too geeky to use your laptop or computer to have an alarm clock that wakes you up, then you can have one. This alarm clock is called as alarm clock.
Alarm Clock [...]

[ More ] January 24th, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Ubuntu |

Top 35 handpicked Ubuntu wallpapers

Ubuntu is my favorite Linux distro and is probably the most popular out there. It’s powerful at the same time customizable. Having a large community support Ubuntu enjoys the love from artists and designers.  Following is a collection of 35 hand picked Ubuntu wallpapers. Hope you like’em.

[ More ] January 21st, 2010 | Comments | Posted in Design&Art, Featured, Ubuntu |

Love android? Get android theme for Ubuntu

If you like android and wanted to have an android theme for Ubuntu, you don’t have to wait any more. You can download the android theme for Ubuntu. The theme is called as genoid and is free to be used. It has GTK, GDM  and icon themes to have a complete android experience on your [...]

[ More ] December 5th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Linux, Ubuntu |

FooBillard: Play Billiards on Ubuntu

FooBillard is an open source game for Linux. However, it’s also available for Windows and Mac. FooBillard is best played on Linux with a GeForce2 class or better graphics card and OpenGL libraries with 3D acceleration. The game can be played against computer or against a Human on the network.
Following is how to install FooBillard [...]

[ More ] November 23rd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

How to install Firefox 3.6 on Ubuntu {Karmic Koala}

Firefox is my browser and I don’t see no reason why it won’t be any more in future. Firefox is celebrating 5 years of giving us great browsing experience and have helped us save countless amount of dollars saving us from the malwares written for Internet Explorer. Let us see how to install Firefox 3.6 [...]

[ More ] November 9th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |
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