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    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 IceCat on your Karmic machine using the following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnuzilla-team/ppa Once you...
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    15 Most Amazing Gnome themes GTK 2.x

    Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of the user interface and design. With a little bit of tweaking, Ubuntu can be turned into a real eye candy. Following is a collection of some beautiful GTK 2.x themes which could be ideal for someone looking for a new look and change. In order to download, click the title of each GTK theme. Zuki Simply Basic Radiance Drakfire Mod absolute Azenis Equinox Variance...
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    Benchmark Fedora 13 using HardInfo

    Sometimes there is a need to benchmark your machine in order to report bugs or to troubleshoot. In Linux it's fairly easy to benchmark your system. HardInfo is a small tool which will help you benchmark your system in Fedora 13. HardInfo can gather information about your system's hardware and operating system, perform benchmarks, and generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats. In order to...
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    How to install KSnapshot in Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}

    There are various screenshot utilities for Linux, but my favorite is Ksnapshot and because I am a big fan of Gnome and don't use much of KDE, I don't get this lovely application installed by default in Linux Mint. So, I have to install it manually. Following is a simple step to install KSnapshot on Linux Mint 9 code named Isadora. 1. Open a terminal window by hitting ALT+F2 and type "gnome-terminal". In the...
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    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 project is a simple alarm clock software for the GNOME desktop. You can schedule your tasks in an easy way. In Ubuntu all you have to do is...
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    Fix color issues in videos on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}

    Have you have suffered from color issues on videos in Ubuntu 10.04. Say for example you start playing a video and you see high amounts of blue tinge while playing a video. I ran into this problem today and it wasn't too much of difficulty to fix it back to normal. The issue at hand looks something like this: Let's see how to fix this on the default movie player Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu 10.04 and also VLC ...
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    Top 21 Ubuntu Wallpapers

    I write for HowToGeek.com and in one of the recent posts have covered 21 Best wallpapers for Ubuntu 10.04. The wallpapers are an effort to bring to you handful of choices if and when you are bored of the default wallpaper that comes with Lucid Lynx. You can find the complete collection at  Desktop Fun: 21 Cool Ubuntu Wallpapers. Also, feel free to subscribe to Howtogeek RSS feeds for future updates.
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    Enna is a powerful light weight media center for Linux

    Linux has no dearth of media centers. XBMC and Boxee are the 2 very popular ones. Enna is another media player solution for Linux and is surprisingly light weight and fast with wonderful features. Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia...
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    Install Google Chrome on OpenSuse 11.3

    Google Chrome is a lightening fast browser and is available cross platform. Let's see how to install Google Chrome on Open Suse 11.3. All you have to do is go to Google Chrome Download Page. 1. Click on Get Google Chrome (BETA). 2. On the subsequent page make sure OpenSuse is selected. Click Accept and Install. 3. The package file will be downloaded and opened in YaST and Google Chrome will be installed on...
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    Download and Install Opera 10.60 {Alpha} on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}

    Yesterday the Opera team announced the release of Opera 10.60 Alpha for Windows, Mac and Linux. They have promised an increased performance for both JavaScript, DOM and CSS. Following are some features to look out for: In addition to the visual tweaks you have seen already, such as the Speed Dial face lift, we have also been making further UI enhancements. You will notice that the O menu button now says "Menu"...
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Viewnior: A simple and elegant image viewer

Aug 9th

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Share Images are part of our every day Internet usage and a good image viewer is an integral part of a good operating system. Viewnior is one such application for Linux. Viewnioris an image viewer program. Created to be simple, fast and elegant. It’s minimalistic interface provides more screenspace for your images. Some of it’s

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Install Wine and run Windows applications on Ubuntu (Jaunty): How-to

Jul 9th

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Share Wine is something which will come to your rescue  if you have been a long Windows users and are in the transition phase of moving from Windows to Linux. However, you are not completely ready to use native Linux (Ubuntu) and want to use Windows applications on your Ubuntu machine. There could also be

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