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    X-Tile: Tile windows in various style in Linux

    Do you work with many window and want to see all of them at a glance before you choose them then X-Tile is the solution for you. X-tile is a gnome applet for your panel (or optionally a standalone application,working with kde as well) that allowsyou to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways. You can download the Deb package from here. For other distros you can check the page here.
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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 Skype on Opensuse 11.2

    Skype is one of the most popular voip service out there and is available across various platforms including Linux. We have earlier covered Installing Skype on Ubuntu on LinuxHub. Today we are going to see how to install skype on Opensuse. This is how you install it. Install the following packages before installing skype. libqt4-x11 libqt4-dbus-1 libsigc++2 To install these packages, start a terminal window and...
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    Linux Mint is the new addition to LinuxHub

    LinuxHub has seen a great support from all it's readers and is enhancing the scope of it's coverage by bringing Linux Mint under it's umbrella. As we have been covering news and how-to's related to Ubuntu and OpenSuse, we plan to cover the same topics for Linux Mint. We however, will not compromise on the content related to other distros. We believe that this will enrich your experience with LinuxHub. As a...
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    Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13

    This post is specific to enabling 3d (desktop effects) in fedora 13 running on Nvidia graphics. I struggled to enable the desktop effect in Fedora 13. But eventually I managed to enable the desktop effects using the following steps. Note: This is a 3 steps process. Please follow all the steps to enable desktop effects in Fedora 13 1. Install Nvidia drivers ( if you have 4Gb of RAM or more you will probably have...
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    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 following command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable Next we need to update the software...
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    Install NetBeans on Ubuntu 10.04

    Let's see a step by step guide to install NetBeans 6.9 on Ubuntu 10.04. But before we start with the installation process let's see what NetBeans is: The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of anopen-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, ...
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    How to install VLC player in OpenSuse 11.2 and play mp3

    Undoubtedly according to me the best media player that I can think of on any platform is VLC player hands down and that's the precise reason I have it installed on Ubuntu 10.04, Windows 7 and now on OpenSuse 11.2. Sometime back we covered how to install VLC player on Ubuntu using PPA. Today, we are going to see how to install it on OpenSuse and make it the default player to play mp3 and other media files. In order...
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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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    Installing Opera 10.10 in Isadora {Linux Mint 9}

    Opera is one of my favorite browsers as it comes as a full package with support for email (POP and IMAP), IRC chat client, RSS feedreader. You can also extend its functionality using widgets. Installing Opera 10.10 on Linux Mint is pretty easy. Let's see how to install it: 1. Open Synaptic Package Manager by going to Menu > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager 2. Search for ...
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ShareFire: A platform independent feedreader

Jul 22nd

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 355 views

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Share We have good number of options for reading and aggregating feeds. Some common feed readers are Google reader, newsgator etc. The one I use on windows is feed demon. Today we’ll see platform independent feed reader which can be installed on any OS. However, we’ll see how to install it on Ubuntu. The reader

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Pidgin on Ubuntu (Jaunty): Configure pidgin to use gtalk and facebook chat

Jul 6th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,111 views

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Share One of my favourite IMs is Pidgin. Though I don’t use it on my Windows partition, it’s a must piece of software on my Ubuntu partition. With Pidgin, I don’t have to miss gtalk client on Ubuntu. Moreover, I can also configure my facebook chat to see my facebook friends if they are online

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