How to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It's quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux's look and feel. Let's see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). But before we get into the details of installing it. Let's see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04. Let's get on with the installation. Open a terminal window and add the following line and copy paste the following...

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New Flock will be based on Google’s Chromium: Dumps Mozilla!
Flock is a social browser which till recently was based on Mozilla. No more. The new version of Flock will be based on Google Chromium. Note: It's currently not available for Linux. The move is to make it a little lighter and faster. We managed to have some sneak peak into the beta version of upcoming Flock (based on Google Chromium). It’s almost as good as Google Chromium though has still tried to stay social ...

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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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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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Fix Big and Ugly Plymouth in Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Once you install proprietary Nvidia and ATI drivers in your Ubuntu 10.04 and boot your machine next time all you see is an big and ugly Ubuntu Plymouth logo. Though it really doesn't too much to have that ugly Plymouth, but if you are a stickler for perfection like me then you would want to fix it to get the following nice looking Plymouth. Following is a way to fix this: 1. Open a terminal Window and type the...

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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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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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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 safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and...

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Installing Shutter on Fedora 13
Shutter is one of the best screen taking utility for Linux and it's my default screen capturing tool. I managed to get the new version of Fedora (13) running on my machine and wanted to start off writing about how to install Shutter on Fedora 13. The installation process is fairly easy: Go to System > Administration > Add/Remove Software and search for Shutter. Select the package as shown in the screenshot...

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Conky: Bringing life to Linux desktop
Conky is a system monitoring tool for Linux. However, it's a great tool to bring immense amount of information right on your desktop. You can flaunt off some really geeky looking desktop to all your friends stuck with Windows (though there are ways to achieve the same in Windows as well). Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the...

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Viewnior: A simple and elegant image viewer

Aug 9th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,353 views

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