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Install VLC on Ubuntu via PPA

VLC is a wonderful media player and it’s available for Linux as well. What I love about the player is that it almost all the time satisfies all my media playing needs and I don’t have to worry about having another plugin etc to play a file.
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player [...]

[ More ] September 3rd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Earcandy: Sound level manager that nicely fades applications in and out

Earcandy is sound level manager for Linux that changes the volume of your applications based on their profile. It’s a sound level manager that nicely fades applications in and out based on their profile and window focus. Following are the features of EarCandy:
Features

All volume adjustments are fades
Fade out music/video players on skype call
Fade to music [...]

[ More ] September 2nd, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

qOrganizer: A personal organizer on Linux

qOrganizer is a utility for Linux that helps you organize your daily stuff like, schedule, reminder, notes, to-dos etc. It has some good features for students to use as well like it provides them yo keep track of their timetable absence etc. Good part is it’s packaged as a deb file for easy installation on [...]

[ More ] August 28th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Viewnior: A simple and elegant image viewer

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 important [...]

[ More ] August 9th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, Linux, Ubuntu |

Gedit plugins: Extension and customization guide

Sometime back one of my friend tweeted saying he could install notepad++ using wine on Ubuntu. We had a good discussion on why he doesn’t prefer using gedit or similar applications which come as native applications for Linux. His argument was because Notepad++ is highly extensible. So, I thought of looking at ways to extend [...]

[ More ] August 7th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Install DKMS-VirtualBox driver not installed: Error after updating to new Linux Kernel

Yesterday I did a post on How to install virtualbox on Ubuntu 9.04 and run WindowsXP as virtual OS. However, today after I upgraded my Linux Kernel I realized that VirtualBox stopped working throwing the error saying Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908). Also, it was suggested by VirtualBox that installing DKMS package would solve theongrat [...]

[ More ] August 5th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

SongBird: A complete installation and configuration guide

Songbird is a fantastic music player which is available for all the major OS platforms like Linux, Windows and OSX. The beauty of the player is it’s like the famous iTunes but takes configuration to a new level with extensions.  You can pimp it up with themes and best of all it’s an open source [...]

[ More ] July 20th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

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

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 scenarios like [...]

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

Install Skype {Best Instant Messenger} on Ubuntu: How-to

Skype is a service that redefines instant messaging. It wont be an exaggeration if I called skype as the most advaanced, state of art instant messaging, voice and video call service. However, till sometime back the service wasn’t available for Linux. But as Linux has been accepted more and more by common users so is [...]

[ More ] July 6th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |

Install XAMPP-Linux Apache MySQL and PhP {LAMP} on Ubuntu: How-to

A web server is very important component if you are on Linux an importantly if you are web developer. You can install Apache, MySQL and PhP as separate component on Linux and then configure them. However, if you are just getting started and wished there was an all-in-one package to install LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL [...]

[ More ] July 5th, 2009 | Comments | Posted in Featured, How-to, Linux, Ubuntu |
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