Sync Tomboy notes in Ubuntu across computers using Ubuntu One
Using notes is one of the ways to organize your work over your desktop. Tomboy notes is the default desktop note making application in Ubuntu and is pretty neat. As long as you don't format your machine too often you won't have to worry about saving your Tomboy notes. However, not many people know that Tomboy has a feature to sync you can configure your Tomboy notes to get synced to your UbuntuOne account. Let's see...

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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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How to install qBittorrent in Ubuntu 10.04
Torrent applications have become almost an integral part of every operating system and user desktop. There are plenty of choices of torrent client for Ubuntu and one of them is qBittorrent. qBittorrent 2 is a multi-platform Bittorrent client developed in C++/Qt4 by Christophe Dumez, a Ph.D student in the University of technology of Belfort-Montbeliard. This software is still under active development and it becomes ...

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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 ...

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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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Install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 and enable desktop...
We all love the infamous cube in Linux. Actually to be frank this is what drove me to start using Linux. Today we are going to see how to install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 and then enable the desktop effects to get the infamous 3D cube. Install Nvidia graphic drivers in OpenSuse 11.2 with Gnome Desktop 1. Go to Computer > Yast At the YaST Control Center, select Software. Cclick Software...

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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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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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Installing KSnapshot in OpenSuse 11.2: How-to guide
I am pretty excited that I now have OpenSuse on my machine which means that I will be covering OpenSuse related articles here on Linux Hub meaning more number of articles. To begin with after installing OpenSuse 11.2 (With Gnome Desktop), the first thing I needed was KSnapshot because it makes my job very easy to write heavy screenshot based articles here on Linux Hub. So let's see how to install KSnapshot on...

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OSD Lyrics: A multi-player lyrics finder for Linux
Do you like singing along while a song is playing and sometimes miss out on lyrics. You might face this more so on Linux as Windows has fairly good options for a lyrics finder. OSD-Lyrics tries to fill this gap by allowing you to download lyrics. More over it supports a large number of media players. OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in ...

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Shutter {Screenshot tool}: Installation and configuration guide

Jul 29th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 658 views

Share Ability to screenshots is an important element of an Operating System and more so for a blogger who has to explain visually-a few things. I have been planning to write about Shutter, a fabulous utility for taking screenshots, for sometime now. This post is also a result of the comment made by one of