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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Upgrade to Firefox 3.6 on OpenSuse 11.2
By default OpenSuse 11.2 comes with Firefox 3.5.4 and when you run the upgrade you'll end up having Firefox 3.5.8. However, as we all know there's Firefox 3.6 available for sometime now. So I decided to update my Firefox to 3.6 on my OpenSuse machine. Following is what I did to upgrade to Firefox 3.6. 1. Open a terminal window and type the following command: sudo zypper ar...

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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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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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Install Chromium (Google Chrome) on Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}
Personally I like to have a few browser on my machine whether it's running Ubuntu, Linux Mint or OpenSuse. Google Chrome (chromium) is one of my favorite browsers after Firefox. By default it doesn't come installed in any of Linux distors mentioned above. However installing it is not a very painful process and can be achieved using the synaptic package manager. In order install chromium on your Linux mint: 1. Open...

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Upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
I think I have waited enough and now it's time to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 code named Lucid Lynx. If you have just too much of stuff to worry about on previous versions of Ubuntu, I'd suggest to wait for the final release in April. That's right the current release is alpha (not even Beta) so please upgrade at your own risk. Following is what I did to upgrade from Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala to Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha Lucid...

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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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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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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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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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Posts tagged Songbird

SongBird 1.2 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04: Fix

Aug 25th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 1,970 views

Share It was strange and I was struggling to get songbird 1.2.0 to start on Ubuntu 9.04. For some reason songbird 1.2.0 won’t start on Ubuntu 9.04. I did some reading on line and found the culprit which was causing it to not start. All you have to do is to remove the package named

SongBird: A complete installation and configuration guide

Jul 20th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 2,056 views

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Share 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