Installing Skype in Linux Mint 9 using repositories
Skype is one of the most popular Voip client that allows users to make free calls from their computers over the Internet. Installing Skype using deb file on Linux Mint is the way most of us have used. However, this doesn't ensure an automatic update of skype as and when there is a new version released. Which makes it tedious to update it all the time. However, using the repositories we can ensure that whenever there...

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Install LXDE (Light weight desktop manager) on Ubuntu 10.04
This post is inspired by one of my geek friends. She totally loves Linux and keeps experimenting it. She suggested I try LXDE as my desktop manager on Linux. The "Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment" is an extremely fast-performing and energy-saving desktop environment. I wasn't disappointed when I installed it. It's lightening fast and loads up in no time. Following are some of it's features: Lightweight It...

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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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Chromium in Fedora 13: How-to
Fedora 13 comes with Mozilla Firefox and by default doesn't have Chromium installed. Chromium is an open source browser developed by Google. The reasons Chromium is not part of official Fedora repository is well explained by Joe Brockmeier at Making Projects Easier to Package: Why Chromium Isn't in Fedora. However, Tom ‘Spot’ Callaway, Fedora Engineering Manager, has created a rpm repository with precompiled ver...

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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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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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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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Cairo Dock: One click install in OpenSuse
We have written already about Cairo Dock and how to install cairo dock in Ubuntu 10.04. Just because we think Cairo dock is such a wonderful addition to your Linux desktop we will see how to get it working in Opensuse. Good part is that the installation is one click install in OpenSuse so there's almost no hassle at all. In order to install cairo dock in OpenSuse 11.2 you'll have to just click the following...

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Fix color issues in videos on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Have you have suffered from color issues on videos in Ubuntu 10.04. Say for example you start playing a video and you see high amounts of blue tinge while playing a video. I ran into this problem today and it wasn't too much of difficulty to fix it back to normal. The issue at hand looks something like this: Let's see how to fix this on the default movie player Totem Movie Player on Ubuntu 10.04 and also VLC ...

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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 Qwitik a cross platform twitter clinet on Ubuntu

Oct 27th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 708 views

Share Twitter is an online social status updating service. However, at a conceptual level, all such social services fall under the model called as “Sociality with Objects”. Thankfully we are not going to look into it in better details. We are going to see another nice little application which makes the job of using twitter

HechteTwitter is a ruby based desktop client for Linux

Oct 8th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 451 views

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Share Twitter is a well know status update and status sharing site. Also there is no dearth of desktop applications for twitter. Some popular one’s are tweetdeck and twhirl. Both of these are adobe AIR based applications. Then there are the one’s which integrate with your browser like twitterfox and twitterbar. In linx there are

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