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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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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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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Install Skype on Opensuse 11.2
Skype is one of the most popular voip service out there and is available across various platforms including Linux. We have earlier covered Installing Skype on Ubuntu on LinuxHub. Today we are going to see how to install skype on Opensuse. This is how you install it. Install the following packages before installing skype. libqt4-x11 libqt4-dbus-1 libsigc++2 To install these packages, start a terminal window and...

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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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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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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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X-Tile: Tile windows in various style in Linux
Do you work with many window and want to see all of them at a glance before you choose them then X-Tile is the solution for you. X-tile is a gnome applet for your panel (or optionally a standalone application,working with kde as well) that allowsyou to select a number of windows and tile them in different ways. You can download the Deb package from here. For other distros you can check the page here.

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How to install Docky on Linux Mint 9 {Isadora}
Docky is a branched out application from Gnome-Do and has turned into a full fledged dock application for Linux. Docky is a frontend for GNOME Do (Do) that introduces an entirely new way to interact with Do. Docky helps Do become more directly involved with your desktop by providing a persistent mouse based Dock interface while remaining true to Do's keyboard only interaction. Being tied directly into Do allows...

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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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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