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If you like android and wanted to have an android theme for Ubuntu, you don’t have to wait any more. You can download the android theme for Ubuntu. The theme is called as genoid and is free to be used. It has GTK, GDM and icon themes to have a complete android experience on your [...]
Firefox is my browser and I don’t see no reason why it won’t be any more in future. Firefox is celebrating 5 years of giving us great browsing experience and have helped us save countless amount of dollars saving us from the malwares written for Internet Explorer. Let us see how to install Firefox 3.6 [...]
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 less [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cloud has become a very important aspect of not only computing technology but also normal user life. Personally I don’t take risk with my data and want it to be crash-proof. Especially my research work in progress is something I cannot compromise and hence I like to keep my stuff in the cloud. I know [...]
One thing that I started missing in Ubuntu for a while was the combination key CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill the X server. I know the reason for the same was to ensure that naive users don’t lose data/their work by accidentally hitting CTRL+ALT+Backspace on their Ubuntu machine. I am not going to get into the debate [...]
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 LinuxHub [...]
There are plenty of options when it comes to music player on Ubuntu. However, it doesn’t hurt to try some new one’s (which don’t come installed by default). One such player is called Gejengel. I am still struggling to get on with the pronunciation. It’s a very simple and easy to use player.
Home Page
http://gejengel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/web/index.html
Description
Gejengel is [...]
Yesterday I did a post on how to install grub 2 on Jaunty Jackalope machine. And I started getting comments that it was as ugly as it’s predecessor. And I could not agree more on that. Following which I started looking for way to pimp up grub 2 to look a little more eye candy. [...]
Cairo Dock is a docking application for Linux. It’s quite awesome and makes a wonderful addition to your Linux’s look and feel. Let’s see how to install this lovely utility in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
But before we get into the details of installing it. Let’s see how it looks like on Ubuntu 10.04.
Let’s get on [...]
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 [...]
Upgrades are very important for any operating system. It keeps running things smoothly and ensures the security of your machine. Let’s see how to upgrade packages and softwares in OpenSuse 11.2. This is pretty simple to achieve.
Go to Computer > Install Software
Select the tab that reads Upgrades.
Click the first package and click CTRL+A to select [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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