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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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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Fix Big and Ugly Plymouth in Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}
Once you install proprietary Nvidia and ATI drivers in your Ubuntu 10.04 and boot your machine next time all you see is an big and ugly Ubuntu Plymouth logo. Though it really doesn't too much to have that ugly Plymouth, but if you are a stickler for perfection like me then you would want to fix it to get the following nice looking Plymouth. Following is a way to fix this: 1. Open a terminal Window and type the...

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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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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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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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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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Install NetBeans on Ubuntu 10.04
Let's see a step by step guide to install NetBeans 6.9 on Ubuntu 10.04. But before we start with the installation process let's see what NetBeans is: The NetBeans IDE is an award-winning integrated development environment available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. The NetBeans project consists of anopen-source IDE and an application platform that enable developers to rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, ...

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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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Dontzap: Get CTRL+ALT+Backspace to kill x server in Ubuntu 9.04

Aug 5th

Posted by Vivek in Featured | 2,776 views

Share 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