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Install Real Player 11 in Fedora 13

February 16, 2018

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Real Player 11 is quite an advance music player which has been around for quite sometime. The good part is it’s also available for Linux. Installing it on Fedora 13 is no rocket science and works as flawlessly as on …

Enable Desktop Effect in Fedora 13

January 24, 2018

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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.

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Install NetBeans on Ubuntu 10.04

December 31, 2017

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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, 

Change the Keyboard Layout in Fedora 15 {LoveLock}

November 5, 2017

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Fedora 15 was released a while back and as much as it has shown some tremendous improvements, I fail to understand why should it be rocket science to do something as simple as changing the keyboard layout. With Gnome 3 …

Boxee: A social media center for Ubuntu 10.10-Fix the libdirectfb dependency issue!

November 3, 2017

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Boxee is a fantastic media center application and rocks wonderfully well with Linux. We wrote about how to install Boxee on Lucid Lynx. What’s interesting is that the new version of Boxee plays wonderfully well as a almost full fledged …

OSD Lyrics: A multi-player lyrics finder for Linux

October 6, 2017

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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 …

Benchmark Fedora 13 using HardInfo

September 27, 2017

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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 …

X-Tile: Tile windows in various style in Linux

August 18, 2017

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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

Linux gets Spotify love: Install Spotify in Ubuntu

August 18, 2017

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The wait is over and Spotify is now available for Linux. Following is how you can install spotify in Ubuntu10.04.

Note: Because they are not able to run ads on this client, this service is only available …

Install Chromium Dev version in Ubuntu 11.04

July 28, 2017

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When you install Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04 using the software center you get the stable version on your machine. However, if you want to flirt around with the latest features you will need the Dev channels to be able to …