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Install the latest Avant Window Navigator Lucido using PPA on Ubuntu 10.04

July 20, 2017

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Avant Window Navigator is docking application for Linux and is one of my favorites amongst others. With lucido theme, it looks pretty neat. Let’s see how to install Avant Window Navigator Lucido on Ubuntu.

1. If you are using the …

Install Firefox 4 beta 2 in Ubuntu using PPA

July 3, 2017

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Firefox 4 has been making some buzz around. With the browser market heating up, none of the companies want to stay behind and Firefox 4 is an effort in such direction by Mozilla. Firefox 4 will be a little more …

XBMC 10.0 (Dharma) with built in addon support

June 2, 2017

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XBMC is an open source media player for Linux, Mac and Windows. XBMC 10.0 code named Dharma has been released and now has addon support.

Hardware acceleration has been added in windows (Vista or 7) via DXVA2, CrystalHD has been

Conky: Bringing life to Linux desktop

April 16, 2017

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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 …

Download 400 National Geographic Wallpapers automatically on Ubuntu

April 11, 2017

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If you are one of the guys who loves changing wallpapers, then now you can download 400 National Geographic wallpapers from 2008 and 2009 contests. To download all the wallpapers you can run the following scripts.

Download the scripts for

Fix color issues in videos on Ubuntu 10.04 {Lucid Lynx}

April 6, 2017

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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 …

Phatch: Simple Batch Image Processing Tool for Ubuntu

March 28, 2017

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Have a lot of images/photos which you want to process. Whether it is resizing, shrinking, applying shadow or watermark or tag, phatch is perfect tool for Linux. Phatch which stands for Photo+Batch, is a wonderful tool for Linux to easily …

Install Transmission 2.0 in Ubuntu

March 10, 2017

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Transmission is one of the P2P torrent client for Linux and Mac. The interface is quite intuitive and user friendly. Following are some of the features of Transmission 2.0.

  • “Local Peer Discovery” for finding peers on the local network
  • Optimize

Monitor and change CPU with Indicator-CPUfreq

March 1, 2017

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Want to use the full capacity of your CPU on Linux. Now you can change the CPU frequency on the fly on your Ubunut using Indicator-CPUfreq. The utility is fairly simple to use and can be added to the panel.…

Install LibreOffice 3.3 on Ubuntu using PPA

February 17, 2017

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LibreOffice the forked open source suit emerging from Open Office is now available in Launch pad PPA. The current version of LibreOffice 3.3 RC 2 can now be installed using a PPA on Ubuntu.

A Word of Caution: Installing …