[News] Pinta 1.2 released – Install Instructions

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows. New Features in Pinta 4.2 : Individual layers can now be rotated arbitrarily Added specific mouse cursors for tools (pencil, paintbucket, etc) [...]

How to : Show/ Hide Mounted Volumes on the desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

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Whenever we insert the USB or use any drive in the Ubuntu, by default Mounted volumes are displayed in the desktop . Sometimes its annoying for users who have desktop full of icons . So in this tutorial , we will see how to hide the Mounted volumes  on the desktop in the Ubuntu . [...]

How to : Install Cinnamon Desktop in Ubuntu 11.10

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If you are searching for alternative for Unity , then this tutorial will help you in switching to another Environment called Cinnamon. Cinnamon is simple to use and a best alternative to Unity . About Cinnamon Term : Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several trees that is used in both [...]

How to : Move Maximize,Minimize button to the right in Ubuntu 11.10

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This tutorial will show you how to move the Maximize, Minimize button by default which is in left of the window to the right side in Ubuntu 11.10 . If you are newbie to Ubuntu and a Windows user , then it would be very difficult for you to get adjusted in the new environment [...]

How to : Install Wine 1.4 in Ubuntu 11.10/Ubuntu 12.04

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Finally after 20 months of development effort , Wine team has released its new stable version “Wine 1.4”. It contains many new changes and bug fixes. Apart from this , it also started supporting many new applications like Microsoft Office 2010 . Content : What’s new How to Install What’s New : There are many [...]

How to : Install Google Earth 6.2 in Ubuntu 11.10 [32 & 64 Bit]

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This post will show how to install Google Earth 6.2 in Ubuntu 11.1o . Recently Google Earth’s 6.2 was released and there were few upgrades which is available in this link . Step 1 : Go to terminal by pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ T and run the below command . sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer lsb-core Step [...]

How to: Install Adobe Flash Player in Ubuntu 11.10

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After the installation of Ubuntu 11.10 , According to me first you have to install Adobe flash player . Without it , you cant able to watch any videos in Youtube/Dailymotion etc .   To install it , just run one line command in terminal : sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer    

Convert your Ubuntu 11.10 into Mac OS X Lion

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This tutorial will explain the instructions to install the Mac OS X Lion theme in Ubuntu 11.10/Oneiric Ocelot. Step 1:  Install Cursors Open the terminal and run the following commands : wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47950494/Mac-Lion-Cursors.tar.gz sudo tar -xzvf Mac-Lion-Cursors.tar.gz -C /usr/share/icons Step 2:  Download the Mac OS theme Next step is to download Mac Os theme and [...]

How to : Change Start Up Sound in Ubuntu 11.10

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This Tutorial will explain how to change  start up sound in Ubuntu . The format used in Ubuntu for startup sound is .OGG, so you have to convert music files into OGG before you set it as start up sound in Ubuntu . There are many converters available in market , so you can opt [...]

How to : Install Mobile Media Convertor in Ubuntu 11.10

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This tutorial will explain the instructions to install Mobile Media Converter in Ubuntu 11.10. Mobile Media converter is a free multi platform audio and video converter. It support formats like MP3,WMA,OGG,WAV,MPEG video , AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV,AMR and 3GP. A good thing about this software is that  it comes with integrated Youtube downloader which is [...]