
Cinnamon 1.8 the desktop environment developed by the team of Linux Mint has many new features and many bug fixes , and various improvements in its different areas, such as the section on developers. All this makes cinnamon 1.8 desktop environment be a complete and interesting. Started with Nemo file browser . The fork of Nautilus continues to [...]

Goldendict is a complete dictionary for ubuntu desktop that supports dictionaries in Babylon format,StarDict and Dictd. it is very useful if we have internet connection but what can we do if we do not have internet access. Thanks to Goldendict we search in Wikipedia, Wiktionary, or any other site based on MediaWiki, we can also [...]

How to know if you have bad sectors on your hard drive in Ubuntu Desktop and how to fix them. You can use badblock program to fix this problem. The badblocks is program command line based allow to test your harddrive for, you guessed it, bad blocks. The badblocks program is part of the e2fsprogs [...]

LibreOffice 4.0 Stable Version has been released and announcment by Document Foundation on February 7, 2013. It come with new feature, better look and more improvements. On this release LibreOffice 4.0 now compatible with Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF) and DOCX file formats – the latter being the XML-based Word document format first introduced in Office 2007 and brings [...]

What is tethered shooting?. Tethered shooting is method hook up your DSLR camera to your Laptop/PC and take pictures, you are shooting tethered. You can either trigger the camera from your Laptop/PC or directly from the DSLR camera itself and then view the image on your computer screen. Depending on the camera, you can control [...]

This tutorial will learn a method how to login into Ubuntu 12.10 using USB flash drive. This can be accomplished by use of PAMUSB (Pluggable Authentication Modules USB) and some sort of USB storage device such as USB memory stick, mobile phone with SD card attached. It is compatible with many display managers ((LightDM, GDM, MDM [...]

The New MDM 1.0.6 (Mint Display Manager) available for ubuntu 12.10/12.04 based distribution. MDM 1.06 is default display manager for Linux Mint 14. MDM 1.0.6 is a new Display Manager developed with code is based on GNOME Display Manager 2.20. It provides UI (User Interface) configuration tools, themeability, remote, automatic and timed login, event scripting, language selection [...]

GNOME Shell 3.6 allows users to be displayed notifications in the lock screen. By default, Gnome Shell 3.6 disabled feature the lock screen notifications due to privacy concerns. The lock screen plays much the same role as a screensaver – it is what is displayed when your device is idle. The difference between the lock screen and [...]

DockBarX is an app launcher or switcher that works as a GNOME2 panel applet, Avant Window Navigator applet or as a stand-alone dock. The new DockBarX 0.90.3 has been released come with the stand-alone dock supports applets, included applets, Cardapio menu and also work in MATE Desktop panel applet. With DockBarX, give every appearance of the Windows 7 [...]

For many years, Thunderbird is my default mail client in Ubuntu. The truth is that I’ve tried other options, which, especially in low resource teams, Thunderbird consumes too, and I’ve tried to find an alternative, but none convince me. For some time, I think Ubuntu in particular lacks a simple email client, while powerful, and with [...]