Easy Way to Checking Hard Drive for Bad Sectors and Errors in Ubuntu
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...
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LibreOffice 4.0 Stable Version Available for Download
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...
Easy Way to Control your DSLR Camera using USB Tethered Shooting on Ubuntu
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...
How to Login into Ubuntu 12.10 Using USB Flash Drive
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...
Mint Display Manager (MDM)1.0.6 Available For Ubuntu 12.10/12.04
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...
Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtails Daily Builds Ready for Download
Ubuntu 13.04 with codename “raring ringtails” daily builds ISO image are now available for download. These are early development builds not recommended for production systems. The ISO images available for 32-bit, 64-bit, amd64+mac, PowerPC and Armhf...
How to Show Gnome Shell 3.6 Notifications in the Lock Screen
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...
DockBarX: App Launcer Like Windows 7 Taskbar in Ubuntu Based Distro
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,...
Install New BeatBox 0.7 Music Player in Ubuntu 12.10
The new BeatBox music player released in version 0.7, come with new user interface enhancements and new features. The preferences window has been revamped to include preferences for plugins as well as a more robust...
Testing Geary 0.2 in Ubuntu 12.10, a Lightweight eMail Client
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,...
