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Finally Linux get Spotify: Install Spotify on Ubuntu
Jul 12th
Share Spotify is now available for Linux. We did a quick post on how to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 on our Linux Blog. It’s still not available for free users and only premium users can use it. The reason being the fact that spotify developers haven’t still integrated mechanism for ads to run. Read
OSD Lyrics brings floating lyrics to Linux
Jun 6th
Share 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 by allowing you to download lyrics. More over it supports a large number of
DownloadHelper: A nifty Firefox addon for downloading Audio and Video from a website
May 12th
Share Download Helper is a nifty addon to download any video/audio/image that you may be viewing on a website. After installing the addon you get a small three balled icon in your toolbar. The icon becomes animated if there is some content available for download on a website. You can click on ‘down arrow’ right
Top 5 Twitter Clients for Linux
Dec 17th
Share Twitter is definitely come up in a huge way and boasts of most number of users in the social media segment. Most of the users out of them do not use twitter from the original website of twitter. They use twitter clients made for their specific OS be it through computer or different OS
Differentiate between spammers and real followers on Twitter
Sep 26th
Share Twitter is fast becoming one of the most popular networking and micro blogging site on the internet. As a user of the same you also must have seen a multifold increase in the number of followers you have on it But how many of them are genuine users ? TwitBlock provides a way of
Installing Restricted Hardware (Graphic) Drivers on Ubuntu (Jaunty): How-To
Jun 17th
Share The 3D cube brought about a new revolution in Linux. Frankly, the eye candy effects have come off ages and actually are far more advanced and better than that of Windows. In order to get compiz running on your Jaunty (Ubuntu) machine, you’ll need to first enable the visual effects and in order to
Installing free BitDefender Anti-Virus on Ubuntu 9.04
Mar 30th
Share In most cases you won’t need an Anti-Virus for your Linux machine. But it’s always safe than to be sorry and hence getting some protection is never a bad idea. Today we’ll see how to install BitDefender Anti-Virus on Ubuntu machine (Jaunty Jackalope). The best part is it’s free for personal use and comes
Free AVG Anti-Virus for Ubuntu
Mar 25th
Share One of the reason apart from other 1000 for me to use Linux is that I don’t have to worry about installing an Anti-Virus. Not that it’s totally protected from viruses but if you are smart you wont end up getting one. Just don’t do things with super user priveleges unless you know what
Social Brainstorming and MindMapping using XMind in Ubuntu
Mar 24th
Share Being a student and in research, I have always tried to use technology for making a point and this statement is used with literal connotation. One of my favorite way of engaging an audience is to use mindmaps. In this tutorial we’ll see how to get an open source software for mindmapping. Xmind is
Google Chrome Alpha on Ubuntu: A step by step installation guide!
Mar 24th
Share I use chrome for general purpose browsing on Windows. I mean seriously I don’t see it as a complete browser at least for someone like me who can’t live without extensions. As a result of which my favorite is still Firefox. However, I cannot ignore the utility of this browser. We are going to
Shutter: Best screenshot application for Linux
Mar 17th
Share It’s been a while I blogged because few things have kept me busy. I plan to get back to blogging on a regular basis. Up untill now I was using ksnapshot for screenshots in Ubuntu and I was pretty satisfied with it. Because it’s a KDE based application I was not too happy using
Unix time will be 1234567890 on 13 Feb 2009
Feb 10th
Share Was reading a post and thought it’s worth sharing on the blog. On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:31:30pm UTC Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890. Unix time (POSIX time) is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not
