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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
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
Free Ubuntu Guide
Feb 6th
Share A very quick post. Although I don’t feel the need for a book to handle my Ubuntu but if anyone is interested in downloading a guide for Ubuntu, you can get it here. So if you ever face problems with Ubuntu this guide might come handy. Also, to learn and to get started with
Adding Facebook chat to pidgin: Pidgin-facebookchat plugin
Feb 5th
Share If you are on Linux (Ubuntu), I am sure you must have tried your hands on Pidgin, one of the most popular and powerful IM client. The beauty of this client is that it supports almost all the IM services like google talk and yahoo messenger. I am also sure that there are many
Tasque: A simple but powerful to-do list and task manager for Ubuntu
Jan 27th
Share To-do lists have become the norm today irrespective of what operating system you are using. And it’s a good reason to be organized when you that you spend so much time doing so many things in a day; courtesy Internet and Social Media paranoia. I was hit upon with Tasque, a simple desktop based
BareFTP: Not just another FTP client for Ubuntu 8.10
Jan 19th
Share Filezilla is the FTP client that comes to my mind when I think of an FTP whether it is Windows or whether is Ubuntu. Not to forget the import FireFTP extension. However, I thought I’ll try out something new on my Intrepid partition and hence I ended up on bareFTP. Well, as the name
Mounting and Unmounting ISO files in Ubuntu using Gmount-iso [Ubuntu How-to]
Jan 15th
Share I am not sure how many of you felt the need to mount an ISO disc on Ubuntu or similar debian based linux distros. I did and hence I explored to find that there are various ways to mount an ISO file on Ubuntu. But nothing will ever be able to beat a non-geeky,
How to upgrade to Jaunty Jackalope!
Jan 14th
Share With a 6 month release cycle of Ubuntu, the excitement never goes down. I remember not too long ago I installed Intrepid Ibex on my machine and right now I am using Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 2. I am also very excited about 15 Jan 2009 when the alpha 3 will be rolled out. The
How to install and run emerald window decorator in Ubuntu 8.10
Jan 11th
Share I know this looks very trivial, but I am sure a lot of you would be facing the issue of installing emerald and switching it to your default window decorator. By default in Ubuntu GTK Window Decorator is the Window Decorator. However, there is a very good, funky and transparent option available in the
Ubuntu 8.10: Upgrading from OpenOffice 2.4 to OpenOffice 3 in 2 easy steps
Jan 7th
Share I am sure there is a reason for Ubuntu 8.10 not coming pre packed with OpenOffice 3. However, if you do not know the reason, in most cases ignorance can lead to a post like this one. We’ll see how to upgrade the current version of OpenOffice which is 2.4 in Ubuntu 8.10 to
