Here is some things to make your Ubuntu more enjoyable and fun to work on. Firstly, change your purple background to something personlized, seriosly I don’t know what ubuntu is thinking with that default purple background. Remember to install your hardware driver for your GFX card. This allows you to use the “extra” option under [...]
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Y PPA Manager, Easy PPA Management
January 13th, 2011 
Here is a great tool for managing, searching and adding PPA repositries to your Ubuntu/Debian system. The current version is on 0.0.4 with a added feature of “Deep Search”. It works by searching launchpad for the queries, and return the Package name, version and PPA description. See link for more.
Synapse Launcher for Linux
January 12th, 2011 Want a quick way to access recent documents/programs/links and launch a variaty of programs with ease, Synapse is for you. Easy to use, fast and you can set hotkeys to launch it.Once installed, it sits and wait for you to call it up. When the program launches, you can just start typing, and it will [...]
Complete how to setup Thunderbird 3.1.X for Exchange 2007 guide
January 12th, 2011 admin Here is a how to setup your Thunderbird installation with Exchange server 2003/2007. Not every Exchange server is setup the same, so please check with your administrator if your stuck on a step. Download/Install a copy of Thunderbird here. (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install thunderbird) Install Thunderbird Lightning addon to make your Calendar work. This is [...]
Usefull Chromuim plugin for Ubuntu/Debian
January 11th, 2011 This plugin allows your browser to change word phrases like ” sudo apt-get install chromuim-browser” into a clickable link which makes things very easy when browsing a lot of forums or news sites like omgubuntu.co.uk Check it out here
Ubuntu apt-get update “Sub-process /bin/bzip2 returned an error code (2)” 01/10/2011
January 10th, 2011 If you are receiving the above mentioned error. Don’t worry, your connection/proxy/installation isn’t experiencing problems. It’s actually Ubuntu’s package that got corrupted and replicated to all the repositories. Wait a few hours and all should get fixed.
Teamviewer, remote desktop
January 7th, 2011 I discovered Teamviewer 6 the other day, and I was quite impressed. If you familiar with Hamachi, this is very similar. It allows you to remote desktop to a computer with the application installed on it, and give support/assistance or help out a friend, or whatever you choose. You can remote from your Android device [...]
Windows 7 snipping tool in linux
January 7th, 2011 Want to take screen shots of certain area’s in Linux. Here is a great tool for the job. It’s called “shutter”. It patiently sits and wait in the panel (gnome) right click it, and select “Selection+” You’re Selection will be automatically be ‘pasted’ in the program after you press Enter. From the menu you can [...]