Install Firefox 13 alpha 2 via ppa in Ubuntu

firefox 13 alpha 2 ubuntu

Firefox 13 alpha 2 ppa is now available for Ubuntu users. The Ubuntu user including Ubuntu 12.04 can simply install and test it in their system  with ppa. Since you are using the alpha version minor crash are likely to be happen. I suggest you not to use it for your daily browsing activities. Don’t forget to [...]

How to enable advance file permission in Ubuntu Linux

Advance file permission linux

Enabling advance file permission in Ubuntu or other Linux distribution helps you to set a privillege to the different users based on the orginal UNIX permission model(rwxr xr r). It is not enable by default in Ubuntu. You can use  Chmod command which will help to change the file or directory permission but incase for [...]

How to convert .rpm file into .deb and install it in Linux

package converted

There are lots of software available in Linux which can be installed using Terminal or can be manually installed by downloading the file. There are many Linux distributions available. The main difference between each Linux Distribution is the package manager they use. For example: Fedora uses .rpm(RedHat Package Manager) whereas Ubuntu uses .deb(Debian) package manager. In [...]

How to install firefox 10 in Ubuntu via ppa

Firefox 10 ppa

Mozilla has launched the latest version of firefox yesterday. The new version comes with several improvement.  Firefox 10 adds support for the fullscreen API. This can be used for not only video, but games, or even other HTML based apps, such as presentation slides as well. Another exiciting features is CSS 3D transforms, a major CSS3 [...]

Webilder: Download image from flickr webshot and use it as wallpaper

webilder

Webilder is the stunning application that will deliver wonderful wallpaper to your Linux from Flickr, webshots and your local folders. The image can be automatically obtain when user specify certain keyword tag like(cars, bike). Webilder automatically download the wallpaper based on the tag and display as wallpaper on your desktop. Furthermore the application automatically change [...]

How to reset your forgotten password in Ubuntu

recovery mode in Ubuntu

Password can be reset in the Ubuntu very easily using the recovery mode. I have seen many people who are rebooting or reinstalling the entire system after they forgot their Ubuntu password. You don’t have to reinstall your entire system just because you forgot your password. There are various ways to reset the password. I [...]

How to create your own startup files in Linux

opening startup file using nano

Startup file is something that is started whenever the operating system starts. For example: For a login,  /bin/login file is used and the password is read and matched by reading the /etc/passwd file. These both files are also the startup files. See, there are bunch of startup files in Linux and each files have their [...]