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 [...]

Google earth 6.2 released and way to install it in Ubuntu

google earth 6.2 ubuntu

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information application that allows you to travel the world virtually. Google earth 6.2 has been released with new improvement rendering imagery.  The installation process is simple you can just grab the deb file and install it in your desktop using GUI or terminal. After installation the crappy [...]

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 [...]

Install Upgrade LibreOffice 3.4.5 in Ubuntu 11.10 via PPA

libreoffice 3.4.5

Libra office 3.4.5 ppa is now available for ubuntu user. The latest version comes with huge amount of bugs fixed. All the bugs fixes information can be access from here. Minimum 256 MB is required in new version and 512 is recommended for best performances.  The more information about the system requirement of the new LibreOffice [...]

How to upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.10

kernel update

Ubuntu 11.10 by default has Linux Kernel 3.0. The Linux Kernel version 3.2 was released  weeks ago and comes with lots of bugs fixes and huge improvements like Ext4 supports block sizes up to 1MB, which decreases the time spent doing block allocations, upper limits of CPU time can now be set in the process [...]

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 [...]

8 cool terminal tricks you may not know about

installing bsd games

Linux terminal or the command line is very powerful. We spend most of our time in Linux terminal. You can simply give a command and produce your desired output. Also, there are various cool things you can do in your Linux terminal like watching movies, playing games, displaying your system information etc. There are also [...]