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Elementary OS ‘Luna’ Review 16 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
Elementary OS is a GNU/Linux distribution (based on Ubuntu core) that has a desktop environment and a few major applications of its own. From a developer’s perspective, this gives them a lot of contro...
Crop PDF Pages in Ubuntu 13.04 using ‘krop’ 2 Aug 2013 | 11:52 am
If you have a mobile device with a small screen size, then while reading PDF files it might be necessary to crop out ‘unnecessary’ white space of the pages, as it can reduce the scrolling. If you use...
Track ‘Ubuntu Edge’ Crowdfunding Progress Easily with ‘Ubuntu Edge Indicator’ 25 Jul 2013 | 02:45 pm
If you are an Ubuntu user, then by now, you must have heard the news that Ubuntu has started a crowdfunded project for raising money for the upcoming Ubuntu Phone called ‘Ubuntu Edge’. So far the fun...
How to Install SMPlayer 0.8.5 on Fedora 19 ? 20 Jul 2013 | 12:16 pm
‘SMPlayer’ is a powerful multimedia player that is primarily based on MPLayer (as the playback ‘engine’) and has its user interface written using ‘Qt’. It might not be the most robust one out there, b...
‘Pimagizer’ is Minimalist Image Resizer for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 & 12.04 20 Jul 2013 | 11:58 am
‘Pimagizer’ is new image resizing utility for GNU/Linux. It has a minimalistic appearance thus you will not get a lot of options, but it has a unique way (somewhat) of arranging thumbnails of the load...
Latest Intel HD Graphics 3000 Driver Fixes ‘Hybrid Boot’ issue on ‘Vostro V131′ Notebook 18 Jul 2013 | 09:07 am
While it lasted, I really enjoyed the ‘hybrid boot’ feature of Windows 8 because it significantly improved the boot-up times of Windows 8 on my Dell Vostro V131 notebook. But as soon as I installed t...
Fedora 19 Review 7 Jul 2013 | 08:49 am
Fedora 19 ‘Schrödinger’s Cat’ got released few days ago, and since I have not reviewed Fedora on this blog (mainly because I did not have a lot of positive things to say about it), I decided to review...
Enhance Web Browsing Experience in Firefox with ‘betterFox’ 1 Jul 2013 | 03:50 am
‘betterFox’ is an add-on for the Firefox web browser that can enhance your web browsing, although that heavily depends on whether you use Google as your main search engine since most of its features a...
Install ‘Glances’ (system monitor) on Ubuntu 13.04 29 Jun 2013 | 02:41 am
As I have mentioned previously, ‘Glances’ is an awesome system monitor (command-line based) that lets you easily get a good overview of your GNU/Linux computer. It displays a lot of information, such...
Speed Up Linux Mint 15′s Boot-up Times by Disabling ‘Update Manager’ 21 Jun 2013 | 11:19 am
‘Linux Mint’ comes with an update manager of its own called ‘mintUpdate’. It is a very user friendly tool that helps you to keep your OS up-to-date with ease. It also has the ability to checks for upd...
