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GRUB 2

Many duel boot system users might have faced this issue. Crashing  of windows OS is most likely to happen. Some time due to virus attack or some time due to improper shutdown of system.

When you try to restore it, you will lose boot loader. This happens because windows used to rewrite the master boot record. Need not be panic, its easy to restore your GRUB with some simple steps.

Chinmoy Kanjilal has written a simple step by step tutorial in techie-buzz.com which describe restoring GRUB.

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Emesene MSN Client

Emesene is an open source MSN messenger client. The Emesene development team is trying to replicate the functions of the official Windows Live client in a simpler, cleaner and easier to use interface.

Emesene is a cross platform client which works well with Ubuntu and Windows. It is written using Python, GTK+, PyGTK and Pycairo.

Official Windows Live Messenger features supported by the client are:
*Offline messaging
*Personal messages
*’Now Playing’ personal messages
*Nudges
*Contact list retrieval from server
*Nickname retrieval from server
*Tabbed chat windows
*File transfer
*Webcam support (still in development)
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Optimizing Websites

Internet is very much popular in these days. And of course it will go on increasing in the coming days. As the internet usage increases, more and more people will start building their own websites.

But most of them are not aware of the optimization techniques that must be used for  delivering good performance. They simply make a website and start adding  contents, But they give least attention for optimizing.

It is said that, a web site which take more than 5 seconds to load will be continuously losing visitors as none is ready to wait for anything in this fast lifestyle.

devmoose.com have published 10 simple techniques to optimize your website. Applying these techniques will not cost you much time, but give  much improved performance for your website.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0

A new version of Ubuntu Tweak (Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0) has been released with drastic improvement from the previous versions. The latest version has changes in sidebar and title bar and also can sync data over the internet.

Ubuntu Tweak is a small piece of software which enable even an ordinary computer user to tweak their Ubuntu desktop. It also provide an application center when you can install new software as well as add third party software sources.

Using Ubuntu Tweak you can tweak your ubuntu desktop graphically which are only possible by editing config files in default ubuntu installation.

Ubuntu Tweak features

*  View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)
* GNOME Session Control

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KDE GNOME

Plasma desktop is one of the main attractions in KDE 4 series. It enabled KDE comparable to any other Windows or Mac OSX interface in terms of beauty. But only a small percentage of  Ubuntu users use KDE . There are many reasons for that.

Though KDE is beautiful, its not that much easy or straight forward  as GNOME. KDE is fairly complex for absolutely new users.

Most of the ubuntu’s developments are primarily targeting GNOME. So people think that to get full support from Ubuntu, they should use GNOME.

And  of course some people are not using KDE just because it resembles Windows. They terribly hate Windows.

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Linux Terminal

For a long time, Linux is known as operating system for servers and techie people. The scenario has changes a lot. Now Linux has a nice GUI, lots of quality applications that make it a viable alternative to Windows or Mac OSX.

But Linux’s desktop market share is still a tiny percentage comparing to Windows. But it really shines in Server space.

Unlike windows server version, Linux servers does not carry a GUI by default. You can install GUI for Linux server, but it not encouraged as it will be a wastage of resources. Moreover, after the server is up and running, there is no need of a GUI.

Linux amins usually depend mainly on command line interface which is more robust and useful. The only problem is the initial learning curve.

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Windows 7 '2010' Theme

To install the 2010 theme for Windows 7, double click on the downloaded .theme file.

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Nexuiz

Nexuiz is one of the most popular First Person Shooter game for Ubuntu. Its an open source and freely available for Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OSX.  Nexuiz emerged after the open-sourcing of the Quake 3 engine.  It is developed by Alientrap.

The 2.5 series bring many improvements, featuring new graphics, new maps and an even faster game play. The latest version is 2.5.2, a bug-fix release to the stable 2.5 release.

TuxArena has published a full review of the latest release Nexuiz 2.5.2

You can read the full review from HERE

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Linux Games

Ubuntu is a very good operating system in all respects.  But in the case computer games, Ubuntu is not comparable with Windows (Mac OSX have the same problem). The reason is most of the high end Game developers are not ready to port it’s windows version to Ubuntu or Mac OSX.

But Ubuntu still have some good open source games. I am not telling about high end games. Some small interesting games

TuxArena have published a review about 3 interesting open source games

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Windows Media Center

Microsoft have revealed it’s new operating system Windows 7 a few months back. Since then computer users and media have been discussing about it.

The importance of multimedia capabilities are increasing in modern era of operating systems. Definitely windows have given great attention in improving multimedia components of Windows 7.

Jayesh Limaye have written a detailed review in Techtree.com about the improvements of Windows 7 multimedia components.

The review covers the following areas.

* WMC desktop gadget
* New Internet TV
* Better and detailed Guide information
* Music cover art background display
* Revamped Pictures Browser
* Slide show creator
* Gaming via WMC

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