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Ubun2.com

Ubuntu, the most popular linux distribution, is about to reach 13 million users. Unlike the other distributions, the number of non techie computer users come to ubuntu world is considerably high. Most of the non – techie people are not familiar with forums. Unfortunately Ubuntu’s main support is given through forums. It would be better if there is a place which is very much like Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow. People love to use such services.

Ubun2.com is such a start up which is inspired by Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow.
“Ubun2.com is a web 2.0 style question and answers service for people to discover and share ubuntu (linux based operating system) knowledge with the world.

Inspired by the popularity of Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow and popular forums we thought ubuntu deserves a reliable and dedicated web 2.0 resource for sharing solutions to problems.”

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qBittorrent

qBittorrent is a multi platform easy to use  BitTorrent client. The project was started in March 2006. qBittorrent creators  claim  that qBittorrent V2  is the closest equivalent for µtorrent. Its available for Both Ubuntu and Mac OSX.

New version qBittorrent v2.0.0 was released on Dec 10th 2009 and 3 days later there was bug fix release v2.0.1

qBittorrent project has won Les étoiles du libre Free Software competition, in desktop applications. The project is very live and feature rich.

qBittorrent V2 features

• Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
• Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
  • Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
  • Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
• All Bittorrent extensions
  • DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet URI, …
• Remote control through a Web user interface
  • Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
• Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
  • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
  • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
• UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
• Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
• µTorrent spoofing to bypass private trackers whitelisting
• Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
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Google Chrome developers announced the availability of Google Chrome 4.0 Beta for Linux. For a long time, only a development version was available for Linux platform. Now Google Chrome is available for download at Chrome official site.
Chrome Beta is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. Binary packages are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE operating systems. Also repository for updates is available for Ubuntu family.

Google Chrome 4 Beta - Ubuntu 9.10 (Image from Softpedia)

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Ubuntu has shows huge improvements in many areas. But in one area it still lack many features. Multimedia. Ubuntu’s preloaded media players (Rhythmbox and Totem) does not even carry an equalizer. This topic has been raised many time in Ubuntu brain storm. But Rhythmbox and Totem developers does not show any interest in implementing one.

Here is a small script which enable you to use a system wide equalizer which can control all the sound producing application. Its works with Pulseaudio. There is no need to restart any running application for this equalizer to come to effect.

System wide Puseaudio Equalizer

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As far as an ordinary computer user is concerned, The main thing that impress him is the user interface. Mac OSX and Windows have succeeded in it up to some extend. But Ubuntu is still lacking something that attract an ordinary user.

Here I am posting 3 videos which shows how beautifully some one can make an Ubuntu desktop looks like Windows Xp, Windows 7 and Mac OSX

Ubuntu looks like Windows Xp

Most probably Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be shipping with a new theme called Ubuntu Sun. Ubuntu Sun package come with 3 themes. one dark theme and two bright themes. Its still actively under development. You can download and install UbuntuSun-V1 from HERE. Here is some screen shots of Ubuntu Sun theme installed in Karmic Koala

Ubuntu Sun

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Google Wave have started creating waves among internet users. In this scenario Aleksandar Radovic have created a Wave inspired GTK theme for Ubuntu. This theme have been uploaded at GNOME-LOOK.ORG.  Make a look at some screen shots available at Gnome-Look.org. Its really a cool and awesome theme that enhance your computing experience. I hope in the coming days ubuntu will provide some good eye candy themes bye default.

Wave Theme for Ubuntu

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Bisigi Project is an open source project which aim at creating some eye candy themes for GNOME desktop environment. They have developed several themes that give an enhanced look and feel for Ubuntu desktop.
Theme pack contains wallpaper, GTK theme, Metacity theme and icon packs.
For installing Bisigi themes in ubuntu, you need to add Bisigi Project PPA repository. Detailed instructions for adding PPA repository in Ubuntu is available Read the rest of this entry →

OpenOffice.org 3 is the default office application in Ubuntu 9.04. Its a very good office application which is comparable to Microsoft office. In default installation of Ubuntu 9.04, there is a chance of spell and grammar check not been enabled. So it become very difficult for some users to draft official letters without serious spelling errors.
In MS word application, spell check is enabled by default. So users try to migrate to OpenOffice.org and Ubuntu platforms my become panic as most of the common computer users like to stick with the default installation and not at all interested in browsing through the application options. Read the rest of this entry →