by Jitto
Alfresco
Enterprise content management vendor Alfresco, has been certified to work on the Ubuntu stack. The company’s Enterprise Edition 3.3 is now certified on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server.
Ubuntu owner Canonical has been pushing the Linux distribution hard in the past few months so this move appears to support the growing acceptance of Ubuntu as an enterprise operating system. Read the rest of this entry →
by Jitto
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.
by Jitto
Shotwell is a simple photo organizer for GNOME desktop environment. It enables you to do basic photo manipulations of your personal photo collection. Yorba, a non-profit software group based on San Francisco, is the organization behind Shotwell. It incorporate a simple user interface. Shotwell is written in Vala.
Shotwell photo organizer (Image from Shotwell official site)
Shotwell provides a non-destructive way to tweak your photos. Instead of modifying the original photos, Shotwell stores all edits in a database and applies them on-the-fly as necessary. This means that you can easily undo all edits and even revert to original directly.
by Jitto
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
by Jitto
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
by Jitto
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 →
by Jitto
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 →
by Jitto
Google Chrome Browser
Initial release of Google’s new browser was only for Windows. Later they introduced Linux and Mac versions. But Linux and Mac versions are yet to come out of development stage.
Recent Linux versions of Google Chrome has the ability to play flash. After installing the development version in Ubuntu, Chrome add its repositories to the source list of Ubuntu so that you can update to future versions through Ubuntu Update manager. You can download latest development version of Google Chrome for Ubuntu from here. Just double click on the downloaded deb file to install on Ubuntu
Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU; 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32-bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work. Read the rest of this entry →
by Jitto
Ubuntu still uses Rhythmbox as the default music player though there are other alternatives like banshee. Most of the ordinary computer users like to stick with the default applications that bundled with the OS. And personally I like Rhythmbox.
For a long time, ubuntu user’s complaint was the lack of an graphic equalizer for Rhythmbox. Rhythmbox developers didn’t show any interest in implementing an equalizer for Rhythmbox. But there is a third part equalizer plugin for Rhythmbox. Its very easy for a normal user to enable equalizer for Rhythmbox. Read the rest of this entry →
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