Volume icons disappear from Ubuntu Places menu & Nautilus sidebar

Published in February 28th, 2011

The Windows partitions were not showing up under Places menu and Nautilus browser’s sidebar days ago in my Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. And when I plugged i[......]

VYM – A mind mapping tool for Ubuntu Linux

Published in February 27th, 2011

Posted by Meilin in General

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Vym is a mind mapping program. It is useful to organize thoughts and do structure work. In addition to that it has a lot of helpful shortcuts.

A mi[......]

Install latest stable xmbc Media Center in Ubuntu from PPA

Published in February 27th, 2011

Posted by Meilin in Internet

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XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, W[......]

Install free and open source photo processor Photivo in Ubuntu

Published in February 25th, 2011

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Photivo is a free and open source photo processor. It handles your RAW files as well as your bitmap files in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe[......]

How to Clear Login History and Command History in Ubuntu Linux

Published in February 24th, 2011

Posted by Meilin in Security

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In Linux, there’s a last command that lists successful login/logout history with user-name, date, ip, and so forth. There’s also a lastb command that[......]

Filelight – Shows Graphical Ubuntu Disk Usage information in directory

Published in February 23rd, 2011

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Filelight allows you to understand your disk usage by graphically representing your filesystem as a set of concentric, segmented rings.
It is like a[......]

Touchpad Indicator update with Auto-Disable touchpad when mouse plugged

Published in February 22nd, 2011

Posted by Meilin in General

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I had written about this small applet that shows touchpad status and provides quickly enable and disable touchpad functionality in Ubuntu laptop and n[......]

RhythmCat – A Linux only music player with lyric show&plugin support

Published in February 21st, 2011

Posted by Meilin in General, Internet

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RhythmCat is a music player which can be running under Linux. It can be used as a normal music player, and it can also show lyrics in the player windo[......]

Fix Gnome Mouse Cursor Theme Change Back to Default in Opera

Published in February 20th, 2011

Posted by Meilin in General

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I installed new mouse cursor in my Ubuntu 10.10 and it worked fine, but when I hover in Opera web browser the cursor changes back to default. I found[......]