Epidermis-Manager Gnome Desktop themes with one Click

Epidermis is a GUI tool to easy manage Gnome themes.I just install Mac themes to make my Ubuntu 10.04 looks Mac OX with Epidermis.Unfortunately,it doesn’t install the dock and remove the default gnome panels.
Epidermis changes the appearance of your GNOME desktop in all its aspects in one click. Epidermis ’skins’ change the appearance of your [...]

Easy Backup and Recovery Ubuntu with Redobackup (GUI)

Redo Backup and Recovery is a free and easy-use,most complete disaster recovery solution available.”It allows bare-metal restore, which means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.”
Don’t worry about that you cannot boot [...]

Fix Ubuntu sudo Error:unable to resolve host

Problem:
when you’re running commands with sudo at beginning.It outputs “sudo:unable to resolve host Lily-desktop”(here assume current host-name is Lily-desktop),however the commands work as well as before.
This always happens after host-name changed.After change host-name by edit /etc/hostname,we also need to do a change in /etc/hosts file.
Solve:
Edit /etc/hosts:
gksudo gedit /etc/hosts
make it looks like (change boldfaced words to [...]

How to easy Install Songbird Media Player for Linux in Ubuntu

Songbird is a very popular music player.For Songbird big fans,we are sure to install this desktop web player in our Ubuntu system.
Now,it’s not necessary to do any annoying command line things to install Songbird in Ubuntu.Just download Songbird for Linux version from following link and double-click to install it.
Here is the Songbird Linux version:
Check [...]

Make DSL pppoe Automatically connect to internet after Ubuntu 10.04 Restart

I have been using sudo pppoeconf command to connect to web for a period of time in my Ubuntu 10.04 machine.
At the first time,I run following command in Applications->Accessories->Terminal:
sudo pppoeconf
to set the username and password,and then it connects to the web server.
But after reboot the machine,sudo pon dsl-provider doesn’t work,I need to type the original [...]

Fix Network connection icon disappear on top-right panel

Sometimes I miss the Network Connection icon on my top-right panel.This is annoying if you get in this trouble too.Here is an easy way I just found to fix this problem.
Open up a terminal window (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) to run commands.
First,navigate to /etc/NetworkManager/ directory by this command:
cd /etc/NetworkManager/
Then,edit nm-system-settings.conf file:
sudo gedit nm-system-settings.conf
change “managed=false” into “managed=true” and save [...]

How to play Zaz game (space balls) in Ubuntu

Zaz is a puzzle game where the player has to arrange balls in triplets.
Install Zaz in Ubuntu
Zaz can be installed from webupd8,just open up a terminal window and run following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install zaz
Start playing Zaz
Start Zaz at Applications->Games->Zaz,click Options to choose your language,resolution,music volume,etc.

Cick Apply and then start game:

Choose Top-mirror (apt download source) from Ubuntu-Night for Ubuntu

UbuntuNight is a website of service platform co-established by Ubuntu fans from all over the world,which providing all available mirrors sorted by three Top-mirrors:
Top-fast is based on average download speed.
Top-near is by your geographical position(normally close to your country)
Top-stable is by download speed variance statics.
By now,the top-mirror only supports Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).
You can [...]

Howto install latest F-Spot Photo Manager in Ubuntu (from PPA)

F-Spot is the default Photo Manager in Ubuntu Gnome,but it will be replaced with Shotwell in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat.If you would like to use this default Photo Manager,you can add its PPA into your repository and keep updating it.
Currently the latest F-Spot is the version 0.7.1.ppa:f-spot/f-spot-ppa had added the package for Ubuntu 10.04.I think [...]

Install MIB-Ubuntu Plymouth theme in Ubuntu

I have written a simple tutorial about how to change Plymouth splash screen in Ubuntu.However,there are only few themes in the default repository.
MIB-Ubuntu Plymouth theme is a beautiful theme based on Mandriva 2010.1 plymouth theme.

MIB-Ubuntu can be download at the right of this page : MIB-Ubuntu-Plymouth-Themes-170195920
Then,we can follow these steps to install and apply the [...]