Now you can easily and effortlessly use Firefox and Keepass in perfect harmony. Keepass, one of the most trusted password management application available on Linux. Keepass is a powerful and feature packed password management utility. Up until now Firefox and Keepass integration has been a simply auto fill that Keepass performs, which in most cases reduces the brilliant application’s easy of use! read more… »
Keepass and Firefox Integration
Installing Your PIXMA MP250 Printer/Scanner on Ubuntu
The Canon PIXMA MP250 is a wonderful scanner and printer combination, a printer that is compact, elegant and produces high quality prints. Unfortunately printing and scanning is not natively supported by Ubuntu. Fortunately the drivers for printing and scanning are available in deb format. With a few installations and configurations, full functionality of the printer/scanner can be achieved in Ubuntu read more… »
Easily Install OpenOffice.org 3.2 On Your Ubuntu PC
OpenOffice.Org version 3.2 was recently released and includes some great updated features. Unfortunately this release of OpenOffice.Org has not yet made it into the official Ubuntu repositories. however it is still possible to upgrade to the latest version on OpenOffice.Org with a little extra trickery. Note: The OpenOffice.Org version included in Ubuntu differs slightly to that of the standard release, mainly in terms of theming and branding. The version that is documented in this post is the standard OpenOffice.org release. read more… »
Ubuntu Interface Tweaks
Linux and specifically Ubuntu is almost infinitely customizable, true to it’s GPL nature, it gives you full freedom to truly make your operating system yours. The graphic interface tools available on Ubuntu provide quite a fine grained ability to customize almost every facet of your graphical interface. However there are a few extra tweaks that can only be done by digging into the systems setting. read more… »
Easily Back Up Your Data With Mirrordir
Mirrordir is a light weight yet powerful command line based back up utility. It supports many options such as checking file modification time stamps to determine which files it should replace or not. The best way to use this utility to quickly back up your data would be to probably create an executable bash script (series of terminal commands) read more… »
How To Use Your Lexmark x1200 On Your Ubuntu Computer
The Lexmark x1200 is decently priced all in one printer, copier and scanner, however when it comes to use it with your Ubuntu PC it could prove to be a nightmare, as unfortunately Ubuntu’s kernel doesn’t quite support printing for this machine. While Xsane connects merrily and scans with no fuss or additional configuration, printing off this machine does require some elbow grease. read more… »
Get Gnome 3 on your Desktop Now
Gnome 3, is a complete Linux user interface evolution. Gnome 3 is a completely revamped user interface, a major change from the current Gnome shell which includes panels. The next generation of the Gnome desktop has done away with panels and introduced an activities menu which in essence is an intelligent user menu that houses the application menu’s, recent documents and system settings, further more it has integrated the multi desktop view that most Compiz users are accustomed to. read more… »
Create an Offline Dictionary with Gnome Dictionary
Gnome Dictionary, a useful office application included by default in the Ubuntu distribution, as an application for defining words by connecting to an online dictionary database. Creating an offline dictionary database is quite simple, which will be mighty useful for those who don’t enjoy always on internet. read more… »
Moovida, A Media Centre for Ubuntu
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Getting Skype On Your Ubuntu Computer
Skype is undoubtedly a world leader in internet telephony. Skype offers free Skype to Skype calls and also has the ability to call out to standard phones, around the world. Installing and using Skype on your Ubuntu machine is no longer a hassle as Skype has being putting effort into their Linux version of their Internet softphone.
