Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide. At present, it’s only designed for the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and always follows the newest Ubuntu distribution. It is really an easy to use utility with easy access to all the required settings needed to tweak your Ubuntu desktop. In other words, this will bring in all the settings and options required to tweak your Ubuntu under one single program.

It’s been about a week since Google finally set it’s new beta interface as its new default interface. Although this new facelift comes along with a host of new features like sidebar with options to refine your search and other stuffs, there are few people who still like the classic Google interface rather than the elegant new looks.

So how to access the good old Google Search?

Many times you might come across a situation where you may have to share your documents online with your friends, website visitors or in an forum. Sending the document via email might work for only those who are on your contacts, but will not help when you want to share it with the rest of the world. Alternatively, you can even upload the document on your blog or website to share it with others. But if you have limited bandwidth, this could be an bad idea.

The best thing about Ubuntu linux is it’s ability to read and write data on a Windows based NTFS partitions. This has been defaulted ever since the release of Ubuntu 8.04 with inbuilt support for NTFS read and write. And if you have Ubuntu installed as a multiboot along with a windows installation, it is must to have NTFS drive with read/write support enabled to access data easily.

Though there is support for NTFS drives, they doesn’t get mounted automatically during the startup. You either need to mount it from Disk Utility or by just opening the drive. So to over come this issue and get your NTFS drives auto-mounted during the startup, you must install “NTFS Configuration Tool.”

Gnome Keyring is a small utility to authorize applications before opening them. But sometimes it feels really annoying when it starts to prompt to enter keyring password every time when you open some application. So this small tutorial teaches you eliminate the need of entering keyring password over and over again.

This method will work both for keyring with a password being set at some point of time by you and as well as default password being set without your knowledge. Follow the steps:

Finally after a long wait and 5 days of delay, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (LTS) is released officially by Canonical today. It was scheduled to be released on April 24th but was delayed due to some bug issues. However it has been fixed and is available for download. About 45 minutes before it’s official release, the link download page was leaked on #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode.

Ubuntu 10.04 boosts a whole lot of new features and design. The new look sports a dark theme, and is much better than earlier Human theme. Under the hood, Ubuntu 10.04 release is based on 2.6.32 Linux kernel and has X.org 7.5 with X Server 1.7 and the latest GNOME 2.30 desktop environment.

Soon after seeing the Ubuntu’s Facebook status update, I headed over to #ubuntu-release-party IRC channel on freenode. It was really crowded over there with 1300+ users online in a single room.

Just after few minutes, there were links being pasted by people. And they had kept their eyes so wide open, they had tracked each and every changes on Ubuntu’s download pages. So they finally managed to get the download links before it is being announced officially!

So get it while it’s hot over here.

Recently, I tweeted about Bing’s image search result page for mobile phones. If you have ever searched for images on Bing from your mobile device, you might probably have liked it. Because of the way how thumbnails are being arranged in the result page, it makes Bing to stand out from other search engines. Bing uses some technology known as ‘Seadragon’ to achieve that output.

Taking a cue from Bing’s image search, Google has now come up with a shiny new Image search result page for iPhone 3.0 and Andriod 2.1 devices. Google’s new image search result page not only arrange thumbnails in perfect rows and columns, but also responds to your touch inputs like swiping to see next image and taping the screen to see next result page.

Web Page redirection is used to redirect your web traffic to any page or website you need to. That will ensure that you won’t lose any traffic after you make some changes on your site’s link structure.

Why 301 Redirect?
301 Redirection is used to redirect your web page permanently. This is one of the best way to redirect a page which will ensure that you do not lose any traffic and page rankings. 301 redirection can be setup easily using .htaccess file.

System Monitoring is one of the key factor to keep an eye on what’s really happening behind the scenes in your operating system. People who are very much interested in the system performance and optimization often tend to check the resource usage of various applications, components and other system related processes.

There are many ways to monitor these processes. On a personal computer running Linux with GUI environment, there are quite a lot of apps and programs tailored exactly to do this job. Many Linux distributions will have one inbuilt as well. But there are few scenarios where you wont be able to get the luxury of GUI, so you will entirely have to depend on CLI or the Command Line Interface. SSH is one good example for this, where you can connect to remote computer and operate it with commands.