Using wget like a pro
Wget is a great tool to download files using Linux. There are certain… errr… occasions (Yeah, that’s it. You are right) when people want to download entire directories from websites and they are too lazy to go into each directory and download separate files. Fear not my friends, wget is here. You can use wget [...]
How to install EXE files on Ubuntu
The major problem new Linux users face is ‘how do I install XYZ.exe here?’, ‘Why can’t I run exe files?’. The question is phrased in many different ways, but the essence is always the same – how to install Windows applications on Linux machines? First, Linux machines do not have a fixed extension for any [...]
How to install and run Dreamweaver CS4 in Ubuntu
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 is one of the favorite tool of trade for many web designers and web programmers. Being a WYSIWYG editor, it offers a luxury that no other editor does and performs equally good. Since Dreamweaver CS4 is a windows based app, most users who move on to linux find it hard to make [...]
How to Create Hard and Symbolic Links in Ubuntu
Creating links is a useful options many times in certain situations. You can solve dependency issues, save some hard drive space and organize files in any whimsical way you wish to. Links in general are similar to shortcut files in Windows or Aliases in Mac OS. It’s very easy to implement the same in Linux [...]
Tweak your Ubuntu easily with Ubuntu Tweak
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 [...]
How to move window buttons back to right in Ubuntu 10.04
As the Ubuntu’s new tag line says “It’s time for a change.”, indeed a lot of change has been implemented to the operating system, applications and the interface. There are few which you will find it interesting and useful and while few others might annoy you because of a sudden change. I never liked Ubuntu [...]
Mondo Rescue – Disaster Recovery on Ubuntu
Have you ever faced a problem with your hard drive which almost (or actually) wiped out all your data? Or maybe your hard-drive got corrupted – in any case, there’s always a danger of losing important data. There is a way to recover from such disasters and that is to use tools which take snapshots [...]
Batch convert images using ImageMagick
ImageMagick provides one of the best command line image processing tools for Linux. With a support for almost a hundred different formats, ImageMagick can be used to compose, edit, process images in batch and also add text, draw various objects, superimpose them – there’s no end to the capabilities of ImageMagick. We will be going [...]
How to Automount NTFS Drives in Ubuntu
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 [...]
How to remove Gnome Keyring password in Ubuntu 10.04
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 [...]
