Many casual bloggers using WordPress tend to use a theme with minimalistic design. This is mainly because their content doesn’t require flashy looks. For instance, a programming blog doesn’t require a flashy design. It doesn’t even impress the visitor if the theme is more jazzy than detailed. So it is always better to keep elements as minimalistic as possible to get more attention on the main content. These minimalistic themes not just make your blog look simple and better, but also saves lot of bandwidth since it uses very less images and scripts.

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Here are 10 coolest WordPress theme with minimalistic design:

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As explained earlier about the basics of Google Webmaster tools over here, Google Webmaster tool is a great online tool for any webmaster with deep interest in SEO for enhancing the visibility of site on the search results. Now that you have read the introduction to Google Webmaster Tools, now it’s time to get started with it and start using it. Before you get to see and do stuffs over there, you must add your website and get it verified. So this short tutorial will teach you how to add a site to Google Webmaster Tools.

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As everyone knows, WordPress is the god of blogging platforms, it lets you do many things which others can’t do. Image Caption feature was introduced in WordPress 2.6 and it comes really handy when you want to put a small description or a title of the image that you are using. This is just one among the countless features that wordpress has managed to include into it’s CMS. Sometimes, an image without a background and border might look beautiful, but not when you add a caption to it. So this tutorial teaches you about how to add a good looking background and border to your captioned images.

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 systems. If you wish to directly go to the examples click here, or read through a little theory first and then head to the examples.

After a very successful post on 7 Cool Facebook Icons, here we present 7 more even cooler Facebook icons for you.

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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 executable file. We have permissions. Each file has 3 permissions – read, write and execute. All files marked as executable files can be executed provided they have a certain logical structure.

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.

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 much, and it seems many people are complaining against it saying that the move to have the buttons at the left hand side (close, maximize, minimize) like we have in Apple OS was a bad one. People find the sudden shift hard to come to terms with.