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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu One Files App for iOS and now it is available to download for free from the Apple App Store. Ubuntu One Files for iOS lets you easily access, sync and share files on your Ubuntu One account from your iOS devices. Similarly, you can use Ubuntu One Files for [...]
G Alternatives (Alternatives Configurator) is the graphical front-end for update-alternatives program that allows users to update the /etc/alternatives files in order to set the default commands and applications for various tasks. In Ubuntu, we have serveral applications to perform similar tasks. For example, Firefox web browser , Chromium web browser, Epiphany web browser and so on [...]
Spotify Scope is another music scope for Unity Music Lens which adds Spotify as a resource to Unity Music lens and lets you search spotify songs and their albums in the lens. On clicking the spotify songs, they are played in native Spotify Linux client. When you use Spotify Scope, the songs from Spotify are [...]
This tutorial will teach you how to add Create Launcher command to the right click context menu in Ubuntu 11.10 using Nautilus Actions. In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, we cannot create desktop shortcuts or launchers to our favorite applications from right click context menu like in former Ubuntu versions. So, we have to apply alternative methods to [...]
Unity YouTube Lens is a unity lens that allows you to search millions of videos in YouTube in Unity Dash. On clicking the video search results, they are opened in VLC media player giving you the browser free and flash free video playback. This unity lens by Ataraeo is a set of a YouTube scope and [...]
Unity Binary Clock lens is a unity lens that displays the time in Unity Dash in binary format using orange and what are technically aubergine dots. You can install Unity Binary Clock lens in Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 by running following commands in the terminal. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markjtully/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install unity-binaryclock-lens [...]
qshutdown is a Qt program that lets you schedule your Ubuntu computer to shutdown, reboot, suspend and even hibernate automatically at a fixed time or after a certain duration of time. qshutdown has a very easy to use GUI interface and your Ubuntu computer can be easily automated to shutdown, reboot, suspend and hibernate using [...]
DevTodo is a hierarchical task manager for maintaining the lists of your tasks in command line. You can use it in Ubuntu to maintain your to do tasks. DevTodo stores all the of your tasks hierarchically with each task categorized among one of the five priority levels. The five priority levels provided by DevTodo are veryhigh , high , [...]
Mozilla Firefox version 9.0 stable has been released recently and it is available for installation from Mozilla Stable PPA in Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04. For now, you have to use Ubuntu Mozilla Security PPA to install Firefox 9.0 stable in Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04. To install Firefox 9.0 stable in Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 from [...]
Xsnow is an application that brings snow in your Ubuntu desktop background along with Santa,his reindeers and green Christmas trees giving you the feel of Christmas. To install Xsnow in Ubuntu, you have to run the following commands in the terminal. sudo apt-get install xsnow You can install Xsnow from Ubuntu Software Center also. Once [...]
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