Yes, our very favourite Firefox is now 5 years older. Launched way back in 2004, Firefox has definitely revolutionized the way we used to browse the World Wide Web. It added new wings to the browser’s capabilities by introducing the ‘ add-ons ’. Thank you Firefox for everything ! 
Recently, we wrote an article giving you a visual tour of Gnome 3 Shell. If you want to experience it first hand, we will tell you what you how to do it in this article. Just to start off here is a screenshot of the Gnome 3 Shell:
Note: Gnome-Shell is still in the development stage and there is always the possibility of something breaking.
1. Open terminal and run the command below to install the Gnome Shell
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
2. After the installaton is done you can start it using the command below in terminal
gnome-shell --replace
3. If you have intel graphics and get just a blank screen after the above command run the command given below before the command in step 2.
export GNOME_SHELL_DISABLE_TFP=1
Google Talk already has many bots that can help you simplify your work. Well in this article we will tell you about yet another chat bot that simply turns your Google Talk into a Feed Reader with real time RSS feed updates – i.e. the moment a feed is published you will be notified about it via a message from the bot. Continue Reading…
An web server can be used to host a plethora of websites simultaneously but on different IP addresses and ports in order to reduce hosting charges. This is technology commonly known as virtual hosting. Well, in this article we will tell you how to change the default port number and IP address for a website in Microsoft IIS web server so that you can add more websites and run them simultaneously.
GNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It introduces a radical shift from the interface found in GNOME 2.x. In this article we will give you a quick visual tour of GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola. Continue Reading…
In Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, there is a new notification system, called Ayatana Notification, in addition to the KDE Notification. The Ayatana Notification is better than the KDE Notification in several ways.By default, however, the KDE Notification is enabled and the Ayatana Notification has to be enabled manually. In this article, we will show you how to enable the Ayatana Notification. Here is what Ayatana Notification looks like: Continue Reading…
Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has been out for a little more than a week now. It is a very solid release and comes with a host of new impressive features – one of them being the Ayatana Notification. Basically, the Ayatana Notification is an alternative to the KDE notification that we are used to by now. By default the Ayatana Notification is disabled by default. But I believe that you would be better off replacing the KDE Notification by the Ayatana Notification. Here are the reasons: Continue Reading…
As you may be aware, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala comes with the Netbook Plasma Shell. This is not an actual release but rather a technical preview. The Netbook Plasma Shell will officially be released with KDE 4.4, that is with Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. However, we decided to try it out in Karmic and it was quite impressive and ran smoothly without any problem. Here are some screenshots: Continue Reading…
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