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In Mac and Windows, you can easily sync your iPhone/iPod Touch with iTunes, but in Linux, there is no easy way to sync your iDevice’s music library with any of the media player. Even if you are willing to jailbreak your phone, there are still plenty of complicated steps that you need to do [...]

Zend Framework(ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Zend Framework was conceived in early 2005 while many new frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails and the Spring Framework, were gaining popularity in the web development community. ZF was publicly announced at the first Zend Conference in October 2005.
In this article, we will tell you how [...]

A system-wide PulseAudio equalizer was developed by Ubuntu Forums memeber, psyke83. The equalizer is now available in his PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu. In this article we will tell you who you can install it from the PPA in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.
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The GNOME Activity Journal is a tool to easily find and access files and other resources  in your computer. It was previously known as Zeitgeist. While the early release supports basic file management activities. It is expected to develop into a much more capable tool because of its underlying framework. In this post we will [...]

KDE Software Compilation 4.4 Beta 2 was released a few days back. Now it is available for installation in your Kubuntu Karmic system as well. This article will tell you how to do it.
WARNING: THIS IS A BETA RELEASE. SO, PLEASE TREAT IT AS SUCH AND REFRAIN FROM INSTALLATION IN A PRODUCTION MACHINE.
Now, that we [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has a lot of beautiful wallpapers. These were picked through a competition, which had a lot of very good submissions. However the CD restriction meant that only 19 had been picked.
However, the good thing it that you can now get a lot of those amazing wallpapers which did not make it [...]

getdeb has for a long time been a place from where debian users can get the .deb files of the latest softwares before it has been added to the official repository (which usually takes quite some time). Uptil a short while ago, to use softwares from getdeb, users had to go to the site and [...]

KOffice 2.1 RC 1 was released some time back. While KOffice has always been an inferior alternative to Open Office, the new release has seen some improvements, most notably in the handling of Microsoft Office documents. In this article, we show you how to install KOffice 2.1 RC 1 in Kubuntu 9.10 (or Ubuntu 9.10).
To [...]

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:

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Remix is a actually a minor modification of the of the standard Ubuntu Desktop edition to enable it to work better on devices with small screens, such as netbooks (sub-notebooks) and mobile devices

There has been a change in the way you used setup your Root account to login to it via the Gnome startup manager when your  computer boots up, in Ubuntu Karmic. In this we will tell you how to enable root login at startup in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10.
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Chromium is the open source browser on which Google Chrome browser is based. Except for the logo, which is of a slightly different color, Chromium is almost identical to Google Chrome. In this article, we will explain to you how to install Chromium browser in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
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In case you unable to browse the internet in Ubuntu Karmic, here is a simple fix that will let you browse internet properly in Ubuntu Karmic Koala.

Find out how to get the all new Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 without actually downloading the entire CD image.

In this article we will tell you about a nifty GUI based tool called PySDM that makes configuring your Windows partitions to mount automatically (without editing fstab) a child’s play in Ubuntu.

This is a part of a series of articles called “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. You can read the other parts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
As the date for the release of the final release of Karmic Koala approaches, a big question with everyone is “Do I do a clean install or upgrade from [...]

This is a continuation of the series of article “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. The previous articles in this series are: 1, 2, 3, 4.

You might have heard it or maybe you have not, but Karmic Koala is to have GRUB 2 by default if you did a clean install. However, if you upgrade from [...]

Using the Medibuntu repository you can install many useful softwares from a single source some of which include Acrobat Reader, Google Earth, IBM Java Runtime Environment, SUN Java Runtime Environment, Opera, Real Player and Skype and many proprietary codecs.

Earlier today we reported about the release of the Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate. Now, the release candidate of all the official *buntus, that is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu and Edubuntu, are now available for download. If everything goes well these release candidates will go on to become the final version to [...]

This is a continuation of our series of articles “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. The first article can be found here.
Today is the day the release candidates of Karmic Koala is going to be released. And before everything else it seems that Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is the first one off the block.
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The final release of Karmic Koala comes out in a week. Of all the variants of Karmic Koala coming out, Ubuntu is undoubtably the most well know with the largest userbase. While most of the long time users will have no doubts regarding which variant they want to use, new users tend to not know [...]