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How To Install ATI Catalyst 11.5/FGLRX 8.5 In Ubuntu 11.04


Most of you who uses Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narhwal” on a system with an ATI graphics card must be aware that the ATI proprietary driver (Catalyst/fglrx) available in the Ubuntu repository does not work with Unity. Unity works with the open source Radeon driver but with the newer ATI cards there are a lot of…

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By Ricky
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How To Add Minimize And Maximize Buttons In GNOME Shell [Ubuntu & Fedora]


If you are using GNOME Shell, you would have no doubt noticed that the windows have only a close button and no minimize and maximize button. Although, this is part of a new design principle in GNOME Shell, it can be a bit disorientating for some. In this article, we will show you how you…

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By Ricky

How To Fix GRUB To Get Back Ubuntu After Installing Fedora


With Fedora 15 having been released with GNOME 3, a lot opeople including Ubuntu users would be installaing it. I too installed it along side Ubuntu only to find out that Fedora’s GRUB menu list does not list Ubuntu at all. Fortunately, getting back Ubuntu’s GRUB is very easy and it supports Fedora 15 as…

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By Ricky

How To Change The Background And Theme Of GDM [Ubuntu]


GDM Tweaker is a simple tool you can use to change the theme or background of GDM. In this article, we take a look at the application and tell you how you can install it.

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By Ricky
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How To Install VirtualBox 4.0 In Fedora 15?


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Virtualbox is still one of the most easy to use virualisation tools out there and the best part is it is available for free in-spite of the fact that Oracle owns it now. VirtualBox is available for almost all popular Operating Systems and distributions. In this article, we will tell you how to install VirtualBox…

 How-To   Linux   Virtualisation  

By Debjit

How To Recover Unity After Removing GNOME 3 In Ubuntu 11.04


Suppose you wanted to try out GNOME 3 and installed it in Ubuntu 11.04. The GNOME 3 installation will wipe out Unity. So, what do you do if you installed GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell) only to find out that you do not like it? In this article we will tell you how you can remove…

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By Ricky

How To Install Firefox 5 Beta In Ubuntu Using PPA


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With the new accelerated development (or rather versioning) of Firefox, Firefox 5 beta had been released a few days back. In this post, we will tell you how to install from Mozilla’s PPA. As of now, there are not much visible changes between Firefox 4 and Firefox 5. There are a few improvements under the…

 How-To   Linux  

By Ricky

Steadyflow Is An Easy To Use Download Manager For Ubuntu


Steadyflow is an easy to use download manager for Ubuntu. The application is currently available for Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” and Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”. With the latest release, Steadyflow has got some new features which makes it a very good option if you are looking for a download manager. Features Here is a brief…

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By Ricky

How To Get Logged In / Current Facebook User’s ID On Iframe Page Tabs?


Facebook recently announced that it would no more support new FBML (Facebook Markup Language) based applications. Accordingly the option to create new FBML apps on Facebook has now been removed and developers can now create only Iframe based applications on Facebook. Static FBMLs have been also deprecated to a great extent. One method of interacting…

 Facebook   How-To   Programming  

By Debjit

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