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Display Download Progress In Unity Launcher Using UnityFox [Ubuntu 11.04]


For all the Unity fans, here is a cool plugin for Firefox which better integrates Firefox with Unity. UnityFox is an extension for Firefox which adds a progress bar for downloads in the Firefox icon in the Unity launcher. The extension is currently in development and has not been reviewed by Mozilla yet. But if…

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By Ricky
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Thoughts On Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” After Using It For A Day


As you should know, Ubuntu 11.04 was released yesterday. I have used the development builds of Ubuntu 11.04 on and off during the development cycle. However, it is not a very good idea to do to do a review during the development phase. So, as soon as the final release of Ubuntu 11.04 was available,…

 Linux   Reviews  

By Debjit

How To Update An Old Ubuntu ISO To Ubuntu 11.04 Using zsync


Ubuntu 11.04 has been released earlier today and people are frantically downloading it. However, if you already have an older Ubuntu ISO – maybe the one of the beta or alpha ISO of Ubuntu 11.04 – you do not need to download the whole ISO again. Instead, you can simply update the old ISO to…

 How-To   Linux  

By Ricky

7 Things You Might Want To Do After Installing Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”


Now that you have finished installing the new Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, what do you do now? In this post we list some of the things that you might want to do after installing Ubuntu 11.04. If you are in Ubuntu 10.10, to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 easily read this guide. 1. Install Ubuntu Restricted…

 General   Linux  

By Ricky
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How To Upgrade To Ubuntu 11.04 From Ubuntu 10.10


With just a few hours till Ubuntu 11.04 is released, if you are one of these people who want to try out Ubuntu 11.04 but do not want to do a clean install, this post will tell you how you can upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04 painlessly. There are two ways by which…

 How-To   Linux  

By Ricky

Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” Has Been Officially Released


For all the Ubuntu users out there, after three alpha and two beta releases, Canonical has finally released Ubuntu 11.04, codenamed Natty Narhwal” today. Ubuntu 11.04 is based on Linux kernel 2.6.38.3 and has the much talked about Unity interface. The Unity interface is based on GNOME 3 and builtĀ usingĀ Compiz. It is a radical departure…

 Linux   News  

By Ricky

How To Install GNOME 3 Shell In Ubuntu 11.04 Using The Ubuntu GNOME Remix PPA


GNOME 3 has a new UI called the GNOME Shell. With Ubuntu 11.04, however, Canonical has decided to go with its own UI called Unity. Earlier we wrote a post on how you can install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.04. In this post, we will tell you how to do it using the Ubuntu GNOME…

 How-To   Linux  

By Ricky

How To Install Ubuntu 11.04 In VirtualBox With Unity 3D Working


VirtualBox is certainly a great tool to try out different stuffs that you would not normally do on your primary computer such as installing the latest unstable Linux distributions etc. However, with Ubuntu 11.04’s Unity UI, testing using VirtualBox has been rendered rather ineffective because VirtualBox did not support 3D acceleration that is required for…

 How-To   Linux  

By Ricky

How To Enable Transparency And Shadows In Unity 2D [Ubuntu 11.04]


Yesterday we wrote about how you can install Unity 2D in Ubuntu 11.04. By default, Unity 2D does not have compositing enabled. So, with Unity 2D you will not get the shadows and transparency effects. Having compositing disabled is a good idea for older systems. However, some of us use Unity 2D only because it…

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By Ricky

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