ShareTweet It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial …Full Article UbuntuHQ

January 27th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet DocumentBurster is a tool for report distribution: split, merge, email, and FTP your reports. It has report delivery for Crystal Reports, SSRS Reporting Services, MS Access, Cognos, PeopleSoft, and SAP. It has report bursting for Pentaho, JasperReports, and BIRT. It can upload reports to MS SharePoint. Release Notes: User Guide chapters 5 (Variables) and [...]

January 26th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} Ubuntu is a free, open-source computer operating system with 20 million users worldwide. This 30 page guide was written for beginners and will tell you everything you need to know about the Ubuntu experience. You will learn how to install and setup Ubuntu on your computer, find technical support in your community, [...]

January 25th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 3.2 kernel, featuring file-system enhancements such as support for Ext4 block sizes up to 1MB, and faster Btrfs scrubbing. Linux 3.2 also adds some process scheduler improvements, better thin provisioning support, and new Wi-Fi, graphics, and DSP drivers. DesktopLinux.com

January 24th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet The Linux Foundation posted a calendar of its 2012 conferences. These include the Linux Kernel Summit, which will be held Aug. 26-28 in San Diego, where it will be co-located with the larger LinuxCon North America event and the Linux Plumbers Conference, both held Aug. 29-31. DesktopLinux.com

January 23rd, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} With Gnome 2 no longer an option we lost one of the most important upstream components our Linux Mint desktop was based on. Our entire focus shifted from innovating on the desktop, to patching existing alternatives such as Gnome Shell. We used MATE and MGSE to provide an easier transition away from [...]

January 22nd, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} JS Studio is a Qt-based cross-platform IDE for developing JavaScript-based web applications. JS Studio is designed to be a fully-featured IDE for developing web applications with a focus on interactive JavaScript-based apps. Here are some of the features currently available: (…)Read the rest of JS Studio – Qt-based cross-platform IDE for developing [...]

January 21st, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Linux jumped to 1.4 percent desktop market share from 0.97 percent in July, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, a Linux Foundation survey on enterprise Linux says 79.8 percent of organizations are planning to increase their Linux deployments, citing affordability, technical features, and security as Linux advantages. DesktopLinux.com

January 20th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet We recently published a how to about how to install Unity 5.0 in Ubuntu 12.04. But now even the Ubuntu 11.10 users can install and test Unity 5.0, thanks to the power of PPA. You just need to remember that Unity 5.0 is not stable yet and it might break certain things. Read more [...]

January 19th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet SoftHSM is an implementation of a cryptographic store accessible through a PKCS#11 interface. You can use it to explore PKCS#11 without having a Hardware Security Module. It is being developed as a part of the OpenDNSSEC project. SoftHSM uses Botan for its cryptographic operations. Release Notes: The library is now installed in $ libdir/softhsm/. [...]

January 18th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Temple Run is a hugely popular endless-running game which was released for iPhone and iPad in August 2011. Temple Run has already been downloaded more than 20 million times now and there are about 7 million daily active users. It is now the number one free app for iOS platform. Imangi Studios, the dev [...]

January 17th, 2012 by admin

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January 16th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet KDE’s very own font is coming along nicely with its developer releasing an updated …Full Article UbuntuHQ

January 15th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distribution in the consumer market. Simplified user controls, interface, and overall ease of use can be attributed to its success. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always have all the software you might need to go through your day. You can use Wubi to install Ubuntu without having to create [...]

January 15th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} WinUSB is a simple tool that enable you to create your own usb stick windows installer from an iso image or a real DVD. This package contains two programs: – WinUSB-gui: a graphical interface which is very easy to use. – winusb: the command line tool. (…)Read the rest of WinUSB – [...]

January 14th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet A new Unity Greeter (the default LightDM greeter for Ubuntu) version has been released for testing in the Ubuntu Desktop PPA, and it brings support for reading the user background, along with other minor tweaks. LightDM: Unity Greeter Update Brings Support For Reading User Background [Ubuntu 12.04 Development] UbuntuHQ

January 13th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet In-depth review of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Final Release. Feel free to skip sections of the video using the chapter timings below: 0:18 – Installation (Dual boot & Slideshow) 5:28 – Pre-Installed Software 9:36 – Desktop & Unity Features (inc Compiz) 12:49 – Installing Software (few apps to try) 14:51 – Conclusion This video [...]

January 12th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Webconverger is a Live Web kiosk Linux distribution for public places. It is designed to get you on the Web easily without compromising your privacy. Release Notes: This release features Firefox 9, the ability to configure whether the browser has a URL bar, and many other enhancements. Release Tags: security feature Tags: Internet, Web, [...]

January 12th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} Minitube is a YouTube desktop application.With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to create a new TV-like experience. (…)Read the rest of Install minitube 1.7 in [...]

January 11th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet BalanceNG is a modern, IPv6 capable software IP load balancing solution. It is small, fast, and easy to use and set up. It offers session persistence, different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random, Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It [...]

January 10th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet This tutorial shows how you can install and run a TYPO3 (version 4.6) web site on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced “engine x”) + MySQL + PHP). Read more here Ubuntu-News – Your one stop for news about Ubuntu

January 9th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} Submin provides a web-based admin interface to your svn repositories. (…)Read the rest of Submin – Subversion Web Administration (114 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek, 2012. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: desktop, install submin ubuntu, submib ubuntu, submin deb package Related posts Zik – Audio [...]

January 8th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet One of the many benefits of Ubuntu Linux is that it requires far less system resources than say Windows Vista. A Internet tutorial by butterscotch.com. Video Rating: 5 / 5 Okay, so I installed Ubuntu 10.04.2 onto my Sony Vaio today and of course, due to Sony’s incredible lack of common sense, the touchpad [...]

January 8th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet {lang: ‘en-GB’} YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of [...]

January 7th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet A lot of stereoscopic cameras use the .MPO format to store two JPEG images, including the Fuji W1, W3, and a few 3D camcorders that have a still mode. It can do two things for you: it can separate out the image files into a left and right pair, so you can process them [...]

January 6th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Click here for the full review pcwizkidstechtalk.com cheers Video Rating: 4 / 5 Preview of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and a look at the upcoming changes. Thanks Everyone, I’ve reached One Million views on my channel. 0:19 Upcoming Changes 3:05 Preview 4:30 Pre-Installed Apps Changes we can expect in Ubuntu 12.04: LTS Desktop release Supported [...]

January 6th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Getting the O2 Broadband to work with Ubuntu is quite easy, and usually it works out of the box, but there are some good ressources for those unfortunate where it doesn’t “Just Works”(tm) If you are using O2 Broadband or thinking about it find them here: http://www.o2.co.uk/broadband/, it shouldn’t be an issue that you [...]

January 5th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Fotoxx lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser and choose images to view or edit. Edit functions include brightness, contrast, color, white balance, tone mapping, red-eyes, sharpen, blur, noise suppression, smart erase, trim, resize, rotate, annotate, warp, art effects, HDR, HDF, stack, and panorama. Edit functions use movable curves and sliders. [...]

January 4th, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10 [...]

January 3rd, 2012 by admin

ShareTweet Remember that rather handy YouTube Unity lens we covered a few days back? Well it’s just gotten …Full Article UbuntuHQ

January 2nd, 2012 by admin