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Install “Ubuntu Tweak” and make UBUNTU more easy

DK — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:15:23 +0000

Ubuntu Tweak is a small app for ubuntu which helps you to configure some hidden ubuntu settings in few clicks. Also it helps newbies to add/remove applications easily.

Few days back Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.7.2 has been released. According to the author it has lots of improvements when compared to the last release. Some of the major improvements are.

Fully support Linux Mint 7 (it is an ubuntu based OS)
New option to fix root theme
Ability to update PPA sources from old style to new style
Some new PPA sources: Pidgin, Moovida
Loads of bugs fixed

You can download the debian package here.

After downloading double click the .deb file to get installed.

Then you can open Ubuntu Tweak at application > system tools >ubuntu tweak

It is under strong development. So we will get some nice updates in future from Ubuntu Tweak.

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Learn all Gmail Tips at one place

DK — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:30:29 +0000

There are lots of tips and tricks are available to use gmail efficiently. But those are scattered all over the net. To help the Gmail users Google organised all the tips at one place under the title “Become a Gmail Ninja“.

You can learn tips online at www.gmail.com/tips

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Or you can download the tips as a PDF file here.

Learn tips and become Gmail master quick.

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Add URL shortner inside Gmail account

bpsarathy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:09:45 +0000

Shortening a Long URL is every day need in online life. Mostly this short URL`s are used in emails , social networks , IM etc., When this URL shortening Service is available inside our Gmail account page, then life is so simple.

Yes, this service was proudly powered by BIT.LY, a URL shorter service provider.
Follow these simple step to embedded these service in to your Gmail account

Go to Settings > Labs
Scroll down and enable “Add any gadget by URL”
Click “Save Changes” then
You should now have a gadgets tab at the top of the settings page.
click it.
In the “Add a gadget by its URL:” box paste this link:

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/107368512201818821991/bitly-shortener.xml

Click “add” and you’re done.

Then all the long url`s are automaticaly converted in to shorter one. And also one URL shortner module are added to your sidebar which looks like

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Make Multiple URLs into single

DK — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:21:26 +0000

Fur.ly is a site which helps you to bundle multiple URLs into single short URL.

There is no need to sign up. When you enter your first URL it will add another text box to enter the next one. After entering all your URLs click GO.

When some clicks the shorten URL a beautiful drop down list box will appear at the top with all your links. Visit here for example.

Few tips to use this site :

Bloggers can use this to publish all their popular/latest posts in one tweet.

Web designers can use this to show all their clients site in a single tweet.

Why not. You can bundle all your social networking profile page URLs and do a tweet so that your friends can easily trace you in those sites.

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List of sites to do real time Twitter Search

DK — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:51:07 +0000

“Twitter Search” is the one of the brilliant way to keep track of current trends in the Internet. Apart from the search tool provided by twitter lots of web sites provides you the real time search service with some cool user interface. Here I am listing you some awesome real time twitter search sites.

Note: List is in random order.

Tweetscan

Twitterpowersearch

Tweetgrid

Twellow

Whether I missed any please inform us through comment.

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How to Back up your Gmail account

bpsarathy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:57 +0000

GMail, Google mail service. Most of us are using Gmail because of its reliable service.Even though it is reliable, Gmail is still in BETA only.And we have a lots of reasons to take backup of our mails.

So How to Back up Gmail account?
Backup our Gmail account is quite simple with help of Gmail BackUP.

GmailBackUp is free software which downloads and backup a copy of Gmail account.Before Using this software you need to enable POP/IMAP access setting in Gmail.

Download GmailBackup software for Windows here

Steps to follow to take backup

1.Install GmailBackUp Software
2.Open GmailBackUp Window
3.Enter full Gmail address, that you going to back up
4.Then password and Select back up folder
5. And press BackUp button.

Your done. All mails and contacts are saved in the Backup folder

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Delete unnecessary files in UBUNTU using BleachBit

DK — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:12:39 +0000

BleachBit is a small application it will help you to delete the unnecessary in your disk. It is available for both linux and windows.

Follow the step by step instruction to install and run Bleach Bit in UBUNTU.

1) First you need to download the Bleach Bit. Click here to reach the download page. Then choose the file as per your OS.

2)After downloading .deb file place it on your desktop and double click it. Now the package installer window will open.

Click the Install Package button.

3)After that select Applications > System Tools > BleachBit As Administrator (if “System Tools” was not there then read this post to activate it)
4)Now BeachBit application will open. And number applications will be listed in the right column. From that select the applications as per your need.

5)Select Preview option at the top so that you can view number of unwanted files in your system. (optional)

6)After that select Delete option. Delete Confirmation windows will ask you to confirm your action. Click Delete to proceed.

7)Thats it all the unnecessary files will be start getting deleted.

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Make Gmail as default Email client in Firefox

bpsarathy — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:39:06 +0000

When you click info@yahoo.com or any mailto:links in Firefox, it directly opens yahoo! mail or outlook. But most of us are strongly recommanded and using GMAIL. Here is a simple solution to set your default email client as Gmail in Firefox 3.

In FireFox 3,

go to Tools> options
Click on Application Tab
Then select mailto: in content type
In action select Use Gmail
And click OK to save settings

If you cant see the USE GMAIL in mailto: protocol then select Use other and browse to Gmail Notifier of Google Talk to use Gmail as default in FireFox.

Thats all. All your mailto: links uses gmail or gtalk as default email client in firefox.

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Different ways to see hidden folders in UBUNTU

DK — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:51:42 +0000

In Ubuntu by default file browser will be hide folders from user if its name starts with ‘.‘ (dot). In this post I will list the different ways to see the hidden folders in Ubuntu.

1)Command line fans can use ‘ls -al‘ command to see the hidden folders.

GUI Fans can follow any one of these listed below:

2) Select Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor

If System Tools doesn’t exists in Applications menu activate it as follows.

Do a right click at the left end of your gnome panel and select “Edit Menus” option. A window will appear in that check “System Tools option”. (See the image for reference).

Now select Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor.

In the Configuration Editor window select desktop > gnome > file_views from the left column .

After that check show_hidden_files option. (See the image for reference).

3) Next is by navigating into the folder in which hidden folders exists and select View > show hidden files from the file browser menu.

4)But an easy shortcut exists for this. Navigate into the folder in which hidden folders were present and press ‘ctrl+h‘ and thats it, now file browser displays all folders starts with .(dot). Press ‘ctrl+h‘ again to hide the folders.

Do you know any other way ?

Let us know. Use the comment section for that plz.

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Using Magic SysRq key in linux

DK — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:51:12 +0000

Magic “SysRq” key, Have you used this key before?. Today i will give you a small tip based on this “SysRq” key.

In short Magic SysRq is a key combination in Linux which allows user to give some low level commands regardless of system’s state. You can read more about Magic SysRq key here.

Certainly when your system freezes you cannot do anything right?
Here is the procedure to use the SysRq key to reboot your linux distro (myself tested in UBUNTU) without any lose of data.

After your system got hanged. Press Alt+SysRq in your keyboard then by holding the those keys press the following keys one by one R S E I U B

For Example:
Press Alt+SysRq then press R for 2-3 seconds then release R (remember you should release only R not Alt+SysRq) and now move to S and press it for 2-3 seconds and release S then move to E and so on…
Please remember you should not release Alt+SysRq throughout the sequence (i.e until you finish releasing ‘B’)

Try to remember the key sequence using the sentence “Reboot Even If System Utterly Broken” .

The key sequence to shutdown the system is Alt+SysRq+R+S+E+I+U+O . Follow the same procedure as above.

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