A ton of users are dissatisfied with the decision to change the buttons on the title bar, however, it’s incredibly easy to change back and forth between the old (Karmic) look, and the new (Lucid Alpha) look. You do not have to be on Lucid to test out the new look. These commands work fine [...]
If you always open too many tabs in your browser just like me, it becomes really difficult to manage and to move from one tab to another. Tabspreview is an useful extension for google Chrome which provides you with a thumbnail preview of all open tabs and you can quickly navigate to the selected tab [...]
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One of the most thrilling features in Windows 7 is the new Aero theme promising you to delight your eyes and make your life easier thanks to its innovative and eye-candy features. The downside of this story is that the Aero theme requires powerful video cards your computer may not be equipped with. If [...]
Download Open Office from HERE. What you get is a tar.gz file Extract the file with this command tar xzvf OOo_3.2.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US_deb.tar.gz If you wish you can remove the existing version with this command. sudo apt-get remove openoffice*.* Assuming you extracted the file to your desktop run the following two commands. sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_en-US.9483/DEBS/*.deb sudo [...]
You can do it simply from your terminal window. sudo shutdown now to shutdown your machine NOW.sudo shutdown hh:mm where hh:mm is the time on 24hr clock to shutdown at 7:50 you need to type sudo shutdown 7:50.sudo shutdown +m where m is the minutes. If you type sudo shutdown +120 the machine will shutdown [...]
