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[How To] Install Thunderbird 24 beta 3 in Ubuntu 13.04

Mozilla Corporation, who unceremoniously left Thunderbird reeling in deathbed sometime back, now seems to have not really done so. They have been quietly building Thunderbird, improving, fixing bugs behind the scenes. A third beta for version 24 was released a few weeks back and and a stable version release is reported imminent on 17th September. […]

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[How To] Fix broken display after installing NVidia beta driver 319.17 (Optimus Cards)

If you have a broken display , rather a 640×480 display with no unity panels, you are one of the many who tried to install the new Nvidia beta driver which promised initial Optimus graphics card support for Linux. In reality, the Nvidia beta driver 319.17 does not support the current Xorg nor the current Ubuntu kernel

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Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 released ( Screenshot Tour)

The  second and final beta of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS was released yesterday with the following updates : Unity 5.8- updated search functions for video and music A horrible looking Qt-based Ubuntu One desktop client Application Quicklists for Totem, Rhythmbox and Remmina Updated and Multi-Monitor options New animation support for the  HUD  LibreOffice updated to 3.5.1  Latest GNOME

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Google releases Google Chrome 17 and Chrome Beta for Android

Search giant Google released version 17 of its popular multi-platform web browser, Google Chrome. The latest version boasts a range of features. Notable of them are new extensions APIs,  updated Omnibox prerendering, download scanning protection and lots of security fixes and bug fixes. The new feature introduced, a “preemptive rendering” feature, that will automatically begin loading

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