If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been raring to jump to ‘Raring Ringtail’ edition of Ubuntu, you can follow the commands below to switch to bleeding edge features. Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) is past the beta stage now and is very stable; can easily be used as a daily driver. Upgrading is […]
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Most of us nowadays do not use a mail client. If any of us do, then it is mainly for official work. For anyone using Gmail, I will show you how to set Gmail as the default mail client. That’s secondary though! The most important part of this blog is to set a calendar application. As
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If you are an ardent Google and Android fan, you must have got either the Nexus 4, 7 or 10 or may be considering getting one for yourself. If you have already got one and if you are using Ubuntu or any other flavour of Linux you must have noticed that transferring music and other
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Updates from Microsoft owned Skype is coming in thick and fast. And surprisingly, the world’s most anti-Linux company has been steadily updating its Skype for Linux client. Skype and Microsoft last week released Skype 4.1 for Linux . One of the new features of this release is that, it now enables users to login to the Skype
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Since the last few releases Ubuntu has been using Ubuntu Software Centre (USC) as the default package installer for all .deb files replacing the older gdebi package installer. This means that if you double click on a packaged file like Skype for Linux, USC opens up trying to install the file. Although it is a
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Google Drive for Linux may be a long way from being released, but you can now the same facilities of syncing contents of your GDrive to your Ubuntu desktop using a new application named Insync. The application is in beta but it seems to be stable enough to handle all syncs properly. You can download
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Getting into grips with any new operating system is always difficult and is made much simpler with the help of a user manual. Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.04 aims to do just that. Written for beginners and users switching from Mac and Windows, this book makes understanding of Ubuntu’s ways very simple. Experienced Ubuntu users
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LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 was released yesterday by The Document Foundation developers. This release, as usual, is a QA testing release and is not recommended for production systems. One important bug fixed in this RC release is the “No recent documents” bug, which was causing LibreOffice not to show any recently opened documents. Highlights of the
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Validity fingerprint readers are present in a lot of business laptops. Dell Vostro series (3350, 3500) uses the Validity fingerprint readers. Until recently, 138a:0008 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS300 Fingerprint Reader was not recognized by Ubuntu. A few improvements to the ongoing driver development has now made it possible to enable fingerprint reading for laptops using
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The operating system claims 20 million people use it a day. Not an insignificant number, but still a drop in the ocean compared to Microsoft’s Windows or Apple’s OS X. Even so, lead designer and one-time astronaut Mark Shuttleworth hopes that last week’s major upgrade to the Linux-based project will produce an outsized splash and
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