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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sd@sd-1:~$adb get-serialno unknown sd@sd-1:~$ adb shell error: device offline If you are one of those frustrated users who cannot get adb to work with your android device, you may be in for a breather. The issue is probably similar for all operating systems. In Linux and to some extent Mac, this issue may be caused
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Oracle’s VirtualBox comes with support for a default display driver to boot up any Linux OS. If, however, you want to use 3D effects or use Ubuntu’s Unity under VirtualBox without any lag, you would need to install the guest additions package. Installing this package is very easy uptill Ubuntu 12.10, can be accomplished in
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Only three days left for the release the developer edition images of Ubuntu Phones. Anyone of you who owns a Galaxy Nexus or Google Nexus 4 will be able to flash these images and play around with your favourite open source Linux based OS. Mind you this wont be for the faint hearted. Let me
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Sometimes, it so happens that after creating a unique user for a new Ubuntu install, you completely forget the username. If you are a single user on a Ubuntu machine, physical or virtual, you can easily recover the username without firing up the Ubuntu Live CD. Here are the steps: 1. Restart your machine and go to
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Wishing all the readers of Tuxtrix a very happy and prosperous new year! May this year be the year of Linux!
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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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For today and today only Codeweavers, the company behind the Crossover software, which allows Windows apps like MS Office, Photoshop and various games to run in Linux and Mac OS X, is giving away the £25 package to download for free. The package available for download is the latest 11.3 version. For those who do
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