Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME Shell developed by Linux Mint Team that brings innovative features of GNOME Shell and simple layout of GNOME 2. Before we jump into the rest of article, please take a look at the figure below.

Hello readers! I have written two articles about XFCE on how to configure dual monitor and enable Dropbox "Copy Public Link" on Thunar File Manager. Today I'd like to show you how to install and configure Slingshot Launcher on Xubuntu (XFCE). For your information, Slingshot Launcher is an application launcher created by Elementary OS team that provides full screen and eye catching launcher. Please take a closer look at the below picture.

Linux has powerful command line tools, we can do almost everything there e.g. file editing, installing or removing application, managing files and directories, downloading stuff from the Internet and even playing your favorite songs. Windows users should be jealous with the Linux command line tools, but don't worry, Windows users can still run various Linux commands with ease by using GOW. GOW stands for GNU On Windows is a tool likes Cygwin but the lightweight one. It brings 130 powerful Linux commands on Windows operating system.

Yesterday, KDE has release the first Release Candidate (KDE 4.8 RC 1) for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. KDE 4.8 which is scheduled to be release in January 2012 you can peek the appearance here.

Taken from the announcement here, KDE 4.8 RC 1 is contain a hundred of bugs fix since its Beta. One of new features in KDE 4.8 is a 'Secret Service', KSecretService is an application which provide shared password storage that help a user to save their password (optionally) and share it with other application, I have not tried this application but (guess) seems similar to Ubuntu password keyring.

Some notable feature in KDE 4.8 are :

• Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces -- Qt Quick is making its way into the Plasma Workspaces, the new Plasma Components provide a standardized API implementation of widgets with native Plasma Look and Feel. The device notifier widget has been ported to using these components and is now written in pure QML. KWin's window switcher is now also QML-based, paving the way for newly designed window switchers.
• Use Dolphin2, file view has been rewritten for better performance, scalability and more attractive visual appearance.
• KSecretService optionally enables a shared password storage, therefore making your saved passwords available to many other applications, leading to a more secure system and better integration of non-KDE apps into the Plasma Workspaces and KDE apps into non-Plasma workspaces.
• More ..

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 (Stable) has been released with a brand new interface and features. It comes with many old features too, but the application and source center is removed because they cause many problems to the system. Here’s the noteworthy highlights of Ubuntu Tweak 0.6.0:

• Brand new UI and interaction focus on better looking and easy to use
• Supports the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and well integrated with system
• Every part of Ubuntu Tweak is plug-able, this make Ubuntu Tweak more powerful then ever before
• Janitor keeps your system clean
• Overview makes you know your system better

If this time you always hear this sound every login at ubuntu, may you will never find it in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, because it's will disabled by default - confirmed by jeremy bicha

the Ubuntu startup sound which have been used for 5 years will be disable by default in Precise Pangolin, on the latest Ubuntu 12.04 development update news, a new version of libcanberra has been upload with startup sound which is disabled.

Ubuntu system sound setting

Mozilla Firefox 9 has been released and now available on PPA Launchpad. The key feature of this release is Type Inference that significantly improving JavaScript performance. There are also many improvements and bugs fixing:

• Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion
• Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion
• Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript
• Added support for font-stretch
• Improved support for text-overflow
• Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS
• Fixed several stability issues
• Fixed several security issues

In my previous post, I shared my experience using XFCE on how to setup dual-monitor. Today, I'd like to share another XFCE trick on how to enable Dropbox "Copy Public Link" on Thunar File Manager. If you have never heard before, Dropbox is online storage service that offers 2GB disk space for free account, while Thunar is default file manager for XFCE desktop, it's like Nautilus in Gnome desktop. Okay, before we jump into the trick, please let me show you what will we do in this post.

Dear readers! Recently, I have switched to XFCE (Xubuntu) because my Unity interface runs very slow on my computer, especially when running Netbeans IDE to do my college assignment. XFCE is a lightweight desktop environment for Linux, compared to Unity, XFCE is more and more faster! So today, I'd like to share my experience using XFCE to you. OK, let's start with dual monitor setup on XFCE (Xubuntu).

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install blender

I have a feedback on my article about installing ProZilla Download Accelerator, he said that he encountered this problem:

Sedang membuka paket prozilla (dari .../prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: ada kesalahan saat memproses /var/cache/apt/archives/prozilla_2.0.4-build2~tahutek~oneiric_amd64.deb (--unpack): mencoba menimpa '/usr/share/locale/locale.alias', yang juga ada dalam paket locales 2.13+git20110622-2

One simply function that I always expect would land in nautilus is small utility which allow us to copy file to mounted device easily, Yeah..  a similar function like Windows. There are many ubuntu user which come from Windows, a function like this will make them feel comfortable using their new OS (Ubuntu).

There is small nautilus script which can simplify our work, this script allow us to send file to Flashdrive or other mounted device trough 'right click' menu in nautilus, this function is similar to 'send to' in windows, see following screenshot.

If you have ever used SPSS statistics application before, you might know what SOFA is. SOFA stands for Statistics Open For All can be used to be an alternative to paid statistics software SPSS.

SOFA is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output.
SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share. And SOFA will help you learn as you go.

Spotify - A new world of free music is just a click away, Discover and share it all with your friends. 

Spotify is peer-to-peer music streaming service that gives registered user access to millions of songs from major and independent record labels such us Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group, and Universal which free to listen. Spotify is support Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS (iPod/iPhone), Android, BlackBerry and now it comes to Linux.

Tuxradar is giving you high resolution GIMP tutorial PDFs which means they'll look awesome on your screen, or printed out. The down-side of this is that the files are quite big - the total download is 90MB. This collection contains 18 tutorials and you're free to use these tutorials for personal use or for non-commercial offline redistribution.

Natural scrolling is when you scroll with a trackpad, you move your finger down if you want to scroll down. It’s as if you’re moving the scrollbar, not the page itself. [makeuseof.com]

Natural scrolling is a features that change the habit in using touchpad, this technologies is inspired by man's natural habit that is moving the hand downward to make the page down or moving the hand upward to make the page up (like reading newspapers).

If you're Mac-Ubuntu user or using laptop that support multitouch trackpad, there's a good news for you because you can install 'apple natural scrolling' or just test it in ubuntu, check this out

OOo4kids is OpenOffice.orf remix for Children, especially for 7 -12 years old. The key points of this remix are:

• Easier installation
• Adapted user interface
• New start center
• New fonts "education"
• User preferences simplified
• Password protection
• User levels for each age ranges

I have written about ProZilla download accelerator that can boost your download speed. Unfortunately, it has no batch download functionality so you can't download multiple files at one command. Today i'd like to show you how to download multiple files using ProZilla download accelerator. OK! Let's get started!

Opera 11.60 has released today, the latest version of its Internet browser Opera 11.60, “just in time for the festive season”, according to a company announcement today.

Opera 11.60 code name "Tunny" has been relaese, Opera 11.60 comes with new features, design, also bugs fix, read the full Opera 11.60 changelog here. 

Opera 11.60 "Tunny" Screenshot

Autohide Top Panel is GNOME Shell Extension that lets you hide GNOME Shell top panel bar, Autohide Top Panel extension initially created by fpmurphy, this extension now available in GNOME Shell Extension website. See following video to see how it's works

• Autohide Top Panel Extension  

7-Zip is a file achiever application which has ability to archives file with very high compression ratios, 7-zip was that originally design for windows but you can use it in Ubuntu now, 7zip also have own achieve format that known as 7z. 

p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip, p7zip-full provides utilities to pack and unpack 7z archives within a shell or using a GUI through nautilus. p7zip support following archive format :

Packing / Unpacking : 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ and TAR

Unpacking only : APM, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.

The newly Ubuntu version 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has no configuration tool to customize your appearance including mouse cursor. But there is nothing impossible, you can still change mouse cursor using many many tricks. Today, I'd like to show one of those tricks. OK! Let's get started.

For those who are using GNOME Shell must be excited with this news. GNOME shell extension website has been launched yesterday as public alpha stage. You must use Firefox with an extension - which is installed by default on GNOME 3.2 - to get an easy one-click install from the website. There is also an "on-off" button shown if you are running GNOME Shell when visiting the website.

As an alpha stage, there are some bugs and problems:

• There are some bugs that currently cause the browser plugin to not work correctly in WebKit-based browsers like Epiphany or Chrome. We will fix these bugs in subsequent releases of GNOME Shell, but for now using Firefox to access extensions.gnome.org is advised.
• Extensions that use GSettings to store user settings cannot be currently installed as a user; this limitation will be fixed for GNOME 3.4. In the mean time, extension authors should avoid the use of GSettings if they want to make their extension available via extensions.gnome.org.
• Due to a bug in GNOME Shell 3.2.1 code, the uninstall button will not work for some extensions. Disabling extensions still works, but if you want to remove an extension entirely, you'll need to manually delete it from ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions.

Right on Ubuntu 12.04 release schedule, yesterday (Dec 1st, 2011) the development team has release Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1, Ubuntu Alpha scheduled to be released twice (Alpha 1 and 2) before the Ubuntu 12.04 beta which will be released in March 1st, 2012.

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Application
Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 comes with Linux kernel 3.2, some default application has been changed and some of them has removed. Among the software packages bundled with Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 are :

• Firefox 9 BETA
• Thunderbird 9 BETA
• Ubuntu Software Center 5.1.2
• Gedit 3.2.3
• Gwibber 3.3.1
• Onboard 0.96
• Rhythmbox   
• LibreOffice 3.4.4

Recently, I wrote an article about ProZilla Download Accelerator that runs under command line interface. If you don't like that "geeky" stuff and want an application that has Graphical User Interface with similar function, you might want to try ProzGUI.

Gnome 3 is contain of several supporting application which tightly integrated with the core OS, all supporting application start from utilities, panel, dash, widget, extension, and file browser are well collaborated to make good appearance and performance of Linux desktop.

The GNOME developers  has release mockup for some of core application that support Gnome. At glance, some of their mockup looks good, eye candy and feel modern, Is This new appearance of Gnome 3.3 or more ? well, let's see..

Here following mockup taken from Gnome website, give your opinion so that they can give a better. (click the image to get larger size).

Web Application Mockup
Impression to be conveyed is simple, clean, beautiful view of the web.

Gnome 3 Web Application Mockup

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is creative, produced by Creative and use by Creative. A few days ago I read an interesting post from OMG!Ubuntu, "There is a Ubuntu Lovers make a song that dedicated to Ubuntu ans FOSS", hmm .. it was very impressive.

Who is  he ?
A man that create the song is Benjamin Kerensa, A blogger that lives in Portland, Oregon. here's some information about him http://benjaminkerensa.com/.

While listening to this song I do not stop kept laughing, prove, through Ubuntu you not only can create great application or bugs but also songs like this, Great job guys !!. check this and listen :



Want to create another job like this ?  we are waiting for your work guys.

Mint-Z is default Gnome Shell Theme that use in Linux Mint 12 'Lisa'. As other Linux distro does, Linux Mint 12 come with special features/appearance that show their identity, therefore Mint-Z is believed to be the identity of Lisa 'Linux Mint 12'.

Mint-Z is theme that based on Zukitwo but honestly it's not much different from Zukitwo, i notice only a few changes happen including replacing the Activities button with Linux Mint logo, changing the Shell colours, and fixing the GTK3 menu scroll buttons. Although it designed for Linux Mint you can install it in Ubuntu.

Hi Everyone,

Today i will introduce one of a dictionary application in Linux/Ubuntu that is Gwaei, Gwaei is OpenSource English - Japanese dictionary which translate English to Japanese word by word (sometime phrase). Gwaei provide some dictionary option that you can choose, some of them are English - Japanese Dictionary, Kanji Dictionary, Name and Place Dictionary.

Gwai Screenshot

Linux Mint 12 Lisa released, since yesterday it's no longer 'RC'. All the ease of Ubuntu has available there and cover with more attractive packaging.

Yesterday, Linux Mint 12 Lisa officially release and ready to download on their mirror page. Since distrowatch put them into the most popular linux today, Linux Mint getting recognized and liked by linux lovers as well as Ubuntu alternative.

Linux Mint 12 Code Name Lisa Screenshot

Gmail Watcher is a Google Mail Reader and Notifier for Ubuntu which made by Owais Lone. It support multi account, realtime notifications, and preferences sync through UbuntuOne.

Gmail Watcher give NotifyOSD notification

• Multiple Accounts
• Google Apps support
• Secure password storage using Gnome-Keyring
• Themable unread emails page
• Preferences sync using U1

apt-get is a small command of linux which have great function that is install application to the system, apt-get (aptitude) is previously used in debian but now it's available in every linux distro (or at least some application with similar functions eg:yum). In ubuntu apt-get is also used by other programs (collaborated) like synaptics and Ubuntu Software Center, but more than that, apt-get it self contain/have important options that are often missed by user. Here a some important apt-get option that you should know

dist-upgrade
Function : this option is use when we need upgrade Package and "Distribution", if you want to upgrade Ubuntu 11.10 to ubuntu 12.04 this is a simple option to get upgraded from terminal, what's differences from upgrade (apt-get upgrade) ?. The dist-upgrade option not only will upgrade all of the currently installed packages but will upgrade all dependencies that depend on its.
Example of using :

apt-get dist-upgrade

Yesterday Turpial 1.6.6 stable has officially release, Turpial 1.6.6 now support autologin at startup and new support of shorted url service that is goo.gl and imgur which has existed since the beta. Here following changes taken from its release notes :

• Support for imgur and goo.gl services
• Improves in graphic interface
• Autologin

AutoLogin at startup

May you've know what Portable Application is, an application which can be run without any installation, can be taken everywhere, and can be easily execute without any dependencies on Guest OS. The Portable Application can give a solution at the time we need to open/run specific application/file in a computer that are not ours and we are not allowed to install something there.

For Windows user, i think they familiar with this, there are so many portable application that you can find in windows (Free/Non-Free), some of them may be able to meet in here http://portableapps.com/.

For Ubuntu/Linux user, we also have portable application which you can run cross Ubuntu/Linux desktop, stored in a Flash Drive, and can be easily distributed. Here following portable linux/ubuntu application sorted by their usefulness:

* note : Not all of following application has been tested by me, all application bellow is originally provide by http://portablelinuxapps.org/, just download it, make it executable and run.

Ubuntu's Kernel Release Manager, Leanne Ogasawara at UDS-P has give a statement that Ubuntu 12.04 will use Kernel 3.2 (Not Kernel 3.3), They decided to use the Kernel 3.2 after some consideration such insufficient time for kernel 3.3 to be safely implemented. Check out the following interview video, for more details :

Linux Mint 12 RC has release, comes with several application which didn't available in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric. 

Linux Mint 12 RC is known as derivative of Ubuntu but at a time its popularity exceeds ubuntu, as we wrote in here, Linux Mint 12 RC comes with two option of desktop environment that is GNOME 3.2 and GNOME 3.2 + MATE, MATE is a fork of GNOME 2 that integrated with GNOME 3, so we can say that we can use GNOME 3 without leaving GNOME 2 looks.

Linux Mint 12 Application in Ubuntu 11.10
You can install MATE and other Linux Mint 12 application such MGSE in Ubuntu by adding Linux Mint 12 application to software repository, so you can taste Linux Mint 12 without leaving Ubuntu. read following step to add / Install Linux Mint 12 Application in Ubuntu :

Linux Mint is Linux Distribution that based on Ubuntu, Linux Mint 12 RC has been release along with the release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric. So .. what's features inside ? .

Linux Mint 12 RC has been release. Linux Mint 12 was built based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Gnome 3.2, what changes inside and what's features which makes different from Ubuntu 11.10. Check following review :

Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn't take much space on your desktop. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together. And fortunately, you can run it on Linux including Ubuntu natively. So, today I'd like to show you how to install and configure Rainlendar on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Unity as default interface, although Unity run on top of Gnome 3, the appearance and functionality between Unity and Gnome-Shell was  different. In this post, I will show you some of keyboard shortcut of Unity you should know, knowing some keyboard shortcut of course will speed up your work.

Here some list of Unity keyboard shortcut you should know : 

Launcher

• Hold Super – Show launcher.
• Hold Super, then 1 or 2 or 3 and so on until 0 – Opens or puts focus to an application. The number actually corresponds to the location of the icon on the launcher from top to bottom.
• Adding Shift will open a new instance of the application if it’s already open.
• Super+T – Opens the trash can.
• Alt+F1 – Put keyboard focus on the Launcher, use arrow keys to navigate, Enter launches an application, Right arrow exposes the quick lists if an application has them.
• Ctrl+Alt+T – Launch a terminal window.

Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories. Although it is an "Ubuntu-based" distribution, Linux Mint have successfully beaten its predecessor, Ubuntu in popularity.

Hello everyone! Good to see you again. Today I'd like to write a tutorial on how to install Google Earth on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Google Earth is one of Google products acts as a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. It's a great application and fortunately you can run it natively on Ubuntu including the latest Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Google has launched Google+ pages, now you can create a Google+ Pages for your community, website, brand, product, and Organization. Here step by step to create Google+ pages for your Community

Login to Google+
Before start creating Google+ pages, you must be registered in Google+. Start creating Google+ pages by log in to your Google+ Account.

Google+ login pages

Is Google+ logo changed ?

Today, when i was check in Google+, I see something different from before, the Google+ favicon has been changed, is this new Google+ logo, was you notice at this changes ?

Google+ new Logo ?

Eventually Firefox 8 Final has release and available for download, even though it's still not available in Mozilla Firefox Official page, you can download Firefox 8 through Mozilla Firefox FTP (official FTP page that maintain by Mozilla team). What new features inside Firefox 8 and what changes has happened since its last release ?, here some notable change regarding to Firefox 8 features release page, and Key Points of the Study taken from techdrivein.com :

Firefox 8 Notable Changes

• Add People Search to Firefox (Twitter)
• Silent Update: Lessen the showing of the what's new page
• Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand
• Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps
• Confirm add-ons on upgrade     

Except of using screenshot (using an image), sometimes needed to capture desktop screen using video to show the way of to do something or take some demo or and illustration. there's a good news for Gnome Shell (Gnome 3) user, because they don't need to install any additional application to record their desktop activity using video.

There is build in desktop video recording tool/screen recording tool inside of Gnome shell, you can easily capture desktop activity by pressing shortcut ctrl+shift+alt+r , after pressing ctrl+shift+alt+r  you will see such notification in the bottom right corner of your desktop, when you see the notification, Gnome will start record your desktop, see following screenshot.

Dear Readers! How are you doing? I hope everything is well. Today I'd like to show you how to use Pidgin for chatting and transferring files on local network. You can do this even without Internet connection. Let's get started.

AwOken is alternative icon set that created by alecive, if you have known Faenza Icon Set, this icon set is no different from it, AwOken giving alternative appearance of some icon that exist in ubuntu. AwOken Icon Set has come to version 2.3, following this to install AwOken Icon set 2.3 in Ubuntu 11.10.

AwOken Icon Set 2.3

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alecive/antigone
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install awoken-icon-theme

awoken-icon-theme-customization   

Dear readers! Today I'd like to show you how to reset your lost Ubuntu password using Live CD. This trick should not be used for doing something bad with someone else. The main purpose of this trick is to recover your lost Ubuntu password.

Now, prepare your Ubuntu Live CD and boot your computer from it until the desktop appears. Once, the desktop is ready, open Terminal and type the following command:

• gksudo nautilus

Changing a wallpaper maybe is a good idea when you feel bored and loss idea when doing something using computer, Here are 10 great wallpapers selected by ubuntubuzz.com which will refreshing your desktop and relaxing your mind.

All wallpapers bellow was randomly taken from deviantart, you can visit its original page by provided links. * thanks to all artist which has create and share his great job..

Cereal4. Wall Pack by ~Little-Whittle

• Original page
• Download The wallpaper here

Gnome Font Setting is small application that allow us to change the font appearance in Gnome Desktop, Gnome Font Setting is default application in Ubuntu 11.04 or less but seems disappears in Ubuntu 11.10. Gnome Font Setting can be used to set global appearance of desktop font, interface font (eg : terminal font) and document font (eg : office Application and epdf).

Gnome Font Setting

Diaspora is an open-source and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables you to own your own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web. It is a 100% volunteer-run, open, non-profit organization, which means that their users do everything from open-source software development to spreading the word to translations to graphic design to providing support to fellow users, among other things.

System76 release ultra portable laptop which pre-installed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, for those who has a plan to buy a new laptop/notebook/netbook System76 Lemur ultra 14" could be your choice, here the specs and benchmark :

System76 Lemur Ultra

• Ultra Portable, Ultra Powerful
• Processor: 2nd Generation Intel Core i5 and i7 CPU's
• Core Logic: HM65 Chipset
• Display: 14.1" HD Widescreen LED Display (1366 x 768)
• Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
• Memory: up to 8 GB DDR3 @ 1333 MHz
• Storage: up to 750 GB SATA II/III
• Touchpad: Multitouch with two finger scrolling
• Networking: Gigabit LAN (10/100/1000), WiFi
• Wireless: 802.11 bgn or Intel 802.11 abgn
• Ports: HDMI, VGA, 3 x USB 2.0, SD Card Reader
• Audio Ports: Headphone Jack, Microphone Jack
• Camera: Built-In 1.3 MP Webcam
• Security: Kensington® Lock
• Power Management: Suspend & Hibernate
• Battery: 6 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery Pack
• Power System: Full Range AC adapter 65W, AC in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC output 19V, 3.42A or 18.5V, 3.5A
• Dimensions: 13.38" x 9.37" x 0.98"~1.31" (WxDxH)
• Weight: 4.71 lbs. (2.13 kg.

As a self-educated person in Linux and open-source, reading e-books is one of my methods to learn Linux. There are a lot e-books on the Internet talking about Linux and other computer stuff, but getting them in one place is too difficult because they are spread at the certain place on the Internet. Today, I'd like to share my e-books collection in one place so you can browse and download it easily. My collection contains many kinds of e-books about Linux, open-source, programming, and another computer stuff.

The latest Full Circle Magazine issue #54 publishes the result of its readers polling about "What age do you think the average Linux user is?" and "What is your age?". According to the polling result, most of users said 20-29 years old is average Linux users and 30-39 years old is the age of most readers.

The book writer said:

There are total of 101 hacks in this book that will help you build a strong foundation in Linux. All the hacks in this book are explained with appropriate Linux command examples that are easy to follow.

This book contains 12 chapters. Hacks mentioned in 6 chapters are based on the articles that I’ve already posted on my blog. Hacks mentioned in rest of the 6 chapters are brand new.

I have created a bundle from Full Circle Magazine contains C/C++ Programming in Linux. By reading this bundle, you will know how to get started developing C/C++ application in Linux. This bundle covers how to set up your environment for C/C++ development including required libraries, create simple C/C++ application in Linux, etc.

Mozilla Thunderbird has replace an Evolution presence in Ubuntu (Since Ubuntu 11.04), there is nothing wrong with this replacement, this is only a policy of canonical to make a good movement for Ubuntu in the future (just like switching from Gnome Desktop to Unity).

Thunderbird 7.0.1 a default mail application in Ubuntu 11.10

Dead Cyborg is Sci-Fi based adventure game. Is is free to play, you can play it whenever you want but don't forget to donate if you like it :) It has an easy game play, there is no action just adventure. All you need to do is explore, search and think. Dead Cyborg is divided into episodes, each episode can be finished in 2 - 3 hours. When this article is written, Dead Cyborg has finished episode 1 and episode 2 is in 65% progress.

Wine has come to version 1.3.31, although it's still development release, you can install it over PPA. Use following to Install / Upgrade to Wine 1.3.31 via PPA for Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty, Lucid, Karmic, and Jaunty.

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
• sudo apt-get update &&sudo apt-get install wine1.3

• http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.3.31.tar.bz2

• BiDi text support in the single-line edit control.
• Support for StretchDIBits and AlphaBlend in the DIB engine.
• A number of audio fixes.
• VBScript improvements.
• Various bug fixes.

Typoo is a small application written with Gambas that can be used for boosting and or testing your typing speed. It is a language-independent application because it uses external text files loaded into Typoo and you have to type the loaded file.

Blender is professional Open Source 3D modelling suit that's runs in Ubuntu (which also available for windows), yesterday October 19th, 2011 The Blender Foundation and online developer community release Blender version 2.60, what changes inside ?

Blender 2.60 Splash Screen

Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. It’s based on Apple’s “Quicklook”. GNOME 3.2 have its own quick file previewer called gnome-sushi. You can install it by typing "sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi". But if you want to use Gloobus Preview instead because it supports more file types, you can install it on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot easily.

Turpial is Open Source twitter client application writes with python, though my opinion turpial is the best twitter client application ever which run in Ubuntu compared with Choqok, qtwit even gwibber. Turpial have good a appearance (some point having good icons), performance (you have a lot of setting inside), and User Friendly GUI that make us quickly to understand some function that available.

CoverGloobus version 1.7.3 released and available in PPA since 22 October 2011

CoverGloobus is great desktop goodies which lets us having audio player control in our desktop, CoverGloobus is seems like desktop widget which having access to some Audio Player such us Banshee, VLC, Clementine, Rhythmbox, Listen, and Songbird to control its current playing song (play, pause, skip forward, and skip backward). CoverGloobus come to version 1.7.3, add some features like progress bar, timer support, so download and update.  CoverGloobus is product of Gloobus-dev (a creator of Gloobus Preview) team.

Driver for Epson printers can be installed automatically on Ubuntu 11.04 (and later) when you plug your printer to computer. For many reasons, you are still using old-version of Ubuntu, you can still easily download and install various Epson printers driver for Ubuntu. There are a lot of supported printer models, here are some of them.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS codename 'Precise Pangolin' scheduled release at April 2012, Ubuntu 12.04 will become latest Ubuntu Long Term Support since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. LTS (Long Term Support) means Ubuntu version which usually have 3 years technical support from connonical, especially for Ubuntu server edition it will be 5 years support. Read more information about LTS here.

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Ubuntu 12.04 time support

We Feel so pleased yesterday when some visitor say that "Ubuntu 11.10 Works out of the box in MacBook Pro 5.4/5.5/6.4/8.1"   

After that, we google it to find more information, here summary of Install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot in MacBook Pro.

Unlike Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot recognize almost all hardware of MacBook Pro and some of them works out of the box without any setting such us : VGA Intel HD, Multitouch Trackpad, FacetimeHD Camera, Sound, CardReader, Monitor brightness and Keyboard Bakclight. When I was looking for any reference on the net some errors that we encountered among others Bluetooth and MacBook Pro Wireless. Here some required setting to install Ubuntu 11.10 in Macbook Pro

Gwibber 3.4 plans to integrate with Google+ in ones of their services, this notes taken from Ken VanDine blog (creator of Gwibber).

Gwibber 3.4 will available in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin but we strongly hope that we can taste it in Ubuntu 11.10, with the new Gwibber client, there aren’t really many new “features” however it is important to note not all previous features made it in (Ken van dine says). Some working on progress that we can see in Gwibber 3.4 launchpad are :

• Add Google+ Service to Gwibber, Gwibber "Smooth scrolling",
• CPU usage shoots up when opening new tweet box, 
• Ability to post images & attachments to identi.ca & status.net, and
• Facebook send messages, user profiles, comments, and likes.

After installing the ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, may some people feel not so satisfied with the performance or appearances (Unity), Although this situation has occurred since Ubuntu 11.04 some of ubuntu user seems still unsatisfied although Unity now runs on top of Gnome 3 platform (GTK3). Some advice  to who are less satisfied with some Ubuntu change, "come on guys, all people do the change, let's change!", don't say that Gnome 2 is better ever.

When you run VirtualBox at the first time on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, you may get this following error message: "Failed to access the USB subsystem. VirtualBox is not currently allowed to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for more detailed explanation."

Recently, I have wrote about how to limit apt-get download speed. Today, I'd like to show you cross-purposed applications called apt-fast and apt-proz. Both of them can boost your apt-get download speed by using such an engine, apt-fast use Axel engine and apt-proz use ProZilla engine. They can do parallel download, so as expected, your download speed is faster than usig reguler apt-get operation.

Apt-Fast

After Ubuntu 11.10 released now its turn of Mozilla Firefox to release thier product, yesterday Firefox development team release Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly) and ready to download via FTP or install via PPA.

• Download Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly build)

ProZilla is ncurses based download accelerator that supports parallel downloads, HTTP and FTP downloads with FTP search feature. FTP search means ProZilla can search fastest FTP mirror for faster download speed. Because it based on ncurses, ProZilla is lightweight download accelerator too.