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Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, April 6, 2025 at 22:28

How To Create and Edit Custom Desktop Shortcuts on Ubuntu GNOME

This tutorial will help you creating desktop shortcuts with icons on GNOME desktop environment in general and Ubuntu 24.04 computer system in particular. We divide this tutorial into three sections, first is to create basic shortcut on desktop, second is to create a custom shortcut for a custom program or command line or shell script and third is to edit existing applications menu to suit your needs. This works for other systems as well for example Debian, Fedora and Guix. Now, let us start practicing!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, October 13, 2024 at 22:38

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole Released with Download Links, Mirrors and Torrents

Congratulations to Canonical for the release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" on Thursday 10 October 2024! We happily welcome the latest, greatest Free/Libre Open Source Software and Technology coming with Ubuntu Oracular! In this listing, we collected the download links, mirrors and torrents as well as checksums of all Official Flavors. We also completed it with links to the Announcements and Release Notes from each official project and we hope you experience the best computing and community with the Ubuntu family.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 23:01

LibreOffice: How To Embed Fonts in Document

This tutorial will help you place copies of fonts inside document with LibreOffice. This helps digital document compatibility and interoperability with other software users especially when they use different systems. This can help solve missing fonts issue which often hinders people adopting free software and GNU/Linux. Now let's try it out!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, May 23, 2023 at 22:46

Safely Convert Hard Disk to GPT without Data Loss

We want to share with you a note from our experience in converting a 320GB hard disk drive from MBR to GPT without data loss. We use gdisk, a famous tool by Roderick "Rodsbooks" Smith, and do several steps to finish it in a very quick time. Here's the results.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, January 30, 2023 at 00:13

How To Setup Ubuntu Computer for Chinese Writing Input

This tutorial will help you configure Ubuntu computer so you can write Chinese input () using keyboard. This is not to be confused with switching desktop language to Chinese as it has been documented in another tutorial. In this tutorial, we will use IBus technology and Noto CJK font provided built-in on Ubuntu. Lastly, we use Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa for this tutorial. Let's start!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Monday, January 9, 2023 at 22:32

How To Switch Ubuntu Desktop Language to Chinese

This tutorial will help you switching Ubuntu user interface language to Chinese (汉语, Hànyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén). We offer you both choices of Simplified (简化字, Jiǎnhuàzì) and Traditional Chinese (正體字, Zhèngtǐzì). This will change the language of basically everything you see on the screen including login screens, menus and buttons, calendar and locale / regional format. For example, once switched you will immediately see Files, Writer and Clock all turned into Chinese characters. We also included a procedure to revert back to English language in case you need it. Finally, we write this as an aid for our friends Ubuntu computer users whose language is Chinese everywhere including China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau and Taiwan.

(Ubuntu 20.04 with Simplified Chinese user interface)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 23:41

How To Make Bulletin with LibreOffice Writer

This tutorial will help you to create bulletin with LibreOffice Writer. You will make one with example documents you can download below. We name it "Humanity", will use Wikipedia article as source text, and simply use available fonts on Ubuntu like Ubuntu Font as well as FreeSerif. Now let's exercise!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 23:58

Beginner's Guide to Run Windows Apps and Games via Wine on Ubuntu

This tutorial will help you to use Microsoft Windows programs and games on Ubuntu using Wine software. You will start by examples we provide (FOSS only) and getting familiar to installing, running, managing and removing programs. We also supply further references for you to learn more. Enjoy!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 23:42

How To Setup C++/gtkmm Programming Tools on Ubuntu

This tutorial will help ypu installing software required to develop desktop Ubuntu applications with C++ language and GTKmm library version 4. You might want to do so following examples of the excellent programs created with GTKmm like Ardour, Inkscape, GParted, Rawtherapee and even VisualBoyAdvance. This is an alternative to programming with C/GTK as we published back in 2018. We will show you how to prepare the tools, write your first program, compile it and repeat it.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 16:13

Scrcpy: Control Your Android Phone Screen from Ubuntu Laptop

This tutorial will help you to use Scrcpy (screen copy) program so you can remotely and visually control your Android phone from Ubuntu laptop. Fortunately, it is available on Ubuntu and does not require root to work. This is useful for surprisingly many purposes will be explained below, including being helpful when your screen is damaged. Now let's try this excellent program!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 00:17

Getting Started to Rust Programming on Ubuntu

You might want to learn Rust on Ubuntu. Rust is a new computer programming language in the same categories as older ones namely C, C++ and Java. Using it, one can make programs for desktop, laptop, web and server as well as embedded computers. Created by Mozilla in 2010, Rust is now growing to be used to develop many critical software including some you use everyday, such as Firefox's Quantum engine, a FOSS remote desktop called RustDesk, and a new operating system called Redox OS. This tutorial will help you install required tools and write code in Rust. Don't worry to exercise as we also include uninstall steps too. What are you waiting for? Now let's try Rust for sure.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, October 28, 2022 at 08:47

How To Install Packages from Ubuntu Backports Repository

Backports repository is useful for Ubuntu users who want newer versions of certain software packages (including development tools, hardware drivers) only available in the newer OS release. For example, in Focal, we only get LibreOffice 6.4 at best, while to get LibreOffice 7 we usually should upgrade the OS version instead the software version. How to upgrade the software only? Ubuntu gives us Backports repository in order to solve this issue. This tutorial will explain in simple manners with examples to do that.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 08:11

How To Type Arabic with Buckwalter Layout on Ubuntu GNOME and KDE

This tutorial will explain how to enable two keyboard layouts on Ubuntu GNOME or KDE namely English (US) and Arabic (Buckwalter). The goal is to help you type Arabic on computer by using standard physical QWERTY keyboard without having an Arabic one. Now let's try it.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, May 8, 2022 at 21:11

How To Download Ubuntu in Step by Step

This tutorial explains in step by step how you can download Ubuntu computer operating system from the internet. This includes various methods to do so, among them are via torrents and mirrors, and how to further verify the ISO file with the official checksums. This excludes how to create a bootable media, as it's been covered in a separate tutorial. We hope this article helps everyone in adopting Ubuntu into their computing starting from the most basic things.

ashar_oz Monday, March 21, 2022 at 11:45

API Documentation: Meaning & Best Practices

API is the acronym for Application Programming Interface. It works as a software intermediary that allows two applications to talk to each other securely.

When you use an application connected to the Internet, it sends data to a server. The server retrieves that data, interprets it, performs the necessary actions, and sends it back to your device. The application then interprets that data. Finally, it is presented to you, the user, in a universally understood and easy-to-use way. All of this happens via an API. It shares data, resources, even software across different applications without compromising privacy and maintaining a layer of abstraction.

Modern APIs adhere to standards (typically HTTP and REST) that are developer-friendly, easily accessible, and understood broadly. They are treated more like products than code and designed for specific audiences like mobile developers. According to MuleSoft, APIs have become so valuable that they comprise a large part of many businesses' revenue, like Google, eBay, Salesforce.com, Amazon, Expedia, etc.