Google has finally enabled a fully-featured Google voice and video chat for Linux users. As per the announcement, it was one of the top requested features. Voice and video chat for Linux, currently supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions only and RPM support is expected to come soon. Nearly two years ago, Google launched [...]

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu announced the codename for Ubuntu 11.04 to be ”Natty Narwhal”. The announcement came in this morning with a blog post explaining the reason behind the codename to be chosen. Some of you might be aware of the 6 month release cycle, making it possible for Ubuntu team to release new [...]

Ubuntu team has announced the release of Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS. The first maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) comes with security updates and bug fixes to maintain stability with 10.04. The release includes updated desktop, server and installation CDs for i386 and amd64 architectures. An updated installation media has been provided to make [...]

Eclipse is one of the most popular software Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Written primarily in Java, it is an open source IDE that can be installed to develop Java, C, C++, Python, Perl  based applications. It has an extensible plugin system that can be used to develop applications. The tutorial is intended to show you how [...]

Sometimes it becomes difficult to add PPA (Personal Package Archive) repositories for a software or application to Linux distro just because to cannot find them easily . Recently I came across this amazing Google Chrome Extension named PPASearch. This is a lifesaver extension for all Ubuntu users. Searching PPA’s for Linux in Launchpad Though the extension [...]

While randomly surfing for PPA’s, I came across this amazing software script Cover Thumbnailer that allows you to have an easy to navigate music collection in Ubuntu Linux. It enhances the way your music collection folders look, generating album covers for music folders. Its simply searches through the cover pictures inside any album folder and [...]

From the day I started using Linux, I have been trying to fiddle around with the workspaces and my tips box is full of many tutorials that I will be sharing with you in future as well. This tutorial is intended to show you how to have different wallpapers on each of your workspaces. Also [...]