TechTickle

For Maverick users, a common problem that occurs many times specially in Ubuntu 10.04 is that in the notification applet area, our network manager sign or better say, the applet doesn’t show up. And even on restarting the applet, it shows that “this service is already running” or to be more precise something similar to [...]

In the vast arena of music players, RealPlayer plays a unique part in the field. It is handy, useful and robust tool which includes the exciting online features like that of the downloading of streaming flash videos like that of YouTube and all other sites or online music store. To install the RealPlayer in Ubuntu first we are required to install the bin file of it.

GNU image manipulation Program, commonly known as GIMP is a multi-platform tool to edit, compose or manipulate images. This free tool is one of the top competitors to Adobe Photoshop, mostly used by Linux users. GIMP has been removed from the default Ubuntu installation a while back. GIMP 2.6.11 was released few days ago, the same [...]

Now that Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is available, there are some applications worth installing on your system. One such application is VirtualBox. Its a multi-platform software package; in case you haven’t heard about it before. With Vitrualbox installed on your system, you can have an additional (guest) operating system installation within the VirtualBox. You may [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]