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The Document Foundation has launched the first stable release of LibreOffice, the free and Open Source office suite, forked from OpenOffice. The first release, LibreOffice 3.3 has been developed by a community of over a hundred developers who managed to release the office suite, ahead of the release schedule. Features of LibreOffice 3.3 Along with [...]

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.

Ubuntu comes with the default Dictionary, that can be accessed from the pathways “Applications → Office → Dictionary”. The only problem associated with it is that, it’s an Online Dictionary, that is, you need to have access to Internet, to look-up for word meanings in the Dictionary. You cannot use it otherwise, only after a [...]

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 [...]

You may have tried the Radiance to theme up Linux in Ubuntu. The light colored theme gives a cool look to the distro, but if you use Google Chrome as well, you must have noticed that the default theme doesn’t go well with the Radiance theme. In case you missed the Maverick Meerkat Day, download [...]

Clementine is a music player for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX users, inspired by Amarok 1.4, providing users with a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. We already told you on how to install Amarok 1.4 in Ubuntu Lucid, Karmic & Jaunty Linux. Linux users must have heard about Amarok 1.4 which is still [...]