October 5, 2010 · General · 3 comments

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.
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October 4, 2010 · General · 6 comments

If you want to remove old kernel versions from your ubuntu system easy way is using ubuntu tweak.
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October 2, 2010 · General · 4 comments

MyNotex is a free software for Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length plain text; up to the present version of MyNotex, this cannot be formatted (no italic, bold, etc.), but the software can manage bullets and numbered lists, although without automatic indentation. A single file of MyNotex contains various subjects and notes.
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October 1, 2010 · General · 1 comment

Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005[2]. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod, Android devices and Creative's ZEN players.[3] Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is available for Linux as well as Mac OS X operating systems.

Install latest version of banshee music player in ubuntu 10.10/10.04/9.10

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:banshee-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install banshee

Thanks to our reader adam for this

September 30, 2010 · News · 3 comments

Ubuntu 10.10 Release Candidate. Codenamed "Maverick Meerkat", 10.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open
source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
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