December 3, 2009 · General · 1 comment

Ubun-student is an enhancement/configuration application. Its developers think that it is better to allow users to learn how to operate, than the mere provision of functionality, for Ubun-student. Therefore it aims at telling users Ubuntu enhancement tricks. After you launch it, a "Tip of the day" dialog appears, which contains 29 tricks about GConf keys and 9 tricks about Bash commands, such as how to clean-up Nautilus thumbnail cache, how to reclaim d-cache memory. There are also some tricks in tool-tip text.

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December 2, 2009 · Package Mgmt · 7 comments

There is a very simple command that reinstalls all the distribution packages and reconfigures them automatically. This is particularly helpful when you have done a partial upgrade and eventually have broken the system dependencies tree.

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December 2, 2009 · General · 2 comments

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. It is designed for Firefox, Flock  and Seamonkey, and will run on any platform that these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS  X and Linux.
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November 30, 2009 · General · 3 comments

New Wave -- Chronos is a theme with a script to change the title bar according to time.

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