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Step By Step Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) LAMP Server Setup

Posted Mon, 2010-08-30 08:35 by gg234

In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache,MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components.

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How to install Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.6 beta in ubuntu 10.04/9.10

Posted Fri, 2010-08-27 08:15 by gg234

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system ptions that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.With its help, you will enjoy with the experience of Ubuntu!

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How to install Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu

Posted Fri, 2010-08-20 13:26 by gg234

For those of you who ave ever tried Linux Mint, a distro which is run off the back of Ubuntu, you will have oticed that it has it’s own special and somewhat unique gnome menu to select your applications to run, folders to browse etc

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Torrent Search - Torrent searching application for the Gnome desktop environment

Posted Wed, 2010-08-18 10:27 by gg234

Torrent Search is a torrent searching application for the Gnome desktop environment. It looks for torrent files on different websites, and allows the user
to filter the results, making it very easy to find the torrent you want.

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Creating a VPN in Minutes Using Remobo

Posted Wed, 2010-08-11 12:02 by gg234

Remobo is a free software which can be used to replace the paid versions of existing difficult to use VPN setups as it can create a VPN instantly and securely. It lets you login easily and add users to your buddy list, and create a secure network for you. In private chat messaging, the file sharing client helps share information within the buddy list as well. Remobo lets you control your computer and access files securely while away from the system.

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How To Make Windows 7 look like Ubuntu

Posted Sun, 2010-08-08 07:19 by gg234

This tutorial will explain step by step how to Make your Windows 7 look like Ubuntu.

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GCstar - An application for managing your movie/games collection

Posted Wed, 2010-08-04 09:19 by gg234

GCstar is a free open source application for managing your collections. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the internet and you can store additional data, such as the location or who you’ve lent it to. You may also search and filter your collection by many criteria.

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Ubuntu tweak 0.5.5 released with Purge PPA and installation instructions inside

Posted Tue, 2010-07-27 16:01 by gg234

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn’t provide.

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Usenet Resource Downloader (URD)

Posted Wed, 2010-07-14 16:11 by gg234

URD is a program to download binaries from usenet (newsgroups) through a web interface.While some other programs offer similar services (e.g. Ninan, Sabnzbd), URD doesn’t need external NZB files to function. URD lets you subscribe to newsgroups, and will then automatically analyse those articles to form downloadable ‘sets’,consisting of all the files belonging to a specific upload. These sets are displayed, and through point and click you can be downloading a binary in no time.

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Installing WordPress 3.0 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Posted Thu, 2010-07-08 15:26 by gg234

WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link manager, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, file attachments, XFN support, support for stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments, blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.

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Macchanger – Utility for manipulating the MAC address of network interfaces (Included GUI Utility)

Posted Thu, 2010-07-01 12:14 by gg234

macchanger is a Linux utility for viewing/manipulating the MAC address for network interfaces.This tutorial will explain how to change mac address from command line and using GUI tool.

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Decibel Audio Player – Simple and nice music player for the GNOME desktop

Posted Mon, 2010-06-28 16:14 by gg234

Decibel Audio Player is a GTK+ open-source (GPL) audio player for GNU/Linux. It is very straightforward to use thanks to a clean and user-friendly interface. It is especially targeted at Gnome and follows the Gnome HIG.Decibel Audio Player is built around a highly modular structure that lets the user disable completely the
features he does not need. A disabled feature uses absolutely no memory and no processor time.

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agedu - Simple utility for tracking down wasted disk space

Posted Wed, 2010-06-23 09:37 by gg234

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago.

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Setting up ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) server with squid 3 as a Transparent Proxy

Posted Tue, 2010-06-22 09:09 by gg234

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows and is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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How to access windows host shared folders from ubuntu guest in Virtualbox

Posted Fri, 2010-06-11 15:00 by gg234

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).This tutorial will explain How to access windows host shared folders from ubuntu guest in Virtualbox.

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