CODEWEAVERS WILL BE GIVING AWAY CROSSOVER FOR FREE FOR ONE DAY

Codeweaver, the maker of crossover software which allows you to run Windows applications in Linux & MacOS with the help of Wine, will be giving away its award wining software for free for one day.

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Ubuntu 8.10 RC1 is here

A week before the final release of Ubuntu 8.10, the guys at Canonical has released the last testing version RC1. Since this is only RC1, no changes in the features was expected. As discussed in my previous post, two system tools USBLive and System Cleaner, will be bundled with Ubuntu 8.10, change of the wallpaper, [...]

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Three easy steps to carry Ubuntu 8.10 in a pen drive

Spent countless hours figuring how to install Ubuntu to make use of those extra GBs in your pen drive? It just need three easy steps.

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Mozilla released Firefox 3.1 Beta1. Try it now!

Mozilla just released Beta1 of Firefox 3.1 browser. They haven’t yet made the official announcement though.
The noticeable features include Ctrl+Tab 3D browser, faster JavaScript performance, and Open a new tab button just like Internet Explorer 7. If you want to give a try, here is how to install it:

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Open Office 3.0 final officially announced; expect a record downloads

As expected, Open Office 3.0 has been officially released today and due to heavy demand for the new release, only a couple of links are available for downloading the packages. The official site is down (literally) and only a plain page appears with a couple of links for downloading the packages.

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Analyze and visualize your Gmail-ing trends

Want to know who sends you the emails most often, or which is the year/month/day/hour you receive the emails most? With the help of a handy program called mail-trends you can easily visualize your Gmail-ing activities. Though it is a command line program but the output is a graphically rich interactive html file. And take [...]

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Customizing Your GRUB Screen

Ever wanted to show your favorite image as your GRUB splash screen in Ubuntu something similar to other distros such as Fedora? Follow these steps:

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Video & Voice Chating in Ubuntu

In this article I will show you how to make your webcam work in Ubuntu Linux 7.10 without even without opening the terminal window once. I pre-assume your microphone is working, if not leave a comment and then I will help you. You would have more pain to make your video work in Windows than [...]

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Install MS Office 2007 in Linux

Though there are many alternatives for MS Office, no doubt MS Office 2007 is a winner. If you want to install MS 2007 in Linux follow these steps:

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Install Bulky Linux Distribution Without Burning a CD

This tutorial is about installing Fedora Linux without burning a CD/DVD.
Scenario/ Assumption:
1) You have Microsoft Windows
2) You have your system drive as C: (No matter whether it is FAT or NTFS)
3) You have Fedora .ISO files in the root directory of some partition (the partition must be FAT!)
4) You need to have a program that [...]

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