Be it GNOME or KDE, most Linux power users prefer to have their desktops slick and geeky with screenlets, gadgets, docks or conky. But I on the other hand (cannot call myself a power user) like to keep my Ubuntu desktop clean without any visual clutter by preventing nautilus from drawing icons. It is only [...]
For the Linux newbie from a noob Scenario: You have quite a large number of zip files in a folder with other files and would like to avoid manual labor of extracting one file at a time. The below graphic is the result of extracting an e-book downloaded from the web in compressed format. Solution: [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2008 in Tips
Being a master’s student, I always have something to do with Microsoft Word. Be it assignments, lab results or project reports not a week goes by without having to use winword in the run dialog. It gets even worse when I am forced to type in lines of equations having subscripts and superscripts. Its a [...]
The “Archive Manager” that is built into Ubuntu (Ubuntu is the only Linux distro that I have tried so far) to handle archive formats has no native support for the .rar format. Try opening a .rar file with the Archive Manager and you are presented with an error. Fixing this problem requires installation of an [...]
I am a movie buff and prefer downloading my movies rather than watching online. I am also particular about downloading only .avi files, as they are the most common and usually have the best prints. Off late, I’ve been trying to do all my computer related work in Ubuntu, trying to avoid Windows to the [...]
