Posted on Sunday, 5th September 2010 by Neeta

I recently bought an external HDD with the sole purpose of using it for keeping my work safe and at the same time using it to work with Ubuntu during office hours. I used Gparted for creating partitions. On one partition ext3, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and the other two partitions were formatted to FAT32 [...]

Tags: Bootlaoder, Chainloader, Grub, Grub2, Ubuntu and Windows on Grub
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Posted on Saturday, 4th September 2010 by Neeta

Ubuntu 10.10 is due to arrive next month (10/10, of course) and it is certain that Ubuntu would keep its date with 10th Oct 2010 deadline. There are many features which this edition of Ubuntu has tried to focus on. The list of these features are maintained here at  Maverick blueprint list. The development would continue [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 29th August 2010 by Neeta

Blogging has today become very common. Persons from all walks of life blog today. While most of bloggers resort to Windows Live Writer while working on Windows OS but Linux users are not that lucky. There is certainly no comparable equivalent in real terms as far WLW is concerned but there are many alternatives which can [...]

Tags: Blog Writer
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Posted on Saturday, 28th August 2010 by Neeta

Wine makes you run Windows software programs on Linus OS like Ubuntu. Wine is still under development and there are many millions of people who have installed Wine on their computers. Wine 1.2 is a stable edition while Wine 1.3 is still under Beta. There are many applications which are listed under Platinum, Gold and [...]

Tags: Wine, WineTricks
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Posted on Sunday, 22nd August 2010 by Neeta

RSS or the Really Simple Syndication feeds are generally employed by media outlets and web logs to display and distribute the content in standardized format. Standardized XML files help in publishing the content once and then distributing as many times as is required. There is one unique benefit of RSS which is aggregation of content from may [...]

Tags: Google reader, MS Outlook, OPML files
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Posted on Thursday, 19th August 2010 by Neeta

We all are quite bugged up juggling with multiple passwords and having to remember them. Trouble gets more deeper when out of the total maize of passwords there are some which get expired after regular intervals. There are password manager tools which lets you manage all of your passwords. But there are issues with such tools [...]

Tags: Facebook and Email account
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Posted on Friday, 13th August 2010 by Neeta

Have you ever wished while setting up your new PC to have facility to download all quality Free Apps in one go while you relax. Whenever you set up your new PC, you have to reinstall all packages one by one. This is a very painful experience as software have to be first browsed, downloaded and then [...]

Tags: Opensource
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Posted on Friday, 30th July 2010 by Neeta

OneNote 2010 apps from Microsoft is a very good organizer and a useful tool for taking notes as you surf the Web through Windows Internet Explorer, reviewing a document in Microsoft Word 2010, or creating a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 slide. It can be opened and placed right in one side of your screen. OneNote 2010 is [...]

Tags: Evernote vs OneNote 2010
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