BleachBit helps you to clean your computer to free space and maintain privacy. In other words , we can say its alternative to CCleaner which is used in windows platform for the same purpose . Uses of Bleachbit : Free disk space Reduce the size of backups and the time to create them by removing unnecessary files Maintain privacy Improve system performance (by vacuuming the Firefox database, for example) Prepare whole disk images for compression (common for “ghost” backups and virtual machines) by wiping free disk space What’s new in 0.9.1 : Clean segments and segment_usage in Google Chrome History Clean favicons on Chromium, Google Chrome Clean “History Provider Cache” on Chromium and Google Chrome Clean download history in Chromium, Google Chrome Fix rare “ZeroDivisionError: [&hellip

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Generally whenever you install any package in Ubuntu , by default it installs all the components . This post is about reducing the no of components , in other words you can say unnecessary components which in turn increases the size of the package .To illustrate , lets take of example of XBMC media player installation. As usual , first i tried with sudo apt-get install package name format . sudo apt-get install xbmc xbmc-standalone As you can see 118MB is required to install XBMC media player . This happens as it installs all recommended packages . Here we can reduce package size by installing only required components . To do that , Change your install code format from sudo apt-get install package name to [&hellip

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This post will show you how to install VLC on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to set it as a default application . Level : Beginners How to Install VLC media player on Ubuntu 11.10 : By default , Movie player is installed for video and Banshee is installed for Music . But you can install VLC media player through code in Ubuntu 11.10. To install VLC , run the following commands through terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install vlc mozilla-plugin-vlc How to set as a Default one : Go to Control Gear (which is in top right corner ) and Navigate through System settings-> Sysinfo . Click ‘Default applications’  and change options accordingly . Before :  After [&hellip

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Ever wanted to know the flight flying above your head right now? Yes you can with Wolframalpha,The search engine which can be called as a ‘computational knowledge engine’ now offers a new feature that detects the location of your computer and searches the flights flying on the location thus making the coolest flight tracker ever made. To use this feature you can open www.wolframaplha.com and enter the keyword “flights overhead”.This pulls the latest flight details on your location. This is one among the best features available in wolframalpha.Make a try.!

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Do you have many passwords stored in your mind , want to store anywhere else ? If yes , then go for pasaffe . Pasaffe is an easy to use password manager for Gnome.Pasaffe uses a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database. How to Install in Ubuntu 11.10 : Open the terminal and run the following commands :  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mdeslaur/pasaffesudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install pasaffe That’s it done !! 

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Dlume is a simple, gtk2-based addressbook. You can easily add, edit and delete records to/from an XML-format database. The Quick-search feature allows you find required entry in comfortable way. Export to CSV and HTML formats is also available.  It can be installed through terminal . Open the terminal and run the following commands : sudo apt-get install dlume That’s it done ..!!

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