This tutorial will show you how to install Ubuntu tweak in Ubuntu 11.10 . For beginners , Ubuntu tweak is a application similar to TweakUI which we use in Windows . It is used to configure Ubuntu .It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default environment doesn’t provide . To install the Ubuntu tweak 0.6 version (developer’s version) ,first you have to install stable version . To install stable version , Go to terminal and run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak-0 To install the latest version which is 0.6 , run the following command : sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak Stable version Screenshot: 0.6 Version Screenshot: Technorati Tags: Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu tweak 0.6,Tweak UI for [&hellip
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ClipGrab is a free downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many other online video sites. ClipGrab can convert downloaded videos to MPEG4, WMV, OGG Theora, MP3 and OGG Vorbis or simply store the videos in their original format. ClipGrab can download videos in HD and to do so, all you have to do is make sure that HD is selected in the Quality drop down menu. What I like is that ClipGrab automatically detects when you paste a link to your clipboard via Growl alerts and can auto download it if you want. In addition, downloads are surprisingly fast compared to many such applications. On the downside, it’s not integrated with your browser although as you cut links, you can add as many [&hellip
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
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
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
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 !!