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This tutorial will teach you to install Cairo dock 2.4.0 in Ubuntu recent versions like Ubuntu 11.04 /10.10/10.04.If you are new to Cairo Dock ,then let me tell you what is it .Cairo-Dock is a pretty, light and convenient interface to your desktop, able to replace advantageously your system panel! It features multi-docks, taskbar, launchers and a lot of useful applets. Applets can be detached from the dock to act as desktop widgets. Numerous ready-to-use themes are available in 1 click, and can be easily customized at your convenience. It can use hardware acceleration to be very fast and low on CPU. How to Install : Open the terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t) and run the following commands : 1sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa 1 sudo apt-get update  1sudo apt-get install cairo-dock [&hellip

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This is a simple tutorial which will teach you to install Adobe flash in two different ways . Two different ways include Through Adobe official website Through  Ubuntu Software Centre.  a) Through Adobe official website : First of all , download apt from adobe website . http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Here select APT for Ubuntu 10.04+ option & download the package . Thats it done . Next way is much simpler than first one . b) Through Ubuntu Software Centre : Go to Menu (which is in left side) , and navigate through Ubuntu software centre ->Adobe flash Player.Here click install and enjoy flash experience on web . Hope you enjoyed my simple tutorial . Thank you for visiting my blog . &nbsp

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Introduction : Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005.Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple’s iPod, Android devices and Creative’s ZEN players. Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is available for Linux as well as Mac OS X operating systems. A build for Windows is currently in preparation (see Cross platform support). What’s New in Banshee Media Player 2.2 ? a) eMusic Store Browse, search, preview, buy, and download [&hellip

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Introduction : Only two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF or DjVu file, including metadata if required.gscan2pdf can control regular or sheet-fed (ADF) scanners with SANE via scanimage or scanadf, and can scan multiple pages at once. It presents a thumbnail view of scanned pages, and permits simple operations such as cropping, rotating and deleting pages.OCR can be used to recognize text in the scans, and the output embedded in the PDF or DjVu.PDF conversion is done by PDF::API2.The resulting document may be saved as a PDF, DjVu, multipage TIFF file, or single page image file.   How to Install : Open the terminal and run the following commands : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeffreyratcliffe/ppa sudo [&hellip

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On Sep 27 2011, Mozilla released new version of its browser : Firefox 7.0 . It is now available for all operating system . Firefox always comes up with new stuffs . Lets see what they mentioned in their official blog . What’s New in Firefox 7.0 : Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis Added support for the Web Timing specification Enhanced support for MathML The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8 Added an opt-in system for users to [&hellip

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Shotwell is a photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others. Features : New Saved Search options Hierarchical tags Support for RAW+JPEG and selectable RAW developer Switched from GConf to GSettings “Hide Photos Already Imported” is now persistent Mimics no longer stored in home directory Added support for BMP format Many, many bugfixes How to Install : Open the terminal and run the following commands : sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install shotwell References : http://yorba.org/shotwell

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