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Do you own an Android based SmartPhone like ( GalaxyS, HTC Desire, DroidX etc.) and want to synchronize your music on ubuntu linux, well, we have the right tool for you. Ubuntu 10.4 ships with the Rhythmbox media player and which totally supports disk-based synchronization(Simply attached your android phone using USB and their internal storage becomes accessible like disk)

October 2009 happens to be a very important month, somehow. We have Microsoft releasing Windows 7, Ubuntu releasing Karmic Koala and now it is HTC’s Android based Hero Smartphone hitting the shelves on 11 October in connivance with Sprint. The Hero is no ordinary phone, it is smart by all standards. Upon release and further [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Coming soon

by nauman on October 8, 2009

Is it a coincidence, Windows & and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) both being released in the month of October 2009? I wonder if there is any competition between the two, well Ubuntu has been garnering more support since a couple of years. The 9.10 is coming out on 29th Of October 2009. The guys at [...]

Run Ubuntu inside Windows with Portable Ubuntu

by nauman on September 26, 2009

ubuntu-logo1windows_logo Windows and Linux are worlds apart. This has always been the case and so it will be. Sometimes back if you had to use Windows and Linux both, the best option available was to install both operating systems on separate partitions in a single PC. This obviously meant using any one of them at one time. The user would choose the OS he/she wanted to use at boot-up. There was no possibility of using both rivals on the same machine simultaneously. So if you were using Windows and felt a sudden rush to log in to a Unix/Linux environment you would have to shut down good old Windows and reboot in to the other OS. Now Ubuntu has made that a little easier by making a small Ubuntu (mere 480 MB) which can be run right within Windows! Ain’t it cool? This thing is called Portable Ubuntu. It is an executable file which can be downloaded from here. Here is what you have to do to run Ubuntu inside Windows.

Ubuntu in your pen/flash/usb drive, the easy way

by nauman on September 25, 2009

Before I write anything about stuffing Ubuntu in a pen drive for creating a Live Ubuntu USB let us first discuss why do we need to do this in the first place? I mean what is the big advantage of loading a USB with Ubuntu when it is already there on a CD/DVD? To make [...]

Dark Captive themes for Gnome & Ubuntu – Free Download

by Sarah September 22, 2009

I have always been fond of dark themes (never wondered why). They give you a nice warm and mesmerizing feeling when you see your desktop. With Ubuntu and Gnome being the buzzword these days, I have discovered some great themes for them which you can download for free to enhance your Ubuntu experience. Don’t forget to [...]

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Cheaper Windows 7 for netbooks is nearing in sight.

by Muzzammil Waheed September 21, 2009

If you already own a netbook from DELL, ASUS, HP or any other brand  then chances are that it will have Windows XP loaded on it,  and XP on netbooks still sounds slow and sluggish as compared to light weight ubuntu, as netbooks lacks the super horse power packed in normal notebooks. Every PC enthusiast [...]

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