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How To install µTorrent Portable in Ubuntu [How to control your Torrents with uTorrent’s WebUI]

By • Dec 27th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

µTorrent, the world’s most popular BitTorrent client is a light-weight Windows only application that is well known for its low resource-consuming ability and its speed, but is also known to put in-one-place most of the features (bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT) you’ll find in other BitTorrent clients like Azureus or BitComet. uTorrent […]

Docky ‘Shortcut Bar’ now Stands Alone

By • Dec 19th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Docky an AWN look-alike hits the road all alone. Formerly integrated with GNOME Do, Docky is now an independent application that has maintained many of its goodies like the in-built plug-ins and hopes to bring in more. This application is still at an early alpha level but it’s worth a try as its even very […]

Jane Silber to become CEO of Canonical [Ubuntu]

By • Dec 17th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu

From March next year, I’ll focus my Canonical energy on product design, partnerships and customers. Those are the areas that I enjoy most and also the areas where I can best shape the impact we have on open source and the technology market. I’m able to do this because Jane Silber, who has been COO […]

UJS Manager for Opera Unite (Opera 10.10 Browser) installs UserScripts as Extensions

By • Dec 15th, 2009 • Filed under: Opera-Browser, Ubuntu, Windows

For Windows, Mac and Linux: In Adapting Greasemonkey UserScripts for Opera 10 Browser I showed you how to manually install User Scripts in the Opera Browser. You had to create a local folder for your user scripts, then direct Opera to fetch your scripts in it; once a UserScripts is placed in that folder, it […]

A Single Command that Re-installs Ubuntu

By • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh -a this simple command can reinstall all of Ubuntu’s distribution packages and reconfigure them. If you ever find it necessary to reinstall Ubuntu, first backup your data then drop this line of code unto the command-line. It takes about an hour for the whole process to get to an end, but that […]