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Ease your WiFi connections with WiFi Radar

By • Apr 18th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

If you are always on the move, then grasp Wifi Radar – a simple GUI utility for managing WiFi profiles and make easier wireless connections from one wireless access point (AP) to another. Install on Ubuntu with sudo apt-get install wifi-radar When you run it, it displays all available wireless networks your Wi-Fi can grasp, […]

VirtualBox Exploit – How to Share your USB key between Ubuntu and Windows

By • Apr 8th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

A simple way to share your files between your Ubuntu Desktop and Windows is by using Samba file sharing. It creates a common “workgroup” with Windows that makes file transfer between these two systems easy to carry out. Now, if you use VirtualBox (the open source answer to visualization, and also direct competitor to the […]

Erase and Rewrite your CD-RW with k3b

By • Apr 4th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Multimedia

If you have to try out new Linux distributions you’ll certainly have to spend on CDs to burn most of the ISO files or you can simply get a few CD-RWs and use them again and again, erasing and rewriting, with the popular K3b — CD and DVD burner, that has little or maybe nothing […]

Format and reuse your Floppy Diskettes in Ubuntu with Kfloppy

By • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

Whilst the DOSBox helps you revamp your old and dusty DOS games, Kfloppy is an intuitive, graphical utility that helps you format your 3.5” and 5.25” floppy disks so that you can eventually load them, for example, with a small GNU/Linux OS, a small DOS game or better still, you can create installation diskettes for […]

How to change your default applications (Mail Client) in a Gnome Desktop

By • Mar 27th, 2008 • Filed under: Email, Firefox, Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

The Gnome desktop comes with a couple of default applications like Evolution Mail, Rhythmbox Music Player, GNOME Terminal and others, but many users give-them-up for other “better” applications. In most cases the non expert Gnome user continues to maintain as default those applications they don’t even use. Examples of users with Evolution Mail as default […]