Miro - Watch your favourite TV show at the time you want!

Miro is a video podcast down-loader which can be used to watch your favorite TV show. Its an awesome software where you can watch almost anything you like at your own time. Unlike classic TV you don't need to be free at a particular time. Because its already downloaded you can pause, fast forward, basically do anything you want with it.Watch this video for more details.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-OtF615fTg
If you want more RSS feeds please check www.ezrss.com
If you want to add a program from ezrss just click on the program(eg: Heroes) and right click on the small rss button that is shown on the new page that loads and select copy link.
When you go to Miro click on Add Feed on Sidebar and it most probably should be there already. Create your feed and rename it to whatever you like by right clicking on the feed on the sidebar again.
Give it a try....you won't regret it;)

Customize your terminal

Lets face it...the standard terminal looks pretty ordinary when it pops up. Here's a small video I made to make it look better. Hope you like it. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31kMkp39KSE

8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine

A particular tutorial I found interesting on keeping your installation clean. Please click link.

8 Ways to Maintain a Clean, Lean Ubuntu Machine

Upgrade To Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu

If you want to upgrade to Open office 3.1 from open office 3.0 please use the instructions in the following link.One thing I noticed after installing version 3.1 is its speed. Its much faster than is predecessor.So if you are willing to give it a shot go ahead and click that link ;)

Upgrade To Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu (Jaunty, Intrepid,Hardy) | Ubuntu Manual

Sync google calendar with Evolution

You can easily sync google calendar with evolution using the following set of instructions.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4488736_sync-evolution-calendar-google-calendar.html

After setting it up when i restarted the pc evolution kept asking me for a key ring password. After much searching I found a solution to the problem in the website below.

Ubuntu Jaunty: How to Change Gnome Keyring Password « Code Muse

Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Tweak is a software which is an all in one package installer +  fine tuner for ubuntu. Its a very user friendly software which any newbie can use. I'd recommend it to any newbie who is daring enough to try out new software and tweaks on his ubuntu installation.

1.sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main" >> /

etc/apt/sources.list'

2.sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0624A220

3.sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

If you want to upgrade from a previous version instead of install replace step 3 with

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade ubuntu-tweak 

Upgrade any version of Ubuntu Desktop

Press ALT+F2, a dialog will pop up. Type:

gksudo "update-manager -c"

And press run, like this:

-c means: Check for new distribution releases (upgrades).
Some people will tell you to use -d as well.
-d means: Development release. So it will look for distribution releases that aren't stable yet, and offer to upgrade to it. Don't use it unless you're into beta testing, or want to upgrade your L(ong)T(erm)S(upport) release to a normal release.

The above is an extract from the webpage Upgrade any version of Ubuntu Desktop

An awesome PDF viewer using Wine.

Although ubuntu comes with a PDF viewer its functions are quite limited. When going through huge e-books there comes a time when u need to do stuff like underlining,writing a note etc where the default viewer falls short. PDF XChanger is an awesome software which is offered free of charge for windows users. But it works pretty well with linux using wine. So if you are interested in great pdf software for ubuntu here it is. It has a portable version as well so u can carry it along in your pendrive if u carry one.

You can download it from their site.
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/

How To Sync Files Outside Your Dropbox Folder

Sometimes there are folders that are important to us but too troublesome to put inside the dropbox folder. At times like that you can keep the content inside those folders synchronised by right clicking on the folder->choose make link->cut and past link in the dropbox folder. I've done so with my Documents folder and it makes it so much easier to keep saving items to my documents as everyone else does it but know that you can access your date from any PC that has an internet connection.

Play on Linux - The most user friendly program to install your windows software

I just installed playonlinux version 3.6 on my pc and installed office 2007. It works like a charm. Play on linux is a program based on the popular wine software. The code to install it on Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) is given below. If you want to install it in any other version of ubuntu just replace jaunty with intrepid, karmic, etc. The good news for us Ubuntu users is that playonlinux will be in the ubuntu repositories starting from Karmic(9.10). 

sudo wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_jaunty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

 I chose only to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint because I hardly use any office suite. Pics of Word and Powerpoint in action have also been attached below for proof;)Play on linux is found in the games menu.If you want to access the folder where playonlinux is installed go to Home Folder and choose "show hidden files" on View. You will then see a folder called ".playonlinux". Enter the folder and click on the sub folder "wineprefix". You will see all your installed software there. One area that needs to be worked on is the print function which didn't work. Hopefully the future versions will have better integration with the Linux system.

Using Prism for Firefox

Prisms is an easy way to make icons of your favourite websites and save them in your desktop. By doing that you don't have to keep searching for the website again but just click the icon and whoops...you end up at the website.To install it on firefox

1. Go to Tools->Add-ons->Get Add-ons->Search for prisms
2. After its installed just go back to Tools->Convert Website to Application

The video below explains how to convert a web page to an icon.

YouTube - Using Prism for Firefox

Google Linux Software Repositories

If you want your google products like picasa, google gadgets etc to be updated use these 2 links and follow what they say.

Google Package Signing Key

Google Linux Software Repositories

Emesene 1.5 With Webcam Support

Emesene is a software that is a very good substitute for Windows Live Messenger. If you use only windows live and no yahoo, google talk etc emesene is the software for you. Version 1.5 comes with webcam support and many other improvements. To install click the link below.You will find all the info regarding emesene on that website.


Emesene 1.5 With Webcam Support [How To Install It In Ubuntu] ~ Web Upd8

Download Pidgin for Ubuntu

Since Jaunty comes with Pidgin 2.5.5 by adding these codes you can upgrade to the newest version. At the time of writing its 2.6.1 which has voice support for google talk besides other extras. The link below will take you to the pidgin site which will give you the commands you need.

Download Pidgin for Ubuntu

Adding the Partition Editor that went missing in 9.04

All of us need to format our USB flash drives once in a while. Ubuntu 8.10 had a software called GParted which was pretty functional. But somehow that went missing in 9.04. How you add it is, go to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager and search for Gparted. Select Install Completely and Apply. It should be ok to work now. I find it pretty useful for partitioning USB drives and formatting them etc. Hope you do too.Cheers:)

First time with Dropbox on Jaunty

I was looking for an easy one stop online storage solution. I am already using google docs and 4shared. Google docs is pretty cool but it isnt 100% compatible with Microsoft Office yet. 4shared is great and gives 5GB of space but you need to go to their site and upload files as they don't have a desktop version for ubuntu. The great thing about dropbox is it is compatible with Linux, Windows and Mac. So you can have multiple PC's with different OS's syncing the same files with dropbox.

First go to System->Administration->Software Sources and add the two lines, one at a time to third party software. Check the Pic below.

1.deb http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu Jaunty main
deb-src http://linux.getdropbox.com/ubuntu jaunty main

Next copy and past these commands to the terminal at Applications->Accessories->Terminal

2.Update your packages list. Run “apt-get update“.

3.Install Dropbox "apt-get install nautilus-dropbox"

4.There is a small hitch where Dropbox doesn't autostart with Jaunty. I searched the web and found that adding dropbox start -i as the command in System->Preferences->Startup Applications->Add had worked for a couple of people. Well it did so for me too:)

This is what Software sources looks like