How to Enable Google’s “Material Design” in Chrome
Over the last couple of years, Google has been moving towards a unified user experience with its Material Design interface. It started with Android, and we’ve seen many Google Apps—like Drive, Docs, and Sheets—get this clean, modern makeover. Chrome (and, by extension, Chrome OS) has seen touches of Material Design here and there, but many of […]
HandBrake 1.0.3 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu
How to Install Handbrake 1.0.3 via PPA in Ubuntu: The new release has been made into the official handbrake PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and Linux Mint 17 & 18. 1. To add the PPA, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases Type your password (no visual feedback) when […]
A Simple KDE Twitter Plasmoid
So too are the days of plentiful native desktop Twitter apps for Linux. Where once we needed to pick between the likes of Twitim, Turpial, Hotot, Gwibber, gTwit, gTweety, gFeedline, Polly, Pino (and plenty of others) there now remain just 3 main choices when it comes to using the social networking service on Linux. We can use one […]
Install Microsoft Windows Fonts in Ubuntu 16.04
Most of educational institutions are still using some MS Fonts. I am not sure about other regions. But in Tamilnadu (An Indian state), Times New Roman and Arial fonts are being mostly used by almost all sort of documentation works, projects, thesis, and assignments in colleges and schools. Not only the educational institutions, some small organizations, […]
Install Peek GIF Screen Recorder On Ubuntu
Install Gif recorder on Ubuntu Linux Systems. Install Peek, animated GIF screen recorder tool for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Peek creates animated GIF screencasts using ffmpeg and imagemagick. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g., for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in […]
Create a Shared Directory on Samba
This tutorial will guide you on how to create a shared directory on Samba AD DC system, map this Shared Volume to Windows clients integrated into the domain via GPO and manage share permissions from Windows domain controller perspective. It will also cover how to access and mount the file share from a Linux machine […]
GSmartControl :: hard disk drive health inspection tool
GSmartControl is hard disk drive health inspection tool and a graphical user interface for smartctl command. This tool has the following features: Automatically reports and highlights any anomalies; Allows enabling/disabling SMART; Allows enabling/disabling Automatic Offline Data Collection – a short self-check that the drive will perform automatically every four hours with no impact on performance; […]
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