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This tutorial will show you how to move the Maximize, Minimize button by default which is in left of the window to the right side in Ubuntu 11.10 . If you are newbie to Ubuntu and a Windows user , then it would be very difficult for you to get adjusted in the new environment .One of the problem newbie faces in the Ubuntu is when the user closes the window . In Windows , its in right position and it would be difficult to switch from right position to left . To Move Maximize , Minimize button to the [&hellip

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Recently new version of Handbrake ie 0.9.6 was released . In this post , we will go through some of the new features and Handbrake installation process in Ubuntu 11.10.  Before we start , For Newbies , Handbrake is an Open-source , Multithreaded video transcoder . Apart from that , Handbrake is portable with MAC, Windows and Linux . There are many new changes done in 0.9.6 version. Some of them are : a) Support for VLC or System default video player b) New Advanced audio option section for gain and audio track names . c) Minor Tweaks and Enhancements [&hellip

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Finally after 20 months of development effort , Wine team has released its new stable version “Wine 1.4”. It contains many new changes and bug fixes. Apart from this , it also started supporting many new applications like Microsoft Office 2010 . Content : What’s new How to Install What’s New : There are many changes done in past two year . Let’s see one by one !! More Image Codecs are Implemented , Including support for TGA and CMYK. XML support is improved . Post Script Output quality is improved , particularly  for bitmaps and paths . Rotated text [&hellip

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The Beta Version of Ubuntu’s next LTS – Ubuntu 12.04 has been released .To use this version, you can either download new version or upgrade existing version .To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ‘12.04’ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions. To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 on a server system: install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed; launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d; [&hellip

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Downverter is a free and fast YouTube Downloader. DownVerter allows you to choose between mkv and mp4 files to download from YouTube. You could choose to just download the file or download it convert it into MP3, AVI, 3GP, MP4, MOV or WMV format.DownVerter is the only download and convert YouTube application that runs on Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion and Ubuntu 11.04 32bit and 64bit. Other Youtube downloader’s available in the Market : Clipgrab Utube Ripper How to Install : Click the below link to download the Deb package and Double click it [&hellip

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New version of Ubuntu Tweak was released two weeks before . In this post , We will explorer new stuffs in 0.6.1 version  and steps to install it in Ubuntu . For beginners , Ubuntu tweak is a application similar to TweakUI which we use in Windows . It is used to configure Ubuntu .It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default environment doesn’t provide. What’s New in Ubuntu tweak 0.6.1 : Add support for Ubuntu 12.04 Remove the background change in Login Settings, because the LightDM for 12.04 already support read user background setting Add “Dash [&hellip

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Finally new version of VLC ,VLC 2.0 is released . There are many new features like Faster decoding on multi-core ,Blue ray support etc . New Features in VLC 2.0: Faster Decoding on multi core Experimental support for BluRay discs Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs. Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV. New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2. Click below link to know more about new features in VLC . http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html Installation Instructions : For Ubuntu 10.04 Open the terminal and run the following commands to install VLC 2.0 [&hellip

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This post will show how to install Google Earth 6.2 in Ubuntu 11.1o . Recently Google Earth’s 6.2 was released and there were few upgrades which is available in this link . Step 1 : Go to terminal by pressing Ctrl+ Alt+ T and run the below command . sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer lsb-core Step 2 :To download Google Earth Package , run the below command . For 32 Bit , wget http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb For 64 Bit, wget http://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb Step 3: To install Google Earth , run the below command. sudo dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb Step 4: That’s it done. Restart your [&hellip

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