The web browser is becoming the single most important piece of desktop software, if it isn’t already. Not only is the web a huge source of information, but also the conduit to a huge world of hosted apps and interconnected cloud services covering a range of new computer-based experiences. When you’re shopping, you want security; when you’re working, you want reliability; and [...]

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I have seen a lot of gamers who feel that there aren’t good games to play on Linux. It might be that they love to play those pirated games, don’t know why, when there are bounteous open source games available for free. The Linux games are hugely popular and that’s not just because they are free, its also because a developer can take a great game and make it even better. There’s [...]

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We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great. Linux isn’t quite like Windows or Mac, as there are many, many distributions, usually running on one of two desktop systems (GNOME or KDE). We’ve chosen to write this list up from the perspective [...]

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Google has rolled out Chrome beta 5 with many new performance enhancements and fixes. Chrome beta 5 is the fastest version of Google’s web browser and do the excellent job for Javascript engine V8 with 35% improvement as compare to previous benchmarks. Some other features of Google Chrome beta 5 are: bookmark sync settings, install extensions in incognito mode, New HTML5 features, Geolocation [...]

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Few days back Opera has released Opera 10.53 for Windows and Mac. So, now its the turn for Linux OS users as Opera 10.53 for Linux is available now. To experience the latest web browser on Linux download that from the following link and explore its new features as Opera claims that its the fastest web browser on the Earth. Download Opera 10.53 for Linux

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Ubuntu 9.10 is the latest Ubuntu’s release that brings in myriad of fixes and new features that make it the most user-friendly Linux OS ever made. GadgetMix.com spent quite a lot of time with the Alphas, Betas and the final release and we are impressed! Installation NOTHING has changed as compared to the previous releases. It is exactly the same as 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. You can burn the ISO [...]

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I started using Ubuntu 4 months back, and since then I’ve been looking for ways to customize and tweak it to make Ubuntu more productive and look good. During my search, I came across many cool themes from various sources that I’d like to share with you all. These themes are all available for free download from Gnome Art. Do try them out and let me know if you like them. If you have more cool [...]

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Alternate install CD The alternate install CD allows you to perform certain specialist installations of Ubuntu. It provides for the following situations: setting up automated deployments; upgrading from older installations without network access; LVM and/or RAID partitioning; installs on systems with less than about 256MB of RAM (although note that low-memory systems may not be able to run a full [...]

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Windows 95 / 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista: Infra Recorder Download and install Infra Recorder, a free and open source image burning program. Insert a blank CD in the drive and select Do nothing or Cancel if an autorun dialog pops up. Open Infra Recorder and click the ‘Write Image’ button in the main screen. Alternatively you can select the ‘Actions’ menu, [...]

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As you might know I love to hear Mark Shuttleworth speak. It’s always so inspiring and he’s always so positive. Below is an interview with Mark by The Bit Source from PyCon. Mark Shuttleworth and Antonio Rodriguez are to be the keynote speakers at PyCon 2010, the world’s largest conference of the Python programming community. Over 1,000 Python programmers are gathering now at the [...]

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