Linux

How to install Dash to Dock on Ubuntu Linux – Mac OS style Dock for Ubuntu

Post last modified:May 8, 2020
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Dash to dock is a free and open source Mac OS style Dock application launcher GNOME Shell extension for Linux. If you don’t like the Ubuntu dock and want to replace it with some think look like Mac OS dock, then you can install Dash to Dock on your on Ubuntu system. using this you can make your Ubuntu Os look like Mac OS. It supports auto hide, intelli hide and fixed modes. And also comes with lot of options.

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How to install MusicBrainz Picard on Ubuntu – Audio Tagger

Post last modified:October 12, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

MusicBrainz Picard is a free and opensource cross platform audio music tagger for Linux, Windows and macOS. It is written in Python and released under open source licence. Using this you can identify, tag and organizing your digital music audio files. It supports audio formats like MP3, FLAC, OGG, M4A, WMA, WAV, and more. MusicBrainz Picard uses AcoustID audio fingerprints to be identify audio files. It supports music CD lookup and plugins. Using plugins you can extend its feature.

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How to install viewnior on Ubuntu – Simple image viewer

Post last modified:October 10, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Viewnior is a open source and free image viewer for Linux OS. It is released under open source GPLv3 licence. Using this you can view Rotate, flip, crop, save, delete images in viewnior. You can set image as wallpaper in your desktop. It also comes with Animation and EXIF, IPTC metadata support.It uses modified version of the GtkImageView library and written in C (GTK+). it is easy to use, fast and simple image viewer. It comes with browse only selected images feature and navigation window support.

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How to install GNU Emacs on Ubuntu – Extensible and Customizable Text editor

Post last modified:October 9, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GNU Emacs is a free open source Emacs text editor from GNU Project founder Richard Stallman. It is available for GNU, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows. You can extent its feature its feature using a Turing complete programming language. The important features are syntax coloring, built-in documentation, full Unicode, customization using Emacs Lisp code, project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar and extensions support.Using this you can display files in multiple character sets, and has been able to simultaneously display most human languages. It is released under GPLv3+ licence.

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How to install Writefull editor on Ubuntu – Automatic Text Suggestions to the User

Post last modified:October 7, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Writefull editor is a free app for Linux, Windows, MacOS and chrome that gives automatics suggestion to your writing by checking it against Google Books, Google Web, Google Scholar and Google News language databases. Using this you can check writing in language database, Hear how your written is pronounced, translate your writing from any language into English, Find out which words are used most often in your writing. You can launch this desktop app via shortcut key in any writing app like office suite and Gmail.

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How to install Tux Paint on Ubuntu – Drawing tool for kids

Post last modified:October 7, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Tux Paint is a free open source kids drawing application for macOS, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. This program mainly target kids under 12 years old. This is really fun app for kids. It comes with good sound effects, full-screen mode to hide other things from kids and fun cartoon Tux to guide kids. The drawing tools are various type of paint brushes, Rubber stamp with photographic and cartoon images, line tool, shape tool, Text and Label tools and Eraser. And one of the important tool is Magic tool. Using this you can do more than 50 tasks like blur parts of the picture, make parts of the picture look like a cartoon, Throw confetti over your image, flip the image vertically, draws curvy-stalked flowers and lots more. It is released under the GNU General Public License.

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How to Remove applications in Ubuntu – All Methods

Post last modified:October 4, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

In Ubuntu you can remove the installed applications in may ways. But for beginners removing the applications are still confusing. In Ubuntu there is a not a single control panels to remove applications like Windows. In this tutorial we will see the methods of removing the installed Ubuntu applications one by one.

Remove applications using Ubuntu Software:

This is the easiest and the best way to remove installed Ubuntu application. Using this method you can remove Ubuntu Software. Using this you can remove or pre-installed, manually installed applications, Flatpak applications and Snap packages.

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How to install FlightGear Flight Simulator on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 3, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

FlightGear is a free and open source Flight Simulator for Linux, Windows, Mac OS-X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and IRIX. FlightGear Flight Simulator comes with 3 primary Flight Dynamics Models and you can also add new dynamics models. Available Flight Dynamics Models are JSBSim, YASim and UIUC. It support standard 3d model formats and xml based ascii files. Some of the important features are more than 20000 real world airports, Sloping runways, accurate and detailed terrain and sky model like lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, sun, moon and stars.

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How to install Mr.Rescue fire fighting game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:October 2, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Mr.Rescue is a free and open source an arcade style fire fighting game for Windows, MacOS and Linux. In this game players need to rescue civilians from a burning building by picking them up and throwing them out the window. You will also get a water gun and it will help you to go way through flames in the game and collect coolants to cool down your against fire. This game is build on Love framework. Using this framework you can make 2D games in Lua. It is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 unported License.

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OpenResizer Bulk image resizer – How to install OpenResizer on Ubuntu

Post last modified:September 30, 2019
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

OpenResizer is a free and open source easy to use bulk image resizer for linux and windows. Using this you can resize your images one by one or in batch very quickly. It comes with three image resizer mode Do not resize, Resize by pixel and Resize by percentage. Using this Do not resize mode you can just rename the files in bulk with same ending. Resize by pixel allows you to resize the image by using the pixel value. Third and the final option provies resize by percentage. It also comes with width and height conditions, output image quality and cpu utilization features. You can save files in jpeg, png, BMP or in original source file format

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