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29 December 2009 View Comments

How To Recover GRUB2 [Linux]

Starting with Ubuntu Karmic, Grub2 is used (for clean installs for now), so THIS how-to on recovering the GRUB no longer works for the new GRUB2.
But recovering GRUB2 (after breaking the GRUB2 or installing Windows – which breaks GRUB2, etc.) is just as easy. Here is what you need to do
Note: This tutorial should work [...]

29 December 2009 View Comments

Three Super Cool Ubuntu Themes

First of all you will need to install Emerald

29 December 2009 View Comments

Synchronize (rsync) The Remote Bittorrent Download Folder With A Folder On Your Local Computer

On my work computer, most of the ports are blocked, meaning I cannot use a Bittorrent client. I can, however, use a remote Bittorrent client, and then I use the steps described in this article to synchronize the remote Bittorrent download folder with a local folder. Using this, I can basically use a Bittorrent client [...]

29 December 2009 View Comments

Quick Upload Images to Image Server (Imgur)

This is a script found via a Reddit user (cozzyd), it allows you to upload images to Imgur.com via right click. This is only available in Unix. To use it, make sure you have nautilus-actions, zenity and curl installed. In Ubuntu, install them using this command:

29 December 2009 View Comments

Looking For Perfect Coffee – Stove-top Coffee Maker

I love coffee – Black Coffee especially. I’m going to review some nice Coffee makers I liked very much.

28 December 2009 View Comments

Quick Resize, Rotate Images in Ubuntu

I used to resize my pictures very quickly in Windows XP. I downloaded an addon that included the option to resize my pictures by adding the command to the right-click menu. I find this is also available in Ubuntu and I can now just right click on an image file and do to job.

28 December 2009 View Comments

Fix Suspend and Hibernate on 6930p

I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP EliteBook 6930p Intel 64bits but find it can’t go into hibernate. These are steps I tool to get it working. Because if there is no swap file, linux can’t go into hibernation, for that reason, I firstly checked if the system swap files were mounted properly. This [...]

28 December 2009 View Comments

Good Image Search Engines Apart From Google Image Search

When the right picture is everything, you need to go deep into the web and comb through the millions that are out there. Image search is just like normal search and similarly painstaking. Making it less so are the dedicated image search engines.
Image search engines sift through the web searching by type of image, by [...]