Tweaking Gnome Shell : 5 Step to Make your Gnome Shell Looks Great

After installing the ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, may some people feel not so satisfied with the performance or appearances (Unity), Although this situation has occurred since Ubuntu 11.04 some of ubuntu user seems still unsatisfied although Unity now runs on top of Gnome 3 platform (GTK3). Some advice  to who are less satisfied with some Ubuntu change, "come on guys, all people do the change, let's change!", don't say that Gnome 2 is better ever.

If you feel not satisfied with Unity we have a choice to choose a Gnome-Shell, i think many blog/website has write about it, you can go to Ubuntu Software Center and seach a application by keywords 'Gnome Shell'.

this article will show us how to tweaking a Gnome shell so its looks great and bring a good functionality, through this, we will prove that you can do much with Gnome shell. Here 5 step to make you Gnome looks great.

Install Gnome Tweak Tool
Gnome-tweak-tools is GUI tools that help you tweaking a Gnome Shell (but you can also use it for unity). Like Unity have, in default mode Gnome Shell has less configuration tools to do simple setting like change the font, icon, and themes. Gnome Tweak Tools now available on default Ubuntu 11.10 repository, install Gnome Tweak Tools using following command.

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Gnome Tweak Tool Screenshot

Change Gnome Shell Theme
You can pimp your Gnome appearance by changing its theme. By default you only have three choice that is "radiance, Adwaita, and  Ambiance" and there are several good looking Gnome Shell themes you can download from gnome-look.org or deviant art. Here some `Beautiful` Gnome shell themes you can choose.

Browse Best Gnome Shell Themes Selection

To use the icon, you can install using Gnome Tweak Tool, and choose it as default theme for your desktop.

Change Default Icon Theme Pack
If you think that Ubuntu 11.10 icons looks dark and old, we agree with you. As we have done previously we also can replace with 'modern and fresh' icons. Some alternative you can choose is Faenza Icon Theme Pack, in our opinion Faenza still the best icon, updated, and available in various shapes. Download the latest Faenza icons pack though following links.

Faenza Icon Theme Pack

Download Latest Faenza Icon Pack

After downloading the Icon pack, add the icon you've download into your system through Gnome Tweak Tools.

Gnome Shell tweak tools choosing icon pack

Other ways you can Install Faenza Icons Pack via following PPA

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install faenza-icon-theme

Install Gnome Shell Extension
to improve Gnome Shell fuctionality such as window management and application launching you can add Gnome Shell extentision in you desktop, add following PPA to install default Gnome Shell Extension in ubuntu:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/gnome3
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extensions-common

after doing some action above, open you Ubuntu Software Center and search application by keywords 'Gnome Extension' then you will find many stuff to install.

Other ways, besides of the way above you can also download the extension separately and install it using Gnome Tweak Tools. Download Gnome Shell Extension through following links

Gnome Shell Wheather Extension

Download Gnome Shell Extension

Add Desktop Widget/Goodies
To add its appearance and performance you can add some Desktop Goodies/Widget on your desktop. There some desktop application which usually fill Linux Desktop that is Screenlets, Conky, Super Karamba, Cairo-Dock, and Docky. All application that i mention above can improve your desktop appearance besides add functionality. 

Install Screenlets in Ubuntu 11.10
Here's following command to install Screenlets on your desktop

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:screenlets/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install screenlets && sudo apt-get install screenlets-pack-all

Screenlets screenshot

Install Conky in Ubuntu 11.10
Conky is available by default in Ubuntu 11.10 Default repository, you can install by following command :

sudo apt-get install conky

Docky Screenshot

Install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 11.10
Cairo Dock is customizable application launcher for Linux which comes desktop widget, customizable themes and plugins, use following command to install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu 11.10 :

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins

Cairo Dock Screenshot

Some desktop goodies that you can try besides we mention above is : Covergloobus, Docky, Avant Window and Super Karamba.  

Download Some Good Wallpapers
For additional tips besides 5 step above is make your desktop feels `good` by changing its wallpapers. Ubuntu 11.10 provided 15 new wallpapers which 14 of them is taking of community that submit by user. Feel unsatisfied with the existing wallpapers collection, no need to worry, why not change it ?  Here some great wallpapers collection you can choose from gnome-shell deviantART channel .

Gnome-Shell wallpapers collection

Browse Gnome Shell wallpapers collection

See it ? now it's time to put it all together. You can see what people do with their desktop, some picture of this can be an inspiration.

Gnome Shell Screenshot 1

Gnome Shell Screenshot 2

Gnome Shell Screenshot 3

Gnome Shell Screenshot 4

Then now your turn tweaking your Gnome shell..

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Fix VirtualBox Error "Failed to access the USB subsystem" on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

When you run VirtualBox at the first time on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, you may get this following error message: "Failed to access the USB subsystem. VirtualBox is not currently allowed to access USB devices. You can change this by adding your user to the 'vboxusers' group. Please see the user manual for more detailed explanation."

As describe in the error message, we must add the user to 'vboxusers' group to fix this problem. Unfortunately, there is no GUI tool to manage users and groups on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (yet). So, we must do it manually by using command line.

Assume that we have user "hok00age" and we'll add him to member of "vboxusers" group. Simply type the following command:

• sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers hok00age

Make sure you have done it correctly by checking "/etc/group" file:

• cat /etc/group

Restart your computer and once computer restarted, run VirtualBox and check if the problem is fixed.

Enjoy :)

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How Facebook Influence the World [Video]

[for a while] in this post we will not discuss about ubuntu :)

Facebook is a phenomenally IT Event on this decade, Facebook contributed to finding people to former known friend, increasing some people business, making people forget their life problem for a while, uniting people to their soul mate, until make people annoyed. How Facebook influence and give impact to the world, we have such interesting video which give us illustration how Facebook influence the world, check this :

Are you Facebook user, so what do you think ?

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Boost Apt-Get Download Speed Using Apt-Fast and Apt-Proz, Install Them on Ubuntu via PPA

Recently, I have wrote about how to limit apt-get download speed. Today, I'd like to show you cross-purposed applications called apt-fast and apt-proz. Both of them can boost your apt-get download speed by using such an engine, apt-fast use Axel engine and apt-proz use ProZilla engine. They can do parallel download, so as expected, your download speed is faster than usig reguler apt-get operation.

Apt-Fast

Install it on Ubuntu (Lucid, Maverick, Natty, Oneiric):

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install apt-fast

Usage instruction:

• sudo apt-fast install packge_name

or

• sudo apt-fast upgrade

Apt-Proz

Install it on Ubuntu (Lucid, Maverick, Natty, and Oneiric):

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install apt-proz

Usage instruction:

• sudo apt-proz install package_name

or

• sudo apt-proz upgrade

Enjoy :)

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Firefox 10 Alpha 1 Available to Install

After Ubuntu 11.10 released now its turn of Mozilla Firefox to release thier product, yesterday Firefox development team release Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly) and ready to download via FTP or install via PPA.

Download Firefox 10 Alpha 1
Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly) ready to download via Mozilla Firefox team official 'daily build' page. You can download Firefox 10 alpha 1 in various platform, download Firefox 10 Alpha 1 through following link :

• Download Firefox 10 Alpha 1 (nightly build)

Install / Upgrade Firefox 10 Alpha 1 via PPA in Ubuntu
If you ubuntu user, you can easily install/upgrade to firefox 10 alpha 1 via PPA,  but should be noted this version is 'unstable' version of  Firefox 10, its may contain a lots of bugs and unstable when running. You can test and install the Firefox 10 Alpha through this PPA.

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main 
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu oneiric main 

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Install ProZilla Download Accelerator on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot via PPA

ProZilla is ncurses based download accelerator that supports parallel downloads, HTTP and FTP downloads with FTP search feature. FTP search means ProZilla can search fastest FTP mirror for faster download speed. Because it based on ncurses, ProZilla is lightweight download accelerator too.

Installation:
Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick, Natty and Oneiric can install ProZilla download accelerator by simply typing the following command:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install prozilla

Usage instruction:
General usage

• proz download_link

Resume download

• proz -r download link

Limit download speed (at 20000 bps)

• proz --max-bps=20000 download_link

Do FTP search

• proz -s download_link

More download options

• proz --help

Happy downloading :)

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Install VirtualBox 4.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

VirtualBox is a virtualization application that can help you run any x86 and AMD64/Intel64 compatible operating system on host machine. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris hosts and supports a lot of guest operating systems such as (not limited to) Windows NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD. VirtualBox 4.1.4 is now available for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Adding VirtualBox repository:

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib"
• wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
• sudo apt-get update

Installing VirtualBox 4.1:

• sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

If you want USB 2.0, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards support on your guest machines, you have to install extension pack that can be downloaded here.

Installing extension pack
Once extension pack downloaded, open VirtualBox and navigate to "File -> Preferences", at the "Extensions" section, click icon "Add package" and locate your downloaded extension pack.

And then follow on-screen instructions.

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Ubuntu 11.10 Review and Features (Screenshot)

Finally Ubuntu 11.10 Codenamed 'Oneiric Ocelot' has been officially released, the worlds most popular Linux operating system 'Ubuntu' has been released by canonical on 13 October 2011.

Ubuntu Linux logo

As writen in  Ubuntu 11.10 preliminary notes, Ubuntu come with full Unity experience and LightDM as default Login screen in Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and some of  `unity based` Ubuntu Fork. Since its last release on April 28th 2011, today we will what changes have been made.


The Desktop
Ubuntu 11.10 Final come with Unity which well collaborated with Compiz. Some of features in this release may ever seen in Ubuntu 11.10 alpha and beta, here's summary of notable changes of Ubuntu 11.10 since Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhall :

• Ubuntu 11.10 use Linux Kernel 3.0.0-12-generic 
• Unity Desktop run on Gnome 3.2 (Fresh from the oven!!) .
• LightDM is default login screen.
• Ubuntu menu in the top left screen is Gone, replace with unity menu lens. 
• Gnome Classic (Ubuntu Classic theme) totally remove, just leaving the choice Unity and Unity 2D.
• A new appearance of Alt+Tab switcher (this features has been use since Oneiric beta) completed with window preview. Even though it's looks more 'simple' and 'old' compared with compiz cover flow, Unity Alt+Tab switcher not forget the functionality.
• Unity dash completed with left side menu 'lens' which filter the application based on category and ratings, this lets you find installed applications easily.
• Some application have a new Icon. and looks bigger than before. 
• The Dash has a new music lens, linked to Banshee and Ubuntu One Music Store, that searches your personal and online music collections.
• Better performance of launchers and panel, ported to GTK 3 and GTK 3-based indicator stack. 
• Gwibber brings improved performance and appearance.
• Ubuntu Mono and Ubuntu Condensed become new member of Ubuntu Font Family.

Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop Screenshot
Here screenshot of my workspace, many interesting things I have encountered but too much too write in here, so try it on :)

Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity

Ubuntu 11.10 multi workspaces

Firefox 7 no longer beta..

Firefox 7.0.1 in Ubuntu 11.10

We have new applet in desktop panel, that is simple setting in the corner of desktop..

New 'corner' Setting on desktop Panel

All social media and online account now in a click!

We have something missing in the nautilus, did you mention it ?

Nautilus appearances in ubuntu 11.10

Software Center
Ubuntu 11.10 application/software manager now is Ubuntu Software Center 5.0 because synaptics totally remove from default application (but you can install it by manual then), in Ubuntu 11.04 we counter 33.962 application provided in software center, Now we have 36.112 application provided, this mean we have 2150 new application which not available before.

Ubuntu Software Center 5.0

Ubuntu Software Center 5.0 looks more fresh and more usable, its completed with user review, rating, Application list views can also sorted by top-rated, by name, and also by the date the application appeared in the Center.

Applications Included
Here are list of application version which is available in default Ubuntu 11.10  application and provided in its repository, as follows :

• LibreOffice 3.4.2
• Firefox 7.0.1
• Thunderbird 7.0.1
• Shotwell 0.11.2
• Banshee 2.2.0
• Empathy 3.2.0
• Deja dup
• Gwibber 3.2.0.1
• Adobe Flash Player 10
• Nautilus 3.2.1

Theme & Wallpapers
Like previous write in here, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric will come with 15 new wallpapers (1 new official wallpapers + 14 selected Community Wallpapers) which actually new and never include on ubuntu 11.04 (above).

Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers and Theme

Actually, Ubuntu 11.10 just leave 4 themes (GTK) to choose, that is Ambiance, Radiance, High Contras, and High Contras Inverse. We can't  change anymore the appearances of window by manual (window color, window border, etc) and we also lost toolbar menu in the Nautilus.


Notable Missing Application 
After finish installing Ubuntu 11.10 to our system, we hope that we will find a new experience without losing some great feature that available in previous version. Well, some application has much improvement, but some application has lost. here some lost application/features that we missed the presence.

• We miss the toolbar menu in Nautilus. although this looks better but this  progress has limit our capabilities.
• Synaptics, Ubuntu Software Center 5 can replace all functionality of synaptics, but for some reason 'on the same' computer Ubuntu Software Center runs so slowly compared with synapics.
• I can't take fast Screenshot using compiz, compiz have utility to make fast screenshot by pressing the <super> + <button 1> , now i can't do it and back to the classic way :(
• We have lost theme 'appearence' utility which let's us setting such window color, icon, default font, and window border. we're only left 4 theme to choose.
• Gnome Classic, we also lost theUbuntu Classic as alternative desktop environment in login page, as we can see on login screen we have only a choice to Unity and Unity 2D. 

Downloads The Ubuntu 11.10
You do not need a long time to get some fresh installation of Ubuntu 11.10, just approximately 10 minute. Interesting to try it dude ? you can download and burn the ISO to CDs or Flash Drive then install it to the computer, download the ISO through following links :

Or try it online

• Try Ubuntu 11.10 Online

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Ubuntu 11.10 Released, Ready to Download!

The latest version of Ubuntu Linux – Ubuntu 11.10 with codename 'Oneiric Ocelot' has been officially released at 13 October 2011

• Today is 13 Oct 2011 the day of Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' Final will be release, although it has been much discussed, moreover the Alpha, Beta, and Release Candidate the Final `stable` released of Ubuntu 11.10 still awaited by Ubuntu fans and OpenOurce enthusiast.

Download/Install/Upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

• Upgrading Ubuntu previous version to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric is quiet easy, you can do direct dist-upgrade from Ubuntu Software Center and wait until the proccess finish, this way is simplest way but need a mount of bandwidth. For the other way you can download the Ubuntu 11.10 ISO from following links, burn the ISO or place it in the USB FlashDrive then do fresh instalation or `offline` upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Ubuntu provide different iso for server and desktop of Ubuntu 11.10, also 32-bit or 64-bit architecture.

• What's New in Ubuntu 11.10?, See our review here

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Does your hardware support Unity 3D?

Unity is enabled by default on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, and the latest version Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot will enable Unity by default too. Does your hardware support Unity? How to check it? Please read the rest of the article to figure it out!

You must have Ubuntu Natty or Ubuntu Oneiric installed to perform this check:

• /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

You can see the result of this test in the above picture, I have Intel GMA X4500HD and it supports Unity 3D, how about yours?

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Mac OS X Application Equivalents : Ubuntu Software Equivalents for most Popular Mac OS X Application

A Moment after Steve jobs pass away, people on social network, online mass media, much discuss about his role for the Apple and the World of Computing. Steve is the man who inspiring us to keep "foolish" and never stop to learn, but in this time we will not discuss it. For Mac OS (Family) user that want to learn Ubuntu certainly will seek for application which is closed to or equivalent to the application that usually they use in Mac OS. Ubuntu is an Operating System with contain of thousand applications that ready to install and choose freely through Ubuntu Software Center (just like Android with Android Market), regarding to this, here are list of Ubuntu application which have equivalent to some Popular Mac OS application.

Music Player
There are many Music player you can install in Ubuntu, I think you can find more than 5 great program here. If you search for iTunes equivalent in Ubuntu, we suggest you to install banshee (besides of this we also have Rhytmbox and songbird), trough banshee we can synchronize ipod and Samsung Galaxy moreover listen to the last.fm, Magnatune and Jamendo and also buy a music online in UbuntuOne Music. Since Ubuntu 11.04 Banshee become default Music player in Ubuntu, so you do not need to install it (except update the application and install some codecs).

Banshee (iTunes equivalent in Ubuntu)

Video/Movie Player and Editor
If you search for iMovie equivalents in Ubuntu, we have two application that you must try, that is Kino and Kdenlive. Kino provide many visual effect and support avi and DV format, to edit some proprietary format (MPEG4, MP3, AAC) in Ubuntu may you have install some additional codec which use for view, edit and transcode them.

iDVD application equivalent, in Ubuntu we have many video player that support DVD format and could play video pretty well, to play some DVD's or other video format you can use Mplayer, Gnome Player and VLC (VLC is such great application that also available on windows and Mac). VLC can play most Audio and video format.

VLC Video Player in Ubuntu

Internet Tools
Looking for Client Chat in Ubuntu ?, as chat application we have two great application which also available in Windows and Mac, that is Pidgin and Empathy. Empathy will give OSD notification when someone chat with you while you are having activity with your computer, both pidgin or empathy are support multi platform chat such us Gtalk, yahoo messenger, IRC, Jabber, and many more. You do not need to worry because you will find easily application closed to Adium and iChat in Ubuntu.

Empathy OSD notification

For Internet browser and push mail application, All browser now days support ubuntu (except Safari and Internet Explorer) so you can find easily, For Push mail application you can use Evolution and Thunderbird from Mozilla.

Word Processors/Office Suite
We have LibreOffice as office suite in ubuntu, LibreOffice (ex.Open Office) can open all kind of Microsoft Office document format (docx, xlsx, doc, pptx) and also can convert to pdf easily without any plugin.

LibreOffice Logo

Graphic Processors
Ubuntu Linux have Gimp as equivalents of Adobe Photoshop, and Inkscape as equivalent of Corel Draw. Using Gimp you can do all activity that you can done by using Photoshop but not otherwise, because Gimp have something that not available in Photoshop. You can made some simple animation in Gimp and build  3D image using scipt-fu. Nevertheless, if you have legal copy of Adobe Photoshop you can also run it on Ubuntu by using emulator called "Wine".

Blender 3D Animation and Modeling

For 3D Modeling and animation program that equivalent with Maya, we have Blender 3D. Blender is power full 3D Modeling application and there are many works that have been created ​​using blender, for any example of blender artworks can find in here.

Recording Tools
Ubuntu have several recording application tools/sequencer that equivalent to GarageBand, more complex and much better from it, Some application what i mean are Jokosher, Qtractor, and Rosegarden.

Rosegarden screenshot

Web Programming/HTML Editor
Ubuntu have application called Quanta, Bluefish and Winefish editor that equivalent with iWeb or Adobe Dreamweaver, and also have advance text editor like Notepad++ named "Kate".

We realize that some of the interface in Ubuntu application `not yet` as good as Mac OS Application, but "You can do All you can do in Mac OS with Ubuntu".

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Introducing Ubuntu 11.10 Commercial Video, Simple and Awesome!

Hii!! We found such interesting Ubuntu video from Youtube. As we can see from the title, we guest that this video has been prepared as Officially Ubuntu 11.10 Commercial video.

This video is contain a message, briefly a message about invitation to use Ubuntu that packaged with Simple language and `Awesome` Illustration, here's video what i mean :

Why Choose Ubuntu ?

• Speed
• Security
• Ubuntu is the World fastest growing Linux based operating system
• Ubuntu Has Million of User
• Ubuntu Is Absolutely Free
• Ubuntu id Fast, Ubuntu Is Open, Ubuntu Is Safe

What are you waiting for, Choose Ubuntu 11.10 !! (13 October 2011)

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How to Change Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Icon Theme Using dconf-editor

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot does not have appearance properties so, we can't change GTK  theme's option and icon theme easily. Fortunately, there is such an application called dconf-tools that can be used to change some gnome appearance properties including gnome icon theme.

Install dconf-tools by typing the following command:

• sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Once installed, run dconf-tools and then go to org-->gnome-->desktop-->interface-->enter the name of your desired icon theme at "icon-theme.

If you don't know the exact name of your icon theme, just go to /usr/share/icons

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Install Conky Metro UI Style 'Windows 8' Widget for Ubuntu

a while after Microsoft launched new OS Windows 8 `Beta` with actually using new Interface named Metro UI, many people feels love with it. The interface that feels fresh, functional, simple and good looking are very fascinating, and there is some concern about the fate of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is it still boom as ever.

For Ubuntu User, you do not need to worry because you can taste the Metro UI atmosphere without leaving Ubuntu, kant-o on their Deviantart has made a theme/skin for conky which makes us feels have a Windows 8 in our desktop.

Conky Metro UI Style Screenshot 

How to Install Conky Metro Style 'Windows 8' Widget for Ubuntu
Here are step by step to make Metro UI Style Widget in your ubuntu,  some application that required is Conky.

Install conky in your Ubuntu
first step is install conky, you can install conky through Ubuntu Software Center (find it using keyword `conky`) or using terminal using this command :

sudo apt-get install conky-all

Create conky directory in your home folder

 mkdir ~/.conky && cd ~/.conky

Download the Metro UI style for Conky  
Download the conky Themes/Skin which made kant-o and place in folder that early created then unzip it.

• wget http://www.deviantart.com/download/260230653/metro_style_conky_by_kant_o-d4axn99.zip
• unzip MetroStyleConky.zip

Make some necessary setting
in side folder that reated before do following :

• chmod +x conky.sh
• chmod +x mail.sh

To make Conky work with your email, edit the mail.sh and place your gmail credentials there. After finishing all setting run conky as following :

./conky.sh 

Make Conky run on Startup
If you want Conky to start when a new session loads, add the file named conky.sh.desktop to your startup applications (or copy to  ~.config/autostart/).

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How to Limit Apt-Get Download Speed

Hello everybody, have a nice weekend! Today I'd like to show you how to limit apt-get download speed. This trick is useful when you're sharing your Internet connection among your friends or family. With this trick, you can perform such apt operation (install or upgrade) without interrupting the other members of your network.

In case, you want to limit your apt-get download speed at 20kb/s, so you should run the following command to perform apt-get operation (install or upgrade):

• sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=20K install package_name

Please take a look at statement  "Acquire::http::Dl-Limit=20K", replace "20K" with your desired download speed. This trick was tested and worked well on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2, but it should works on other versions of Ubuntu too.

Got questions? Have something in your mind? Please don't be a stranger, just fill in the form :)

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Fixing Skype Error in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

Since Ubuntu 10.10 Skype always available in every ubuntu official repository, even though there are always a choice for ubuntu user to download Skype from its official website, it's better for us to install Skype from a repository because it's has been adjusted with every Ubuntu release.

In this release, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric has Improved handling of 32-bit compatibility on amd64 systems, in other word this mean `some package` may use a same library for 32-bit and 64-bit. 32-bit libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only need to install those 32-bit libraries needed by the applications they have installed.

Problems that usually accour when Install Skype in Ubuntu 11.10, especially user who install from standalone installer from Skype website (*.deb), is give following error message :

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

a problem above usually because the unavailability of libXss.so because it is not available in 64-bit, to solve the problem above can be done in two ways, here are :


Installing the Right Skype Package
as I wrote above, we suggest you to install skype from ubuntu repository because it's has been adjusted with every ubuntu release, But if you've installed it, you can uninstall the skype first and install the right skype package, do as below :

• echo foreign-architecture i386 | sudo tee /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch
• $ sudo apt-get remove --purge skype
• $ sudo apt-get install skype:i386

by adding prefix :i386 it will give you a right skype pakage. Using this way it must be fix skype error and your skype should be installed perfectly on your Ubuntu, hopefully.

Complete the Missing Package
Second way, besides of the way above you can just completing the Missing Package to  fix skype error in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric, however sometimes not work successfully, do as bellow :

• $ sudo apt-get install libxss1:i386
• $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-core:i386
• $ sudo apt-get install libqt4-gui:i386
• $ sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-3:i386

After doing some action above, don't forget to reboot your computer and run the Skype.

There is a good news, that in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Oncelot Skype will have an indicator in systray, so you can control skype easily from that applet.

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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Available in 38 Languages

Referencing to the http://people.canonical.com/~dpm/stats/ubuntu-11.10-translation-stats.html, Ubuntu 11.10 will available in 38 Languages (has been fully translated into 38 languages) and ready to shipped, Actually there was 220 language there but because of the limitations of the translator team that joined in Ubuntu Translator Team, at this time there's not possible for Ubuntu to provide ubuntu in all 220 Languages. So What languages ​​are available in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, is one of them is your language ?, you can check following links :

• Ubuntu Translation Page

Ubuntu 11.10 Available Languages

A Language above can increase along with increasing of Ubuntu Translator  Membership on its Languages (Country).

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Ebook: A Beginner's Guide to Gambas

Gambas is a full-featured object language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. Gambas' architecture is inspired by Java. So Gambas is made up of: a compiler, an interpreter, an archiver, a scripter, a development environment, many extension components. Essentially, Gambas is a good starting point to build such application in Ubuntu/Linux, moreover there is a good free e-book that covers most important things about Gambas. It will teach you how to become Gambas Ninja! :p

It has 364 pages divide into 16 chapters:
Chapter 1: Introducing Gambas
Chapter 2: Gambas Language Concepts
Chapter 3: Keywords and Program Flow Control
Chapter 4: Introducing the Gambas ToolBox
Chapter 5: Controls for Gathering Input
Chapter 6: Menus, Modules, Dialogs and Message Boxes
Chapter 7: Handling Strings and Converting Data­types
Chapter 8: Using Advanced Controls
Chapter 9: Working with Files
Chapter 10: Math Operations
Chapter 11: Object­Oriented Concepts
Chapter 12: Learning to Draw
Chapter 13: Error Management
Chapter 14: Mouse, Keyboard and Bit Operations
Chapter 15: Gambas and Databases
Chapter 16: Global Gambas

Download A Beginner's Guide to Gambas

"GAMBAS Almost Means BASic" :p

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MacBook Pro Wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) Problem Fix in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

Like what previously wrote in Install Ubuntu Natty in MacBook Pro some user found several problem with wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) so make their  system got freeze and need to be restart forcibly. That's Problem usually occur when we use ndiswrapper not only in MacBook Pro but also some laptop, I've experienced it in my former laptop Acer 4520.

Referencing to Raimar Sandner blog, there is a good news for us because we can use MacBook Pro 8.1 Wireless directly without Ndiswraper, so you can avoid a system freeze as before. To perform this, you need to compile the driver and patch the kernel, read following step to Fix MacBook Pro Wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) Problem issue in Ubuntu.

Install All Required Application
Before it's start, install your system with required application bellow :

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake make

Download the Patch
Download Following Source for compiling the driver (Broadcom BCM4331) and patching the kernel.

• compat-wireless
• the patches, here
• the latest version of bw43-fwcutter (version 015)
• Broadcom's proprietary driver to extract the firmware

Patching and Compiling
Make a folder named bcm4331 and put all file you have download there, then

# tar xf compat-wireless-2011-08-27.tar.bz2
# tar xf patch_bcm4331.tar.bz2
# cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27/
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-1.patch
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-2.patch
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-3.patch

Next, enable the driver

# scripts/driver-select b43

Next, go to config.mk, find  row 276 and remove `#`, so that become

CONFIG_B43_PHY_HT=y

Compile and Install the driver

# make
# sudo make install

Unpack and Compile b43-fwcutter:

# tar xf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
# cd b43-fwcutter-015
# make

Extract the firmware

# tar xf ../broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
# export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
# sudo ./b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"  broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

Unload all related modules that use wireless

# cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27
# sudo make wlunload

Reboot your system and load compiled Wireless b43 module

# sudo modprobe b43

Next, add the b43 to the list of modules so the system will load them on startup (the module is not automatically loaded).

# cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.old
# echo "b43" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Next, Sometimes the driver does not work properly after suspend and hibernate. It is necessary to unload the module before putting the laptop to sleep and to reload it after wake up. For Ubuntu, it is sufficient to create the file (or append to the file)

# cp /etc/pm/config.d/default /etc/pm/config.d/default.old
# echo 'SUSPEND_MODULES="b43"' >> /etc/pm/config.d/default

Yes it is.. I realy hope this will fix the MBP Wireless problem issue.

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How to Download All Videos of YouTube Playlist on Ubuntu

Imagine you have a playlist on YouTube that contains hundreds of videos in it and you want to download them, what will you do? Do you really want to download them one by one? I think that's not a good idea. So, in this my first post, I'd like to show you how download all videos of YouTube playlist by simply type a few commands.

Applications used:
In order to getting this trick done, we have to install two applications called umph and youtube-dl. Umph is such an application that can parse YouTube feeds, it can parse playlists, favourite lists, and user upload lists. Youtube-dl is well-known command line tool for downloading YouTube videos by giving their video links.



Installing applications:
Fortunately, I've created a PPA contains those two applications. Simply type the following command to install them:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install umph youtube-dl

Usage instructions:

• umph playlist_ID | youtube-dl -l -a -

You can get playlist_ID from playlist URL, for example, we will download all videos in PHPAcademy 200 JQuery Tutorials, see the picture below for more details.

Take a look at part marked with red box, you will get the weird phrase "PL46408891B63317A4". By removing the "PL" characters, now you have the playlist ID: 46408891B63317A4. You're ready to go:

• umph 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

By default, umph will parse 25 videos. So, by executing the above command you will download the first video until 25th video. If you want to download all videos (200 videos) you must add an argumen "-m 200".

• umph -m 200 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

The tricky part is in umph command line arguments, please take look at this documentation for further information.

Have a question? Please let me know by filling in the comment form :)

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How to Install Evernote/Nixnote in Ubuntu

Evernote is great application that used by many people to collect, spread, make, or store information (photo, video, and notes) in Internet or just save the information to be opened next time. As well as Ubuntu One or Drop Box, Evernote also provide free storage for registered user but the difference is the storage that provide by Evernote only can accessed by Evernote client application to save information which has made ​​it, you can access information inside your account everywhere and anywhere through Evernote Client that available in Evernote Windows, Mac, IOS, or Android. Until now Evernote is available in Windows, Mac, IOS, Blackbery and Android but at this time not yet available in Linux or Ubuntu.

Install Evernote In Ubuntu Using Wine
Although until now there has never been Evernote available on Linux/Ubuntu, you can install it with Wine using Windows (*.exe) installer, you can use following Evernote Installer :

• Download Evernotes Installer (exe)

What is Nixnote ?
Nixnote is a application that equal to Evernote which can run in both Windows or Linux/Ubuntu. NixNote (previously called Nevernote) designed to work with Evernote, it is in no way connected with or supported by Evernote. While Evernote now can run in Linux/Ubuntu through Wine, but sometimes that run quite slow so i think that Installing NixNote is the best choice to do. NixNote supports most of the Evernote features such us easily drag and drop images, tag and preview notes.

Nixnote Ubuntu Screenshot

Install Nixnote in Ubuntu

Now Nixnote has come to Version 1.0 and available various linux installer (.deb, .rpm, Tar.gz) 64 bit or 32 bit. You can download and install Nixnote from sourceforge link bellow  :

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/nevernote/files/

For ubuntu user, Nixnote also available to install via PPA, do following on terminal :

• $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-c/nevernote
• $ sudo apt-get update
• $ sudo apt-get install nixnote

You can support Nixnote to be better, visit following pages for Nixnote Forum and FAQ page :

• http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/nevernote/index.php
• https://www.evernote.com/pub/baumgarr/nevernote 

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ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 11 RELEASED AND AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 for Final, Adobe Flash Player 11 Final  available for download for Ubuntu/Linux with 32 bit and 64 bit support. According to official website, here are some Features you will find in Adobe Flash Player 11.

• Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
• Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
• TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.

Download Adobe Flash Player 11 for Final

You can download Adobe Flash Player 11 Final both 64 Bit or 32 Bit for Linux/Ubuntu through http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html or via adobe lab here, esspecially for 64 bit user you can install Adobe Flash Player 11 through following PPA (note : available only for 64 Bit).

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty 

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu natty main 
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu natty main 

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu oneiric main 
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu oneiric main 

See available PPA that provide by sevenmachies here.

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Update proprietary software drivers (Nvidia And ATI) in Ubuntu with Jockey

Jockey is the tool that used in Ubuntu to manage 3rd party drivers, particularly proprietary driver what i mean is something like NVIDIA or ATI Graphic Drivers. Jockey available in GUI and Text mode, you can find exact function in both of them. To list what drivers jockey thinks are available for your hardware use jockey-text --list in terminal, see following example :

jockey-text --list

if you use some Proprietary drivers software such us ATI or NVIDIA, you will get feedback something like this.

xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

To do some driver update or checking some available driver update to your hardware you can use 'jockey-gtk', you can access jockey-gtk by search it on application using keywords jockey  (jockey is defaultly installed on ubuntu 11.04 and more).

Jockey-gtk search for update Drivers

Besides of using GUI, jockey-gtk also comes with update driver notification in system tray.

jockey update driver notification

it's easy right, now we don't need to worries if have find difficulty when finding some proprietary drivers software.

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Install Obnam Backup Application in Ubuntu, Another Rsync Alternative

Obnam is simply backup application that closed to rsync which can  Backups data then store into local hard disks or online storage through the SSH SFTP protocol, Obnam make simple procedure backup and didn't need any supporting application unless SSH. Till now Obnam have come to version 0.23 and ready to install in Ubuntu via PPA, even though we call `functionality is does not replace Deja-dup`, Obnam is such interesting application to Developer for trying.

Obnam 0.23  Backup features
here'resome features that will you get in Obnam :

• Snapshot backups. Obnam is complated with snapshot features, you don't need to worry about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
• Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them.
• Safe and secure backup using GnuPG.
• Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP (just like Rsync).

And in this released (Obnam 0.23) there are some visible changes are :

• restore now complate with progress bar.
• fsck now has more useful progress reporting, and does more checking, including the integrity of the contents of file content.
• fsck now also checks the integrity of the B-trees in the repository, so that it is not necessary to run fsck-larch manually anymore. This works remotely as well, whereas fsck-larch only worked on B-trees on the local filesystem.
• force-lock now gives a warning if the client does not exist in the repository.
• Subcommands for encryption now give a warning if encryption key is not given.
• The --fsck-fix option will now instruct obnam backup fsck to try to fix problems found. For this release, it only means fixing B-tree missing node problems, but more will follow.
• SFTP protocol use has been optimized, which should result in some more speed. This also highlights the need to change obnam backup so it can do uploads in the background.

Install Obnam Backup Application in Ubuntu
If you ubuntu user, you can install Obnam Backup through 2 ways, you can install it via PPA other ways you can Download and install Obnam through direct download.

Add following Repository to Install Obnam via PPA (thanks to Chris Cormack by providing this PPA)

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main 
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main 

Check following page to download/instal obnam directly from source

• http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/obnam/

Interested to try it ?, find some valuable information about Obnam through following page.

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