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Firefox alternative, Flock on Ubuntu

Aug 25th, 2009

I have installed Flock again. This time for using it on my aging Home PC and not just for checking how it looks. My home PC has Ubuntu. I was using Firefox and Opera. But Opera is not correctly supported by Gmail.
I was looking for Flock from quite sometime but unlucky I have not found [...]

Installing Window Fonts on Ubuntu (Linux)

May 19th, 2009

Do you know, you can use same fonts installed on Window for Ubuntu machine and also installing window fonts on Ubuntu is very easy.
You just need to copy those fonts files to Ubuntu machine. Copy those fonts (from C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\) to Ubuntu using admin right. Using admin right, create a folder in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msfonts. ‘msfonts’ is [...]

Playing DAT Media file on Ubuntu

May 9th, 2009

Linux distribution has improved a lot for desktop/ Home user but it still has a lot of room for improvement. Playing various media files is one of the task almost all home users do. It was a tough task even for me getting all the pieces together for making media application up and running for [...]