by Richard W | Nov 24, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
Here’s a quick tutorial that will show you how to share files between Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) computers. If you have just installed Windows 8 and you want to have your other machines, including Ubuntu access files and folders remotely, you may...
by Richard W | Nov 23, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
LibreOffice 4.0 alpha has just been released which can be downloaded from its pre-release PPA repository. This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install it in Ubuntu 12.10. This is an alpha release which means you shouldn’t install it on a production system...
by Richard W | Nov 22, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Seems like Canonical is doing a great job updating its software repositories with the latest and newest software updates. In the past, one could wait for weeks to get updated software through Ubuntu repositories. Now as soon as updates for major software are released,...
by Richard W | Nov 21, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
We’ve shown you how to install Komodo Edit in Ubuntu. To read our previous post, please click here. This brief tutorial is going to show how to install Komodo Edit in Ubuntu using PPA installation. When programs or packages are installed in Ubuntu via PPA, those...
by Richard W | Nov 20, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux, Windows
A new version of Firefox was released today with many new features, including a new social API and ‘click to play’ warnings for out-of-date plugins. To view a complete changelog on this released, please click here. This version of Firefox is faster, safer and fixes...
by Richard W | Nov 18, 2012 | How-To/Tips, Linux
Folks at iheartubuntu have created a package called Netflix Desktop that lets you watch Netflix movies in Ubuntu with the help of Wine. For more about this, please visit their website. They have also created a PPA archive to help you easily install this package in...