Section: How To

Discover an eclectic mix of tutorials covering everything from ways to install neat apps, or enable new features, to workarounds for known issues, and configuring your Ubuntu system.

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Use Nautilus’ Emblems feature to keep your home folder organised

Nautilus has a little-known feature called emblems which goes underused on the whole. Find out how you can use emblems to enhance your file browsing experience and pretty up Ubuntu even more.

23 November 2010
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Enable Firefox menus in GlobalMenu applet

An addon that works with the gnome2-globalmenu project brings support for the global menu to Firefox.

23 November 2010
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Sync Yahoo calendar with Evolution in Ubuntu

Dexter Jerome Smith sent us the following tutorial for syncing your online Yahoo! calendar with desktop based Evolution.

22 November 2010
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Get gorgeous transparent blurred app windows in Kubuntu

Make Oxygen even more beautiful with transparent blurred windows.

21 November 2010
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Get Chromium on Ubuntu To Play mp4, H.264, MP3 & view PDF files natively

Google ChromeOS will do many wonderful things – the free and open-source version ‘Chromium OS’ sadly won’t. Many of these ‘features’ can, given the nature of what Chrome/iumOS is, be enabled easily in both – […]

21 November 2010
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Stay Hidden on GTalk in Empathy: Fix

GTalk Empathy users may have come across the following bug: – You change your status to ‘hidden’ but Empathy shows you as ‘Busy’ – this can lead to all manner of super embarrassing moments… "Hey […]

20 November 2010

Bypass Adobe Flash GPU validation in Linux to improve performance

Boost flash performance by bypassing GPU validation.

19 November 2010
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Fix the Pidgin ‘SSL Error’ in Ubuntu

So Microsoft threw some switch or other today that has resulted in many Pidgin users who try to connect to the MSN network being greeted with the following pop-up: – Now i’m not a Pidgin […]

18 November 2010
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Install Compiz 0.9.2 in Ubuntu 10.10

Everyones favourite compositing window manager Compiz released an update to their unstable 0.9-branch - 0.9.2. - a few weeks back. Here's how to install it from a PPA.

18 November 2010
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Make the GNOME panel font bold, italic, bigger, smaller etc

Get your GNOME panel font to match the style of your window borders with this quick tip.

18 November 2010
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Easily transform Ubuntu into mac os x with macbuntu – now better than ever!

Get the look of OS X in Ubuntu using the 'Macbuntu' transformation pack.

17 November 2010
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How to install vanilla GNOME 3 in Maverick

If you ever wanted to test GNOME 3 there was ricotz's PPA but Maverick users don't get love since it is now only available for Natty. But fear not, since the Ubuntu Desktop team have have set up another PPA to give Maverick users some upstreamy love.

11 November 2010