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Top 8 Upcoming Features in Brand New Firefox 3.5

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
Firefox is readying itself for yet another major release. That is an amazing feat by itself when you consider the fact that, they had another major release, called Firefox 3.0, less than a year ago. Now it is time for highly revised and improved Firefox 3.5. You can even give it a try by installing the release candidate vesrion called Firefox 3.5RC2 in your Ubuntu. But we recommend you to wait until the official release of Firefox 3.5 which is safer. Firefox 3.5RC2 is only for testing purposes.
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KDE 4.2.4 for Ubuntu - The Easy Way

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
The latest KDE 4.2.4 is released with much improved features and lots of bug fixes. Some of the new features include a highly improved pdf reader, Okular and and a much versatile KMail. Improved applets,  efficient and smooth window management,  breathtaking desktop effects, etc are some of the highlights of KDE 4.2. The latest release in the series, KDE 4.2.4 is probably the last release before the official release of KDE 4.3, which is going to happen some time in the month of July/August. Here is How you can update your Ubuntu/Kubuntu with the latest KDE 4.2.4.
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Themes for Ubuntu - Includes Login Window, Metacity Themes and even Wallpaper

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
Theme your Ubuntu with quality stuff. Finding full set themes, which includes wallpaper, gdm, metacity themes etc, was always a difficult task to do in Ubuntu. But thanks to the zgegblog guys this is not an issue anymore. And the most interesting part is that, you could download it directly through Synaptic Package Manager. So it is safe and easy to install as well. Here is a detailed step by step analysis on How to install zgegblog themes in Ubuntu. We have also included previews of some of the themes available through the blog.
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Install latest XBMC 9.04 Babylon in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
The latest version of XBMC, codenamed Babylon is finally released. It has many new features and enhancements. For beginners, XBMC is an award winning Open Source Multimedia Application with eye candy and easy to use interface. Take a look at the screenshots of XBMC. All new XBMC 9.04 comes with a lot of improvements and added features. Some of the new features include support for Power PC architecture, improved FanArt support,  VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics and so on. Here are the detailed instructions on How to install XBMC 9.04 - Babylon in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and also further details on the application.
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Installing Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
Open Office 3.1 has been released with improved features and bug fixes. Some of the  new features include antialiased drawings to smooth the edges of graphics, replying to notes, improved grammar checking, hyperlink management and sorting etc. Peek into the full list  of features in the all new release of Open Office. Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope comes with Open Office 3.0 as default and the new release of Open Office is not yet listed in the official Ubuntu repo. You will have to add launchpad repo to upgrade to this all new Open Office 3.1. Take a look on different steps detailing the Upgradation to Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy.
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How much web hosting space and bandwidth do you really need for your website?

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
One of our commitments to our customers is that we will never force our products/service on you just for the sake of selling these. We try our best to match your requirement with the products and services we offer and fit the one that best fits your needs. We have been selling our hosting services both in the local market and in the international market since 2006 and we have been slowly building a set of loyal customers for these services. One of the frequent questions that we have had to answer was 
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Installing Internet Explorer in Ubuntu made easy

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
Firefox is a not only a choice, but a better alternative to Internet Explorer for GNU/Linux users. Windows version of Firefox is also available for download for free. But some sites may not at all show up properly in Firefox. This has nothing to do with Firefox, it is more or less an issue on part of the designers of the site itself. Since Internet Explorer does not have a Linux version, you will have to use wine to install and run Internet Explorer in Ubuntu. We have compiled a step by step procedure on how to install Internet Explorer in Ubuntu with useful screenshots.
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Solution to checksum error and md5 sum error in Brasero, K3B and other burning software

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
If you happen to be one of those people who burn lot of iso's like we do through our RequestCD program then you would most probably have come across the dreaded checksum errors or md5sum errors. We used to get a lot of these and interestingly we found that we get consistent md5 checksum errors with certain iso images. We were almost sure that this had nothing to do with actual burning errors since they happened only for certain iso images. After hours of scouring the internet we found out the real culprit behind these errors and a way to really work around these phony error messages and actually verify if the iso was written correctly. We burn using either Brasero or K3B but this information can be applied to other cd/dvd burning software as well.
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Firefox not starting after updating Ubuntu 8.10 - Solved

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Technical Solution | 4 min read
There has been certain issues with the recent updates of Firefox in Ubuntu 8.10. After installing all the recent updates in Ubuntu intrepid ibex, Firefox may start showing up some errors while trying to run the same. The most common error is the one which Firefox simply fails to start with an error message "Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b3 and 1.9b3".
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Theme your VLC Player to look like Windows Media Player in Ubuntu

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
Windows Media Player is a multimedia player owned by Microsoft Corporation. It is a Windows only media player and doesn't have any Free alternative. Newbie GNU/Linux users find it difficult to find a good alternative for Windows Media Player. There exist a plethora of highly efficient media players in Ubuntu like XBMC Media Center, Amarok, Smplayer, VLC etc.
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XBMC Media Center for Ubuntu 8.10

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Technical Solution | 1 min read
XBMC Media Center (XBOX Media Center) is an  award winning free and open source media center which is also multiplatform.  It looks stunning and is also feature rich. Apart from being an excellent  multimedia player, it has of features like visually appealing user interface, playlist playback, picture viewing, some really good skins, and even third party softwares and addons. XBMC media center is released under GNU General Public License.
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Sample Website Development Project Contract

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Business Solution | 9 min read
Any software development company which provides software service solutions to customers, has to enter into a contract with the customer, to deliver the agreed upon solution to the customer at an agreed upon price under some terms and conditions, for every project. This contract, called the Software Development Project Contract, binds the company and the customer for the period of the contract by its terms and conditions. As a startup we did not have a full blown software development contract initially and we relied on simple agreements that we conjured up on the fly. However as we grew and as we started dealing with bigger and international clients we had to get a full software development contract. We got this done by a third party and we felt we should share it with everybody and here it is.
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Buy professional quality Website templates, Drupal Themes, Joomla Templates From Zyxware

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Technical Solution | 9 min read
One of the most important aspects of any website is its look and feel. If you create a website that does its job well but does not look good, it is bound to become a failure. On the other hand if you create a exceptionally good looking website which too does its job it is more likely to succeed. Every web application project requires you to design the website. Why spend too much time and effort in doing this when you can go ahead and buy a readily available design. This is what our new website - OSS Themes - offers you.
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Stop your DNS Servers from changing after every reboot while using DHCP

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
Do you find your custom DNS server entries being deleted after every reboot or after every disconnection? Do you use DHCP but still want to use your own DNS servers? Do you want to use OpenDNS and ignore the DNS servers provided by your ISP? Well here is how you can do this on Ubuntu. This solution applies to Ubuntu but might very well work for other distributions of GNU Linux as well.
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Converting Ambili Font based ASCII Encoded Malayalam Documents to Unicode

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
We recently had to convert quite a lot of Ambili Font based ASCII Encoded pdf documents as part as a project we were working on. With proper guidance from Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, more precisely from Santhosh Thottingal we were able to use the Payyans Unicode Converter for Malayalam for this. As is our practice, we made sure that our efforts would also benefit the community by creating the font map for Ambili font and we are releasing it under GPL v3.
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OpenOffice Spreadsheet Template for Filing KVAT Returns ported by Zyxware

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
Kerala Taxes recently moved completely to online filing of taxes. To help business owners to efile their taxes, the sales tax department had prepared and released a Microsoft Excel template file(.xls) to be used by the dealers to generate files for filing taxes online. We, at Zyxware, realized that this would effectively force Free Software Users into using Microsoft Office for filing their taxes and took effort into converting this template into OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Format(.ods)
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Free and Open Source Software Currently Available through the RequestCD Program

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Community Projects | 6 min read
We have been running a highly popular Request CD program for the last one year. Through this people across India have been requesting Free and Open Source Software from us and we have been downloading and writing these on to CDs and DVDs and sending to these people. We have only been charging for the cost of the media and the shipping and handling charges from the people because we wanted to use this program to promote Free Software across India. We have prepared the list of software that are currently available from us through RequestCD and are publishing it here
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Shell Scripting Tips - One liner to change to a given users directory - the hard way

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Technical Solution | 6 min read
Recently we had to provide support on a Red Hat Server where there were hundreds of users and the user directories organized into hierarchies. Normally we change to a users directory using cd ~username. We had some extra time on our hands and wanted to play with the /etc/passwd file and tried to use awk to do the same thing. The following one liner will do this the hard way :-)
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Searching file contents using find for multiple file extensions in Linux

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Technical Solution | 3 min read
If you use GNU/Linux as your development environment then you inevitably has to use the find command at some point of time. A very common need while developing web applications is to search for the occurrences of a given string in files, very often with different extensions, under a given project. The command 'find' is a very powerful search utility that can be wielded according to our convenience and can be used in this scenario.
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