GNOME shell is a part of new generation GNOME 3.0 desktop UI. It is going to be launched in March 2011. Its a total make over of conventional GNOME desktop UI for Linux. GNOME shell uses metacity and mutter for theming and effects respectively. In fact mutter has replaced
Unity is going to be the default UI for future Ubuntu desktop editions, starting from Ubuntu 11.04. I decided to install Unity on my system, which already has Ubuntu 10.10 desktop OS, and test the mystical Unity UI. You can easily download Unity via internet and I bet
In this tutorial we will show you how to install Drupal 6 on localhost in Windows. This is probably the best way to get started with Drupal and learn it. We will first setup local apache web server using XAMPP followed by installation of Drupal. Drupal is an open source
A few days back, during Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at Florida, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth broke the news that new Ubuntu verisons will use Unity user interface over Gnome shell for its future Desktop releases, starting from Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'. It was kind of a heart
Wallpaper clock for Linux displays real time system date and timings on the desktop wallpaper itself. I tried wallpaper clocks when Ubuntu did not have Ubuntu software center and it was really cumbersome to actually make it work using terminal. But now with Ubuntu software center, you can easily get
Ubuntu is an open source operating system and contains open source softwares maintained by Canonical. If you want to enable the Compiz for advance desktop effects then you also need to install third party graphics card drivers. nVIDIA GPU binary drivers are not maintained by Ubuntu team but provided by
If you are new to ubuntu 10.10 and don't know how to setup Tata photon plus, then this small tutorial will help you to configure Tata photon plus on Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat". Note: This tutorial is for new Ubuntu 10.10 "maverick
The Galaxy Tab is one of the first tablet devices manufactured by the leading mobile company - Samsung Electronics Co .Their latest innovation, the 7 inch tablet is their effort to help the users enjoy all the multimedia content with a PC like web browsing experience. Samsung Tab is powered
Google has recently launched music search service in India. Most of us have to admit that we Indians extensively search for free music on Google, so now google is more than pleased to launch exclusive Google Music search for Indians. It helps you to find your favourite Bollywood song albums
The new Ubuntu font family is really cool and I thought why not install it on Windows and use it in Photoshop, MS Word and Chrome. The new Ubuntu font family is known as Libre font released and licensed under the Ubuntu Font Licence. Ubuntu font was released for the
Microsoft Corporation has finally announced nine new Windows 7 handsets. These handsets will be distributed by more than 60 leading mobile operators in around 30 countries worldwide. It is due to be launched on October 21, 2010 in select European and Asian markets. Windows Phone 7 is basically a mobile
We have successfully tested the Ubuntu 10.10 server at Amazon's EC2 Cloud. Ubuntu Server on Amazon's Elastic Computing (EC2) cloud allows you to build on-demand virtual systems on almost any scale with minimal in-house hardware requirements. Amazon EC2 is a public cloud service, which can
Google has come up with an innovative idea - to integrate Google Voice with Gmail. This new application is known as Call phone. This application has unified Google Voice with Gmail. Now you can call up anyone from Gmail no matter how far they are from you. This is, in
Having already conquered the search engine market, Google, is all set to launch its own operating system, Google Chrome OS, which in Google’s term will be a natural extension to its web browser 'Google Chrome'. The Google Chrome OS is a Linux based, lightweight, open source operating
Microsoft Corporation is all set to launch the latest version of Internet Explorer - IE9. It is currently available in Beta version for public. IE9 has much more to offer than all the previous versions of Internet Explorer. The new web browser launched is compatible with Windows 7 or Windows
In this post I will show you how to use Trigger module to perform useful tasks in Drupal 6. The Trigger module provides the ability to trigger actions on system events, such as when a new comment is created/saved or when a new user updates his/her profile. By