Swype keyboard is now out of beta, available on playstore for $0.99

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 4/26/2013 6:18:00 AM

'Swype a keyboard app for mobiles, developed by Naunce, the company which as earlier developed the t9 dictionary for mobiles is finally out of the beta tag and is available for download from the playstore for $0.99The beta version was released way back in March 2010. Nearly 3 years later, the app is out of beta stage. Swype allows users to use swipe across the keyboard to type out words,'

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Enterprises increase Linux adoption

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 3/28/2013 7:09:00 PM

'The adoption of Linux in enterprises will witness a significant growth says a report by The Linux Foundation. 2013 Enterprise End User Report produced by The Linux Foundation in partnership with Yeoman Technology Group reveals that the growth of enterprise Linux will outpace windows. Enterprise organizations identify Linux as the dominant platform for cloud computing with nearly 76 percent'

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gnome-shell theme tutorial (part2)

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 2/7/2013 7:54:00 AM

'In the previous tutorial we have learned about the basics of the gnome-shell theme. In this tutorial lets us learn some more tweaks. First we'll start by changing the popup background color. change the popup background color The popup in a gnome-shell is the box you get when you click on calendar, sound icon, network icon and user name in panel. To change the background color of the the popup'

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Gnome-shell theme tutorial (part1)

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 2/4/2013 12:43:00 PM

'Previously I wrote a small article on getting started with cinnamon theme. Cinnamon is a desktop environment used in Linux mint OS. Cinnamon desktop is a fork of gnome 3. Linux mint people have tweaked gnome 3 shell and made cinnamon desktop environment. Since cinnamon is based on gnome 3, if you know how to create a gnome shell theme you can easily create a cinnamon theme and vice-versa'

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Canonical invites designers for creating default Ubuntu Phone Apps

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 1/25/2013 3:23:00 PM

'Canonical which recently announced the Ubuntu phone is inviting the community to build default core set of apps for the Ubuntu phone. Interested Designers and developers can visit  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPhone/CoreApps/ and click on the default apps to get started. Canonical has taken Ubuntu Phone as the most important project which can compete with Apple and Android. Though a late entrant'

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The pain of Ubuntu 12.10

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 11/5/2012 7:12:00 AM

'The day when 12.10 was released the download page of Ubuntu showed "avoid the pain of windows". I upgraded from 12.04 which is a long term support thinking that there would be new features and good  performance. Just like all other short term support versions, 12.10 is buggy and the unity interface is very slow compared to 12.04. When I typed in the unity dash, it took couple of seconds for the'

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Fritzing

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 9/9/2012 2:54:00 PM

'It has been a great struggle to to do hobby electronics projects when I was studying engineering as there was no single good solution for designing schematics, PCB designing and prototyping. I had to switch between different tools to draw schematics and design PCB. But none seemed to be a good fit for a newbie to learn designing and prototyping. I tried various tools like eagle, procad and'

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Cinnamon theme tutorial (part 1)

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 4/2/2012 10:32:00 AM

'What is cinnamon desktop? Cinnamon is the fork of gnome 3 shell. Cinnamon brings the advanced features of gnome 3 and combines it with the traditional gnome 2x desktop to give user a pretty descent desktop experience. Cinnamon started with Linux Mint but it is also available for fedora, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions also.  For more on cinnamon desktop visit  http://'

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cinnamon theme: Funny Animal

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 4/1/2012 4:35:00 PM

'Desktop  Funny animal is my second Cinnamon theme. Funny Animal is simple theme with green background for panel and popup menu. The font of the panel is  a little bigger. and the border of the popup is red. The current day in the calender is highlighted in red circle.  Download the theme at  http://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/themes/view/65 popup calendar Alttab popup'

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cssviewer

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 3/25/2012 8:58:00 AM

'cssviewer is a simple add-on/extension for Firefox and chrome browser to view the CSS properties of a webpage or a blog. Though chromium browser has its own inbuilt 'inspect element' tool to view the html and CSS properties, it is not easy and simple to use. cssviewer is simple and easy. Just hove the mouse over the web page element and it will show all the properties of the element. You can'

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MIT App Inventor

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 3/13/2012 10:14:00 AM

'After being abandoned by Google and being made it available to the open source community, the App Inventor for android is now supported by MIT. It will now be called as MIT APP Inventor. As of now it is in the beta stage. App inventor offers a simple WYSIWYG interface to develop application for android by just dragging and dropping the programming blocks. You can try MIT app inventor at http://'

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NVIDIA joins The Linux Foundation

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 3/8/2012 11:39:00 AM

'NVIDIA, the leading graphic chip maker and best known for its GeForce chipsets has joined the linux foundation to strengthen it's relationship with the linux and open source community. Till now NVIDIA has been offering the closed source driver support to the linux community. This has been very difficult for the linux community to contribute enhancements and bug fixes to the nividia family of'

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Wammu

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 3/5/2012 9:19:00 AM

'This is an era of smart phones but still some of us still use the not so smart phones which have the basic features that a mobile phones should have. Some people use the mobiles with minimal features because they don't want their lives to be controlled by technology. They have some kind of allergy towards technology.They don't like carrying a brick sized mobile smart phone in their pockets. They'

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Free FBReader for Android updated with Slovoed dictionary support

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 2/16/2012 3:45:00 PM

'Paragon Software Group, the leading developer of multi-platform software applications for mobiles and computers, and Geometer Plus LLC, a developer of free open-source e-book reader application FBReader, announce that FBReader now supports the latest series of Slovoed multilingual ‘talking’ premium content dictionaries on Android devices to provide immediate translations and definitions of'

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Create your own epub e-books using sigil

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 1/16/2012 6:30:00 PM

'Now-a-days most of the books are available in digital format. The books in digital format are called e-books. Thanks to the tablet PCs, e-book readers and smart phones. The extraordinary growth of the these hand held devices has brought a revolution in the book publishing industry. The authors and publishers should adapt to this change to survive in this stiff competitive environment. While such'

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Ubuntu TV

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 1/11/2012 2:07:00 PM

'All these years the television has been just a an average electronic device with not much choice for the viewers to find entertainment, record and share your favorite shows. The wait is finallly over. Canoical, the company that spear headed the Ubuntu OS is all set to compete with Google and Apple by launching the Ubuntu TV. The canonical showcased the latest venture during the Consumer'

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Browse the Ubuntu Software Centre online

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 12/20/2011 8:56:00 AM

'This is one more reason why Ubuntu is the best Linux based distribution. From the 11.10 version on wards ubuntu has replaced the synaptic package manager with the Ubuntu Software Center (USC). Now the same software center is available online at  https://apps.ubuntu.com . The entire catalogue of software is made available online. Visiting this website will present you a   screen with various'

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Ubuntu online tour

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 12/20/2011 8:29:00 AM

'Linux based distributions can be frustrating for the first time users. It will be more difficult for the new people who wish to switch to Linux from windows as the user interface is changed in almost all major Linux distributions. You have to install the Linux  based OS to view its features but this can be time consuming process. Although there is a live CD mode for most Linux distributions, you'

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terminator

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 12/16/2011 2:04:00 PM

'We all know that a terminal in Linux is most the powerful application. Though we can do most of the tasks  with a single terminal window, sometimes we need multiple terminals to do some tasks .This may be done by opening multiple terminal windows. But this will occupy more real estate on the desktop you need to switch between the terminals to do the task. But what if we want to view all the tabs'

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PyRoom

Author : Arun Kumar      Blog : ClicknScroll      Date : 12/14/2011 11:34:00 AM

'Today I was going through the Ubuntu Software Center (USC) to find any applications that interests me. After some filtering and scrolling through the (USC) I found this simple, yet interesting application called PyRoom. It is a notepad with a difference.  PyRoom is plain text editor just like another text editor. But what makes PyRoom special about is that it is a full screen editor. The'

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