When Apple releases Mac OSX Lion, one of the changes is the switching of the trackpad/mouse scrolling direction. Instead of scrolling the mouse wheel down to move down the page, you have to scroll up to move down. Apple imported this feature from iOS and call this feature “natural scrolling”. Not everyone love this feature, but if you are one of those who love it, and wish to implement this feature in Ubuntu, here’s how you do it:
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How to Reverse The Mouse Scrolling Direction in Ubuntu (aka Natural Scrolling)
By | September 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
Scribes: A Lightweight Yet Powerful Text Editor For Linux
By | September 8, 2011 | 10 Comments
Being a developer, one of the tool that I use on a day-to-day basis is a text editor (or you can call it IDE). I used to love Dreamweaver, but I find that it is too heavy and doesn’t work well on Linux. Then I switched to Aptana (it was very resource intensive as well), followed by gEdit, and lastly Geany. In my opinion, Geany is one of the best lightweight text editor (for Linux) out there. Then Scribes comes along.
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How to Install KDE 4.7 In Kubuntu Natty [Quick Tips]
By | September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The KDE team has released the latest version of KDE 4.7 late last month. This latest version brings many new features and improved stability and performance, particularly in the Plasma workspaces and the various KDE applications.
What’s new in KDE 4.7
Improved Oxygen theme
Long time KDE user will know that the Oxygen GTK theme does not really play well with GTK+ application. In some cases, you have to use the QTCurves theme to render the GTK app. In KDE 4.7, the oxygen icon themes has been improved to provide a seamless blending of GTK app into your KDE desktop.
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta 1 Review And Screenshots Tour
By | September 5, 2011 | 15 Comments
In case you are still not aware, Canonical (the team behind Ubuntu) has released the first beta of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric. There are several new additions to the family, notably the revamp of the Ubuntu Software Center and the replacement of the Evolution with Thunderbird. Follow us for the full review and screenshots tour of the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta 1.
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Use Mechanig to Easily Clean Up Your Ubuntu Machine
By | September 1, 2011 | 1 Comment
Usually when we discuss the ways to clean up your Ubuntu system, it will always involve command lines like “autoremove“, “autoclean“, “clean” etc. For those who are not used to the command line, an alternative is to use GUI software to get the things done. One such software is 2ClickUpdate, which we have reviewed earlier. Another such software is Mechanig, which we are discussing today
There is nothing special for Mechanig as it is just a GUI wrapper for most of the commonly used optimization command. However, it can be really useful if you don’t want to dabble with the command line.
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How to Build a Lightweight Linux for your Low-End Laptop
By | August 31, 2011 | 7 Comments
Like many of you, I occasionally come into possession of an older laptop. Usually, it’s something that used to run Windows XP, sometimes even older. You always hear that Linux is supposed to be so great for resurrecting old hardware, but many modern desktop distributions with all their bells and whistles end up chugging along just as slowly as Windows did. In those circumstances, you can either throw the machine away, or build your own custom install tailored toward the needs of the machine. Today we’re going to put together a Debian installation tailored specifically toward the needs of an older laptop.
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Create and Edit Web Pages on the Linux Desktop with BlueGriffon
By | August 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
One of the applications that’s missing from the Linux desktop is a good WYSIWYG HTML editor. There have been a few, like NVU and KompoZer, but they haven’t been actively developed for a while.
Enter BlueGriffon. Built on top of Gecko (the rendering engine used by Firefox), BlueGriffon enables you to create web pages using HTML5, CSS3, and other widely-used web standards.
Let’s take a look at how to build web pages with BlueGriffon.
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Why You Should Bite The Bullet And Signup For Spotify
By | August 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment
I find it surprising that no-one has yet stepped up to the plate to post a review of the magic that is Spotify here on MakeTechEasier. This application has truly revolutionized the way that I consume music, and I only see things getting better. For anyone who has been living under a rock, Spotify is a music application that lets you stream any music on-demand from their impressive catalogue of more than 15 million tracks. It runs happily on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.
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Three Great Mindmapping Tools for the Linux Desktop
By | August 19, 2011 | 3 Comments
Sometimes, you run into a problem that you just can’t work through with mental brute force alone. Brainstorming with others works, but that’s not always an option.
One popular and effective way of beating a problem or releasing your creativity is mindmapping. While you can go old school and use pen and paper, there is quite a bit of mindmapping software out there for the desktop and on the web.
There are a number of really solid mindmapping tools for the Linux desktop. Let’s take a closer look at three of them.
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How to Play MP3s From The Linux Command Line
By | August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
At first, this may sound pointless. After all, aren’t there dozens of perfectly good GUI music apps out there? Haven’t we all found something we like, or at least don’t hate? Perhaps that’s true, but how much happier would you be if your music app of choice used a whole lot less resources? Or what if you could type in a command on your laptop from anywhere, and have music start playing from the speakers on your desktop? If you’re in to pranks, that works just as well on a friend/co-worker’s computer. Today’s topic is mpg123, an app which can (among other things) make a great GUI-free media player.
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