23 May 2013
A Noob’s Guide to Installing NVIDIA Optimus Driver in Ubuntu
Unfortunately, NVIDIA Linux stable drivers don’t bring Optimus technology support. and even though it’s said that 319.12 beta driver does the work, it still not stable. Therefore, the best thing to do, is to keep using Bumblebe. In this new post, I’m going to explain how to install Bumblebee in Ubuntu in a very simple
02 Jan 2013
The Most Awesome Way to Download Youtube Videos in Linux
There are many ways for downloading Youtube videos that work on almost all operating systems, I know that most of you, geeky people, know a buch of them; but what I am going to show in this post is how to dowload Youtube videos more awesomely using Linux
14 Aug 2012
Is Compiz Consuming Too much CPU? Here’s The Solution!
I recently realized that Compiz on my Ubuntu 12.04, was cosuming between 20% and 30% of my CPU even if I’m doing anything that requires graphical ressources. This was reported to launchpad; although, the problem is not yet resolved, but there is a little trick, which I’m going to show you, that can solve it.
04 Aug 2012
How to Solve Brightness-is-not-changing Issue in 12.04
This is a very big problem most people have with Ubuntu on their laptops. Me too I had this issue for a very long time until I found the solution 3 minutes ago
01 Aug 2012
Insync Brings Google Drive to Ubuntu in a More “Graphical” Way
Hello guys! In one of my previous posts, I talked about how to sync Google Drive with Ubuntu using Grive. It was one of the rare ways to do that, since Google Drive isn’t yet ‘natively’ supporting Linux based operating systems. Now a better tools appeared, so I’m writing this new post to talk about
31 Jul 2012
How to Change Mouse Wheel Function in XBMC
By default, while playing a video in XBMC, the mouse wheel scroll function controls forward and rewind. Though, I know that most of you guys want it to change the volume instead. So, keep reading to find out how.
22 Jul 2012
How To Install The New Ubuntu’s WebApp Feature
Recently, Ubuntu introduced a new and very exiting feature which is WebApps. This feature allows you to integrate websites’ web apps with Unity desktop whenever it is possible; for now, this new feature supports 33 of them including GMail, Facebook, Twitter…
02 Jul 2012
How to Save Power in Ubuntu and Make Your Battery Last Longer
People that used to use Windows before using Ubuntu may have noticed that Ubuntu consumes battery energy very fast; this is due to the fact that, unlike Windows, Ubuntu doesn’t have any energy manager installed with it. In this post, I will be showing you how to install one called Jupiter.
30 Jun 2012
How to Capture Screenshots and Upload Them to The Cloud Instantly
When you want to send a screenshot to your friend in IM to show him something in your desktop, it is really annoying to take it then open the navigator to upload the image to dropbox, droplr or any other cloud storage, isn’t it? is the solution.
25 Jun 2012
How to Sync Google Drive With Linux (Without Using google-docs-fs)
google-docs-fs is a very useful app that was created for Linux so as to mount Google Docs account as if it was a filesystem; It was also used to sync Google Drive accounts with Linux. Although, this app has become a bit old and its PPA doesn’t work anymore, the reason why I’m going to show you