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Very useful extensions for the Gnome Shell Linux desktop environment.

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Very useful status menu for locating and unmounting removable drives. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7/removable-drive-menu/. Very useful when using removable drives a lot. A very useful addon for Gnome shell. This adds a very useful application menu. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3628/arcmenu/. A very useful extension to disable the screensaver when you are doing something important and do not want interruptions. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4135/espresso/. This … Read more

Some very useful Gnome Shell extensions to make this desktop better for the advanced user.

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Advanced settings in UserMenu: Advanced Settings in UserMenu. Frippery shut down menu: Frippery Shut Down Menu. Add a proper shutdown option to the user menu. Dash to Dock: Dash to Dock. This gives you a lovely dock on the side of your screen. Just like in the Macintosh operating system interface. There are useful configuration settings to change … Read more

Magazines now available in the Ubuntu 12.10 dash search results.

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The Ubuntu 12.10 dash now has magazines appearing in the online search results as well as the usual music albums and application packages available for download. This is a good thing if you are interested in purchasing a magazine and downloading it. I assume that the magazines are PDF copies that you pay for and … Read more

Ubuntu Unity tips; how best to make use of the default desktop for Ubuntu Quantal Quetzal.

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To remove icons from the Launcher panel on the left right-click on the icon and click the Unlock from Launcher option to remove the application icon. Once you have found an application that you want to add to the Launcher by searching with the dash just drag the icon on to the Launcher and it … Read more

Ubuntu 12.10 to keep the Grub2 bootloader. And it looks like the Amazon advertisements are here to stay.

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The Ubuntu 12.10 Linux distribution looks set to keep the Grub2 bootloader; the controversial UEFI Secure Boot system looked set to jeopardise the presence of the easy to use Grub2 bootloader; but the Canonical developers have come to their senses and decided to keep the Grub2 bootloader after all. They were planning to use an … Read more

Ubuntu Unity dash really is very useful. The integration with the Internet makes it the best.

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The Ubuntu Unity dash is actually quite useful, here I am viewing the recently watched multimedia files and it showing some online videos as well. It is actually very fast as a start menu, you just press the Windows key and it will open, then you type “term” and hit enter and you have opened … Read more