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…
Read MoreAdvanced 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreTo 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…
Read MoreThe Ubuntu Unity desktop is a good solution for a Linux desktop and appeals to some Linux users. The fact is that Linux is about freedom of choice and if someone wants to use the Unity desktop then that is their choice. I prefer the MATE desktop on Linux Mint…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreI am trying out the Ubuntu Unity desktop again, in Ubuntu 11.10, the design is starting to grow on me, I recently bought a copy of Ubuntu user magazine that came with a copy of Ubuntu 11.10 with extra software included and I decided to try it out. I have…
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