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How to create bootable Live USB Ubuntu with UNetbootin

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tom

It is very easy to create a bootable Ubuntu Live USB. You just need UNetbootin, Ubuntu.iso image and a USB device. UNetbootin is a tool, allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions. 1.Install

How to install UNetbootin in Ubuntu

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tom

UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for

How to create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Tom

To create a USB stick from which you can install Ubuntu, you must first download Ubuntu. Then, follow these instructions: 1. Insert a USB stick with at least 2GB of free space. 2. Open the dash and search for Startup

TextAloud on Ubuntu

Posted on October 21, 2010 by admin

I use TTS to read web pages. Switching to Ubuntu i miss the Text to Speech. Default text to speech on ubuntu is too difficult to understand. You can listen to it only if you get used to its bad

Google Chrome TTS

Posted on March 24, 2010 by admin

Google Chrome have Text to Speech extension, that make it easy to listen to web pages instead of reading the page. You can install the extension from. https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jbldhmenlfmbooleglopeplanhpmhmje tts use web based google tts, so it is little slow, you

git: ‘svn’ is not a git-command. See ‘git –help’.

Posted on February 6, 2010 by admin

On ubuntu , when i run git svn, i get following error root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share# git svn clone http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/trunk git: ‘svn’ is not a git-command. See ‘git –help’. root@hostonnet:/usr/local/zend/share# This is fixed by installing git-svn sudo apt-get install git-svn

Google Chrome Now Available for Linux

Posted on January 16, 2010 by admin

Today i installed Google Chrome on Ubuntu. It works great, now i have Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome on Ubuntu desktop. Great work Google for supporting Linux.

XPGnome – Make Ubuntu look like Windows XP

Posted on January 7, 2010 by admin

XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.

Changing computer name in ubuntu

Posted on October 8, 2009 by admin

To change computer name in ubuntu, run sudo echo “computer-new-name” > /etc/hostname Now you need to reboot to get the computer name changed.

How to extract RAR files in Ubuntu

Posted on September 24, 2009 by admin

To extract rar file, you need to install unrar with sudo apt-get install unrar To extract a rar file, go to command line, run unrar x fileName.rar For other command line options of unrar, run man unrar