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20+ Cool Terminal Commands to have fun with Ubuntu

September 4, 2012 2 1276

Users of command line interface always look out for something new to work with which makes them get excited. You might have seen some ASCII arts being used in info files of software and wondering how they did it. Well here we have added a collection of commands with which you can enjoy and have…
35+ Must Have Apps to Increase Productivity in Ubuntu

August 29, 2012 12 115

Once you have started your way through linux, you might come across numerous applications which are being developed and released everyday. You might me interested in some and you might not.So, you arrive to an ultimate question “What are the apps that will increase my productivity?. Well, the answer is in this article which consists…
How to add, remove and purge ppa’s using YPPA manager

August 27, 2012 0 45

Ubuntu users find themselves installing softwares through Ubuntu Software Centre which is a GUI based tool and on the other hand by commands through terminal. While both of the methods are efficient in their way there are users who install software through PPA’s. Now wait, PPA? What is it? In simple words PPA is Personal…
How to troubleshoot Screen resolution problem in Ubuntu

August 25, 2012 0 41

Linux users come across a common problem in which they dont find their native monitor resolution and instead they left with the default resolution of 1024*768. This is because the system couldn’t identify the graphics card driver. Don’t worry, with simple steps you can add your own desired resolution and make the changes permanent in…
How to install Applications using Terminal in Ubuntu?

August 17, 2012 0 20

Whenever we install a new operating system we would at first be puzzled at the strangeness of the new desktop environment. We don’t know what to do and what not to do. But when it comes to linux things get easy than a user can imagine and the problem that pops up can be rectified…
How to install Applications using Terminal in Ubuntu?

August 17, 2012 0 126

Whenever we install a new operating system we would at first be puzzled at the strangeness of the new desktop environment. We don’t know what to do and what not to do. But when it comes to linux things get easy than a user can imagine and the problem that pops up can be rectified…

February 19, 2010
200+ Ultimate Collection of Photoshop Plugins

Photoshop is a powerful image editing software which is very useful for web designers and photographers to create desired effects in the images. But sometimes it’s difficult to perform certain tasks manually in photoshop. Once there was a belief that only designers who have mastered photoshop can create special effects on photographs or images. But…
December 8, 2012
Notable Tips for shooting Awesome Wildlife photographs

You can remark it as wild-time game, which surely it is. Wild is the community for animals and not ours so it’s there to decide what they will do and what they want to. You can tell them to make some gesture that well-suit your need, or you can’t ask they to align up in…
December 2, 2010
45+ Surreal Infrared photography Inspirations and Tips

In Infrared Photography the image sensor used is highly sensitive to infrared wavelengths of light. We all know that white light is composed of several bands of colours known as spectrum and the wavelengths ranging between 750nm to about 1200 nm, falls on infrared (IR) band. The spectrum used is in this technique is termed…
December 15, 2012
Tips to shoot excellent Panoramic Photographs

Recently, making out panoramic photos has become much easier as your software stitches them quite beautifully together. Photoshop is quite skillful and master in doing that; it has got a command called Photo Merge that weaves your photos once you hit it. Now, software is mere medium which we use to ease our post works,…
May 24, 2012
65+ Stunning Macro Photographs with tutorials

We are often bothered and eluded by the large things like landscape, river views, lakes etc. but we rarely look to the smallest things in our world. Macro photography is one of those medium which makes you feel that even the smallest things have many parts to play in this globe. Macro photography means that…