Install cool retro term in ubuntu

If you like to bring a retro look to your modern desktop, this would be the first app you wanna consider! I like to make my Ubuntu look like a Unix machine. So I started trying and found out this wonderful lightweight and eye-candy terminal app for my Linux box. It has many profiles like IBM Dos, Apple etc. Using this terminal makes us feel like we are in some Sci-Phy movie kind of thing. So today we will see how to install this app in our Ubuntu machines. I  do not know if this supports older versions of Ubuntu, but it works charmingly in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. So, 14.04 users must follow below steps:

Steps:

1. Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-controls-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dialogs-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin

2. Download from GitHub:

Turn on single mouse click in Ubuntu

Hey guys, today we will see how to turn on single mouse click in Ubuntu. Most of the people think we can enable this feature through mouse settings, but this is a bit different in Ubuntu. So we will see the procedure now.
Steps:

1. Press ctrl+n to open nautilus file browser.

2. Then go to edit and then preferences as shown:

Remove Windows 7 from Ubuntu dual boot using GParted partition editor

Dear Ubuntu lovers, right now it's 14.04 and many of my friends are almost removing Windows from their dual boot!  But as we all know 'Vivid Vervet' will be out by April 2015 and I guess it would completely kill Windows! Me myself removed Windows a long time ago ha-ha! So today we will see how to remove Windows from Ubuntu dual boot safely. Let's go!

Procedure:

First we need to install GParted Partition Editor using below steps:

Steps to install GParted Partition Editor: Copy and paste below commands one by one onto terminal:

1. sudo apt-get update

2. sudo apt-get install gparted

After installing gparted watch the below video for the remaining procedure:

Install Notepadqq in Ubuntu 14.04

Hello Ubuntu lovers, Notepadqq, one of the most awaiting projects is finally here to give a try! This is one of those steps to attract the Windows users towards Linux and Canonical has been trying harder than any other out there, for this! Notepadqq is the most closest clone to Notepad++ available right now! Today we will see how to install it in our Ubuntu 14.04 machines.

Steps:

Step 1:

Open your terminal and enter the first command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:notepadqq-team/notepadqq

Step 2:

sudo apt-get update

Step 3:

sudo apt-get install notepadqq

Open/view documents in browser in Ubuntu

Hello Ubuntu lovers, how's it going? We are here with another useful and interesting Ubuntu plugin that can make your life easy! We often love to read documents within our browser instead of downloading every single document we want to go through and make our Linux box a trash! In some cases we can read documents in our browser as it would be the default option provided by the up loader, but in most of the cases our browser would ask us with two annoying 'save as' and 'open with' options. So, today we will install libreoffice plugin into our browsers, so that we can easily work around documents online with open/view, save as a pdf and many more useful options. Here's how to install this plugin:

Steps:

Open your terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-libreoffice

Now logout and login again and open any documents in your browser and you will find the difference. Screen-shots below:

Before installing plugin:

Create bootable windows USB in Ubuntu

Hey Ubuntu lovers, how confusing and lengthy process are you using to create a windows bootable USB in Ubuntu? Ever sighed how easy it would be if we have a simple GUI to achieve the goal like Unetbootin or some other USB installers like in Windows? Well you do not have to anymore! Well a stable and 'not less than these Windows softwares' application named WinUSB is now available for Ubuntu. We will now see how to install this GUI based USB installer in Ubuntu.

Steps:

Before we install we should remember one thing that there is no official PPA available yet for Ubuntu 14.04LTS, so we are gonna install the Ubuntu 13.10's version and then fix dependency errors! Let's go!

For Ubuntu 32-bit:

Open your terminal and enter below command:

wget https://launchpad.net/~colingille/+archive/freshlight/+files/winusb_1.0.11+saucy1_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 64-bit:

Group applications together in Unity launcher

Launcher is for sure one of the best innovations brought up by Canonical. Easy to use, user friendly and fast, now even with minimize click option. But when we have more applications opened, it looks overcrowded and clumsy. But now we need not to worry about this. We can group our applications in Ubuntu like we are already doing in our Android devices. We can do this by grouping a bunch of icons using this new app called "unity launcher folders". To install this, please follow steps below:

Steps:

Open your terminal and type following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:asukhovatkin/unity-launcher-folders

sudo apt-get update

Install Konqueror browser in Ubuntu

Konqueror is one of the super fast and secured browsers we can get, of all the time! Today we will see how to install Konqueror in Ubuntu. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
It is very simple and requires only one command. Here are the steps below.
Steps:

Open your terminal and simply type:

Change Unity dash overlay size in Ubuntu

Hey guys, Unity dash is a richly built, cool looking and a very fast desktop and online search bar for Ubuntu unity desktops and notebooks. But the size of dash is "half-way"(800x600ish) for some users and full screen for some users by default. For screens that are larger than a standard netbook, "half-way" is the way it is intended to be. This is called "desktop mode". There is another mode called "netbook mode", that opens dash in full screen size. Mine was "netbook mode". by default, but one day when I had to add some app by dragging and dropping into some another application, I was unable to do it in "netbook mode". Then I changed it into "desktop mode" and  continued my work. So, I thought sharing this trick will help somebody with the same need or who are trying to bring a little change in the way they look their dash everyday!

Steps:

There are two ways in which we can achieve this:

Add "open in terminal" to your nautilus file manager in Ubuntu

Terminal is a very powerful tool in Linux. Fast, accurate and easy to use. You can navigate through your entire system using your terminal. For example if we want to install any packages it's easy, if we want to got to a particular directory or path, of course we can! But there are times we do not want to type a big 'cd' command to navigate to a specific place in our system. Do not worry, with the help of this nautilus's add-on we can directly open terminal without entering a command, but just by a right click! This is called "open in terminal" shortcut. Here's how to add it to your nautilus file manager.

Steps:

Open your terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Enter your sudo password and that's it, this new feature will get installed. To use it you just need to restart your nautilus as follows:

Install Microsoft online applications in Ubuntu

One of the few things that's stopping people from using linux is Microsoft Ofiice. A guy named Dejan Petrovic released a non-official version of Microsoft Online Applications, using which we can do whatever we can do with MS Office, but online for now! Something is better than nothing right! Okay here's how to install them.

Steps: Open terminal and enter following commands:

wget atareao.es/downloads/varios/microsoft_online_apps.deb

sudo dpkg -i microsoft_online_apps.deb

Just open your dash and you will find your apps there! Amen!

Make your Ubuntu 14.04 laptop a wifi hotspot

Guys, how irritating it is to make your android mobile/tab with limited internet as a wifi hotspot and wait for several minutes to just load a Google home page on your lap or PC! Ever wondered how comfortable it would be to make your high speed Ethernet connected laptop/PC a wifi hotspot and enjoy your mobile/tab at any corner of your home/office? I am sure you might be googling a lot about this. Yes! the time has arrived now. We can do this using KDE's network manager in our Ubuntu laps/PCs. I will now explain how to make your Ethernet connected Ubuntu lap/PC a wifi hotspot.

Please keep in mind your la/PC should be connected to your Ethernet/DSL anything to make it a hotspot.

Step 1: First we need to install KDE's network manager. You can find it anywhere through internet otherwise here are some links.

Download KDE's network manager from here

Step 2: After installing don’t open network manager by double clicking or opening it from your dash. Open it by pressing alt+F2.

What is GNU? What is Linux? What is open source? : In the words of the great 'Richard Stallman'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztd9m71Jc-Y

AbiWord - Another interesting word processor

AbiWord is a lightweight word processor that perfectly integrates with any operating system, let it be Linux, Windows or Solaris etc. using this one can write all industry standard document types like Microsoft word, open office, HTML, rich text etc. AbiWord's spell checker have dictionaries built for over 30 languages including right-to-left languages like Arabic, Hebrew etc.

AbiWord is very small program provided with a rich set plugins.

How to install AbiWord in your Ubuntu machine: Open synaptic and search for abiword. Right click and click on mark for installation and then click apply in your package manager. It might sometimes ask for the installation of extra plug-ins, click apply and sit back.



AbiWord's interface looks like below:

Antiword

A software to convert MS word files to text, PS and PDF. There are many apps but this is one of them and this is pretty easy to use!
How to install this in your Ubuntu machine : Open synaptic and search for antiword.




Right click on the antiword app and