This has to be amongst the coolest Google doodles out there. It’s to celebrate Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. If you didn’t already know, Jules Verne’s the man behind the well known Novells Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days. Use the joystick control on the right to navigate the GOOGLE submarine around :D, cool ha? Source: Google
This is for all you Ubuntu loving Android users out there. It’s a cool Ubuntu countdown widget for your android. Comes in 2 sizes too, 1x1 and 2x2. ...
So you messed up the Gnome desktop and don’t know how to restore it back to it’s default settings. Here’s how with no risks. Log out and then hit “Ctrl + ALT + F1” to opening up a terminal. Delete the following directories. .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity Or run the this command. rm -rf rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity “Ctrl + ALT + F7/F8” and log in as usual....
By design Firefox will use your disk as cache. However, if you have a good amount of RAM available you could quickly improve Firefox’s performance by telling it disable disk caching and only use RAM. Here’s how you do it; in your URL bar type in “about:config”. this will bring up the config page. Using the filter box, lookup “browser.cache.disk.enable”. Change its value to “False” by double clicking on it....
The Gnome file manager Nautilus has a cool dual pane view which makes moving/copying files much easier. Simply hit f3 to bring up the dual pane view, right click on a file and either move/copy the file to “other pane”. However, unlike KDE, Gnome only allows you to move/copy to “home”, “desktop” and “other pane”. KDE does it slightly different. when you right click on a file you are be able to move/copy files to any location on the system ....