How To Install Cisco Packet Tracer 6 In Ubuntu

Cisco Packet Tracer is a network simulation program that allows students to experiment with network behavior and ask “what if” questions. As an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience, Packet Tracer provides simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities and facilitates the teaching and learning of complex technology concepts.

Install Latest LibreOffice Version

On Ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice is outdated and you are only getting updates for 3.7.x version.
Current latest version of LibreOffice is 4.x. Version 4 brings new features Ubuntu global menu integration and better support for MS Office files formats.

You have few options for updating LibreOffice.

Watch Twitch.tv/justin.tv In VLC

With flash still used for video playback on internet suffering continues for users who have old computers or problems with flash. Here is a quick tutorial how to watch stream from Twitch.tv or Justin.tv.

Start Video Playback From Last Position In VLC

While Totem have this feature build in VLC don't have it and it is a nice feature to have.

Feature in Totem, needs to be manually enabled drom preferences menu 

August Bering have developed a extension script for VLC that resumes video playback from last position in VLC.

UberWriter - Simple Markdown Editor

UberWriter is a simple Markdown editor. Challenge, write this review it this editor.

How To Setup Joystick/Gamepad In Ubuntu

Here a little tutorial if you got joystick or gamepad and you want to use it in Ubuntu.
It is really easy you just need one app to make it work and another one to configure it to work with games that don'r support game pad or joystick.

Clementin Global Menu Support

If you have Clementin music player installed (version 1.0) you can see that global menu support is disabled.

This is because of bug with global menu and QT applications. Now when this bug is fixed you can have global menu support enabled again.

Local File Syncing In Ubuntu

Now days cloud storage is very popular, from Ubuntu One, Google Drive, Dropbox, Apples iCloud or MS Skydrive.

This services offers file syncing and storage in internet. but what if you wan't to sync files locally or over local network with other computers or USB flash or backup hard drive.
One awesome tool for this purpose in Grsync.

Skype Ubuntu Integration

Skype is only chat app that i use and its integration with any desktop environment suck.
There is nice application called Skype-Wrapper that integrates Skype in Messaging Menu, system notifications and Launcher.

Skype notification integration with Skype-wrapper

F.lux - Colour Temperature Adjustment

f.lux is a app that changes/adapts colour temperature of your display during the day.
By adapting the colour temperature for the time of the day it will make your screen more viewable and it is good for your eyes.

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.
Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically.

VirtualBox Guest Additions Available From Additional Drivers In Ubuntu 11.10

Today i decided to install Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox to give it a try. After installation i saw a notification that additional drivers are available, i clicked and notice that Ubuntu have detected that i am running it in VirtualBox and offered to install VirtualBox Guest Additions. Awesome.

Fix Clementine Notifications In Gnome Shell

Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

It works awesome on all platforms but in Gnome Shell it have bug with notification system in gnome shell, this cause that notification is not showed when song changes.

Plank - Lightweight Dock App

Plank is lightweight dock application for Linux. It is created by Docky team and it will be default Dock in Elementary OS Luna.

The main advances of Plank is simplicity and lightweight.

How To Install/Compile Elementary Slingshot In Ubuntu

Slingshot is launcher that is develop by Elementary team.
Slingshot is still not available via PPA but you can get source and compile it.

Add Skype To Messaging Menu

Well everyone know what Skype is, this tutorial will show you how to integrate Skype in Ubuntu Messaging Menu.

Shotwell PPA for Lucid

Shotwell is the default photo manager for Ubuntu. In order to get updates to the app, you need to use the PPA. Yorba (the creators of Shotwell) will not push the newest version, 0.8, the thier PPA. The reson for this is as follows.

It turns out we can't easily release Shotwell 0.8 for Lucid in the Yorba PPA.  The problem is that Lucid has only Vala 0.8, but Shotwell requires Vala 0.10 to build.  We can't pull in Vala from the Vala PPA, because that would give us version 0.11, which can't be used to build Shotwell either (see #2638).  There's no easy workaround, so I'm marking this as wontfix.

AMDOverdriveCtrl - Tweak Tool For ATI Cards

AMDOverdriveCtrl is tool that allows you to control and monitor frequency and fan settings on your ATI GPU card.

Fix NTFS Configuration Tool In Ubuntu 10.10

NTFS Configuration Tool (ntfs-config) is tool that is used to configure all of your NTFS devices to allow write support via a friendly gui and auto mount them.

Since Ubuntu 10.10 NTFS Configuration Tool won't start.

How To Install Gnome Do With Docky In Ubuntu 10.10

For those who are using Gnome Do with Docky theme now in Ubuntu 10.10 that is not possible :(

This is because in Ubuntu 10.10 Gnome Do have been updated to version 0.8.3.1.
Because Docky have become completely separate project, Docky theme have been removed from Gnome Do.

If you want Gnome Do with Docky you need to install older version of Gnome Do.

Dropbox Givaway Winners

First of, I would like to thank Tyler for posting about this giveaway on  OMG! Ubuntu! I would also like to thank Dropbox sponsoring this giveaway. With over 730 comments and three accounts to be won, you chances of winning were about 243 to 1. Now to announce the winners: the winners of the 10 GB Dropbox accounts are as follows: