Desktop Environment Cinnamon for Linux Mint 14 Nadiya (Mate)

Linux Mint 14: How to make Cinnamon environment in Mate?

Cinnamon is a user interface. It is a fork of GNOME Shell, initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint. It attempts to provide a more traditional user environment based on the desktop metaphor, like GNOME 2. Cinnamon provides many features, including

• Desktop effects, including animations and transition effects;
• A movable panel equipped with a main menu, launchers, a window list and the system tray;
• Various extensions;
• Applets that appear on the panel
• Overview with functions similar to that in GNOME Shell; and
• Settings editor for easy customization. It can customize:
  • The panel
  • The calendar
  • Themes
  • Desktop effects
  • Applets
  • Extensions                                                                                                                          
    
    

Cinnamon is available in a PPA (personal package archive) for Linux. The default edition comes with either the Cinnamon (Gnome Shell fork) desktop or the MATE (a Gnome 2 fork) desktop. Both are offered for download with or without multimedia codecs included.

First of all open the terminal and run the following command:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa

Press Enter when it prompts you. After that update the available packages list by running the command given below:

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install Cinnamon with this command:

sudo apt-get install cinnamon cinnamon-session cinnamon-settings

Now you can enjoy the features of Cinnamon on your Linux system.

How to Install BRL-CAD in Linux?

BRL-CAD open source solid modeling

BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform Open Source combinatorial Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system that includes interactive 3D solid geometry editing, high-performance ray-tracing support for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer support, image and signal-processing tools, path-tracing and photon mapping support for realistic image synthesis, a system performance analysis benchmark suite, an embedded scripting interface, and libraries for robust high-performance geometric representation and analysis. 

Then click following link to download the latest BRL-CAD:

brlcad_7.22.0-0_i386.deb (32-bit)

brlcad_7.22.0-0_amd64.deb (64-bit)

Other versions are available here.

To install, double click on the .deb package and install via Ubuntu Software Center(or GDebi Package Installer). 

Once installed, search for and open Archer from the unity dash home.

To install from Terminal run the following commands to install BRL-CAD on i386 systems:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/brlcad

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install brlcad

For amd64 systems, install BRL-CAD with these commands:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/brlcad64

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install brlcad

Password Protect your files in Linux

How to protect my files in Linux with a Password?

Here is a quick demo to show you, how to protect your files in Linux operating system.

Step 1: Select the files that you want to protect with a password

(Suppose i want to protect File 1, File 2 and File 3. Select those and right click on your mouse) 

   Step 2: Click on "Compress"  (The following window appears)

    Step 3: Click on "Other Options"  (Rename your file if you want & set the location)

    Step 4: Set the password and click Create

In this way you can create a password protected file or folder. One more interesting thing is that you can directly add the unprotected files to the zip folder without making a new folder. 

Linux Not Updating: 0% [waiting for headers]

What to do when Linux is not updating?

Update means update in the repositories with the new information and upgrading means to upgrade what is in the new repositories. To update your Linux type

Code:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade 

Hit enter, it will ask for you password. Check that in, Now it should be checking the repositories. But if somehow the update gets stuck at some place. just read below what to do.

Sometimes u will see that while updating the Linux operating system from terminal, the following message appears
0% [waiting for headers]
and nothing seems to change after that. It becomes a headache when it is stuck at 0% or sometimes at 99%
Just type this code whenever the updating gets stuck.

Code:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

and then update normally your Linux with

Code:

sudo apt-get update

how to install skype in linux?

INSTALL LATEST SKYPE 4.1 IN UBUNTU 12.10/12.04/LINUX MINT 14/13 (NEW RELEASE)

Skype allows people to communicate with each other by messaging, voice calling and video calling over internet. Skype also provides services for phone calls on the telephone networks. Everybody can call on Skype network free of charge there is no limit of call, on the other side Skype charge users for calling to land-line and mobile phones. Skype becomes popular among users for its additional features, like file sharing, screen sharing, video conferencing.

To install skype in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

• wget -O skype http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-precise_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb
• sudo dpkg -i skype
• sudo apt-get -f install && sudo rm skype

Another simple way to install skype is here:

Go to Ubuntu software centre or Software manager in linux mint.

search skype

and install.

That's it, Enjoy 

Which is better: Blogger or Wordpress

Blogger v/s WordPress: A comparison

Blog is a Web site on which an individual or group of users record opinions, information, etc. on a regular basis. Blogging has been around for almost 15 years now. Blogs have evolved from being personal online journals to fully functional self-advertising, business and social media tools. Websites have changed, self-expression has evolved from personal story-telling to video blogs, and new blogging outlets have emerged. The most widely used platforms right now are Blogger and WordPress.In this article i will provide the comparison between the famous free websites Blogger and WordPress First of all let me say a few lines of introduction about both of these. 

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. WordPress is currently the most popular blogging system in use on the Web.

Running a site is enjoyable, but you have to determine certain things for yourself from a professional perspective. If you are a started, it is always suggested to opt Blogger. If you are serious about your blogging, then you are suggested to choose WordPress Self-Hosting domain and there are many other WordPress Hosting services available. You can enjoy the power of WordPress with these Self-Hosted blogs.

Key Differences between Blogger and WordPress:

Dashboard

(a dashboard is a user interface that, somewhat resembling an automobile's dashboard, organizes and presents information in a way that is easy to read.)

Blogger: It has an updated dashboard design. More features are available, but to make use of all of them, it is compulsory to enable JavaScript.
WordPress: The Dashboard in WordPress increases the speed for the dial-up users so that they can easily post an entry without facing too much difficulty, or wasting time.

Languages

Blogger: Blogger by Google supports only 50 languages.

WordPress: WordPress supports nearly 120+ languages.

Domain Names

Blogger: You can transfer your domain for free or you can buy one through the BlogSpot interface. And, once again free blogs are created as sub-domains with URLs like xyz.blogspot.com.

WordPress: The user has to pay some amount in order to transfer an existing domain in case of the paid service, but of course you can create free blogs on wordpress.com in form of a sub-domain like abc.wordpress.com. Wordpress comes in two flavors: wordpress.com and wordpress.org. The .com version is the free side of wordpress and inserts ads into your blog. The .org side hosts wordpress pay to play features

Image Storage

Blogger: When you upload photos to Blogger they are stored in Google’s photo system, Picasa. There you can browse your images and much more. In blogger there is 1 GB of storage space (images under 2048×2048 do not count towards that limit, so it’s actually MUCH more than 1 gig) for storing images. If you required more space, you’ve to pay for more space.

WordPress: It has 3GB of storage space. But, if you want more space then you’ll have to upgrade by paying some money.

Categories

Blogger: There is an option called Labels, which serves as a tag, and posts are archived in monthly and yearly manner.

WordPress: It has an option to upload categories and tags.

Static Pages

Blogger: You can create up to twenty static pages, but like WordPress those static pages cannot be placed on the home page easily. If you want to show such static page as homepage, you've to edit the template HTML which is painfully complex for many users.

WordPress: You can create as many pages or posts that can be listed in the home page.

Money 

Blogger: Blogger supports Google's Ad sense service as a way of getting revenue from running a blog. Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google +

WordPress: It doesn't support monetization. There are tons of Blogger Blogs ranking in the top page in Google for various keywords, but you won’t see too many WordPress.com blogs ranking high.

Bottom Line: See the wordPress view of this post here. click here