Category Archives: GNU/Linux

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Control All Your Web Privacy From One Dashboard In Chromebook

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Privacy Palette lets you control your online privacy to secure your web browsing experience. It is a Google Chrome extension created for Chrome and Chromebook to regain control over your web browser. Using this extension you can clear your private data stored on your computer or browser in just a second. Don’t let online firms to easily access your personal and private browsing habits.

Install the Privacy Palette extension from Web Store. Upon installation visit Chrome’s App Home, Click Privacy Palette button and you will see the one and only dashboard for protecting yourself against all unwanted tracking, malware and advertisements etc. It also speeds-up your browsing experience.

Present time extension update provides you control over following stuff:

Chromebook Privacy Dashboard

  1. Block Ads: Ads can be very annoying. Get rid of ALL online ads! enable
  2. AdChoices: Opt-out from online behavioral advertising. manage
  3. Browsing History: Remove the list of all your previously accessed websites. clear
  4. Cache: If you visit a website, Chrome stores it in the cache in case you come back later. Clear your cache to remove traces of that website. clear
  5. Cookies: Cookies are used to record your visits to a website. Delete cookies stored in your browser so companies cannot recall your previous activity. clear
  6. Data Storage: Clear other data that has been stored on your computer. clear
  7. Downloads: After finishing a browsing session, your download history remains on your computer. Clear this list now. clear
  8. Facebook Account: Manage your Facebook account settings and change Facebook’s ad settings, privacy settings and security settings manage
  9. Google Account: Manage your Google account settings and change Google’s ad settings, security settings and your data on Google manage
  10. Secure Browsing: Enable HTTPS for every website to browse more securely. enable
  11. PlugIn Data: PlugIns that you have installed might save data on your harddrive without you knowing this. Clear this data now. clear
  12. Tracking: Change Chrome’s privacy settings and tell advertisers that you do not want to be tracked manage
  13. Twitter Account: Manage your Twitter account settings. manage
GNU/Linux, Web Services

Easily Create Online Forms & Surveys With 123ContactForm

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123contactform.com lets you create any kind of contact form, event registration form, online surveys and order types of forms easily without any technical expertise.

It is a cloud based free HTML form generator and a very useful tool if you like adding a simple or complex form online on a web page. You can prepare a survey for organization, or for your website, company, for gathering leads from potential customers with a contact form, selling services and goods without a shopping cart or for any other online form requirement you have.

Some of its main functionality and features include:

You can build any HTML contact form, survey, email form or online web form.

Provides you real-time form editor with drag and drop fields, you can change their properties, add fields for Google Maps, uploads, images, even HTML content etc.

Get instant email notifications like you can receive the content of your form or survey to multiple email addresses at once, create a rule and send your form entry to an email based on the value of a field, send a confirmation message (autoresponder) to each person who filled your form

You can connect with 3rd party applications like Google Docs, MailChimp, SalesForce, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, VerticalResponse, Twitter. Provides you webhooks: deliver each form submission to a custom script of your choice.

Get paid through your online order forms. Enable one click payment integration with Paypal, Google Checkout and Authorize.NET. You can turn your web form into a shopping cart, use advanced calculations for coupons, taxes, discounts, post sale notifications to buyer

Provides you reports and charts. You can display your form entries as a chart. A picture. You can publish email forms and surveys on Facebook, WordPress, Blogger, Google Sites and any social media, blog or website platform etc.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Organize Your Web World By Creating Topics, Pages With Photos, Videos, Tweets, Documents & More

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Organize your world of web. Create categories and topic pages including photos, videos, sharings like tweets and also documents to keep your online life well organized and share anything with anyone at anytime.

This article is on a bookmarking cloud web service called Bundlr.com. You can start simply signing in with Facebook, Google or Twitter. Bundlr is build for online curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily. Using this cloud service you can cover real-time news, wrap up an event or build a page with the most relevant content on your favorite topic.

You may bookmark the service or install its chrome bookmarklet from web store. Other than from its homepage you can install other bookmarklets like may be if you are Android user or iTunes etc.

Using Bundlr browser button, you can clip content while web browsing and each bundle has its own public webpage which you can share with everyone.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Independently Encrypt And Decrypt Text Anywhere On Internet

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Unreadable is a free web service, as the name says it all it lets you easily encrypts and decrypts text independently of the transport (e-mail, Whatsapp, Facebook and co) and the platform (PC, smartphone, television, etc.). Using this awesome app you can secure all of your text and passwords.

All encrypted texts can be sent by Emails, USB / CD / DVD / Bluray (stored in a file), Facebook, Google+, Twitter, … WhatsApp, ChatON, Hangouts, Hike, whistle.im, Skype. It is compatible on all popular platforms like Android (Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Samsung Hub), iOS, BlackBerry, FireFox OS, Chrome OS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, … everything with a browser.

There many other functions this app does are:

  1. 256-bit key length
  2. Offline Availability
  3. Different languages: German, English
  4. Protection against Data analysis-tools
  5. Provides you fast and effective encryption and decryption of texts
  6. Strong symmetric encryption algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard short AES)
  7. Platform independent The app works on the PC, the smartphone, camera, TV, etc. … everything, that has a browser;)

Usage Instructions:

You can install its Chrome Extension or use the service directly by visiting Unreadable.de

Transmitter:

  1. Write text
  2. Think out a password and encrypt the text
  3. Send encrypted text
  4. Communicate the password to the communication partner by telephone, letter or in direct conversation

Receiver:

  1. Visit www.unreadable.de or download the app
  2. Copy encrypted text into the app
  3. Enter the password and decrypt the text

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Playing Old Days Super Mario Games On Your Chromebook

Mario is a popular old days video game. Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise by Nintendo, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo’s mascot and the eponymous protagonist of the series, it has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. It is said by many to be the most famous character in video game history. Mario games, as a whole, have sold more than 210 million units, making the Mario franchise the best-selling video game franchise of all time.

Now this article is on Best Super Mario Games chrome app available as free download at Google Web Store. This is a selection of Best Super Mario Games Online, including Mario Flash, Mario Star Scramble, Paper mario and much more for your Chrome/Chromebook’s personalized homepage.

You can play all games directly in your browser greatest hits, cool classic or innovative Super Mario games, like Super Mario`s Adventure 1 and 2, Super Mario Flash 1 and 2, Super Mario Bros. Star Scramble 1, 2 and 3, Paper Mario World and there are many more.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Web Services

Easily Manage Browser Cookies & Protect Your Online Privacy

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Cookie Manager is a chrome extension made to protect your online privacy by managing your browser cookies with more control. You can add, edit and delete cookies from its toolbar. Also you can search cookies if there are many etc.

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Android/Linux, Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Homeschool, Technology

Control & Use All Your Android Devices From Any Web Browser

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AirDroid is a powerful but free cloud app that allows you to manage all your Android devices right from a web browser, your chromebook, from anywhere, from any web browser, all over the air. The application provides you complete control over your Android devices and best part is Desktop SMS that lest you easily Send & receive SMS right from your computer, you can type SMS using your keyboard giving your complete comfort with faster typing and navigation with the full keyboard and large screen.

Other features allows you to manage Files and Media. You can move photos, videos, ringtones and any other files on and off Android, all without a USB cable.

You can manage your Phone Calls, Clipboard , URL transfer. Make Calls, Contact, Share Clipboard Content across devices, push URL to Android and there are more features awaiting for you to discover them.

How to use AirDroid to manage all your Android devices from a web browser?

Step-1 First thing you need to do is visit http://web.airdroid.com/ and sign up your account. You may signup using your Facebook, Google etc accounts too. After you signup you will see a Android Home like desktop showing up in your web browser window.

AirDroid

Step-2 Now you may connect your Android devices. Install AirDroid App from Google Play, click sign-in button and login with the same account and your device will be connected.

AirDroid 2

You can Manage your Android Apps, gets to easy app search, installation and apk export. You can see through the lens of your Android camera, front and back. Or stream the screen of your Android in nearly real-time.

Not only this much but even you can find the location of your phone. Yes you can locate and lock your Android from any browser in-case if it’s lost. Also you can wipe all its data remotely.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Automatically Move Big Email Attachments To Your Google Drive

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Archiver for Gmail is a script for Google Chrome. It seamlessly analyze your Gmail inbox and moves all of the big attachments to your Google drive, you can do it in one click. It also provides you background features for automatically copying email attachments to Google Drive.

Script is easy to use. Simply install its extension (Archiver for Gmail) in your Chrome then follow the steps:

  1. Visit your Chrome Apps page and launch Archiver for Gmail
  2. First it will ask for authorization, complete app authorization by following on screen steps
  3. After completing authorization you will be seeing this scripts main page, simply click the ‘Start‘ button to begin the process.

Now it will automatically copy all your big email attachments (1 MB or bigger) to Google Drive and label your incoming emails based on the attachment size.

The script also saves a HTML copy of the whole email thread and makes you free to delete each email containing big attachments (this can be even done automatically). All messages containing relevant attachments will be labelled, so that you can index your inbox even better.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Automatically Fetch Your Favorite News Topics On Chrome

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Now you can easily set up Chrome to fetch and show you the news on topics you like. There is no need to visit Google News and click same Filters every time when you can read them in just one click right from your Chrome’s home.

Follow the given steps:

Step-1 First thing you need to do is visit Google Web Store and add News You Like app in your Chromebook or on simple Chrome web-browser.

News You Like 3

Step-2 As soon it installs, you will see its icon on your Apps page and also on your desktop app launcher (if you are using it). Click the icon and it will redirect you to a news on various topics with tabs as filters. By default it shows you news on some predefined topics including your country, Google and Chrome etc. NEXT step is to add your favourite news topics.

News You Like 1

Step-3 Click the ‘Settings’ button, you will see a lightbox over lay with various text fields. Now type names of news categories you like and click the ‘Save’ button.

News You Like 2

That’s all. Now you can read your favourite news anytime by clicking News you like icon from the apps page or directly from your desktop app launcher.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Easily Download, Install & Use Skype For Ubuntu

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Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer technologies and lets you make calls without letting anything go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users. It is proprietary software you may use for making calls over the Internet using your computer. The Skype software is free to use, but it is not free software. It is free as a beer, its source code is not available for modification.

By default Skype is not installed on Ubuntu but you may install it by clicking: Install the skype package. You need to Activate the Canonical Partner Repository to install Skype.

OR alternatively you may install it by visiting Ubuntu Software Centre. OR you may install it directly from your terminal. Follow the steps:

skype

Step-1 Open your terminal, type the following command and hit ENTER:

sudo apt-get install libqt4-dbus libqt4-network libqt4-xml libasound2

Step-2 If it asks for password, type password and hit Enter again.

Step-3 Now use the following command for downloading Skype:

  • Skype 32-bit:

wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32 and hit Enter.

  • Skype 64-bit:

wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-64 and hit Enter.

Step-4 After you finished downloading, use the following command to install Skype:
sudo dpkg -i getskype-*

Step-5 Now finally to finish installing:
sudo apt-get -f install

That’s all with download and installation. Now open Dash Home, type Skype, open and start using it.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Best Offline Application To Take Notes In Chromebook

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Quick Notes provides you the easiest & quickest way for taking notes in Chrome. Great for Chromebook users. it is as quick and slick as the best desktop note-app. It is designed for lightweight note-taking. You can use it as a simple notepad, scratchpad, clipboard or for making your Todo lists.

  1. Quick to add and edit ~ Add note in the app or from right-click menu
  2. Quick to access ~ One-click to access your notes
  3. Quick to search ~ Instant search for all notes
  4. Sync to cloud and access your notes anywhere

How to install and setup Quick Note?

Its very easy. Add Quick Notes in your Chrome browser. It will automatically add its launch icon on Chrome.s app page. As soon you click that icon, you will see you note page where you can type your notes. You can add notes from any web page by using its right click menu option.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Working With Ubuntu Universal Access

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Don’t know what Ubuntu Universal Access is? You can do much more with your mouse, keyboard and touch pad. Open your Ubuntu system. From the top right corner of top panel click the small settings icon and then click System Settings option. From System Settings page scroll down to System sub section and click blue color Universal Access icon. It provides you many different useful options, by default it opens up Seeing tab, now lets see what you can do here:

Seeing TAB

  1. You can change contrast to high, low, normal or high/inverse
  2. You can change text size to small, normal, large, larger
  3. You can enable beeps for caps lock & num lock
  4. You can enable or disable screen reader

Hearing TAB

You can enable visual alerts. You can enable a visual alert indication when an alert sound occurs like you can flash window title or even you can flash entire screen. Great feature if you don’t like hearing alert sounds again and again. Sometimes they are very disturbing.

Typing TAB

This is very useful tab. Here you can enable virtual screeen keyboard, Most Ubuntu users don’t know that Ubuntu already provides you a cool virtual keyboard, they keep searching for it on cloud.

In normal conditions there is no use of virtual key pressing but sometimes when any key of your keyboard stops working, or you are watching a movie on your laptop, having snacks and suddenly you receive an email sound and you don’t want to touch your keyboard and make it dirty. Well you can respond to your email by using Ubuntu’s virtual keyboard.

You can also turn on accessibility features from the keyboard. You can turn on Sticky Keys, it treats a sequence of modifier keys as a key combination. You can enable certain conditions like you can disable if two keys are pressed together. Also you can enable a beep if a modifier key is pressed.

Slow keys: You can turn them on or off. They put a delay between when a key is pressed and when it is accepted..

Also you can change acceptance delay by dragging its bar from short to long. Other than this yo can enable a beep, beep when a key is pressed, accepted or rejected..

Bounce keys: You can enable or diable bounce keys. They ignore fast duplicate key presses. Here also you can enable a beep when a key is rejected and change the acceptance delay by dragging the bar between shot and long.

At the bottom of this page you will find a small text area where you can type to test settings.

Pointing and Clicking TAB

Pointing and clicking tab provides you options for Mouse keys, Simulated Secondary Click, Hover Click.

Mouse Keys: Cool option. You can enable Mouse Keys by pressing the on/off button given there. These mouse keys allows you to control your mouse pointer using your keypad.

Simulated Secondary Click: Enable option to trigger a secondary click by holding down the primary button. Provides you controlf for acceptance delay.

Hover Click: Allows you to trigger a click when pointer hovers. This also provides you delay control and mothion threshold.

Mouse TAB

Mouse Settings: At the very bottom of the page (right corner) you will see a Mouse Settings link. This directs you to Mouse and Touch pad controls page where you can:

  1. Set mouse for RIGHT HANDED or LEFT HANDED person.
  2. You can enable option to show position of mouse whenever Control key is pressed from the keyboard.
  3. You can set MOUSE POINTER SPEED, increases or decrease mouse acceleration and sensitivity.

Other than this you can increase or decrease threshhold for Drag & Drop and Double Click Timeout.

Touchpad TAB

Now finally click the Touchpad tab. Here you can enable or disable touchpad while typing, you can enable/disable mouse clicks with touch pad.

Scrolling options allows you to turn on Edge Scrolling, Two Finger Scrolling and Horizontal Scrolling or you can completely disable the touchpad scrolling.

Last, Pointer Speed section allows you to increase or decrease Mouse Pointer Speed (this time touchpad’s mouse pointer), its acceleration & senstivity.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Clean Up Ubuntu System To Make It Like A Freshly Installed One

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Ubuntu Tweak is awesome Ubuntu app and we havealready discussed about it earlier. Now this tutorial explains you how you can use Ubuntu Tweak for cleaning up your system so its more likely a freshly installed one. [ALSO READ: Downloading and Installing Ubuntu Tweak]

Ubuntu Tweak provides you a cool handy feature called Computer Janitor. So first of all click Ubuntu’s Dash Home present at the top of your Ubuntu Launcher.

Type Ubuntu Tweak in search box and click top open the app. By default Ubuntu Tweak opens up its Overview tab. Click Janitor tab present on the top left corner, last tab of Ubuntu Teak.

Ubuntu Janitor

From the left sidebar you can individually select caches you like cleaning up from your system. So tick the boxes like Firefox Cache, Software Center Cache, Personal Cache like Thumbnail Cache, System Cache like Apt Cache, Old Kernel, Packed Configs and Unneeded Packages etc.

As soon you tick any cache box, on the right site Janitor will provide you further selections you can choose. Now finally click the CLEAN button present on the bottom left corner.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Ubuntu Tweak: Download, Installation & Usage

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Ubuntu Tweak is a free Ubuntu app for configuring Ubuntu easily without working with any terminal command and code etc. It provides you many cool desktop and system controls that default Ubuntu desktop environment doesn’t provide you. Using Ubuntu Tweak you will be able to enjoy the experience of Ubuntu.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux, You Tube

How To Automatically Play All YouTube Videos In Full HD?

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By default, for switching any video to HD mode you have to click settings icon (present at the right bottom side of playing video) and then you can set video Quality to HD. This tutorial shows you you how to turn all YouTube videos to play automatically in HD mode.

Follow the given steps:

Step-1 Install Auto HD For YouTube™, a Google Chrome app.

Step-2 Now a small HD icon will come visible in the address bar on YouTube video pages where the extension can act.

Step-3 Check it by playing any YouTube video.

That’s all about its working. Auto HD For YouTube™ is one of the best ways to make video watching experience awesome. It also allows you to customize the video quality and size of playing video to ensures that you get the right settings on all your YouTube videos.

Main Features:

Faster Video Loading: Videos stream faster because you will no longer need to change quality settings.

Auto HD: All videos viewed on YouTube will automatically load in HD. No need to manually change it every time you watch a video.

Auto Widening of video: Videos load automatically in in the wide mode settings, making it easier to watch videos on larger screens.

Completely Customizable: You can set the quality of video to load in and the size settings and it will be loaded accordingly each time.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

New Offline Chromebook Task Manager That Syncs Google Tasks

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Google Tasks Offline is a Chrome app that allows Chromebook and general Chrome users to use a cool offline task manager that syncs up with Google Tasks. It works both offline and online as a Google Task Client which is unaffiliated with Google.

Some of its great features are:

Hotkeys: For scrolling and editing
Autosyncing: All your actions are auto-synced to your Google Tasks.
Provides Subtasks: Works just like Google tasks, tab and untab to set the level.
Manual One Click Sync: You can press sync once only to force a sync manually.
Multiple List With Easy Management: You can create multiple to do list on the same page. Filter system on the lower left will allow you to concentrate on one list
Access Everything Without Active Connection: There is no need of internet connection to edit your tasks, you can do so offline and they will get synced next time you are connected to Internet.

How to use the Google Tasks Offline?

Install its Chrome Extension here, it will automatically adds a new bookmark on your Chrome’s App Page which when clicked directs you to the Offline Task Manager.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Extend Chromebook To Access Desktop Apps Which Requires Windows Through Web

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Google teamed up with nGenx for launching a solution for Chromebook & Chrome OS users to access any desktop app still requiring Windows through the web. nFinity Browser provides you an IE8 user experience, settings, & accessibility; browsing without any limitations.

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Chromebook, Facebook, GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media, You Tube

Jump To Your Favorite Facebook & YouTube Section In One Click

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Facebook Quick Links and YouTube Quick Links are two popular webpages people use for quickly accessing various features and sections of Facebook and YouTube. You can set these pages as home page, new tab page, default page in order to get  to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos etc in just one click. In the same way YouTube Quick Links page provides you direct links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, tv shows etc.

Facebook Quick Links

Facebook links to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos. One click Facebook links right from your web browser.

YouTube Quick Links

Youtube links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, TV shows. Facebook and twitter.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Easy Ubuntu Tweaking App To Configure & Tune Up Unity Environ

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MyUnity is a great tweaking app for Ubuntu users. It is simple, easy to use and downloads in seconds. The application gives you a compact and clean interface for tweaking many features of Ubuntu 3D Unity and some of Ubuntu 2D. You can install it directly from Ubuntu Software Centre.
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Android/Linux, GNU/Linux, Technology, Web Services

Installing Google Play Music Manager In Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

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Sometime back Google released Google Play Music Manager for desktop computers that enables its users to upload their music collections to cloud and download their library to their hard drive easily. After the music files are uploaded to cloud, they can be listened from any Android Phone, desktop computers, tablets etc.

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