You must have observed this type of feature on many websites. By default, WordPress allows you to select taxonomy terms one by one, even if you select any parent taxonomy, you have to select other child taxonomy terms one by one. This is good for most WordPress users but sometimes you need more options.
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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:
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:
wget http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-ubuntu-32 and hit Enter.
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.
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:
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.
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 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 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:
Other than this you can increase or decrease threshhold for Drag & Drop and Double Click Timeout.
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.
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.
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.
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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Kindle Cloud Reader allows you to read Kindle books right inside you Google Chrome browser.Great for Chromebook as also programmed to work offline. It is an official web app from Amazon that lets you read your Kindle books, instantly. Not only this much but customize the look font and also you can write notes, make highlights and add bookmarks. Then you can view all of your notes etc from other Kindle reader apps too.
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Online Typing Test WPM is a free cloud service that allows you to know how many works you type per minute by performing a free typing speed test. Using this web service you can know what’s your WPM (words per minute) speed is, you can improve your typing skills, you can practice typing and know how much you have improved since last test.
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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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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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Evernote.Com allows you to save all of your ideas and experiences and afterwards you can access them any every laptop, tablet or smartphone you use. It is a popular and award-winning web service that turns your device into an extension of your brain. You can save save your ideas, experiences, inspirations to access them all at any time from anywhere. Some of its main features are:
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Muki Tag Cloud is the new new WordPress tag cloud plugin that allows you to display creative, beautiful and colourful tag cloud. Install and activate Muki Tag Cloud plugin. After activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Muki Tag Cloud page.
Now from the options page you can set you tag cloud widget’s width, height in percent or pixel. You can set Tag Cloud to display random or order them by article, you can set smallest & largest font size and color scheme. It shows you real time tag cloud preview.
Finally, you can add the widget to sidebar or any other widget area from Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page.
Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity 2D, for a general user it appears very difficult and for some users even impossible to resize the Ubuntu launcher. On other hand with Unity 3D, this can be done very easily from appearance settings simply by dragging the slider but this method is only available for Unity 3D not 2D. This tutorial explains you how you can easily reduce (or change) the launcher size in Ubuntu 2D.
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After installing KDE Plasma desktop in Ubuntu, it automatically takes over your default Ubuntu LigntDM login screen and displays KDM instead. You can easily switch back to LightDM by running a simple command in terminal.
Step-1 So first thing you need to do is click Dash Home icon present on the top of Ubuntu Unity Launcher, type terminal in search box and open it.
Step-2 Second step is to type or copy-paste the following command in the terminal and hit ENTER
sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm
Step-3 Now there should popping menu on your screen asking you to select default display manager. Use your arrow keys and select LightDM instead or KDM.That’s all with the settings.
Finally restart your PC.
Certainly, there are many popular cloud storage services out there, but today we are going to talk aboutone that offers a few more features as well. Cometdocs has been on the scene for about four years now, and while it does offer free users a hefty 2GB in storage space, it’s mostly known for the fact that it offers file conversion capabilities as well. On top of that, Cometdocs also gives users a unique way to transfer and share files with other.
The service has recently added a few more features to give users even more convenience, including a desktop conversion app, an API for app developers interested in incorporating Cometdocs’ conversion technology into their own software, and a brand new iOS mobile app that gives users on-the-go access to the service.
The mobile app allows users to perform all of the functions that they can already perform using Cometdocs through a web browser, but quickly and effectively on their iPhones or iPads now also. The app is incredibly light-weight, sleekly designed and very easy to use. It’s also very resource efficient.
The mobile app is only useful if you are already a Cometdocs user, so if the service sounds intriguing, sign up for a free account and try the app out. Cometdocs gives its free users 2GB of storage space and five free file conversion per week, and if you like the service and need to use it more actively than that, you can sign up for a premium account, which gives you unlimited file conversions and access to Cometdocs’ OCR engine for the conversion of scanned and image-based files as well.
Here’s a look at how the mobile app works:
Download the free app from the iTunes store and install it. Once you start it up, simply enter your credentials and log in.
If you ever want to upload a file to your Cometdocs account and aren’t at your desktop computer, you can do it through your mobile device as well. Whether it’s from your Dropbox, Google Drive or email, simply send it over to Cometdocs. From there you will be able to store, share or convert it. All you need to do is locate the file and choose to open it with Cometdocs.
This is the “bread and butter” of the service. Cometdocs allows users to convert PDFs into more editable files such as MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Text and much more. You can also use it to convert a variety of such file types into PDFs. Cometdocs also supports XPS conversions, which not many other services do. If the file you want to convert is already in your Cometdocs account, simply tap on it and then choose from the conversion options that are presented to you.
One great thing about Cometdocs is that it gives you the ability to send large files to people that you wouldn’t be able to attach in an email. The person you want to send the file to receives an email with a download link for getting the file. This is both an effective and secure way to transfer files to others. To do this, tap on the Transfer link and then enter the email address or addresses of the recipient or recipients. There’s also an option to include a personalized message along with the file if you need to explain what it is.
The resource efficiency present by the mobile app is also something worth noting. When converting files, the app simply sends your file to the online server for conversion. This means that the app itself is not performing the conversion. Therefore, conversions will never slow down or block your mobile device or drastically drain your battery life.
Check it out: http://www.cometdocs.com/mobileApps
Android Terminal Emulator is an open source project. You can download Android Terminal Emulator tool from Google Play Store. With this app you can access your Android’s built-in Linux command line shell and unleash your inner geek. This app is not a game emulator. It won’t help you to root your phone or change your phone’s IMIE. To use this app you will be needing to know Linux command line. It is useful for accessing the Linux command line shell that is built into every Android system. It lets you run various Linux command line utilities.
[Also read: Android Shell Command Reference].
Other than this Android Terminal Emulator is useful for any ordinary phone, that hasn’t been rooted. You can access the entire /sdcard file system, install and run Linux command-line applications in the parts of the /data file system that are accessible to the Android Terminal Emulator process. Also you can run command-line programs that access the Internet.
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Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote command-line login, remote command execution, and other secure network services between two networked computers that connects, via a secure channel over an insecure network, a server and a client (running SSH server and SSH client programs, respectively).The protocol specification distinguishes between two major versions that are referred to as SSH-1 and SSH-2.
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Now you can create beautiful world class resumes online in just a few minutes without sending a penny anywhere. Represent.io is an awesome web service where you can quickly setup your resume in a more beautiful and easier way. The service stores all your information securely in the cloud and allows you to easily update everything.
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Unlike to Dropbox and SkyDrive where a folder is shared only between group members and only they can upload files, you can use OneTimeBox for sharing folders publicly where anyone can upload files. Yes OneTimeBox, is an awesome webservice that allows you to creates disposable open web folder where anyone can easily add files, only the condition is they must follow its unique URL i.e. the URL of your shared folder. Even there’s no registration required. All you will be needing to do is share the unique URL of your webfolder with your friends and they can access and upload files, also they get the delete permissions.
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Adobe flash player allows you to browse multimedia content online like videos, animations , some flash games and other rich media content etc etc. It supports almost all operating systems like Linux, Mac, Android, Mobile OS, Solaris etc. You can easily install in your Ubuntu Linux, right from terminal by following few simple steps given here.
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Google Chrome is built upon Chromium open source project, Google chrome is packaged and distributed by Google officially. In-short Google Chrome is a commercial and closed source product by Google which is based on open source Chromium project. Chromium, being open source is mostly used by Linux operating system users. For example: Chromium is available in Ubuntu repositories and one can download it from Ubuntu Software Centre, it maintained by Ubuntu developers and goes through their stable release and update process, same thing happens with other Linux distros and this makes Chromium more compatible for Linux based operating systems.
Another key difference between Google Chrome and Chromium is chrome is red where as Chromium is blue in color ;-) You should know that both web browsers share majority of code and features, only a few minor differences makes them a little bit different from each other.
By default Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags whereas Google Chrome supports these as well as AAC (patent-encumbered) and MP3 (formerly patent-encumbered). Although there are more differences but these are the technical ones which affect user user experience.
Mural.ly is a visual collaboration service for teams. Using this web service creative teams can easily think & share ideas and work in a better and easy way together. It is build for enabling netizens to easily shape their ideas together and fully unleashing their imagination without getting in the way of their flow. Murals provides you with online zoomable walls having web content like videos, links, photos and more used for visualizing imagination of teams and further they can discuss about their ideas from anywhere, anytime.
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