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Having trouble connecting a recent Google nexus device eg Nexus 4 7 or 10 to Ubuntu 12.04? 13 Jun 2013 | 11:12 am
Having trouble connecting a recent Google nexus device eg Nexus 4 7 or 10 to Ubuntu 12.04? Yeah me too. Here's what worked for me NB: 1. there was a minor error - needed a 'sudo' on step 6 part b -...
Garmin Edge 500 Firmware: how to downgrade the firmware 13 May 2013 | 11:31 am
My Garmin Edge 500 had a new firmware released for it, v 3.20. One problem is that startup time is now very very long. It used to be ready in about 10 seconds, now its about 1 minute. I was looking f...
Google Chrome Remote Desktop in Full Screen 16 Apr 2013 | 07:36 am
If you use Google Chrome Remote Desktop, and want to run in Full Screen, here's how. 0. Goto the Chrome Web Store and get Chrome Remote Desktop, and launch 1a. If you are using Chrome Browser: Go to...
Google Chrome and ChromeOS: Cloud print Save to Drive not available 13 Apr 2013 | 03:13 pm
When printing from Chrome and ChromeOS the docs say you should be able to Save to Google Drive. On my ChromeBook this wasn't available To resolve this issue, you need to type 'save' into the 'search...
Google Play Music and Chrome Settings: Oops we have a technical issue 10 Apr 2013 | 09:44 am
Having a go with Google Music, but I was getting the error Oops we have a technical issue please refresh this page in your browser to go back to listening to your music. If issues persist, make sure...
Showing the time with seconds in Ubuntu 12.04 8 Apr 2013 | 10:30 am
I like seeing the time with seconds. By default you get only hours and minutes, so here's how to get the seconds. Firstly make sure you've got dconf-tools installed. Use either Software Centre or Sy...
Save screen brightness on restart in Ubuntu 12.04 3 Apr 2013 | 03:04 pm
Sigh, Ubuntu 12.04 doesn't keep your screen brightness setting, so everytime you log in you need to change it. There is a way around this, requires editing a file using the terminal. sudo nano /etc/...
Adjust idle screen dimming time in Ubuntu 12.04 3 Apr 2013 | 11:16 am
For some reason I've lost the screen dimming energy saver command. No worry, I can use this command to change the idle time at which the screen will dim to save battery gsettings set org.gnome.setti...
Free VPN connection: OpenVPN on Ubuntu 12.04 with SecurityKISS 29 Mar 2013 | 02:07 pm
Came across SecurityKiss who offer 300MB per day VPN free. Setting up an account is easy, and then you need to get it going. 1. Log into the client area and then click 'download' and then 'linux'. ...
Make gEdit behave like TextMate 26 Mar 2013 | 04:16 pm
If you develop using OSX, Google App Engine and TextMate, its a really powerful combination. Switching to Ubuntu and thus not having textMate, one feature I really missed was the directory browsing. ...
