Wine - Run Windows Applications in Linux

Most of the Linux users who has moved from Windows miss their favourite Windows Application or Game. Though there are many Linux equivalent softwares for many Windows applications , but their numbers are few compared to Windows softwares.
To solve this , a project started in 1993 for giving the Linux users the joy of installing and using popular windows application in Linux. And the result is Wine , a program loader capable of running windows applications on Linux.

How to install:
For ubuntu users just open terminal and type
$ sudo apt-get install wine
and the software will be installed from internet. If you don't have an internet connection or slow internet connection you can install it offline.
Most others Linux Distro contains wine by default. You can also download the latest source file from here compile it yourself.

What are the applications supported :
Wine allows a lot of popular windows applications to be installed on Linux. Some of them are
WinRar, MS Office (Installer Only) , Quicktime etc.
Among popular games it supports Half Life 2 , Day of Defeat , Call of Duty etc.
For a full list of applications supported and necessary configurations visit wine home page at
http://appdb.winehq.org/

How to disable the Adobe Reader Online update

Those who use adobe reader for reading pdf files know that one of the most annoying thing with adobe reader is the online updater which download updates in the background as it consumes a lot of bandwidth. This is even worse for users with limited usage as the typical update size is about 50-60 MB. There is no such option in adobe readers main menu to stop that online updater.
But you can use following trick to stop it.
First, go to the adobe reader's plug-ins directory ( typically C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\plug_ins ) and search the file called Updater.api .
Then delete this file.
If you like to use this feature later then create a back up of the plug-in.

Google enters the OS war

After the success of Google Chrome Browser(Around 30 million users so far) google has announced its next project on Google Chrome Operating System. With this google enters the battle with industry giants like Microsoft. Windows has always been a popular choice among its users but for the past few years OS like Mac OS X and Linux are posing to be a great threat to it. Now with the announcement of Google OS it is interesting to see how things go in the near future.
Google has already launched its mobile OS Android and is the turn for the big thing.
The OS will be open source , light weight and web ready. Initially it will be targeted for notebook.

Specification & features of Google OS

i) Platform: Both x86 and ARM chips are supported.
ii) Kernel: Linux kernel
iii) Almost all web based application will be supported.

The OS will be available in the second half of the 2010. It is almost certain that with Google behind the project the OS will boot fast be web ready within seconds. Hope to see a revolutionary OS shortly.

Djvu - Open and Convert

djvu is a digital format for compressing high resolution and/or scanned images efficiently and tranfer the via internet or any other media. Now a days many ebbok are also of this format.
To open a djvu document you need one small software called Windjvu.
It can downloaded from here.
If you want to convert it to pdf then you can do it for free using the following trick.
i)Download any free pdf driver. ( U can use FreePDFxp or any other)
ii) Open the document with Windjvu.
iii)Print the document and while you have the menu to choose a printer choose
free pdf driver that you have installed.
iv) you are done.

Free Rapidshare Account

We always need some money while surfing the internet, be it online shopping or Rapidshare Premium account.
More specifically if you are a download maniacz and downloads a lot you might want to have a rapidshare account without investing your own money. There are a few ways which can earn money online easily ( Though not huge, the sites that demand they will make you thousands of dollars within weeks and then ask money for registration are mostly fake). Here I will share some of the sites which I have found to be trusted and reliable.

To earn money there a various ways..

1> Earn through PTC sites

i) Neobux.com : this site one of the best sites available. The minimum payout is only $2 and they pay via paypal/alterpay.

ii)10bux.net : This site is also very good ptc site. they have a lot ads available to click. for more info click here.

To receive payment you need one paypal account for which just register in paypal.com and its free. When they ask for credit card info then just skip the step if you don't want. Then you can use that to purchase rapidshare premium account.

2) Earn with surveys
There are really a few genuine sites of this type.

Indiaspeaks.net You can register in this site for online surveys and you will be get paid for that.

Offline Ubuntu

Installung softwares in ubuntu is very easy if you have a fast internet connection. U can install it by either using Add/Remove Softwares or by Synaptic package manager.
But the real problem comes when you want to install large packages and u don't have fast internet connection. To get rid of that there are some great sites that can help users to install packages without internet connection.

1. http://www.offlineubuntu.co.cc
Here u can easily update your package list and then install/upgrade any packages. To do so you need to copy your sources.list file in the required field and then the site will generate a list of download links and it will also show the details on how to use them. the sources.list file can be found at etc/apt/sources.list location.

2.http://labs.fajran.web.id/p/apt-web/
Here you can download any package by just entering the package name and then site will generate a list of links which can be individually downloaded and installed.
To do so Only you need to remember package name of popular softwares. For example
wine,vlc,g++,gcc,sun-java6-jdk etc.

for gstreamer gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly,gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad etc

After downloading all the packages you need to put them in any local directory.
Then using terminal go to the directory and execute the command
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
then give your current password.