Archive for April, 2008

How to download songs as MP3 from Muxtape?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Muxtape created waves recently. Muxtape is a site that allows you to upload around 12 songs and share them with others easily. You can sort your songs and create playlists and share your Muxtape URLs with others. You can easily go to a Muxtape URL, click on a song and begin listening.

Ubuntu 8.04 - How to Setup the World Clock Applet?

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy Heron sports an improved system clocks applet that now supports viewing of time in multiple locations. Further, the clock applet on Ubuntu 8.04 can also give you Weather details about the location. This new feature may come really handy for some users that work with distant bosses who’re in a different timezone [...]

Five Softwares to Install in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron [Recommendation]

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

The much-awaited 8.04 version of the Ubuntu Desktop named ‘Hardy Heron’ was released yesterday. I downloaded the 699 MB ISO and managed to install it today. There have been really worthy improvements. We can only hope that this latest version brings a lot of users into the Linux World.
Ubuntu comes with functional and free software [...]

How to convert files to PDF using OpenOffice?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

OpenOffice comes with a little inbuilt tool that lets you convert your documents and create PDF files out of them. OpenOffice lets you import many types of documents, including .doc files created by Microsoft Word, so it’s possible for you to convert not just the files made by OpenOffice.org to PDF format, but also those [...]

Generate Lorem Ipsum Text in Microsoft Word

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

If you’re working on MS Word and need to insert a sample piece of pseudo text to demonstrate something, there’s a quick way to do so. Just by typing in a command and pressing enter, you can fill up your document with sample, lorem ipsum paragraphs easily.
Here’s how: