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Install Fedora using a Flash Drive

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if you are running windows and you will like to install fedora on your flash drive this is liveusb-creator the program to go.  it is so easy that it is even impossible to believe.  you could either download fedora distro or use the program to download it from the web.  then browse the file and hit “Create Live USB.”  yeap, is that easy.  then all you have to do is to boot from the USB drive, so you have to make sure that you will tell your BIOS that.

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Upgrade Amarok to 2.0

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this one will allow you to have the lastest verison of amarok in your sources.

  1. add the following line to your sources list

    2. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu intrepid main

  2. then find “amarok-kde4” on synaptic manager and install it
  3. the upgrade will take care of deleting the old amarok and installing the new one in

Upgrade OpenOffice to 3.0

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i’ve been using the older version of openoffice and i wanted to upgrade to 3.0 in ubuntu.  well it is not as easy as … i download the files and then click upgrade.  there are repositories that i need to download in order to install them properly.  you will be using ppa (personal package archive) in order to have such of installation.

so what i did in order to have this upgrade automatically is the following steps:

  1. first you will need to open “synaptic package manager“
  2. go to “third-party software” tab and then click on “add”
  3. add this following line
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
  4. now reload the package information the synaptic package manager and then upgrade

Play commercial DVD in Ubuntu

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If you were experiencing some problem trying to play commercial DVD’s in Ubuntu now your problem would be resolved (hopefully).

  1. open “terminal”
  2. type sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
  3. then type sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

Now play a DVD in your computer that it didn’t work before to see if it works. Thanks to Tech-Recipes.

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Flock web browser

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I honestly love Flock, the social web browser. But right now it is driving me nuts. I have the version 1.1 and I’m subscribe to my YouTube, WordPress, Flikr accounts with no problems. But… when ever I subscribe to Facebook it actually never record my password in the computer. Actually whenever I click on the Facebook button, it takes me to Facebook and then asked me for my password. Once I enter my password and hit enter it actually never record my password between Flock and my Facebook account.
One day by miracle started working without me trying to fix it (that is the beauty of computers), but then stopped again and I can’t make it to come back on.
I’ll try to update to Flock last version to see if they would fix this problem.