How To Disable the Amazon Search Ads in Ubuntu at 02:25 Posted by Unknown

When you search something in dash, your search will be sent to 3rd party through Canonical. Third party like Amazon searches related to your search keyword an send them back to you. Amazon sometimes send NSFW(not safe for work) products to your search.

Not So Good Way to Disable Amazon Ads In Ubuntu

1. Go to System Setting.
2. Then Go to privacy. The search results and you will find like this.

Then Turn Off "Include Online Search Results". It will stops Amaon Search Ads but it will also turn off all the suggestions from internet based Unity lenses. you won’t be able to use Wiki lens, weather and news lens  academy lens etc.  I think you can't live without it so I have another method for doing it.

So Good Method For Turning Of Amazon Search Ads In Ubuntu

Open Terminal By pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and Type.

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping

Type in your password when prompted, and press Y for conformation. Now, When you log back in, you should find that the Amazon ads no longer show up, but you can still search other web services right from the Dash.

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Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 Has Experienced An Internal Error at 01:44 Posted by Unknown

Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 Has Experienced An Internal Error

I am using using Ubuntu 12.04. But, when I start my laptop I get message like this "Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 Has Experienced An Internal Error". This is not the beta version of Ubuntu and when I read full error it follows as:

Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error.
If you notice further problems, try restarting the computer.
Send an error report to help fix the problem.

It is all because of Apport which is a debugging tool. Apport generates this crash reports. In previous versions of Ubuntu Apport is not enabled by default. In Ubuntu 12.04 Apport is enabled by default. So we can disable Apport to stop this annoying crash reports. 

Where's Apport Live?

You can find Apport at "/etc/default/apport" . To open this file with GEdit Text Editor type:

gksu gedit /etc/default/apport

When you open this file you can see like this :

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it
# you can temporarily override this with
# sudo service apport start force_start=1
enabled=1

Change enabled=1 to enabled=0 to disable Apport. Save and exit.

Now, you will never see "Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 Has Experienced An Internal Error" like annoying pop-ups. This fix works on 12.10 and 13.04 also. So, apply this fix and stay Happy forever.

 

Comment If you know any other fix for Ubuntu.

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Linux Vs. Windows at 04:09 Posted by Unknown

Linux Vs. Windows is the most common question when you are thinking about migrating from Windows to Linux or Linux to Windows. OK Then, you are thinking what are the best features are available in Linux so I should prefer Linux over Windows or Windows over Linux.

Windows is not equal to Linux

1. Price

Majority of Linux OS are available for free. Microsoft Windows can run between $50.00 - $150.00 US dollars per each license copy.

2. Ease Of Use

Most of Linux variants have dramatically changes to make Linux easy to use. But, people prefer Windows over Linux in term of ease of use because it's more likely they are using Windows Computer at home,office and school.

3. Software

Linux variants are Open-Source. Most of software of Linux are also Open-Source so they are available for free. However, Windows has a much larger selection of available software.Because of the large amount of Microsoft Windows users, there is a much larger selection of available software programs, utilities, and games for Windows. 

4. Cost Of Software

Linux Software are mostly available for free. Such complex software like Gimp, Open office, Wine,etc are also available for free. Although windows has some software which are available for free but most complex software like Adobe Photoshop , Microsoft Office, etc will cost between $50.00-$200.00 US dollars per each license copy.

5. Security

No one can beat Linux when we are talk about security. Sometimes Linux can be attacked but it is more secure than windows. over the years windows had made many changes in security but,  their operating system continues to be the most vulnerable to viruses and other attacks.

6. Ease of Getting Software

Linux has own Software center. You don't have to open Google to find Softwares. Now, Windows 8 comes with window store. But, windows store is new in the market as compared to Linux. Linux software center is rich with different free software as compared to windows store.

7. Community 

It is hard to find a people with rich knowledge of Linux OS. But there are lots of community from there you can get support. Microsoft has its own Q/A center. There are lots of documentation and eBooks are available for Windows support. 

8. Multiple Desktops

Linus gives you 4 Work panels. So it is easy to multitasking on Linux Platform. Windows 8 gives you switch window. It is also good. 

9. Rapid Evolution

There's no competitor of Linux in revolution. Linux variants are get updated every six months. Windows Vista took five years to appear, and was seen by many critics and users alike as a big step backwards, if not a complete flop. Since Windows 7 would take another three years to come along, that was virtually an eight-year wait for an operating system upgrade! 

10. No Prerequisites 

Linux is built to run on any Platform. You can run it on PC with 256 MB ram with so ease. Windows does not give you this like freedom. Linux gives you pre-installed Drivers.

11.  Customization 

Linux can be customized easily with Ubuntu tweak. There are many software available to customize Linux. There are many themes available for Linux. Windows can customized with its own themes. 

So what about you? Linux Or Windows !!!

Ubuntu Tweak: Ultimate Make Up Kit For Ubuntu at 05:49 Posted by Unknown

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide. At present, it's only designed for the Ubuntu GNOME Desktop, and always follows the newest Ubuntu distribution.

I call Ubuntu Tweak as Make Up Kit for Ubuntu because its really worth. It completely changes the look of your Ubuntu with its tweaks and theme functionality. It also gives you to freedom to install apps that are not available in Ubuntu Software Center.

Best Apps In Ubuntu Tweaks:

• Birdie- A Twitter Client

• Drop Box- Cloud Service

• GIMP- Image Editor

• Chromium Browser- Google Chrome Clone

• Docky- Dock For Ubuntu

• Wine- compatibility layer for running Windows applications on Linux.

Features of Ubuntu Tweak:

• View of Basic System Information(Distribution, Kernel, CPU, Memory, etc.)

• GNOME Session Control

• Auto Start Program Control

• Quick install popular applications

• A lot of third-party sources to keep applications up-to-date

• Clean unneeded packages or cache to free disk space

• Show/Hide and Change Splash screen

• Show/Hide desktop icons or Mounted Volumes

• Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash or Network icon

• Tweak Metacity Window Manager's style and behaviour

• Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effect Settings, Menu Effect Settings

• Set the Shortcuts to archive quicker access your favourite applications

• GNOME Panel Settings

• Nautilus Settings

• Advanced Power Management Settings

• System Security Settings

To install Ubuntu-Tweak in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak