Automatically Delete Thumbs.db Files

Thumbs.db files are created by windows to store thumbnails cache to make reloading of thumbnails faster. These files are not relevant to Ubuntu and its a good idea to delete them. 

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Screencast Your Keystrokes

One of the main problem we have to face while making a video tutorial is, how are we going to narrate. We can use our voice, or we can open a text editor and type whatever we have to say or we can add subtitles or captions later.

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Easily Search PPAs from Terminal

If you are looking for a particular package and don't know whether a ppa for it exists or not, then this tool can be really handy.

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Turn Ubuntu into a Karaoke Player

If you are looking for nice application that displays the lyrics as the song plays and if you love to sing along then there is a really nice application that can turn your system into a karaoke machine.

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Get ChromOS like App Launcher in Chromium

I found this really nice extension for Chromium/Chrome. This extensions gives a ChromeOS like App Launcher to your browser and allows you to launch many Google services and more from a nice interface with application icons.

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New Version for Rapid Photo Downloader

Rapid Photo Downloader is a simple application that makes importing your snaps and videos from a digital camera a breeze. It has nice features like creation of sub folders and mass renaming.

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System 76 Introduces New Ultra Thin Ubuntu Laptop

System 76 has introduced a new ultra thin laptop that comes with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (64 Bit) pre-installed.

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3 Must have Firefox Addons for Ubuntu Users

There are not too many Firefox add-ons specific to Ubuntu Users. However I found these three add-ons really useful.

Firefox Notify

With Firefox Notify add-on, you can receive all Firefox notifications through Ubuntu's native d-bus notification system. Works for Gnome as well as KDE environments. It may work on other distros too, you have to try it yourself.

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Banshee Vesrsion 1.7.4 Released

A new version of popular music player Banshee has been released today. The new features include:

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Firefox 4 beta 3 Released

Firefox 4 beta 3 is released with some improvements. Firefox 4 now supports multi touch on windows 7. Also it brings faster new JavaScript values for faster and smoother rendering of graphics in the browser.

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