How to Configure Mouse Settings in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Mouse Settings

Ubuntu, being an open-source operating system, lets you make a lot of configurations to even the smallest of the system modules. Among these things, is the way you want to use your external USB mouse. In this article, we will describe how to make the following changes to your mouse settings: Set either left/right button … Read more

How to Install and Setup Thunderbird Email Client in Ubuntu

Thunderbird Email Client on Ubuntu

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free Email client that allows users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and other supported systems to send, receive, and manage their Email. With ThunderBird, you can retrieve Emails from your Email provider using IMAP or POP3, and send Email using SMTP. In this article, we will explain installing thunderbird both through the … Read more

How to Install CouchPotato on Ubuntu

Ubuntu CouchPotato installation

CouchPotato helps you in downloading movies automatically, easily and in the best quality as soon as they are available, via Usenet and torrents. In this article, we will explain a step by step process on how to install CouchPotato on Ubuntu. We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article on a Ubuntu … Read more

How to Create and Edit PDF files in Ubuntu

Ubuntu PDF File Editor

PDF or Portable Document Format is mostly our first choice when it comes to printing, sharing and emailing documents, especially the large ones. For Windows and MacOS, you might be very much familiar, and also dependent, on the widely used Acrobat products for pdf creation, viewing, and editing. Unfortunately, there is no default pdf creator … Read more

How to Restart Services on Ubuntu Command Line

Restart Services in Ubuntu

Restarting a service is one of the administrative tasks that you will have to perform one time or the other while configuring software on your Ubuntu. In this article, we will explain how to restart a running service on your Ubuntu through the systemctl command. We will also explain some more service management systemctl commands … Read more

How to test your Microphone in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Microphone Test

If you are using your system’s built-in microphone or an external one, it is very important to test if your voice is getting through to your system. Only when your system is reading your microphone sound as an input, it can process it further and use it in any of your applications. In this article, … Read more

How to Set Timers, Alarms, and Stop Watches in Ubuntu

Ubuntu Timer, Alarm, and Stopwatch

In this article, we will explain how to set timers, alarms, and stopwatches on your Ubuntu system. The article explains the following two ways to do so: Through the UI using the Gnome Clocks tool Through the command line using various tricks and hacks We have run the commands and procedures mentioned in this article … Read more

3 Ways to Install Software from .deb Packages in Ubuntu

Ubuntu .deb package install

When installing software on our Ubuntu systems, our first choice is from the official Ubuntu repositories or the Ubuntu maintained PPA repositories. Unfortunately, not all software is available officially through Ubuntu and we have to look for other means to install useful software on our systems. One such way is through the .deb files that … Read more