This thing looks seriously good. Check it out!

Microsoft Project Natal is a post from: The Tech Bytes

After a bit of googling on the errors I was getting during compiling those plasmoids, I think the below command should do the job of pulling in all packages you need to compile almost any plasmoid on Fedora KDE.

yum install make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel kdelibs-devel kdebase-workspace-devel kdebase-devel

Note 1 – This command will also pull in some more packages which are dependencies.

Compiling Plasmoids from source in Fedora is a post from: The Tech Bytes

If you head to the Chrome release channels page, you will see that the Dev version is available only in Debian format. The page says:

Requirements: Intel Pentium 4 / Athlon 64 or later CPU; 32- or 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 or later, or 32-bit Debian 5. Support for other Linux distributions is planned; unpacking the .deb files by hand may work.

But Google Chrome has a Dev version for RPM distros as well . To install the Dev version:

1. First get the Beta version of Google Chrome from here.

2. Install by double-clicking on it. This will install Google Chrome beta and add Google’s repo for future updates.

3. Now open you software management tool (PackageKit for Fedora) and search for google-chrome. You will see that google-chrome-unstable is also present in Google’s repo. So you can now uninstall google-chrome-beta and then install google-chrome-unstable.

For Fedora command line, the commands will be ‘yum erase google-chrome-beta’ and then ‘yum install google-chrome-unstable’.

It is time Google updates the Chrome early access channels page.

Google Chrome Dev Version for RPM based Linux distro is a post from: The Tech Bytes

The KDE packaging project is providing 4.4 packages for Fedora users. You just need to add their repository to your Software Sources in PackageKit. Here is how:

1. Go to the site and get the repo file under yum section. It is present on the home page if you scroll down.

2. Place the repo file you downloaded in /etc/yum.repos.d directory.

3. Go to KPackageKit –> Settings and enable the kde and kde-testing repositories. KDE 4.4 is present in the testing repository.

4. Open Konsole, and type: su -c ‘yum groupupdate kde-desktop’

After updating, restart to see shiny new KDE 4.4.

[How To] Upgrade to KDE 4.4 on Fedora 12 is a post from: The Tech Bytes

You can easily install Google Chrome browser on your Ubuntu Linux. Follow the below steps to install Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu Linux.

1. Go to this page and download the 32 bit or 64 bit deb of Google Chrome for Linux. These are the Dev channel builds for Chrome, so you always get the latest updates.

2. Open Terminal and type the below command to install Google Chrome:

If you have downloaded the 32 bit version:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb

If you have downloaded the 64 bit version:

sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

This will automatically add Google’s repo to your Software Sources. So you receive all future updates from Google automatically.

If you are using Adobe Flash on your Ubuntu, here is how to enable Flash on Google Chrome. Type the below commands in Terminal:

sudo cd /opt/google/chrome/

sudo mkdir plugins
sudo cd plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins %U

Now open Google Chrome. A faster internet browser with Flash.

Install Google Chrome browser on Ubuntu Linux is a post from: The Tech Bytes

The line ‘gtk-button-images = 0′ in GTK themes does not work in GNOME 2.26 anymore.

There is now a new key in GNOME Configurator Editor. Below are the steps to disable buttons on icons in GNOME 2.26 and above.

• Press Alt + F2
• Type gconf-editor and hit Enter.
• Go to Desktop –> GNOME –> Interface
• Uncheck the key buttons_have_icons

The change will be immediate and there will no icons on buttons anymore.

This change will affect all GTK themes. Somehow this is more convenient as I need not edit GTK themes everytime.

Remove icons on buttons in GNOME 2.26 is a post from: The Tech Bytes

Just right click on a ISO image and select ‘Burn Disc Image’, Windows 7 burns the image onto a blank disc.

No third party softwares needed.

Burning ISO Image in Windows 7 is a post from: The Tech Bytes

Disk Cleanup in Windows 7 still shows a warning about Windows Vista.

Isn’t this supposed to be changed?

Windows 7 Disk Cleanup is a post from: The Tech Bytes

Downloaded and installed Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and now have Windows XP running inside Windows 7 without any problems.

Microsoft Virtual PC on Windows 7 is a post from: The Tech Bytes

Some random things about Windows 7:

1. The first thing I did was turn off UAC but apparently that has a side effect. Desktop gadgets cannot be used without turning on UAC. Don’t know why.
2. If you are beta testing Windows 7, be sure to read this great list of 30 Windows 7 secrets by Tim Sneath. Its a seriously great article about some cool things that are present in Windows 7.
3. If you are annoyed by the Send Feedback link present on all windows, use this simple registry hack from Tech Recipes to get rid of that.
4. Love the desktop slideshow feature of Windows 7. Just select a folder containing wallpapers and specify a rotation interval, Windows 7 will rotate the wallpapers. Earlier people used to downloaded third party software for doing this.
5. Windows 7 includes DivX support in Windows Media Player. So codec packs are not needed more.

5 random things about Windows 7 is a post from: The Tech Bytes