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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Manage your passwords with KeePass or KeePassX

[KeePass was tested in Windows Vista and KeePassX was tested in Ubuntu 10.10] Do you have a problem with remembering your password? For example, you have a lot of username and password (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc) but you're having trouble remembering all of them. Nah, I think this application can help you to manage your passwords. You don't need to remember all of your account information now. You just need to remember 1 password, and this application will help you to remember all of your account information. KeePass and KeePassX can help you now!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Control CPU frequency using CPU Frequency Applet

Do you know that you can manage your CPU in Ubuntu, like how fast they run and how much they consume your laptop battery? If you don't know, now you must watch this post and enable it. Why? Of course to control your CPU so they won't consume a lot of energy, so you can have more time if you're using your laptop if it's unplugged.


Monday, January 10, 2011

Show Tagline and Restore Accidentally Edited Footer in Wordpress Theme

Ok, today wanna be a geek has a new look! I've spend a lot of my time to edit this new look, and face a lot of problem when editing. The first problem is, I want to enable tagline in this new look, because when I use default template from Wordpress (twenty-ten), when I load the homepage, the site's tagline was shown. But after change to this new look, the result is -> no tagline! Ok, some templates don't show your site's tagline, but we can edit a little about your template so it can show your site's tagline in your browser!

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Enable Two-Finger Scrolling on Ubuntu 10.10

[Tested on Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04, 11.10 and Linux Mint 10] Have Ubuntu running on your laptop, and you want to enable Two-Finger scrolling on your touch-pad, is it possible? If you go under System>Preferences>Mouse and go to the touch-pad tab, you'll see radio button to enable Two-Finger scrolling, but it's color is gray and it is not click-able, right? So how to enable it? I really want something like MacBook touch-pad! Ok guys, be patient. I've search it on Google and I found a way to enable it. O yeah, once more: this guide only enable Two-Finger scrolling (horizontal and vertical scrolling) and this only works with Synaptics touch-pad. Ok, let's begin now!

(image from: http://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/2F-Scroll.jpg)

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Rainmeter, customizable resource meter for Windows

Rainmeter (circuitous)
Last time, I told you about Conky - a free light weight system monitor for X. Now, I'll share you about Rainmeter. (http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/) Rainmeter is a customizable resource meter for your Windows desktop. It's very easy to use it and you can found and download so many skin for it. The picture in the left is a screenshot of Rainmeter on my desktop with circuitous skin.

If you're looking for something like Conky Colors - cairo theme for your Windows desktop; yeah, this is it, Rainmeter - circuitous theme. Grab circuitous theme here:
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/70834

There are eight skins for circuitous theme: time/date, CPU, memory, power, hard drive 1, hard drive 2, network traffic, network status (WiFi). But there are some addition for circuitous theme, it is circuitous for Winamp 4 and weather circuitous. For Winamp 4 circuitous, grab it here:
http://adytzu2005.deviantart.com/art/Rainmeter-Winamp-4-Circuitous-176855352

And for weather circuitous, grab it here:
http://customize.org/rainmeter/skins/75976

Or, if you want to search another theme, you can go to http://www.deviantart.com/ or http://customize.org/. There you'll find so many themes for Rainmeter. Happy customizing your own Windows desktop! :D

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Battery Bar, a battery meter for Windows

This time, I'll introduce you this nice application from Osiris Development, Battery Bar. Battery Bar is a nice battery meter which remains in your taskbar. I'm using it and I'll share my experience about it.

There are 2 edition of  Battery Bar, Battery Bar Free edition and Battery Bar Pro Edition. I'm using Battery Bar Free Edition, but if you want something more than the free edition,(theme customization, alert and critical battery warning, etc.), you can buy the pro edition.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2011

Back here, I as the admin of Wanna be a Geek want to say Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2011. Yeah, this is the first year of Wanna be a Geek. This year, Wanna be a Geek was born. Hope this site can give you a great articles :)

God bless you all!

Conky, a free light-weight system monitor for X!


In Windows, there is an application called Rainmeter (http://rainmeter.net/) which can display system monitor on the desktop. I want something like it on my Ubuntu desktop. Is there a way to bring it to my desktop? YES! Conky can do it!

So what is conky? Conky is a free light system monitor for X which can display any info about on your deskop. Here is an example of Conky on my Ubuntu desktop.

There are two ways to configure Conky. First, you can use ConkyWizard with GUI configuration or you can use Conky-colors to make your Conky more beautiful. I use Conky-color with cairo theme. So whick one is better? Haha, it's up to you. If you ask me why I choose Conky-colors, maybe because I'm like it's cairo theme.

So, are you ready to configure Conky? Let's go!


(1)If you want to configure Conky with ConkyWizard, check this link:
(2)But if you want Conky-colors: check this link:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/conky-colors-makes-your-conky-beautiful.html

And if you want Conky-colors with cairo theme, check this link:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/08/conky-colors-gets-beautiful-new-cairo.html

Preview of my desktop using Conky

Conky make your desktop beautiful, isn't it?
And if you want the same wallpaper that i use, check this link:
http://petrsimcik.deviantart.com/#/d33br69

Plus, I use DockBarX for my bottom panel. If you want DockBarX, check this link too:
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/12/dockbarx-041-released-with-redesigned.html

So, do you like it? Hope this helps and happy customizing. :)

Configure NotifyOSD and panel gap in Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10

Hi everybody, do you have a problem with notification bubble (Notify OSD) in Ubuntu 10? There is a gap between notification bubble and top panel, right? Oh, it's very annoying for me! So how to fix it? Here, I found a way to fix it after searching on Google.

NotifyOSD (before)

I search it on Google, finally I found how to fix it. All we need is Notify OSD Configuration GUI. Here is the screenshot.

NotifyOSD Configuration Interface

I've test it on Ubuntu 10.10. With this graphical user interface, we can set the vertical gap and horizontal gap of notification bubble. Here is the screenshot after I configure it on my laptop.

NotifyOSD (after)

So, how to get Notify OSD GUI? Just go to below link from WebUpd8.
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/10/tweak-notifyosd-notifications-in-ubuntu.html

Hope this helps! :D Happy customizing!

Install Microsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu (PlayOnLinux)

Yeah, this time i'll tell you about how to install Microsoft Office 2007 on Ubuntu. It's easy! PlayOnLinux can help you to do it easily! How...?

PlayOnLinux interface

The easiest way is using PlayOnLinux (link in the end of this post). Just download and install it. After install it, run PlayOnLinux (Application>Games>PlayOnLinux) and click button install. Next step is, navigate to office and choose Microsoft Office 2007. Before installing, it's better for you to have an internet connection when installing Microsoft Office 2007 using PlayOnLinux, so it can get everything needed to install Microsoft Office 2007.