Updating Google Nexus 7 from 4.3 to 4.4.2

 

From the home screen, go to Settings. This can be done in two ways.

Tap the App icon in the home screen as shown below. In the appeared screen click on “Settings

Drag down from the battery symbol as shown below. Click on the “Settings” icon in the appeared display

In the “Settings” screen scroll down to the bottom and tap on “About tablet”

In the “About tablet” screen tap on “System updates”

You will see the Update Screen as shown below. The screen shows a progress bar as well as the size of download needed.

Removing Yellow Tint in Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7

See the table below

Image Viewed in Windows Picture Viewer showing yellow tint	Same Image in Paint .NET

To correct this problem follow the steps mentioned below [Please note that if you have set the Color profile manually then don’t alter it. This may affect your work especially if you are an artist or a graphics engineer]

• Right click on Desktop. Click on the menu item Screen Resolution
  
• In the appeared window click on "advanced settings"
  
• Now a tabbed window will appear. Click on "Color Management" button in the "Color Management" tab
  
• Ensure that the device selected is the Display you are using.
  
• Tick the check box "Use my settings for this device". Otherwise you won't be able to change the Profiles associated with the device.
  
• Then Add the Profile named "sRGB IEC61966-2.1". Select the added profile and click on "Set as Default Profile".

  A preview of all the window is shown below

• Remove the other profile.

• Click on Close – OK – OK
• Now refresh the desktop. Open the image in Picture Viewer.

Ubuntu – Installing synaptic packager manager in an offline system

 

Let us see how we can install “Synaptic Package Manager” in an offline system. First we need the “synaptic” deb file listed below

• synaptic_<version>_<platform>.deb
  • Dependencies
    • libept1.4.12 _<version>_<platform>.deb
    • rarian-compat_<version>_<platform>.deb
      • Dependencies
        • docbook-xml_<version>_<platform>.deb
          • Dependencies
            • sgml-data_<version>_<platform>.deb
        • librarian0_<version>_<platform>.deb
    • libgtk2-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb
      • Dependencies
        • libcairo2_<version>_<platform>.deb
        • libglib-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb
        • libpango-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb

Copy all these “.deb” files to a fodler. Now open the terminal. Change to the directory where all the above “.deb” files have been copied using “cd” command. Now issue the following command:

sudo dpkg –i *.deb

All the “.deb” files can be downloaded from the website “http://packages.ubuntu.com/”.

Ubuntu 14.04 - New features, Known issues and more information

 

The site below gives you a description of the New features, know issue, Official ubuntu flavours links and other information on Ubuntu 14.04

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes

Changing the Window menu from the common menu bar in Ubuntu 14.04

 

This is a new feature in Ubuntu 14.04. With this property the user can decide where the menus for each window should appear. By default the menu for windows will appear in the common menu bar. To change this follow the steps given below

Right click on the Ubuntu Desktop, and click on the menu item “Change Desktop Background”.

In the appeared window named “Appearance”, go to the second tab named “Behavior”.

There as highlighted in the picture below you can see the option named “Show the menus for a window”. One value for this option, selected by default is “In the menu bar”. This will cause the menus to appear in the common menu bar. The second value is “In the window’s title bar”. This will cause the each windows menus to appear in their respective title bar.

Changing Hostname in Ubuntu

 

To change the hostname in ubuntu permanently you have to edit two files.

The first one is the file “hostname” located in the folder “/etc”. To edit this file using vi you can use the command “sudo vi /etc/hostname” in the terminal. To edit the file in gedit you can use the command “sudo gedit /etc/hostname”. No change the name given in this file and save the same.

After that you need to change one more file. Open the file “hosts” in the location “/etc’'. Edit this file and change the line containing the old hostname to new one. After that save the file. For editing you can either use the “vi” or “gedit” as mentioned in the previous paragraph. Just change the file path and name in that command.

Now restart ubuntu. It will be having the new name now.

Creating a desktop shortcut for FTP access in Ubuntu

Create a “<filename>.desktop” file with the following entries. Replace “<filename>” with suitable name.




[Desktop Entry]
Name=FTP
Exec=nautilus --new-window ftp://<FTP Site Address>
Icon=system-file-manager
Type=Application

Give the file executable permission. On double clicking the file now the FTP site will be opened in nautilus.