How to show the tab bar when you start firefox

Posted on April 16, 2009 - Filed Under Firefox | Leave a Comment

Today I found my firefox do not show the tab bar by default when I start the firefox.In fact it’s very easy to enable this.
To let firefox show the tab bar for you,just go to Tools—Options:

Then select Always show the tab bar,After click OK,you will find Firefox show your the tab bar.

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To install graphics drivers on Ubuntu

Posted on April 10, 2009 - Filed Under Linux | 4 Comments

If you do not know whether graphics drivers been installed or not,type following in a terminal window ,and it will tell you

and to find out the name of your graphics card,type code:

1.TO install graphics drivers
If it is Nvidia type:

For ATI card :

press enter to install
At last restart your computer
2.Another way,go to System–>Administration–>Hardware Drivers(or Restricted Drivers [...]

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3D Desktop switch on Ubuntu

Posted on April 10, 2009 - Filed Under Linux | Leave a Comment

First,you need to install “3ddesktop” by typing the following in a terminal window:

press enter
then you can type 3ddesk ,press enter to run this after the installation
You will see:

And use the up and down or right and left arrow keys to change desktop,press enter to select that desktop
Tips:
You must make sure you have installed graphics drivers [...]

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How to use single click instead of double click in Ubuntu

Posted on April 6, 2009 - Filed Under Linux | Leave a Comment

For single click,first open up the file browser . Open up trash,or start as shown in figure .

Then go to Edit–>Preferences

Open the “Behaviour” tab in the next window,then set to single click

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How to play mkv files in windows xp or vista

Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Windows | 1 Comment

The MKV file isn’t the regular video and audio compression format. The MKV is an open source container format. It is a general-purpose audio and video container and a contending format to the more popular AVI and MP4 formats. Below will give you 2 methods on how to play mkv files in windows.
The first way [...]

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How to know your computer’s uptime in Windows xp/vista/7

Posted on April 1, 2009 - Filed Under Windows | 3 Comments

As you know,we can use command “uptime” to show your computers uptime in linux/unix.Also we may want to know the uptime of our computers in Windows ,but there is not the uptime command in windows.
Fortunately,windows also give us related commands to show the uptime of the computer.You can find the uptime in the output of [...]

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