Monitor your CPU temperatures in Ubuntu

Amazon.com Widgets One of the main things that concern power users are whether their PC components are running at appropriate temperatures or not. Since high temperatures can result in hardware failures or vice-versa, you need to keep a check. If you are running a Linux distro like Ubuntu , you can add CPU temperature displays …
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Skin your Firefox with Vista style buttons in Ubuntu

Firefox 3 came out with a whole lot of improvements and one of the notable one’s was that it shipped with themes that matched the native operating system. The Firefox 3 interface in Windows has really cool Back and Forward buttons. The large round Back button is green in XP and blue in Vista and …
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Download videos from YouTube in Ubuntu

Amazon.com Widgets Watching videos on YouTube is great fun. Loads of videos are uploaded everyday including music videos, movie trailers, T.V. shows etc. But what about saving your favorite videos on your hard drive? It’s easy if you use Windows as you can extract the videos from your web browser’s temporary internet files folder. But …
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