Nvidia GeForce FX5500 for Ubuntu update

Hey guys, I have written this article for the sole purpose of informing you that the Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 will not work in ubuntu with unity. It's better for you to upgrade your system or find a mirror for the old versions of Ubuntu.

If you have decided to download an older version of the Ubuntu operating system. You can download the old releases here. For installing the driver, you can read my post about installing GeForce FX5500 driver in ubuntu.

But if you still want to install the latest ubuntu release, then you need to ready yourself for an upgrade. Yeah, you can still run ubuntu in 512mb ram and atleast 1Ghz of CPU power but with the latest releases of Ubuntu, you will need a slightly better video card for your machine. For a technical reference, please refer here.

Need for Speed: Most wanted in Ubuntu.

Just wanna share my screen shot of Need for Speed: Most wanted in Ubuntu.

It can be played in full screen but I want to show you that I am using Ubuntu while playing it. I can set it to its default maximum settings.

The specs of my machine (desktop) is:

How to install Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 driver in ubuntu (offline)

It's been a while when I last wrote here in my blog. I want to say sorry because I am busy with my studies. Well, I want to share with you all on how to install Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 driver in ubuntu offline. As far as I know, not only the FX5500 can be installed in this way.

There are two ways on how to instal Nvidia GeForce FX 5500 driver. One is using the Ubuntu software solution. Just search for nvidia. It will show a list of software/packages that you can download and install in your computer. The alternative way is to download the driver from the nvidia website and install it locally.

To start, download the latest driver for your nvidia from the nvidia website. It will be ended with a .run.

Tip: click here to go to the download page for Nvidia driver for linux 32 bit.

After you downloaded the driver, paste it on the desktop for easy look up.

I LOVE ANDROID PHONES!!!

Yeah! You read it right. I love android phones. It has so many features and capabilities that I really wanted on a gadget. It is much cheaper that other smart phones today because of the operating system that it is running with. If I will buy a phone, i will definitely buy a android phone.

All hail opensource hehe.. Oh guys. I'll will make another post about android phone tomorrow. This is just a short post sharing about android phones.

Running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick in a low specs Computer

Hey guys, I just wanna share that I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick in my old computer. I'm really surprised that it can run in it but I had some problems with it at first. When I first tried to run it. The system always hang when it boots up.

I'm running ubuntu 10.10 in a computer specs:

Processor: Pentium 4, 1.7 Ghz
Video card: Nvidia Riva Legacy TNT/TNT2 32mb Vram
RAM: 512mb

I heard some of my friends had tried to run it in a 256mb ram but I don't know if it is really true but I don't know, as far as I know. There is no one that still run there computer in 256mb ram.

If you are running in a slow computer, but you want to run ubuntu. Don't hesitate to try Ubuntu for your self.

Ubuntu: Calendar and Clock settings

One of my favorite feature of Ubuntu is the appointment and task feature. You can view different timezone with just adding it. Like this.

If I want to check for the time of a different timezone, all I need to do is to click the appointment and task on the panel. Seen on the image below.

Fresh installed Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick

Hey there, I just finished installing my Ubuntu 10.10 on my desktop. Yeahey!. It looks like this. :)

7-zip file compressing software

Do you want to have a file compressing software that can unpack certain file type like tar et. al. Then 7-zip is the one for you.

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions.

7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

Copying and moving solution - TeraCopy

We all know that we always use copy and cut option when copying and moving files from one place to another. But sometimes the copying and moving the files are taking so long to finish. That's because the computer that you are using is not using its full power or potential to copy and move files. To fully use the copying and moving potential of your computer, I suggest to use TeraCopy.

TeraCopy by Code Sector

Try Mozilla Firefox4

Try the Firefox4 for you browsing needs with its new and cool look.

100% Free download manager - Gigaget

I'm sure all of us usually download files from the world wide web. But some of us don't have a stable internet connection. So we user a external software to download files from the net. Like download manager.
A download manager is a computer program dedicated to the task of downloading (and sometimes uploading) possibly unrelated stand-alone files from (and sometimes to) the Internet for storage.
There are so many download manager out therein the world wide web but the only problem is that all softwares today are usually must be bought first before you can use it. So we all rely with open-source programs or freeware. 

Photo editor

FotoSketcher is a freeware photo editor can help you edit your photos into art like sketches, paintings and other types of art. FotoSketcher also a very friendly software that anybody can understand and learn in a very short time. If you like to edit photos but don't like to stay in front of the computer for a very long time then FotoSketcher is the one for you!


Here is a sample snapshot of fotosketcher.

Download fotosketcher: Click here to download fotosketcher