If you are planning to edit video, photo or require any other multimedia applications then you can easily find it from plethora of available applications. In this article, I’m sharing best free video editing software which allows you to edit video easily.

01. Cinelerra

This tool does three things: capturing, composing and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It is like a movie studio in a box.

02.Virtual Dub

Virtual Dub is an impressive Open Source package and reliable program that comes with right amount of knowledge and can accomplish any task. One thing i do not like about this tool is that it does not handle video formats like DVD or MP4.

03. Avidemux

It is free, open source, cross-platform, slim and easy using video editor that offers users to cut, join, transform videos easily. In addition to this, you can also use it to split, merge videos you downloaded from YouTube and after it you can play the output video on any favorite devices.

04. Kdenlive

It is a non-linear video editor which provides all project management and editing tools. In addition to this, support is planned for transitions, effects, multiple file formats.

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Today, I actually made up my mind to take a break and change the browser, I would want to work on. While searching for the cool browser I came across many of them that actually can make good choice. Somehow, I planned to list down the best alternative web browsers for the Linux users.

So, if you’re the Linux user who has delayed the shifting from one browser to another and searching for smart alternatives to Firefox then I guess the article would make your task easier by enabling you to make your choice in less time.

Here are best free Linux alternative browsers that you may find useful and worth trying out. Certainly, there are many other options too, I have complied those browsers that I felt happy to check out and thought deserve to be included in the list. Scroll down to check out alternative browsers for Linux.

1 ) Midori

Midori is a lightweight web browser that comes fully integrated with GTK+ 2. Using the WebKit engine, this web browser enables speedier access of web pages. Enabling flexible configurable web search, the Midori web browser with customizable and extensible interface is one ideal pick for Linux users.

2) Amaya

The name itself is so cool! Anyways, coming to the point Amaya is a web browser that’s the web editor, that helps create and update documents directly on the Web. Amaya comes with browsing, editing and remote access features that will certainly persuade you to download it the very first time you check it out. Web developers/designers will like it for its editing feature.

3) Opera

Opera is yet another well known browser for Mac, PC and Linux that is being used by great number of users. Speed dial, mouse gesture, panel splitting and cool add-ons are the cool features that have lead to the success and popularity of the Opera browser.

4) SwiftFox

Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox lunched specifically for the users who want Firefox to run faster than the current speed then Swiftfox is the ideal pick. Built for AMD and Intel processors, the Swiftfox is based on the most advanced Firefox source code available. New Linux users after making up their mind could after carefully following the steps could go ahead and download.

5) SeaMonkey

The SeaMonkey browser as the part of SeaMonkey Internet Suite, comes with up-to-date browser, email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and web development tools to make the surfing easy. It enables you to access the range of options available in the menu bar that too speedily and easily. On the whole, SeaMonkey is an all-in-one email and browser package.

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1. Google Phone – Nexus One -

By now you already know that Nexus One is the upcoming Google Phone and the great news is that it would be debuted anytime now in the Android Press Meeting. Nexus One is expected to display the latest generation of Linux-based open source Android operating system. In fact, this is also first phone that will be marketed directly by Google, in turn setting up extremely higher expectations for the product. Engadget has already reviewed the phone before the launch and it beings some interesting set of information you might link to know. The phone is also said to bring tough competition for Apple iPhone.

2. Google’s Caffeine Search Engine -

Caffeine is the next version of Google’s search-engine infrastructure and will soon be available to the wider audience. Caffeine engine is expected to offer technology to deliver faster and more accurate results. This version was available for test and there is no specific date for launch given yet, but Google is sure to develop it fully in early 2010. The reason for not releasing it in 2009 was thoroughly explained by Matt cuts. As soon as the search engine release the first threat will directly be on Microsoft’s Bing.

3. Google’s Ebook Store -

Google has always been fond of books and have encouraged it reader to take part often. With that love Google now plans to launch an online store for ebooks, which is expected to come in the first half of 2010. Google Ebook store will have half a million books initially in partner will few publishers. On the launch it is expected to have more than 500,000 books ready to be purchased from online stores such as Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. This interesting ebook store will be a strong completion to Amazon’s Kindle, which is today the most popular ereader.

4. Google Chrome OS -

Google Chrome Brower was a great hit and recently it also moved ahead of Apple Safari. And next in store we have Google Chrome OS – an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted only at netbooks. Google has planned to open-source its code, and will make Google Chrome OS available to users in the second half of 2010. According the giant, speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. This OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.

5. Google Drive – GDrive

Users usually have complained of not having enough space for them to store emails, photos, and files. With that in mind, Google came up the idea of Gdrive included in Google pack – online file backup and storage service from Google that integrated with Google services like Gmail, Picasa Web Albums, Google Calendars, and many others. GDrive allows you to access your files from anywhere, anytime, and from any device – be it from your desktop, web browser or cellular phone. Google Drive is highly anticipated and expected to be released in 2010 but it will only be an extended version of Google Docs. Instead of sending attachments, you’ll be able to upload files to Google Drive from Gmail.

Also check out other interesting predictions for Google in 2010 listed out by Google Operating System, which is fun to check out. Although there would be more products coming up this year by Google, these 5 are certain to take place. If you predict more launches from Google, then feel free to share with us via comment

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In last week we collected most Kick-Ass Greatest TOP Rated Featured List and The Greatest Resource For Entrepreneurs and in this month we are over enthusiast to give something new. We know, thousands of weblogs exist on web just based on “how to/tips and tricks”. Those thousands of websites generating revenue from different types of advertisement — which can be millions of dollar, some are really worthy and some are exclusive and overall helping the web users.

From the top ranked sites, we tried to collect “how to” based best posts, where you can get free tips, tricks of Linux, twitter, adobe illustrator tutorials, CSS productivity, PHP, Design, Windows Tips, Google Adsense Tips, Photography tips, Facebook tips, iPhone 3G solutions, security tips, internet searching, beginners guide, professional presentation tips and tons of new things. Most probably this post will cover up all of your needs — you can search out all of your problems.

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• A bug in an Ubuntu-specific patch to X server logging code will cause X sessions to crash after they have been running for longer than a day.When i upgrade my ubuntu studio i do face the same problems.
• Some users of Intel i8x5 video chipsets are unable to load X, getting an error message of “Fatal server error:
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• When installing to a system with another OS previously installed, the migration assistant will offer to migrate settings and documents even when the entire disk is being overwritten

After that beta, lots of works has done by developers and RC version become more satle and here are the few changes since Ubuntu 8.10 was released:

• Updates to the Linux kernel, X.Org server, GNOME and KDE interfaces
• Support for the Ext4 file system
• Improved handling of multiple monitors
• Improved boot speeds
• Updated software including newer versions of Firefox and OpenOffice.org

Also another one new version already in designed to run on ARM processor and which is knowing that will able to run on a number of upcoming netbooks and mobile internet devices.

Source:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta

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Follow the procedure:

1. Start your iTunes and connect your iPhone into it.The it will ask to upgrade your iPhone for firmware to 2.2.1.
2. Freely upgrade your iPhone from iTunes.(Even if you are using previous jailbreak firmware upgrade it as it will be unlocked later by QuickPwn).QuickPwn changes the firmware settings and doesn’t actually upgrade your iPhone so this process is quit necessary.
3. After the successful upgrade,You iPhone will be unlocked and here starts the game.
4. Get the latest version of QuickPwn 2.2.5 QuickPwn for Windows (538) or QuickPwn for Mac (394).
5. Simply extract the file into a folder and launch the QuickPwn 2.2.5 program.It will ask for connecting your iPhone into your computer via the USB cable. Note:As soon as the blue arrow button glows, click it.
6. QuickPwn application will auto detect the firmware file(.ipsw extension) downloaded via iTunes.If it doesn’t detect the file then you may download these files from from apple servers.Note: For 2.2 restore firmware ipsw file for  2G iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw / 3G iPhone1,2_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw
   
7. Check the ‘Add Cydia’ and  “Add Installer” – If you simply wants to upgrade into latest firmware. Add Unlock also if you also wish to unlock your 2G iPhone.
8. Just bypass this step if you don’t need any unlocking else NOTE:  You need to download following two binaries in case you want to unlock your iPhone.The binaries are as follows:
   • Binaries 3.9 (445)
   • Binaries 4.6 (418)

   

   

9. Before performing the final action,check again if your iPhone is connected via USB cable.
10. Caution: Follow the following procedure with precession as any delay results in fail:
    1. Hold the Home key for 3-5 seconds
    2. Hold both Home key + Power key for 10 seconds
    3. Now, release Power key but continue to hold Home key for 30 seconds
    4. Note:Don’t forget to hold the Home key for the above 3 steps of jailbreaking.
11. All done have fun: Check your iPhone screen for the reboot and new motions.
12. Now your iPhone will be flashed and reloaded with new firmware.
13. In order to confirm the iPhone version you can also check by opening the iTunes

Files used:

• QuickPwn 2.2.5 QuickPwn for Windows (538) or QuickPwn for Mac (394)
• Binaries – 1.Binaries 3.9 (445) 2.Binaries 4.6 (418)
• Restore firmware files 1. iPhone1,1_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw 2.3G iPhone1,2_2.2.1_5H11_Restore.ipsw

Note:Praval did this hack for a friend of his who owns an iPhone 2G!

Disclaimer: This post is for education purpose,we don’t offer any liabilities and responsibilities for any misuse of this method.

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Have a look over all Add-ons of the Songbird.You will feels like the freedom of firefox and linux while using this player.As it is a cross platform application so it runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.Their is the huge lists of features like you can easily add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes,Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set,Browse, organize, sort and search your media,Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing.Their are other options of media playback,gapless playback,custom ui and many developing features to support large amount of devoices like Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices.CD ripping and video player mode are some future launch features that this payer includes.

Songbird says that

We’re working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music. There are lots of ways to contribute your time to the project. We’d love your help!

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1. Festival – Festival Speech Synthesis Systems is a free software multi-lingual speech synthesis workbench that runs on multiple-platforms offering black box text to speech, as well as an open architecture for research in speech synthesis. It designed as a component of large speech technology systems.
2. Xvoice –It enables continuous speech dictation and speech control of most X applications ,requires ViaVoice to function.
3. VoxForge – Its a free speech corpus and acoustic model repository for open source speech recognition engines.
4. CVoiceControl KDE and X Window fencesitter of its predecessor version named  KVoiceControl
5. Julius – Its a high-performance, two-pass large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) decoder software for speech-related researchers and developers
6. HTK – Hidden Markov Model Toolkit is not a native open source application as it is copyrighted by Microsoft, though source code is available for personal use.
7. CMU Sphinx –Its basically  is the general term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University.
8. DynaSpeak is an open source application from SRI International (speaker-independent speech recognition software development kit that scales from small- to large-scale systems, for use in commercial, consumer, and military applications)
9. Simon – Its basically open-source speech recognition program and replaces the mouse and keyboard.This project aims at helping blind people via speech commands.
10. Open Mind Speech – The Open Mind Speech project is part of the Open Mind Initiative and aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools and applications, as well as collect speech data from “e-citizens” using the Internet.
11. GnomeVoiceControl – Gnome-Voice-Control is a dialogue system to control the GNOME Desktop.
12. PerlBox – It basically an open source Voice Software For Linux and Unix Systems.

These few open source application packages may fits well if you are using it as an addons for another application or you are implementing any application for blind peoples.Besides these application if you find any other then feel free to comment below.Moreover, the installation process and other downloadable binaries are available on the respective mentioned website.

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I’m  talking about the windows and mac users who generally use the Adobe products or illegally use the cracked software’s and never look in the free and open source world.If we talked ethically then we should discuss about the open source evangelisms.Might be you are interested to know about the scope of web designing and development in the arena of free and open source.Their are very vast amount of free and open source tools for designers.Here are the 15 best open source and professional tools of the web savvy designer:

1. Agave – Agave is one of the best solution for designers to feel the color scheme, contradicts colors, soft colors & all with a fabulous outlook.
   
2. NVU -  The open source replacement for Dreamweaver.You can Design, develop, and maintain professional websites and applications and yes its absolutely free.
   
   How to beginning A Project in NVU
   
3. Quanta – Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment.You can access the FAQ for further details.
   
4. Inkscape: The vector graphics application which may spell the end for Adobe Illustrator.
   
5. Blender -Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems.Do you know that Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made solely with open source graphics software such as Blender.
   
6. GIMP: Gimp the open source replacement for Photoshop. (Mac, Linux, and Windows)
   
   Cnet.com also had some good reviews on the Gimp , one of them is as follows

   Pros: Defiently good for beginners and you create some very awesome looking images. Also very easy to use and enough effects tools to keep anyone happy. It’s like a baby version of Photoshop . A billion formats to choose from to save your image.

   Cons: No line/path making feature! Hard to get toolbars to stay in places. If you put the layers toolbar somewhere for instance, when you reopen it’s not there.

   Summary: Absorlutly brilliant. Fun, easy to use, simple (not as simple as ‘Paint’ ) , a brilliant peice of freeware!! Also comes in a portable version for your flashdrive. by tom_hack_i

7. Skencil – Skencil is a vector drawing application for illustrations and diagrams.It an open source artwork application that helps in making something clear or attractive.
   
8. Karbon14 – It is another scalable vector-based drawing application that’s part of the open source KOffice project.
   
9. Krita – Krita is another awesome painting and image-editing open source  software application for KOffice
   
10. Mozilla Composer : Composer is a free WYSIWYG editor provided by the Mozilla Organization.Please note that you need not to have any HTML coding knowledge for creating a website with Composer.
    
    Note:

    The Mozilla Suite is no longer supported by the Mozilla project

11. GraphicsMagick – GraphicsMagick may be used to resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save the result in the same or differing image format. Image processing operations are available from the command line, as well as through C, C++, Perl, Tcl, Ruby, or Windows COM programming interfaces
12. Bluefish: An HTML editor for programmers written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. (C) (GNU/Linux, Unix)
    
13. Amaya :Its an open source based W3C’s complete web browsing and authoring environment.Its basically  a Web editor, i.e. a tool used to create and update documents directly on the Web
    
14. Cssed: A CSS editor featuring auto completion, syntax highlighting and validation. (C, C++) (Linux)
    
15. Pico -  from wikipedia
    

    Pico is a text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems. It is integrated with the Pine e-mail client, which was designed by the Office of Computing and Communications at the University of Washington

Note:Few alternatives to use the windows tools on the linux:

1. You can use VMWare with a virtual machine for Linux.
2. Wine is an open source software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.
3. Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows.Its basically different collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel in windows box.

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1. There are companies who favor open source software over commercial ones. A major reason for this is the price of the license.
2. Open source software developer will be a good source of income.
3. There are companies who currently use open source for their business. These companies will need people who can maintain and even update their software.
4. Companies may also need custom made software to meet their business needs. And they often go for open source software. And this will be another opportunity for the open source community to earn money.
5. Smart phones are growing in popularity these days. Needs for mobile applications are also growing because of this. Mobile application development using open source software is another way to earn good money.
6. Many companies choose open source Customer Relationship Management or CRM for their websites because it is free. For example sugar crm.
7. You can create your own open source CRM and offer technical support for a fee.
8. Online games and PC games are so popular today. You can create games like these using open source software. And selling these games will definitely give you a good income.
9. You can also publish a social networking website using open source software. Social networking sites open many opportunities to earn money.for example you can use buddypress and bb forums integrations to develop a scaling social application.
10. If you are someone who has good knowledge about open source software you can put up a blog and put some advertisements in the blog to monetize it.

These are just 10 ways to earn from open source software but if you visit some of the community in the web you can definitely find more ways.

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1. Vypress Chat : Its one of the best application for real-time chatting in small office or home office ,workgroup or local networks.Vypress Chat is server less application that brings individuals to instantly communicate about joint projects, and managers can send instantaneous memos to individuals, departments, or the entire company.It also have full featured bulletin board,Public channels, private chats, instant messaging and files transfer features.
2. Interchange Group Limited – It is an application that is specializing in Customer Service, and Intranet solutions including OpenText / LiveLink systems.
3. Intranet Open Source- Open source ASP intranet solutions.It is basically an ASP-based intranet designed for service organizations.
4. Cosec Corporation – It provides intranets application that can bring useful features and help users with sharing address book, calendar, BBS, file sharing, project tracking, time and expense reporting, reservation and scheduling within  workgroups.
5. HyperOffice – It provides office utility via hosted server on the intranet.It brings many features and service including email, business tools and utilities.
6. Komdat GmbH – In simple words its a data management server that brings content management tools and utilities for business users.It can provide a workflow model and often useful for lead generation.
7. Intranet File Sharing – It is a utility that saves your time to search local area network for any kinds of files.It is able to search hidden network resources, IP subnetworks and much more. Find any file in the network in a few seconds. Also provides Intranet file sharing features.
8. Distinct Corporation – It can offers Network Monitor, the only protocol analyzer software; RPC Toolkit for Windows, Java and .Net programming; terminal emulators for TN3270, TN5250 and VT420.
9. Intranet Applets – It have the complete set of awesome utilities which are beneficiary in small office or workgroup. For example orgchart, ganttchart, floorplan searcher, and sitemap.
10. Vialect – Its another workgroup management application for providing intranet solution including supports like email, calendar, contact management, and document management.
11. Intranet Connections – Its a name of a 21 built in application for intranet and small workgroups
12. SolutionPlanet Ltd. – They are basically a software providers intranet solutions like  for contact management, time and expense reporting, surveys, and Intranet portals. Also offer consulting on Lotus Notes and wireless technology (e.g. WAP, Palm).
13. Intraware, Inc. – Its another provider that can offers one place to research, evaluate, procure, install, and upgrade intranet software products.
14. LWiNet – You may call it as a solution for intranet/extranet hosted services for solutions in email services.
15. Apart from the above set of application their various open source content management servers that can also be used in office for knowledge transfer,notices,project management or reporting and data management.The following application can be easily installed on the local network (intranet) with the help of Xamp or Lamp :

• Moodle (http://moodle.org)
• Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)
• Joomla (http://www.joomla.org)
• Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.org)
• WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org)
• Elgg (http://elgg.org)
• Zope (http://www.zope.org/)
• Etomite (http://www.etomite.org.uk)
• Nuxeo (http://www.cps-project.org/)
• PhpCollab (http://www.php-collab.org)
• Plone (http://plone.org/

Note:Feel free to comments for the omissions and additions in the list.If you know any other useful applications then we would like to notice it here.

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1.Burn the Live CD and you insert it in you ROM DRIVE

You can use ImgBurn to burn your Ubutu iso

2.The Auto Run will bring the below screen which ask for

• Demo and Full installation
• Install inside Windows
• Learn More

3.After clicking Install inside Windows you will get a simple screen and easily install your Ubuntu within the windows

Note: If you haven’t yet downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu then have your download from here.You can also pre order the free copy’s of the CD’s but it will takes 2-3 weeks so rather you can easily download it.If you already installed the Ubuntu then its easy to upgrade it.

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Apart from all the features the best thing that i liked is its scenic and eye catchy GNOME Desktop look which also loads with the following features

• A new instant messaging client.

• improved file management and toolbars

• A built-in time tracker.

• A better support for multiple monitor use with the ability to set screen resolution by monitor.

Some of the New Features in Ubuntu 8.10

Gear up for New 3G Support

For constant connectivity public WiFi has limitations. Improvements to the network manager in Ubuntu 8.10 makes it simple to detect and connect to 3G networks and manage connectivity. This connectivity is delivered through an inbuilt 3G modem, through ‘dongle’ support, through a mobile phone or through Bluetooth. It is a complex environment that Ubuntu 8.10 simplifies through a single interface and the auto-detection of many of the most popular devices.

Write Ubuntu to and Install from a USB Drive

In my previous post How to run Linux directly from Windows i post about how to install / Run linux from USB Drive but here in new version of Ubuntu this feature has been made available to users with full portability.A simple application in Ubuntu will allow users to write Ubuntu to a USB drive, even a modified version of Ubuntu with their data on it, so it can be carried everywhere to plug in and use on any machine.

Loads with Guest Sessions just like Windows

Their is a default “Guest” login in the Windows Operating Systems and Yes now Ubuntu reloads with Guest logins from all your friends who might use your personal system.Do you know? Guest sessions allow users to lock down a session easily so a guest can use the full system without interference with programs or data. Now you can easily shares the system even with your girlfriends without bothering about the fears of catching your private data.

BBC Channels are loaded in default

Now you can enjoy the freedom of technology in the form of free and updated BBC podcasts.Yes, Ubuntu  media players “Totem Movie Player and Rhythmbox” have a menu of selected content from the broadcaster that is free and fresh like air. It have a different sorts of video, radio and podcasts and available in high quality, much of it playable using non-proprietary codecs. Note: It have constantly updated contents via the corporation’s stream and will vary dependent on location.

Eye Candy Gnome 2.24 Desktop Environment

Ubuntu 8.10 reloads with eye candy features of the GNOME desktop environment . As described above new features include a new instant messaging client, a built-in time tracker, , improved file management and toolbars plus better support for multiple monitor use with the ability to set screen resolution by monitor.

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Here are the following best thing about OpenOffice.org 3.0 :

• OpenOffice is so easy to install, with a whole new look and feel.
• Localizations of OpenOffice are available in 27 languages, with more being constantly added by the community
• The first office suite to use the new OASIS OpenDocument format, the future-proof international standard for office software
• Written in C++ and with documented APIs licensed under the LGPL and SISSL open-source protocols,
• More intuitive, more easy to use than ever, with a host of new usability features
• Complete with Base: an easy-to-use database manager with a fully integrated database
• OpenOffice allows any knowledgeable developer to benefit from the source 
• Compatible with other software packages – now understands even obscure and rarely used features in major competitors.

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Recently while using Ubuntu Studio i feels the need of Adobe Air and other applications so i tried to installed Air for my Linux box. Here is the simple process to install it on Linux (test ed on Ubuntu Studio 8.04)

1. Download the Adobe air from here ( http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/air/linux/adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin)
2. Save the file in the Home ( file name will be adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin )
3. Go to the start and open a terminal ( Applications–> Accessories –> Terminal)
4. Now from Terminal Window go to the director where we saved Adobe AIR installer (/home/):cd /home/
5. From terminal run

ls -l

• Normally the downloaded files are not have enough privilege so we will make it compatible for installing, for this we will increase its permission level by

chmod 755 filename

or

chmod 755 adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin

• Now Adobe Air is ready for installation, use this command to proceed further./filenameor
  ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin
• Now you can easily install AdobeAIR
• You can easily install ADOBEAIR applications on your LINUX BOX.

Note: If you want to uninstall an AIR application, open a terminal again (Applications > Accessories > Terminal).

In this example I will show how to uninstall Spaz.

To find out the correct name of the Spaz package, run

dpkg --list | grep -i spaz

for example output as

honeytech@honeytech:~$ dpkg --list | grep -i webkut
ii  net.tw.air.webkut.7c34f9ba9fad6689faabbe85f1f5b46ba5a32de5.1 1.2.1
honeytech@honeytech:~$

Hence the package we have to remove is net.tw.air.webkut.7c34f9ba9fad6689faabbe85f1f5b46ba5a32de5.1 1.2.1

Note: If you face any problems in the above installation then feel free to bother me via comments. Comments are open for you.

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