Using WUBI – Windows Ubuntu Installer on Windows to install Ubuntu Linux within Windows drive

by Johnson Yip on April 5, 2013 · 0 comments
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Wubi Ubuntu Installer for Windows

I recently installed Lubuntu 12.10 which is the lightweight LXDE destop environment which is designed to run on Linux based Ubuntu operating system. I used the WUBI.exe installer file which I downloaded from Ubuntu’s WUBI website. Wubi.exe stands for the Windows Ubuntu Installer program which is a simple program which downloads, set up the first admin user account for Ubuntu, and installs Ubuntu onto a virtual disk file inside your Windows computer’s hard drive. With Wubi.exe, you can easily make a Windows and Ubuntu dual boot computer. Ubuntu is a free, safe, easy to use, and feature rich Linux based operating system. Linux is a free operating system which anyone can use for free unlike Windows which is paid, and not free to use. Linux can also be used on older computers which are too slow for Windows 7, 8, Vista, and XP.

You don’t need to burn a DVD-R, or make a bootable CD to use Wubi.exe to install Ubuntu, so you can even install Ubuntu on Windows computers without a DVD/CD drive, or USB ports on computers from the 90s which have a 1GHz CPU, 384MB or more RAM, and 5GB of free space.

The default desktop Ubuntu install disc has a copy of Wubi.exe as well, so if you have a Ubuntu install CD, you can use wubi.exe from the CD to install Ubuntu on your Windows CD.

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Using Ninite.com on Windows 8 to install multiple programs at once

by Johnson Yip on April 5, 2013 · 1 comment
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Ninite

Ninite is a great website app which let you easily install multiple programs at once by opening one installer file which will download and run all the installer files which you picked to install for programs like Libreoffiice, VLC,  Google Chrome, and a bunch of other programs which you checked to download and install with Ninite.

Once you checked the sites which you want to install on your computer, you click the “Get Installer Button” at the bottom of the website, and open the installer file with Windows. There is also a version of Ninite for Linux, but it has fewer programs for Linux than Windows.

Using Ninite in Windows 8 is pretty fast, and a lot easier, and less hassle free than manually searching for and downloading program installer files from sites like SourceForge, download.com, etc to install manually one at a time which can take a long time to do.

Ninite does not slow down my computer while it is installing software in my experience since it installs program one after another while other program installers are downloading, so it won’t overwhelm my computer with too many installations and downloads in my experience. [click to continue…]

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Dolphin Browser Mini, Great Simple Full feature web browser for Google Android

by Johnson Yip on April 3, 2013 · 0 comments
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Dolphin Browser Mini is my favorite web browser which I use on Google Android because it is simple to use, and does not use a lot of screen space on my Google Nexus 7 Tablet. It also uses a few MB of storage space, and it is easy to clear its internet temporary files and history which all web browser gets when browsing the web. There is a feature to cache files to the SD card to save space on Google Android’s internal storage.

Dolphin Browser Mini has all the features I want like Tab browsing, speed dial bookmarks on the homepage, regular bookmarks, a on-screen back and forward button, auto fill, and search engine built-into the address bar. I also find that Dolphin Browser loads up faster, and loads websites pretty fast. It also does not slow down when multiple tabs are open, and Dolphin rarely freezes, and crashes when I use it. Dolphin Browser Mini is one of the best web browser for older and slower Google Android devices.

I also like that I can set the volume buttons on a phone, or tablet to use to scroll up or down a web page by pressing the volume up or down button.

Dolphin also supports Flash, Java, HTML5, and Javascript on websites.

It also has private browsing, and data cleaners in the settings menu, or when you exit Dolphin to keep your web browsing history unknown by clearing it in Dolphin. Clearing your web browser history is a good way to maintain your privacy if you share a tablet, phone, PC, and eReader with a web browser with other people.

Being able to easily change the text and image size in Dolphin is also great for smaller screens, or website without a mobile template.Dolphin also makes it easy for me to change the user-agent to iPhone, Internet Explorer, Windows, and Android, so I can trick the website into loading into the iPhone or IE desktop version of a site if there is no Android version of the website.

 

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