How to Install Dropbox on Ubuntu

Dropbox is stand-out player in cloud storage and its Linux clients works really well on Ubuntu once installed properly. While Google Drive comes out of the box on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and later, Dropbox is still a preferred cloud storage tool on Linux in terms of features it offers. Installing Dropbox from Command Line We … Read more

How to Install Krita in Ubuntu

Krita is a free and open-source digital painting, editing and animation application developed by KDE. It has excellent user interface with everything placed perfectly so that you can easily find the tool you need. Installing Krita Ubuntu offers multiple ways for users to install Krita on their computers. The next sections will take a look … Read more

How to install Neofetch in Ubuntu

Neofetch is a cool system information tool that gives you all the information about your system by running “neofetch” command in Terminal. It is cool tool to have because it gives you information about desktop environment, kernel version, bash version and GTK theme you are running. The repositories have been added. Run the apt update command to … Read more

How to install Mailspring on Ubuntu

MailSpring earlier known as Nylas Mail or Nylas N1 is an open-source email client. It saves all the mails locally on computer so that you can access them anytime you need. It features advanced search which uses AND and OR operations so that you can search for mails based on different parameters. The easiest way … Read more

How to install WordPress.com desktop app on Ubuntu

Start by opening your terminal and executing the following command to install all prerequisites: $ sudo apt install libgtkextra-dev gdebi-core Use your browser to download the wordpress.com Desktop app DEB package or use the following wgetshortcut command: $ wget -O wordpress_app.deb https://bit.ly/2uUiTdz Next, install the wordpress_app.deb package downloaded in the previous step: $ sudo gdebi wordpress_app.deb

UK government dishes out £7m for new aviation tech

Projects which will explore medical deliveries by drone, hydrogen delivery aircraft, and retrofitting aircraft with electric propulsion are among 20 to receive funding from the UK government.  The £7m funding is part of the £33.5m available via the ‘Future Flight Challenge’, which aims to develop technologies to enable new classes of aircraft and reduce reliance … Read more

Stretchy, recyclable wearable adheres to human skin

A wearable electronic device that can stretch and adhere to human skin has been developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder.  The device is able to heal itself, much like real skin, and can perform a range of sensory tasks, from measuring the body temperature of users to tracking their daily step counts. … Read more

Moon rocks turned into oxygen and construction metals for future base

A British firm has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract to develop methods to process Moon dust into its constituent elements of oxygen and metal alloys.  With plans afoot to build a base on the Moon (possibly powered by nuclear fission) as a jumping-off point for a mission to Mars, work is being undertaken to … Read more