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8 Steps to Access your Box.net Account from Ubuntu

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Box.net, a great platform to store your important files online, allows users up to 1GB online storage to store important files for back-up. Users can access stored files from anywhere, which is the best thing about this service. You can use it to save your important e-books, or any other materials that are priceless to you and losing them creates havoc. People who use Windows, it is very easy for them to access files stored at Box.net but for those who use OS like Ubuntu (Linux based), it is quite a puzzle. It might be a puzzle because people are not actually aware about this procedure which is pretty simple.
How to Linux
Hide Removable Drive Icons from your Ubuntu

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If you have used Ubuntu you must be aware about the fact that it makes a desktop icon for each removable drive that is attached to the system. This creates a mess on the desktop making it appear chaotic. For those of you who like to keep only important icons on the desktop, this article is a must read. The article discusses as to how you can hide the removable drive icons from your Ubuntu Desktop.

Many of you must have tried hands at deleting the removable drive icons such as Media, mp3, backups, sda1, etc. Some of you, especially the new users, might even have tried to disable the option of creation of such icons. But all in vain as there is no such option by way of which you can stop the creation of these icons.
Gadgets How to Tech fun
Easy way to Connect Laptop to TV – How to [Guide]

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Connecting Laptop to PC is not a difficult task; a few settings and a cable is required to connect the two. The procedure is quite simple. The first and foremost thing you are required to do is to check for connection points or ports on both your laptop and TV. Connection points are usually made at the back side of these devices.
Applications Mobile
Top 8 Free Android applications to Experiment with your Photographs

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If you are a photography lover and have a Android Phone too, then sometimes you wish that could experiment different photography styles on your Pics & Snaps. Then many android applications for editing your pictures are already availble in android market and adding more day by day. So, Today we made a list of useful free and best Android Applications for editing your Photos. If you have more related android applications share with us in our comment section and share your experience with us.
Web apps
100 Video Sites where you can Watch TV Serials Online

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Sometimes due to our professional or official works we have to miss our Favorite Daily TV serials. Now, There are some websites which provide us all of the episodes of our TV serials, so we are providing some of the links to help you out. Hope now you can enjoy your missed episodes and will help you in future too. In this post we have covered a list of 100 websites where you can watch your TV serials online.
1. Channel Surfr It has a list of almost all the latest TV serials. You can watch any of these by clicking on their thumbnails. The site offers good video clarity.
2. HULU Recent and even old episodes of most of the popular serials are available on this site. You can play them online.
Tech fun
Stats about How the Internet is Revolutionizing Education – Infographic

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Here, we sort through the clutter and pull out some of our favorite facts and figures:
- Online education is a $34 billion industry.
- At 250,000 students, the Open University, which teaches a majority of its courses online, is the largest university in the United Kingdom. It’s twice the size of the University of London.
- The for-profit University of Phoenix is now the largest university in the United States, enrolling more than 500,000 students. That’s about 13 times larger than the University of Arizona.
- There are currently more than three million online-only students in the United States. That’s more than the total number of college students in France.
- Use of online education has been growing at an astronomical rate, and it isn’t stopping. Seventy-five percent of public higher learning institutions have online learning in their long-term plans. By 2019, it is estimated that 50 percent of all classes taught will be delivered online, and many of these will be available for free.
- Almost half of college students take at least one class online.
- Nearly half of online students are 26 or older.
How to Linux
Installing iTunes on Linux – How to

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In order to install iTunes on Linux, you first need to download and install WINE on your system. WINE has been designed to enable Windows software to work on Linux. Type the following in a terminal to download WINE.

sudo dpkg -i wine_0.9.45~winehq0~ubuntu~7.04-1_i386.deb

Once WINE is downloaded you need to configure it to the required options. To configure, open the terminal and type “winecfg”. Now follow the below mentioned steps:
Gadgets Tech fun
A LEGO Moulding Machine made up of 800 LEGO Parts

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All of us are fond of LEGO, An Lego Moulding Machine Kit is manufactured by LEGO. It is a huge box which has been packed by a very tremendous manner. This Moulding Machine kit contains over than 800 parts including its spare parts which can surprise anyone. These parts have been packaging not in usual packging bag but have been packaging in ziplock packaging bag. If anyone has to had order for its missing parts, must be very familiar to these ziplock bags. As these parts might be packed by the Customer service, they have been sealed in an appropriate manner.