Help Ubuntu!: Overview of Some Default Apps in Ubuntu 11.04

Our latest video has just gone live over on our YouTube Channel!  Be sure to check it out.  It's entitled "Help Ubuntu!: Default Apps in Review".  And it covers a quick review of some notable apps that as a new Ubuntu user you'll no doubt come to find useful.

From the terminal to office software, and even multimedia software.  We touch on a little bit of everything to help get you comfortable with what Ubuntu has to offer.

So be sure to check out this video, and our previous videos either over at our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/techiesmarts or at our 'Help Ubuntu!' section here at TechieSmarts.com!

Help Ubuntu!: Default Apps in Review

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Video Coming Tomorrow!

Apologies for the short delay of our latest Ubuntu Video.  It will be making it's way live tomorrow.  I believe we are looking at a video release schedule of Tuesday's and Thursday's moving forward.  So look for a step by step guide tomorrow for switching from Unity to either Unity 2D or Ubuntu Classic in 11.04!

Happy Surfing!

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Help!: Ubuntu Video Series- Installing Ubuntu 11.04 Using Virtual Box

As part of our video series on Ubuntu Help we continue with a video guiding us through the Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty' release.  We will be using Virtual Box to install this as a Guest Operating System (Guest OS) within Windows XP (in my case).

If you missed our previous video on setting up the Virtual Hard Drive (Virtual Drive Image File) to use when installing the operating system be sure to check it out first:  http://youtu.be/YhQeSIJ4hec






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Our next video will cover how to install Unity 2D or set Ubuntu Classic as the default desktop.

Happy Surfing!

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Content Incoming!

Be sure to keep an eye on the blog and our Facebook page!  I have some new videos in the pipeline, and the first set I'm working on are going to cover some of the common questions (from a beginner's point of view) about using Ubuntu!

Some of the topics will inlcude covering Unity, basics of Ubuntu, how to get started with Ubuntu, basic software packages every new user should checkout after installing Ubuntu!

Remember, if you have any questions you'd like to make sure get answered during this series, feel free to drop me a line at: help_me@techie.com

I'll certainly do my best to handle the questions and cover them in an upcoming video.

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