Tracking various time-zones.

The Gnome notification area can serve as a world-clock as well.The clock that displays time and date of your location can display time and temperature of other locations as well.To configure these time zones,right click on the clock and choose 'Preferences'.Under the 'Locations' tab click on the 'ADD' button to add new locations.In the 'Location Name' field box,just start typing the name of the desired location and you'll probably get it.


Choose the units of temperature and wind speed under the 'Weather' tab.Now whenever your system gets online,click on the clock to view current time and weather situation of your locations.Br>

Analog clocks are also presented along with the information and the configured locations are marked on a map.A 'Home' icon is displayed with your original location and this can be changed by clicking on the 'set' button.

Additional Templates

Get the option of creating documents of various types using Ubuntu Tweak 0.3.Open Ubuntu Tweak (System Tools) and go to the Personal tab and then Templates.Bring all the templates that you want from the Disabled section to the Enabled section (simply drag and drop).Close Ubuntu Tweak and right click on your desktop and come to Create Document to get new formats.

Force Quit

Do your applications hang while multitasking in the GNOME desktop environment.
It might become very frustrating at times.In such cases instead of rebooting you can use the FORCE QUIT button from your GNOME Panel.
Right click on a panel,then on Add To Panel and select Force Quit.
To close a frozen application click on the force quit button and then on the window to be closed or press escape to cancel.
Have this button permanently on your Gnome panel;it would prove to be very useful in those freezing cases.

Startup Manager

Startup Manager is a must install for any ubuntu/linux newbie .It can be used to customize the boot loader menu .For the users who setup a dual boot system,the default OS, display resolution and color depth can be selected .Under the appearance tab display colors can be customized. Getting those snazzy upsplash themes to work with ubuntu becomes very easy using the Startup Manager .Upsplash themes (.so extension), downloaded from various sites can be installed using the manage upsplash themes ... button. If you are not happy with the number of entries in the boot menu, then under the Advanced tab limit the number of kernels to one. Uncheck boot option for memtest86+ and recovery mode if you don't use these options. Don't try to edit the options under the security tab,if anything goes wrong ,it might make your system inaccessible. Problem:The boot loader themes option under the Appearance tab never seems to work (check the background image option).

If you have a solution, kindly put it in the comments box (anonymous comments enabled) for others to see. Caution: Be very careful in using this application .Just think before editing anything and don't be in a hurry. Install via the synaptic package manager.