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Startup Manager A Utility to Edit GRUB Boot loader related Options Easily in Ubuntu Startup-Manager is a graphical tool thats written in the GTK+ toolkit which was developed for letting the users of Debian GNU/Linux OS to easily edit few "boot-related" options such as GRUB menu delay, Splash screen, other security related settings, etc. But since Ubuntu is based on the awesome Debian ;-), SturtupManager can also be installed and used to edit few of those settings in Ubuntu as well. The reason I said, "few of those settings" is because, as you can see with the below screenshots, the first one is the original application image running in Debian with lots of settings (tabs) but the second one is from my Ubuntu 11.04 Laptop and has only two tabs thus fewer options than in Debian. Its running in Debian As you can see, somewhat "reduced" under Ubuntu... But still, even though its a bit "restricted" under Ubuntu, if you want to do things like... *...

Speccy an Excellent System Information Utility for Windows Apparently, apart from GNU/Linux, theres this whole other operating system called MS Windows :P and I thought that I should write a few articles for the MS Windows users from time to time as well. So, if you use Microsoft windows and searching for a free tool to get advanced system information about your PC, although Im pretty sure theres a whole bunch of em out there, but this one called "Speccy" is an excellent little utility in my experience. To be honest, even without a dedicated utility, in MS Windows we can easily see the hardware & software related information without much of a hassle when compared to GNU/Linux (although we do have dedicated utilities such as Hardinfo for the GNU/Linux geeks too) but still, after installing something like Speccy makes the whole process much more easy nonetheless. Main features... *. Its completely free to begin with. Although the do have two paid versions but when compared ...