Ubuntu - tips and tricks

Having installed Ubuntu we just put together a list of tips and tricks as well as links that can help. Of course this can never be exhaustive, but for many of us it can be also a start to search for other soltuions, ideas etc.

Please add to the book when you have suggestions and information that can be valuable to all of us.

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Download manager for Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-d4x-download-manager-in-ubuntu.html

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To solve problems connected with the sound (Microphone not working, headset not working etc.):

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HdaIntelSoundHowto

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From the comand line: sort a file and get a wordlist of that file

cat file1 file2 | perl -a -n -e 'print (join "\n",@F); print "\n"' |sort -u