Trick : Resize Unity Launcher Icons In Simple Way

Recently I thought that my launcher icons are too big. And I thought to resize the launcher to be smaller. I didn't think before, that launcher icons can be resized only using  Compiz. Because, when I opened Compiz Config  Settings Manager, no choice found to customize my launcher icons. In fact, actually this is only a hidden tool provided by Compiz.

How to resize my launcher? Please follow my steps below :
Make sure, you already installed Compiz.
Run a command, by pressing Alt+F2

Monitor Your Network with Speedometer (Linux)

Sometimes you got your network connection was not running as normal as usual. Maybe too slow, or no connection at all. But you couldn't make sure what happened with your network. This tool, named Speedometer maybe useful for you. Speedometer is a tool to measure and display the rate of data across a network connection. So you could monitor your network.

How to install Speedometer?
sudo apt-get install speedometer
To run this tool type on the terminal :
speedometer -rx ppp0 
or
speedometer -tx ppp0
rx : bytes received
tx : bytes transmitted

New Open Source OS, Tizen

Still fresh in our memory, how Intel with Nokia developed an operating system together, named as Meego. Although Meego is unsuccessful, but Intel doesn'tgive up and now Intel is trying to develop a new operating system, named as Tizen together with Samsung which had same bad experience with its OS, Bada.

As quoted from www.tizen.org, "Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform for multiple device categories, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, smart TVs, and more. Tizen will offer an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device." Actually Tizen is a Linux-based operating system. And Tizen is hosted by Linux Foundation.

Refine your Google Search Results with Google Blocked List

There is a way to easily block a site or more using a tool provided by Google. Just visit this this URL. Add the site you would like to block.

In the example, since I don't want to display "www.youtube.com" on the Google search results, so I add www.youtube.com into the blocked list.