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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Foods That Can Make A Good Mood


Foods for good moodFoods can not only filling the stomach and satisfy hunger, but also can affect mood. People who always eat healthy Foods tend to have a good mood. Foods can affect your mood or the person’s mood, depending on how you use it. There are certain foods that will add positive thoughts, while others cause the opposite effect.


Foods derived from sugar and starch will typically be able to improve the mood of being able to release serotonin from tryptophan (an amino acid). This hormone can reduce depression. While the protein-containing foods such as meat, poultry, dairy products and nuts can make the brain release nor epinephrine and dopamine, which is derived from the amino acid tyrosine and can enhance mental concentration and alertness.


Here are some foods that can increase positive mood, as reported by Lifemojo :


1. Healthy Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are not always bad. People who are on a strict diet by avoiding carbohydrates even many who looked dull, depressed and cranky. The reason is because they lack tryptophan.


Tryptophan is a non-essential amino acid that is released after the intake of carbohydrates. This entry into the brain and release serotonin, a calming and anti-depressant neurotransmitter. Choose healthy carbohydrates such as grains, wheat, pasta, brown rice.


2. Omega-3 fatty acids

Several recent studies suggest that omega 3 polyunsaturated fats found in fish, flaxseed and walnuts may help in protecting against depression.


3. Start the day with a healthy breakfast

Many studies have shown that people who eat breakfast have a healthy balanced mood and better memory, and more energy throughout the day.


4. Foods rich in selenium

Selenium also acts as a mood enhancer. A study at Texas Tech University suggests that selenium supplements helpful in treating depression. In the same study, lack seleniu intake was associated with a bad mood. Selenium-rich foods such as nuts and whole grains, lean meats, seafood and low fat dairy products.


5. Reduce caffeine

Caffeine can keep you awake and alert at night, but surely changing the mood on the next day. People who are sensitive to caffeine may even become depressed. You need to reduce the caffeine if you find it causes depression.

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Friday, October 14, 2016

Eye Candy Make your Ubuntu 11 04 Desktop look like Mac OS X with Mac4Lin and AWN


I had written post earlier about how you can transform your Ubuntu Desktop into looking like Mac OS X, it become instant hit and to this day I get number of people looking for information about transforming their Ubuntu desktop to look like Mac OS X, and hence I decided to write an updated tutorial. Macbuntu is one alternative, though at the time of writing this post I could not find Macbuntu version for Ubuntu 11.04 and forcefully installing Macbuntu have lead to stability issues and hence I would avoid this approach.

The desktop should somewhat resemble interface of MacOS X, after following the below mentioned steps.

I would be assuming that you are using Ubuntu Classic here and not Unity, I have found Unity to be extremely irritating to work with and I dislike it very much. You can switch to Ubuntu classic by changing to Ubuntu Classic in GDM screen.

Mac4Lin is made by GTK Developer Anirudh Acharya, with the aim of bringing Aqua user interface to POSIX based platform, in simpler words, to operating system the likes of GNU/Linux and hence distributions like Ubuntu.

We would first need to download Mac4Lin theme package and install it onto the system, you can do so easily by issuing the following commands in terminal ( Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal ) window :

wget http://space.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mac4lin/mac4lin/ver.1.0/Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.zip
or alternatively you could look into the source forge page and download the latest archive from multitude of mirrors. Source forge download page of Mac4Lin - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/

Once you have downloaded the archive, you need to extract it, you would need to have unzip installed on your system to do so, if you do not have unzip installed you can do so by issuing the following command in terminal window :

sudo apt-get install unzip
However, if you decide to extract this using terminal you can do so easily by issuing the following command :
mkdir $HOME/mac4lin
unzip Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.zip -d $HOME/mac4lin
This should extract the archive into mac4lin directory, you would need to execute shell script to install Mac4Lin theme, chdir into mac4lin directory and then chdir into Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0 directory, once you are in the directory, issue the following command to execute the shell script and begin installation :
./Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.sh
This should begin the installation procedure, it would ask few questions, you should answer them, and for installing it might need root permission as well and hence would need sudo password,if you follow the instruction carefully Mac4Lin should be installed in Jiffy.





Different installation screens of Mac4Lin

Now you need to install Avant Window Navigator, if you havent installed it already, there are many docks for GNU/Linux, I have found AWN to be extremely stable and good looking and hence I would be using this in this post, additionally, it integrates with Mac4Lin well.

You can install AWN by issuing the following command in Terminal Window :
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator
If the above step completed successfully, you are done transforming your Ubuntu 11.04 based system to a Pseudo MacOS X kind of look. I would recommend after installing AWN and Mac4Lin you restart your system, or at the very least restart X server.

You need to select the newly installed theme, you can do so from System -> Preferences -> Appearance , you should find Mac4Lin Graphite and Mac4Lin Aqua there, based on your personal preference and likes you can chose either one of them, I prefer Mac4Lin Aqua :)


AWN does not load by default and needs to be started from ( Applications -> Accessories -> Avant Window Navigator ), I would advise that you get rid of panel at the bottom (if you are using Ubuntu classic i.e ) by right clicking on the panel and choosing to get rid of panel.

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