Ubuntu 12.10 themes

Thanks Jim for the themes how to..
http://www.itworld.com/software/315365/install-ten-great-unity-and-gnome-shell-themes-ubuntu-1210

Speed up Ubuntu 12.xx

Hi thanks to Nixie Pixel for showing some speedup tips on Ubuntu. I've tried these out on both a couple of VM boxes and a physical PC and can say they work well! Here they are:

Show all startup items

Ubuntu hides some startup items by default, by entering this in the terminal you will be able to see all startup items and disable if required, for instance Bluetooth daemon.

sudo sed -i "s/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g" /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Preload

In order to speed up applications by loading frequently used libraries, go to the Ubuntu software centre and install the 'Preload' application.

Speed up Gedit

 A bug in a plugin in Gedit causes poor performance - go to > Edit > Preferences > Plugins and untick the 'File Browser Panel'