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Magic Trackpad drivers land in Ubuntu Maverick and Upstream!

Posted: September 9th, 2010, 4:33pm CDT by admin

If you’ve read some of my previous posts, you’ll note that I’ve been spending some time adding Magic Trackpad functionality to the current Magic Mouse driver in the kernel. I’m pleased to report that the changes have landed both in Ubuntu and upstream in Jiri Kosina’s HID tree as it awaits merging into Linus’ tree. It will be available in Ubuntu 10.10 and hopefully in Linux 2.6.37.

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How to install thunderbird 3.1.3 in Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid) using PPA

Posted: September 9th, 2010, 11:09am CDT by admin

Mozilla Thunderbird is a total redesign of the Mozilla mail component to produce a cross-platform, stand-alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. It has many new features, among them the ability to customize your toolbars the way you want them. a new look and feel with a large number of downloadable themes which alter the appearance of the client, and the ability to add UI extensions.
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MirrorBrain - Download Redirector and generates Metalinks, Torrents and crypto-hashes

Posted: September 9th, 2010, 8:11am CDT by admin

MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle.
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Sqlkit - Edit data in a database

Posted: September 9th, 2010, 6:06am CDT by admin

Sqlkit provides a GUI named sqledit to edit data in a database, as well as a package (sqlkit) in PyGtk. Sqledit (the application) can be run from the command line with arguments and will pop directly into the table/mask of the data, or without arguments and will present an input mask to write the database URL. Sqlkit (the Python package) provides SqlMask and SqlTable, two widgets for editing database data. It is meant to be used as a base for database desktop applications.
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Wammu - Mobile phone manager

Posted: September 8th, 2010, 1:00am CDT by admin

Wammu is a mobile phone manager that uses Gammu as its backend. It works with any phone that Gammu supports, including many models from Nokia, Siemens, and Alcatel. It has complete support (read, edit, delete, copy) for contacts, todo, and calendar. It can read, save, and send SMS. It includes an SMS composer for multi-part SMS messages, and it can display SMS messages that include pictures. Currently, only text and predefined bitmaps or sounds can be edited in the SMS composer. It can export messages to an IMAP4 server (or other email storage).
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Howto install Maya, Matchmover and Toxic 2011 on Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 10.04)

Posted: September 7th, 2010, 6:44pm CDT by admin

Autodesk Maya is a software application used for 3D animation, 3D modeling, simulation, visual effects, rendering, match moving, and compositing.Maya is used in the film and TV industry, as well as for computer and video games, architectural visualization and design.

The installation packages that come with Maya are .rpm packages. To get this running we need to convert the packages to .deb. For that use Alien.
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How to install VLC 1.1.4 in ubuntu 10.04 [New PPA]

Posted: September 7th, 2010, 4:02pm CDT by admin

VLC media player is a media player, streamer, and encoder for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can play most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), but can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the network.
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PAC 2.4.1.3 released and installation instructions included

Posted: September 7th, 2010, 7:51am CDT by admin

PAC is a Perl/GTK Gnome replacement for SecureCRT/Putty/etc… It provides a GUI to configure SSH/Telnet connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc. You like ‘SSHMenu’? If so, you must check this tool.
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How to remove files with special characters in Linux

Posted: September 7th, 2010, 3:42am CDT by admin

Solution 1

To remove a file with dashes, slashes or other special characters, the easiest way is to access the file using its inode. To get the inode of a file, just do a ls -li. When you have that number, use find to delete the file using the following command:

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ScribeFire Next - Full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser

Posted: September 7th, 2010, 12:30am CDT by admin

This is a redesign of ScribeFire, one of the most popular add-ons for Firefox. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to all of your blogs.
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GTK Impression – Nautilus Breadcrumbs

Posted: September 6th, 2010, 11:32am CDT by admin

The breadcrumb trail serves two purposes:

provides information to users as to where they are located within the site
offers shortcut links for users to “jump” to previously viewed pages without using the Back button, other navigation bars, or typing in a keyword search

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Cardapio - A lean application menu and launcher for Gnome

Posted: September 5th, 2010, 6:49pm CDT by admin

Cardapio can work in two modes: as a panel applet (in which case it is an alternative to Gnome’s application menu applet) or as a stand-alone launcher (in which case it is an alternative to the simplest use-cases of Gnome Do). It has a beautiful gtk-native interface and includes plugins for performing inline searches of Files (via Tracker), Software Center, Google, Wikipedia, and much more!
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GUI Program to install ath9k_htc (Atheros Linux Driver)

Posted: September 5th, 2010, 4:30am CDT by admin

This tutorial will explain howto install GUI Program to install ath9k_htc.This is the list of supported chip sets.

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How to install Web Developer Tools in Ubuntu

Posted: September 4th, 2010, 6:30pm CDT by admin

WDT - Web Developer Tools is a suite of useful tools fro web developers
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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta Screenshots Gallery

Posted: September 4th, 2010, 1:26am CDT by admin

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu 10.10 beta testing is easy with testdrive

Posted: September 4th, 2010, 1:03am CDT by admin

TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine.
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