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Videolan declares VLC 1.1 feature freeze

Written on February 8th, 2010 at 02:28 am by shredder12

Videolan declared a few hours ago the feature freeze of the upcoming release of VLC media player, VLC 1.1 in a tweet. Currently the developers have started working on fixing bugs and preparing its release.

Take the tour of Firefox 1.0 on Nokia N900

Written on February 5th, 2010 at 19:59 pm by shredder12

Firefox released a tour video of their first mobile browser on Nokia N900. It was a truly amazing experience seeing Firefox mobile browser with so many cool features. I have seen and used a few mobile browsers but Firefox is way better. Check out the video and see for yourself.

Visualizations in VLC 1.1

Written on February 4th, 2010 at 01:46 am by shredder12

Rémi Duraffort, the student who worked on VLC media player as part of the Google Summer of Code 2009 mentioned in his blog the addition of Visualizations feature in the next major release of VLC 1.1. This visualizations feature will be a result of the integration of libprojectM inside VLC media player.

Buckle Up Ubuntu Women for the International Women's day competition

Written on February 4th, 2010 at 00:56 am by shredder12

All the Ubuntu using Women and Girls its time for the International Women's day Competition. I am aware that it was announced 3 weeks ago but this is just a reminder as well as to spread the word among all the Ubuntu Women who will be interested in sharing the story of "how they started using Ubuntu?".

Support Gnome by shopping at Amazon.com

Written on February 3rd, 2010 at 20:46 pm by shredder12

Yes, its true. Install the Amazon GNOME Search Plugin in your Browser and when you search using this plugin to buy stuff at Amazon.com, GNOME Foundation gets a referral fee. This plugin was launched about 2 months ago. The GNOME Foundation earned a reasonable amount in this time and they are looking for more support from the fans.

Firefox announced two weeks of testing for Out of Process Plugins aka OOPP

Written on February 2nd, 2010 at 23:13 pm by shredder12

The next great thing in Firefox is going to be the use of crash-safe plugins aka Out of Process Plugins. They isolate the plugin process from the browser process. The new Firefox with OOPP support is available in the trunk now and in order to test and fix bugs in it, Firefox has announced the beginning of two weeks of testdays. 

Ubuntu Global Jam back in action for Lucid

Written on February 2nd, 2010 at 18:48 pm by shredder12

Ubuntu Global Jam is a great event where the amazing ubuntu community gets together to fix bugs, transtations, documentations and a lot more. Its an incredible opportunity for people to learn and contribute to Ubuntu. In addition, you get a great chance to meet other Ubuntu Contributors and fans. The next Ubuntu Global Jam has been announced to be around the weekend of 26-28th March this year.

Firefox for Mobile, Future Prospects

Written on February 1st, 2010 at 22:44 pm by shredder12

After the release of the first Mobile browser by Firefox, I decided to take a peek in the Mozilla camp to check out the future plans of their Mobile browser development. And since I am talking about the great Firefox here, I am sure all of you will be interested in knowing the same.

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How to install Thunderbird 3.0 or above in Ubuntu

Written on February 3rd, 2010 at 19:05 pm by shredder12

I am a great fan of Thunderbird. I use it to handle all my mails. Since, I have Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala installed I was using Thunderbird 2.0 by default. A few days back, I thought, why not use the latest version. May be I loved its codename, shredder , but if you are a Thunderbird user then you should upgrade to this release. It has so many new features.

How to make gnome-dictionary work offline

Written on January 29th, 2010 at 00:10 am by shredder12

So, I guess I was wrong about gnome-dictionary, it can be configured to work offline . All you have to do to make it work is, install the server packages, some dictionaries, a little tweaking in the configuration and there is your gnome-dictionary working in offline mode. It might not provide all the features of stardict but it does the job.

How to install Emerillon Map Viewer in Ubuntu and Fedora

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 21:53 pm by shredder12

Emerillon Map Viewer doesn't have a stable release yet. So, it is not included in the main repos of many distros. But you can download and install the development packages. Although its always advised to install a stable release but the release 0.1.1 seemed pretty stable. So, if you want to give it a try then, in this small howto, we will see how to install Emerillon on Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" and Fedora 12 "Constantine".

How to make your Ubuntu 9.10 an Ubuntu Electronics Remix

Written on January 24th, 2010 at 16:56 pm by shredder12

The project, Ubuntu Electronics Remix, received a huge response from the followers and because of a lot of downloads of the ISO, the monthly bandwidth was exhausted. They are trying to set up a torrent and mirrors to help their users. But in the meanwhile, if you are already using Ubuntu 9.10 you can make your own Ubuntu Electronics Remix. Let me show you how to do that.

How to install Firefox 3.6 in OpenSuse, Fedora and Ubuntu

Written on January 24th, 2010 at 00:52 am by shredder12

If you have not been sleeping for the last 2 days, you would know that Firefox 3.6 is out now. Because of its new amazing features and customizable capabilities, I am sure all of you would want to try it out badly. So, in this howto I will tell you how to install it in most of the popular Linux distros.

How to change the Bash Command Prompt using PS1 variable

Written on January 18th, 2010 at 16:19 pm by shredder12

One of the first things I do after having a fresh Installation, is to change the command prompt to something I like. I know most of you linuxers would want to make the prompt look cooler than the usual "name-hostname: / $". But command prompt is not all about coolness, it serves a lot more useful purposes than it appears. In this howto, I will show you how to change your command prompt by editing PS1 environment variable and make it useful and cool at the same time .

How to receive files via Bluetooth using Blueman

Written on January 14th, 2010 at 16:58 pm by shredder12

A few months ago I wrote an article about sharing and receiving files via Bluetooth using gnome-user-share. But recently I found out that this can be done more easily using Blueman. Blueman is a simple bluetooth manager which aims at controlling and simplifying bluetooth tasks. Let me show you how to install Blueman and configure it to receive files via Bluetooth.

How to download mms streaming videos in Ubuntu

Written on January 9th, 2010 at 18:11 pm by shredder12

Yesterday, a friend of mine came to me looking for a way to download a mms stream. Forget about the direct download I wasn't even able to stream it on the available players at the moment. But later after some searching I found out that there is an application for Ubuntu called mimms which can directly download the mms stream for you.

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