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Some cool features in Fedora 13, Goddard

Written on March 11th, 2010 at 04:11 am by chia

Recently, I have been a little out of touch with Fedora news. With the release of Fedora 13 alpha, I finally got a chance to get back to work. Went through the list of new additions in Fedora 13 alpha and as expected, Goddard has some really cool new features. I have jotted down some of my favourites in this article.

Linux Nvidia drivers might also have the GPU fan speed issue

Written on March 6th, 2010 at 22:05 pm by shredder12

Just read a mail from Alberto Milone, where he mentions the warning issued by NVIDIA that the drivers 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 might be affected by the same GPU fan speed issues which were detected earlier in the windows drivers. You might not face any troubles with it but there have been a few reports so its better to be careful. The problem might take a while to resolve, so its better to take the measures suggested by Nvidia and Alberto Milone(for Ubuntu). Here I have discussed those measures.

Unite Media Player, A Widget for Opera

Written on March 4th, 2010 at 19:39 pm by shredder12

There is now a Media Player widget available for Opera Browser, its Unite Media Player. The applications aims to provide a lot of simplicity to the user.  You can directly browser yours or your friend's music and play it right from their devices. No need of uploads/downloads or third party stuff, the music will be streamed from anywhere for you.

Ubuntu-Manual Project has a website now

Written on March 2nd, 2010 at 19:02 pm by shredder12

All of you would be aware of the Ubuntu Manual project which aims to provide anything you need to know after installing Ubuntu. And you will be glad to know that this project has it own nice looking website now, http://ubuntu-manual.org. As of now, there is not much on the website except a countdown to the day of manual's release.

About.com's Readers voted Opera as the Favourite Desktop and Mobile Browser

Written on March 1st, 2010 at 21:46 pm by shredder12

Results of About.com Reader's choice Awards for Browsers have been announced and Opera holds the crown for both the Desktop and Mobile browser categories. Opera was already being expected as a winner for the Mobile category but it came as a surprise when this browser with a very little share in the market, beat all of the popular Desktop browsers. Call it less voting from other browser's followers or more enthusiastic Opera users but Readers have said it, Opera FTW!.

What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

Written on March 8th, 2010 at 05:51 am by shredder12

While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all , but I was wrong. This article is just a brief summary of that discussion. This might not look of any use but its always good(and a little fun) to know other's opinion about such issues.

Ubuntu 10.10 to be released on 28th October

Written on March 5th, 2010 at 05:06 am by shredder12

With around 5 weeks left for the release of Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, the release date of the next version, Ubuntu 10.10, is already available, 28th October 2010. The code name of Ubuntu 10.10 is yet to be announced. As usual, this release will go through 4 alpha, 1 beta and 1 RC before the final release. More information regarding its schedule is available here.

Ubuntu rebrands for a Fresh New Look, now with the new "Light" theme

Written on March 4th, 2010 at 02:46 am by shredder12

If you have been using Ubuntu for the past few years or at least more than one version, you would have noticed the default "human" theme. This was probably motivated from Ubuntu's tagline "Linux for Human Beings" and so most of the theming reflected humanity. Now, after 6 years of glory, they have decided to rebrand Ubuntu to a new and better theme "Light". They have prepared a number of examples to show what they really mean by this new "Light" theme, check it out you sure don't want to miss this.

VLC is used in Formula One

Written on March 2nd, 2010 at 14:09 pm by shredder12

I read a blog post of Jean-Paul Saman, a VLC developer, about the use of VLC in the most popular motorsport of the World, Formula One. According to the blog, a big VLC fan, Dan Dectis, posted a message on the vlc mailing list mentioning this picture from the Formula One Photography. This is indeed one of the examples showing the power and extent of VLC media player.

Some Cool HTML5 Demos

Written on February 27th, 2010 at 23:48 pm by chia

So, today we attended the awesome Google DevFest 2010 in Hyderabad, India. And there were some really good sessions by google's open web developers on the latest web technologies. The session on HTML5 by Patrick Chanezon, which we were already pretty excited about , went way par our expectations. Patrick gave an awesome presentation, showing some really good demos depicting the power HTML5 holds.

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