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Amarok 2.1 is out & Installing Amarok 2.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
I was catching up on some feeds yesterday, and this piece of news caught my eye -Amarok 2.1 released. Being a long time Amarok fan ( heck Amarok itself was catalyst to make me use my SUSE 10.0 use full) time - I read the article with great interest.
Amarok 2 users would know that [...]
Start torrent downloads from anywhere using Dropbox and Transmission
I’ve been using Dropbox pretty extensively ever since its private beta days and just love its simplicity and ease with which I can keep all my files in sync across multiple computers. Even more awesome is its simple web interface - just upload a file and boom, the file you uploaded gets sync’d across all [...]
Synchronize Google Calender and Accept Microsoft Outlook Meeting Invites in Mozilla Thunderbird
I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird pretty extensively past few months. Even though I do have Microsoft Outlook installed on my work laptop - with the amount of mails that I send and receive, Outlook just dies when the Inbox size shoots up and that’s an absolute killer. One of the problems with Thunderbird is that [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 Beta Impressions: Jaunty is looking good
It’s been a while since I last used Ubuntu - I have generally shunned away from Ubuntu since Fiesty - for the main reason that I’m more of KDE guy, I never really liked Gnome, and my experience with Fiesty was rather unsavoury. You might say ‘hey you want KDE try Kubuntu’ - Kubuntu - [...]
Writing an iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R from Linux Terminal
Ever wondered if there’s a quick and easy way to write an iso file to a CD-R/DVD-R ? Don’t want to open K3B or Brasero ? Here’s a handy way of writing the iso file.
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Links of the Week
Been a while since I’ve composed a post, work’s taken a toll on me and leave me with very little time
Rather having no updates at all, decided to post some links which I found interesting and made for good read. So here we go!
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Using KWin as a Desktop Video Recording and Screencast tool
Not many know of this, but as of KDE 4.2, Kwin, the window manager has a nifty little feature - it can grab videos of desktop much like a screencasting tool such as Camtasia. This functionality requires Kwin’s composition mode to be enabled (ie, you must be using Kwin’s desktop effects).
Below video shows where and [...]
Wireless Networking Blues? Get rid of NetworkManager, Install Wicd
I’ve jsut about had it with NetworkManager. Everytime I update my system I have to bite my nails wondering whether the update will break my wireless. I’ve posted earlier about my problems with NetworkManager and on howto fix it, there’s the best way to fix it: get rid of it.
Yeah, get rid of NetworkManager, install [...]
Linux version of World of Goo is out - Download the free demo
Being a gamer - I’m always on the lookout for new games - while I do enjoy some of the “big-name” games - there are few of those little known games which are fantastically awesome. World of Goo is one of those.
World of Goo - in a nutshell can be described as a extreme-physics-added version [...]
Get Kannada Language displayed properly in Gentoo and Sabayon
Well I was browsing through some Kannada sites the other day and all I got was big blocks.
Turned out that Gentoo and Sabayon didn’t have support for displaying Kannada characters, though, I had no such problems with Hindi & Bengali characters [amongst others]. Changing the Character encoding in Firefox to Auto-detect or Unicode didn’t [...]
