[How to] Upgrade nautilus in hardy

This is my small post on how to upgrade nautilus in hardy to that version in Intrepid. As of know, the upgrade option in hardy repositories isn’t there yet. And, its true that the 2.23 version of Nautilus has tab facility like in Firefox. However, Ubuntu Hardy Heron which has Gnome 2.22 version and [...]

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[How-To]Send SMS from your Linux computer via your Mobile Phone

While exploring Fedora 10 Beta, I found this neat little app called Phone Manager.
The about page of PhoneManager states
Phone Manager is a program created to allow you to control aspects of your mobile phone from your GNOME 2 desktop..
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DropBox client now available for Linux!

Dropbox - the awesome online file-storage, and syncing utility finally gets a Linux client! The developers have been promising a Linux client since day one and though it took them a while to get it - it’s finally here!
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Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Chronicles - A Look At Installation and First Glance

Quite a lot of people have been waiting for the latest release of Ubuntu, version 8.04 dubbed the “Hardy Heron” - primarily because it’s a LTS release. So how does the Hardy Heron stack up? I decided to jump into the Hardy Heron brigade and have a look. Is it worth the upgrade?
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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Gets An XRandR GUI

Here’s a much needed feature, the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04 aka the Hardy Heron will finally feature a XRandR GUI.  This feature has been implemented under Alpha 6.
Basically this allows the user to change, amongst others, resolution, refresh rate, rotation(ie, to rotate the screen by X degrees) on-the-fly, using the RandR 1.2 extension. [...]

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