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Entries from October 2007

GPicView — A Simple and Fast Image Viewer

October 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer for X. It is extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage. Furthermore, GPicView is only used pure GTK+. It doesn’t require any specific desktop environment. This program is very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system.

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Mandriva Linux 2008 Screenshots

October 11th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A few days ago, Mandriva released Mandriva Linux 2008. This release includes Linux Kernel 2.6.22, X.org 7.2, KDE 3.5.7, GNOME 2.20.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6, OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 and so on. In addition, Mandriva Linux 2008 also includes Compiz Fusion, Metisse, new network management tool, and Windows documents and settings migration tool. The following are some screenshots […]

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Create An Avatar with MeMaker

October 10th, 2007 · No Comments

MeMaker is a nifty little program. With MeMaker, you can create an avatar of your liking. MeMaker is easy to use, you only need to select face, hair, eyes, mouth, ears and so on. Then MeMaker will automatically place them together. This program is very funny.

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Linkage — A Lightweight GTK+ BitTorrent Client

October 9th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Linkage is a lightweight BitTorrent client for Linux, created using C++. It based on libtorrent and uses the GTK+ toolkit (through gtkmm). The user interface of Linkage is very similar to µTorrent. If you’re looking for native GTK+ BitTorrent client on Linux, I suggest you try this program.

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How To Display RSS Feeds on Your Ubuntu Desktop

October 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I installed the latest version of Conky (1.4.7) on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. To my surprise, Conky can now download and parse RSS feeds. That’s really very cool. The following steps will show you how to display RSS feeds on your Ubuntu desktop.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

Control Music Players from the GNOME Panel with Music Applet

October 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Music Applet is really useful GNOME panel applet. With Music Applet, you can control various music players from the GNOME panel. Currently, Music Applet supports Banshee, Exaile, MPD, Muine, Quod Libet, Rhythmbox and XMMS/XMMS2.

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Installing VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

October 6th, 2007 · 31 Comments

VirtualBox is a powerful virtual machine software. The VirtualBox OSE is open source edition of VirtualBox. It is functionally equivalent to the full VirtualBox, except for a few features that primarily target enterprise customers. Currently, VirtualBox OSE was already in the Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon repositories.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

How To Install Non-free Multimedia Codecs on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

October 5th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Want to watch movies, play DVDs and listen musics on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon? You always need to install non-free multimedia codecs. For example, commonly known as w32codecs. To install them on Ubuntu, that’s very simple.

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Installing Skype 1.4 on Debian/Ubuntu

October 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Version 1.4.0.118 of Skype for Linux has been released. This release is a final edition. It’s not only improved voice call quality, but also added some new features. This post shows how you can install the latest version of Skype on Debian or Ubuntu.

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openSUSE 10.3 Screenshots

October 3rd, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’ve installed openSUSE 10.3 GNOME Edition. It includes Linux Kernel 2.6.22, GNOME 2.20, Compiz Fusion 0.54, OpenOffice.org 2.3, GIMP 2.2.17, Firefox 2.0.0.6, Pidgin 2.1.1, and so on. The following are some screenshots of openSUSE 10.3. You can download openSUSE 10.3 from here.

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