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Entries from December 2007

How To Use CNR Service on Ubuntu

December 5th, 2007 · No Comments

Recently, Linspire, Inc. has released CNR.com beta. The CNR Service provides a free, simple one-click CNR Client that allows you to begin installing software from CNR.com immediately. This HOWTO shows how you can use CNR Service on Ubuntu.

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Tags: How-Tos

GNOME Do — Quicksilver for Linux

December 4th, 2007 · 8 Comments

GNOME Do is very similar to Quicksilver. With GNOME Do, you can quickly open applications, files, bookmarks, contacts and so on. GNOME Do is available for the GNOME desktop.

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Tags: GNOME · Cool Apps

Check Your Gmail Account with cGmail

December 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

I am a Gmail fan. But Gmail Notifier only supports Windows and Mac. So I found cGmail for Linux. With cGmail, you can automatically check for new messages and see a snippet of text. cGmail is available for the GNOME desktop, and support gmail and pop3, pop3s, imap and imaps accounts.

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Tags: GNOME · Cool Apps

Auto Shutdown with KShutdown

December 2nd, 2007 · 7 Comments

KShutdown is a quite useful little utility for KDE. With KShutdown, you can auto turn off, restart and logout computer. Currently, KShutdown supports Linux and Windows platform. The latest version of KShutdown is 1.0.2. You can download it here.

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Tags: KDE · Cool Apps

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha 1 Screenshots

December 1st, 2007 · 5 Comments

Ubuntu 8.04 (codename Hardy Heron) alpha 1 has officially released. This release includes Kernel 2.6.22, X.org 7.3, GNOME 2.21.2, GIMP 2.4.2, Firefox 2.0.0.10, Pidgin 2.2.2 and so on. You can download desktop and server CD installation images from here. The following are some screenshots of Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 1.

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Tags: Ubuntu · Screenshots