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Entries from February 2008

Vimpress: Publish WordPress blog posts from Vim

February 22nd, 2008 · 4 Comments

Vimpress is a very cool plugin for Vim. With Vimpress, you can publish and edit WordPress blog posts from Vim.

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Tags: Cool Apps

Avant Window Navigator (Awn) 0.2.4 released

February 20th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Avant Window Navigator (Awn) 0.2.4 has been released. “This version of one of the most popular open source docks includes non-Gnome desktop environment support, an updated Awn Manager UI, and support for writing applets in Vala, the C#-like language for GObjects.”

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Tags: News

How to install Workaholic 0.1.0 on Ubuntu

February 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Workaholic can be used to remind you to take a break. It will show you a transparent window with a progress bar. You can walk away from the computer for a while.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

Opera updated to 9.26

February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Opera has been updated to version 9.26. This is bugfix only release and all users are encouraged to upgrade.

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Tags: News

VirtualBox 1.5.6 released

February 19th, 2008 · No Comments

VirtualBox 1.5.6 has been released. This release features include seamless mode and fullscreen mode fixes, improved performance of Solaris guests, added support for read-only shared folders, experimental support for E1000 device emulation, compatibility fixes with Linux Kernel 2.6.24 and so on.

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Tags: News

KGRUBEditor — A GRUB Editor for KDE 4

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

KGRUBEditor is a visual GRUB configuration editor for KDE 4. With KGRUBEditor, you can edit GRUB entries and alter GRUB settings. KGRUBEditor is very easy-to-use. The latest version of KGRUBEditor is 0.5b. You can get it at KDE-Apps.org web site.

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Tags: KDE · Cool Apps

Change GTK style in KDE 4 with Gtk-kde4

February 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Gtk-kde4 is a small program useful for change GTK style in KDE 4 and change font of GTK applications. With Gtk-kde4, you can make your Qt and GTK applications look similar.

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Tags: KDE · Cool Apps

Gnome theme: PeLo

February 10th, 2008 · 6 Comments

A beautiful Gnome theme. I very like it. Thanks alexeyten and needcoffee!

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Tags: Themes · GNOME

Installing Instantbird 0.1 on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

February 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you connect to all your different IM accounts. It supports AIM, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, QQ, Google Talk, XMPP, ICQ, Yahoo!, and so on. Instantbird is based on Mozilla technologies and Pidgin libpurple library. Here’s how to run it on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 is out

February 8th, 2008 · No Comments

The second alpha release of openSUSE 11.0 is now out. This version brings Kernel 2.6.24, GNOME 2.21.90, KDE 4.0.1, OpenOffice.org 2.4 Beta, Alsa 1.0.16rc2, D-Bus 1.2rc2, and much more. You can download openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2 at here. Screenshots provided below.

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Tags: openSUSE · News