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Blogger is one of the most popular free blogging service providers out there. Yet again another free service from the kitty of Google. Blogger is a reasonably user friendly blogging platform except for its theming capabilities. If you don't customize anything you can configure most of the stuff through the blogger admin interface but if you did something then you will have to do everything subsequently as well. A very simple task like showing the comment form below the posts requires you to fiddle with the template xml file, if you are already using a customized template.
Firefox is readying itself for yet another major release. That is an amazing feat by itself when you consider the fact that, they had another major release, called Firefox 3.0, less than a year ago. Now it is time for highly revised and improved Firefox 3.5. You can even give it a try by installing the release candidate vesrion called Firefox 3.5RC2 in your Ubuntu. But we recommend you to wait until the official release of Firefox 3.5 which is safer. Firefox 3.5RC2 is only for testing purposes.
Got Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless device and have problems to make it work with Ubuntu? I had this same issue while i was trying to install Ubuntu in an ASUS netbook. Finally i got it working though. Here is a detailed post on how to install Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01) driver in Ubuntu and get it to work.
The latest KDE 4.2.4 is released with much improved features and lots of bug fixes. Some of the new features include a highly improved pdf reader, Okular and and a much versatile KMail. Improved applets, efficient and smooth window management, breathtaking desktop effects, etc are some of the highlights of KDE 4.2. The latest release in the series, KDE 4.2.4 is probably the last release before the official release of KDE 4.3, which is going to happen some time in the month of July/August. Here is How you can update your Ubuntu/Kubuntu with the latest KDE 4.2.4.
If you are a regular GNU Linux user there is a very good chance that you will come across emails forwarded to you as .eml files once in a while. .eml is the extension used for files saved as emails from Microsoft outlook or outlook Express. It is normally just a matter of opening these files with gedit as the files are plain text files unless they have attachments. If the attached .eml files themselves have attachments you run into the problem of actually having to open these base64 encoded attachments. The default set of applications in Ubuntu does not directly allow you to do this but there is an easy work around for this problem.
Theme your Ubuntu with quality stuff. Finding full set themes, which includes wallpaper, gdm, metacity themes etc, was always a difficult task to do in Ubuntu. But thanks to the zgegblog guys this is not an issue anymore. And the most interesting part is that, you could download it directly through Synaptic Package Manager. So it is safe and easy to install as well.
Here is a detailed step by step analysis on How to install zgegblog themes in Ubuntu. We have also included previews of some of the themes available through the blog.
People very often confuse between the terms Free Software, Freeware and Open Source Software in the context of software and often use interchangeably. But there are very distinct differences between these classes of software.
The latest version of XBMC, codenamed Babylon is finally released. It has many new features and enhancements. For beginners, XBMC is an award winning Open Source Multimedia Application with eye candy and easy to use interface. Take a look at the screenshots of XBMC. All new XBMC 9.04 comes with a lot of improvements and added features. Some of the new features include support for Power PC architecture, improved FanArt support, VDPAU hardware accelerated video decoding under Linux on NVIDIA graphics and so on.
Here are the detailed instructions on How to install XBMC 9.04 - Babylon in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope and also further details on the application.
Open Office 3.1 has been released with improved features and bug fixes. Some of the new features include antialiased drawings to smooth the edges of graphics, replying to notes, improved grammar checking, hyperlink management and sorting etc. Peek into the full list of features in the all new release of Open Office. Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope comes with Open Office 3.0 as default and the new release of Open Office is not yet listed in the official Ubuntu repo. You will have to add launchpad repo to upgrade to this all new Open Office 3.1.
Take a look on different steps detailing the Upgradation to Open Office 3.1 in Ubuntu Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy.
After almost one month of searching for suitable places to move out to we have finally found the right place to move out to. Our new office address is
Zyxware Technologies
3/118, Opp. M. G. College,
Kesavadasapuram,
Pattom P. O., Trivandrum,
Kerala - 695004, India
Our new phone number is 0471-4063818. Our mobile number remains the same - 09446069446