A few months ago I wrote about a feature-rich open source application for monitoring your Gmail inbox - CheckGmail.
I know a few of you, like me, have been continuing to use it since. Unfortunately, a few days ago CheckGmail stopped working with a Error: Incorrect username or password dialog.
Updating CheckGmail to Fix Login Errors
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Using KGet Download Manager with Firefox
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A couple of days ago, I took a look at KGet, which is KDE’s resident download manager. As you’d expect, KGet features heavy integration within Konqueror, the KDE web browser. However, many KDE users prefer to browse with Firefox for greater compatibility, meaning full integration between their browser and KGet isn’t possible by default.
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Gaming on Ubuntu (Linux)
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Well, welcome back to the site everyone, I am a new writer here, and I hope to help you all in your transition to a better (in my humble opinion) operating system.
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Web service idea: helping identify outdated web browsers
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Google, ETH, and IBM released a paper about how 59.1% of users are running the most up-to-date browser available to them, and that a decent number of people were not running fully-patched versions. From a security and standards-compliance position, this is bad.
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Are you using the latest web browser?
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In view of mass defacements of hundreds of thousand of web pages - with the intent to misuse them to launch drive-by download attacks - security researchers from ETH Zurich, Google, and IBM Internet Security Systems were interested in looking at the other side of the attack: the web browser.
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Google Gadgets for Linux
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Google Gadgets for Linux are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other applications. By all accounts, Gadget support for Linux was a major undertaking for the Google team as it is an entire platform for mini applications. You can check out the source code for it on Google's Gadget for Linux project page.
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Using iMacros for Firefox: A Visual, Step-By-Step Tour
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One of the best pieces of news related to the recent release of version 3 of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is that most popular extensions now work with it. In this post, I’ll present an extensive guided tour to my favorite, free Firefox extension of all: iMacros.
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p7zip Adds Built-In 7-Zip Tools to Ubuntu
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The Tombuntu blog points out a seriously helpful package available in Ubuntu's extended repositories that make creating super-efficient 7-Zip archives simple and fast, whether you're right-clicking or working with a command line. Run this command to install it:
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Options and Tools For OpenOffice.org. Users
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We often talk about how useful the productivity suite OpenOffice.org is for anyone who needs word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software, but doesn't want to plunk down a bunch of money to get it. While you may have heard of OpenOffice.org, there are some lesser-known forks and some handy tools that you might not know about. Let's take a look.
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Mandriva and Precedent offer low-cost TechSurfer desktop
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Mandriva and Precedent (PTech) will release a new low-cost Atom-based desktop system, the TechSurfer, in the United States in September, starting at $399 with a three year manufacturer warranty, with Mandriva Linux pre-installed.
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Exclusive First Look: NimbleX 2008
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Our good friend and developer of NimbleX, Bogdan Radulescu, gave us an exclusive copy of his new distribution, NimbleX 2008, which will be available for all of you tomorrow! I was really thrilled this morning when I saw the e-mail from Bogdan regarding the new version of NimbleX, I immediately downloaded the ISO image and gave it a try, to see what's new.
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Create Tomboy notes in Firefox with Tomfox
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Tomfox is a very cool Firefox extension. With Tomfox, you can directly create Tomboy notes in Firefox.
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Why not learn a little language while you work, Amigo?
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Books, CDs, flashcards, classes -- there are a lot of tools to help you learn a foreign language. If you spend much of your time near a computer, software may be one of the better options. Ian McIntosh's Amigo is a friendly language utility for the Linux user, notable for how well it integrates into the desktop.
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P2P Security News : New GNUnet release 0.8.0.
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"...This release adds various major new features at the price of breaking compatibility on various levels. If you are updating from a previous version, please read the section on updating below..."
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GNUnet a secure peer to peer (P2P) network
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"...In the early 2008 we've found TOR network to unblocked torrent and still using it until today. It's may be to late, but yesterday we saw another interesting p2p network application called GNUnet (we're still learning about how to use GNUnet)..."
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