This is simple technic lets you to add both the facebook and twitter gadget to the left side of your gmail inbox. You can see the tweets, direct messages and perform all the twitter activities from within your gmail account. The case is same for the facebook also...
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Canonical's Attention to Detail is Starting to Show Up in Ubuntu 10.10 Big Time
'Attention to detail' or 'enhanced UI experience' are not the kind of terminologies normally used in the Linux world. At least, that is how it used to be. It's all changing now. KDE 4.0 is a typical example. Developers completely revamped KDE from scratch and gave it a uniform user friendly appearance. Canonical's flagship Ubuntu is the next candidate.
Read more »Howto install Maya, Matchmover and Toxic 2011 on Linux 64-bit (Ubuntu 10.04)
The installation packages that come with Maya are .rpm packages. To get this running we need to convert the packages to .deb. For that use Alien.
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Finding Files with Locate
Many Linux users use the ‘find’ utility when searching for files using the command line on their system. There are times though where I’m just looking for something and I don’t want to have to wait for the command to scan the entire directory tree in order to track it down. That’s where locate comes in with quick and simple results.
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Alien - Use Any Package On Any Distribution
Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It can get you out of a fix when you can't find a package for your distribution, and it is also useful for package maintainers who want to distribute packages for distributions that they don't run.
Read more »Tutorial: Compile and Install GIMP 2.6.10 in Debian Lenny
In this tutorial I will show how to compile from source and install in Debian Lenny the latest release of GIMP, the most powerful image manipulation application currently available for Linux.
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Choices Choices Choices
In the beginning, there were a few different distributions. From a handful came hundreds. We are currently living with several hundreds. Many say that this is a bad thing. Many claim that the myriad offerings confuse people. Many claim that these distributions are often redundant. What's the deal? I have often talked about the lack of innovation in many distributions.
Read more »Interview with GNOME co-founder Federico Mena
I’m sure this legend doesn’t need too much introduction – Federico, along with Miguel de Icaza, worked together in the late 90s to start the GNOME project - the desktop environment that Ubuntu and many other distros use.
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Previewing and tweaking Ubuntu 10.10
If a quick test of the beta by LinuxTrends is any indication, this new Ubuntu version could be the most user-friendly, full-featured desktop Linux distribution ever.
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PS3 hack source code published - Update
Source code which can be used on programmable developer boards to circumvent the Playstation 3's security systems, analogous to a PS3 Jailbreak, has been released under the name PSGroove
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PCI DSS Standards 2.0 Means Good News For Linux Xen VPS
Of the 12 new changes to the standards, the best part of the new PCI DSS rules is a change to rule 2.2.1, which specifically allows for virtualization. Such as using a VPS running Linux with Xen.
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Wave open source next steps: "Wave in a Box"
Since the announcement that we will discontinue development of Google Wave as a standalone product, many people have asked us about the future of the open source code and Wave federation protocol. After spending some time on figuring out our next steps, we'd like to share the plan for our contributions over the coming months.
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First-Person Shooter Game for Linux: Warsow Review
It's been a while since I last reviewed a shooter game for Linux, and one of them was World of Padman (reviewed here), which was a cartoon-like, funny first-person shooter. Well, the same goes for Warsow, the game I'm going to talk about in this article. Every graphical aspect of Warsow indicates we're dealing with a cartoon-like universe, from the character models to weapons and maps.
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Linux DWG - Bricscad v10
It happened today... Bricsys released the official version of bricscad V10. No long in beta stage is now commercial with version 10.6.3-2 (windows version is 10.4.18-1). So now Linux users have a CAD software capable of handling DWG file format. Now there is no excuse to stay with windows just because you need Autocad. Bricscad is a very capable software and in many case can do better.
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Diaspora coming
It's probably not true to say that everybody hates Facebook. But there are many millions (of the hundreds of millions that use the site) that claim to hate Facebook's cavalier approach to privacy and founder Mark Zuckerberg's equally vague approach to the future of our privacy. There are even groups dedicated to encouraging users to leave Facebook (some on Facebook itself, ironically).
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