Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more than 500 open source projects(most of them are samples showing how to use their API). In this article I will try to write about most interesting and free releases from Google, some of them might be abandoned.

If your music files aren't named properly or simply want to see the MP3 and FLAC metadata information (ID3 tags) in Nautilus List View, you can't by default.

But I found a python script (which also comes as a .deb file) on the Ubuntu Forums called "Nautilus Columns" which adds new columns to Nautilus, so you can view such metadata information.

First came Netscape. Then came Internet Explorer. Then Netscape was reborn as Firefox, the new star of Web browsers. Now there is Chrome, a completely new browser from Google. The Web is the new battleground for 2010.

Mozilla is building a number of features into the upcoming Firefox 3.7 browser--but the organization now has begun stewing over whether to introduce some of them in a significant update, as planned, or to rewrite some sooner for a variation of the current browser.

If you have enabled the "Visual Effects" on Ubuntu, there's a chance you might have noticed some video tearing or rather chalky Compiz performance which makes the experience not so smooth.

We laid our hands on all the three biggies—Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 and openSUSE 11.2—and pitted them against each other. What followed was the battle of the century, as each distro pulled off one unique trick after another to stay on top of the game.

Safari browser is now the choice for majority of the Mac users, and now there is a variety of plugins available for this browser that can add numerous useful and impressive features in this browser. I have made my collection of 10 best plugins available for Safari browser on Mac, most of these are very useful for people who are doing web development work.

I mentioned byobu the other day, and a few days before I mentioned a slew of audio players for the console. Here’s a mis-mash of those ideas, with three audio mixers running inside the Ubuntu version of byobu.