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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Updating CheckGmail to Fix Login Errors
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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.
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Mixing A Podcast In Ardour - Part 1
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The first of a 13-part series created by Tony Whitmore detailing how to mix a podcast in Ardour on Ubuntu. It was created initially so that members of the Ubuntu UK LoCo team could take part in the Ubuntu UK Podcast. However it was decided to release them because they may be useful to other podcasters, or those wishing to learn more about mixing in Ardour.
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Linux, Laptops and Dual Displays
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I need to update some information related to a post that I made last week about multiple displays with Linux. In a nutshell, I have a laptop and a port replicator with a display connected to it.
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Turn Your Ubuntu Hardy to Mac OSX Leopard
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You can’t really turn a Linux system to a Mac, but you definitely can make your Ubuntu Hardy looks like a Mac OSX Leopard.
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Nvidia on KDE 4.1: a greedy problem [Update]
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KDE 4.1 was released as a RC recently and will soon be released. While it will be a very usable and stable desktop environment ready to be used almost everywhere most users with NVIDIA cards will not be pleased: their proprietary driver spoil the fun.
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Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME
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Here we are, contemplating the whole "desktop metaphor is obsolete" debate again.
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Keep a terminal application open all the time? A drop-down terminal such as Guake might suit you better. A drop-down, or Quake-style, terminal stays hidden until you call it up with a key combination.
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Writing Without Distractions in Linux
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The best way to write or compose something important using a computer is to do it without any distraction. But how is it possible to concentrate if your email notification keeps on popping, your Twitter updates are flashing, and you are always tempted to open your RSS reader? What’s my solution?
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