GNOME Activity Journal is a nascent but promising tool for the Gnome desktop environment (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva etc ) that provides a simple User Interface to browse and find files on your computer. More»
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First came the warning from the German, Australian, and French governments respectively against Internet Explorer, then came the rush to get safer web browsers like Opera and Firefox.
The graph above (from The Register) is very explicit, in Germany alone, Firefox got 300,000 extra downloads in just four days. More»
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A port of Google’s Android platform is now available for your x86 (32-bit) architecture PC. It is called Android-x86, and has a download-able ISO file you can grab and burn into a Live CD Linux distribution, this means you don’t have to install – with the ISO file you can run it via VirtualBox – you can as well stuck it into a USB stick. This distribution is meant mostly for Eee PC netbooks, but as already said, it also runs on other 32-bit (x86) platforms. The current stable version of Android-x86 has the Linux Kernel 2.6.29 . it is based on Android 1.6 “Donut” and supports EXT3, EXT2, NTFS and FAT32 filesystems.
Android-x86 Project – Run Android on Your PC via [Softpedia]
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On your mark, get set to down Firefox 3.6 final, the official release is slated for tomorrow 21st January, but don’t bet on it, its not the first time the scheduled release date has been moved. In the meantime, heres a 2 minute video by Mike Beltzner director of Firefox Development, that summarizes the new features included Firefox 3.6 and how to quickly customize it.
via [Mozilla Links]
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Gnome: Chrome’s ‘Pin Tab’ feature that shrinks tabs to favicons only introduced a new way to save precious tab bar real estate in that browser, Firefox quickly got App Tabs extension. What we have here is a little libwnck hack that shrinks to icons only your windows in Ubuntu’s bottom panel, with the aim of providing more real estate space to the Windows List – its not really a great solution for those who often work with several applications opened at a time, especially browsers, I find Window Selector (right-click on bottom panel -> Add to Panel -> Window Selector) more suitable for such a task. More»
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