How To Install emesene 2.11.5 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal?

emesene is a chat client (GUI) that lets you "merge" or use several chat protocols such as Jabber, Facebook, Google Talk, etc under its main GUI. And it's a known fact that emesene (is the Spanish pronunciation of MSN) is a clone of the Microsoft's MSN messenger that's coded using Python and the GUI used to be written using the GTK+ toolkit.But recently they decided to get rid of GTK+ and use the tool from the "other end", the gorgeous Qt :) (which...

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Chinese Prisoners Who Make £470-570 A Day Online, A Sad Story

Selling virtual "goods" online to other gaming enthusiasts is a very popular way to make some money online these days. You don't have to create any website or anything, if you know how to play a popular video game and how to win and collect points then you can sell these points to others who are so eager to "win" and willing to do anything for that (ahh, the dark side of ambition, eh, it's not funny anymore).You don't have to be an expert, if your...

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Install Mailnag in Fedora Core 15 - An Email Notifier for Gnome Shell!

Computer desktops are drifting more and more towards touchscreen based devices than the conventional LCD/Monitor panels. Both the Unity desktop and Gnome3 are one of the best examples for within the GNU/Linux community. They both put a very little "weight" on the "conventional" menus, etc because navigating a menu after menu in a Tablet PC for instance, by using your fingers ain't gonna be that exciting. So the basic idea behind a modern desktop...

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Asus EeePC X101 Netbook , Powered by the "MeeGo" Linux Operating System!

When Asus launched the EeePC "project" it was a hit because EeePC gave users the ability to purchase low-end netbooks with lots of features for a very reasonable price (not all of them are cheap, anyhow). They consume less power, has a longer battery life, light in weight... perfect companion for our busy daily schedule. Although I can't really remember the name but the first few EeePC came with an Chinese Linux distribution which was actually a...

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Ubuntu Tablet ,The TENQ P07

Although still finding a decent Ubuntu Tablet PC is really hard despite the fact that Ubuntu is now, somewhat largely popular and all that. But I think unlike in the past with the introduction of the Unity desktop, which is optimized for touchscreen based mobile devices, within the recent future we'll few of (hopefully) Tablet PCs that are capable of running GNU/Linux from major vendors such as HP/Dell, etc. Anyhow, few months ago (around December...

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Transformer TF101 - Asus Eee Pad That Runs Android Honeycomb 3.0!

For no particular reason (other than their excellent portability) for sometime now I've been searching for a Tablet PC that comes with a reasonable price + the possibility of running running GNU/Linux easily. Asus has been producing their "Eee" family personal computers for sometime now but their "Eee Pad" which resembles "Eee version" of Tablet PCs are something new to the consumers.And to be honest, I haven't purchased it and has no idea whether...

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Linux Kernel 3.0 RC1 is Officially Released!

Few hours ago, someone called Linus Torvalds :P released the first ever version 3.0 of Linux Kernel!, which took some long long time. Although before anyone gets too excited, according to Mr. Linus... this does not bring any new features. But that's not to say that the Kernel 3.0 doesn't bring anything new.As usual, concerning hardware drivers ... to the 3.0 RC, they've added few GPU driver updates, bug fixes of VM, VFS cleanups, few ARM consolidations,...

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easyLife - Installing Proprietary Software in Fedora Core 15 Made Easy!

Unlike with our friend Ubuntu... Fedora Core follows few strict rules of her own. Although we can choose whether to install or not to install MP3 codec by default while installing Ubuntu (within the installer or after), yet with FC, we will never see them shipping anything that "smells": Proprietary.So after installing Fedora Core 15, if you were wondering about how to install all those proprietary multimedia codecs which enable you to play almost...

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How To Install Gwibber in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal?

Gwibber is another micro blogging client for your GNU/Linux desktop. It integrates few online social services to its cool looking GUI (written using the GTK toolkit) and lets you control your micro blogging activities with ease. They recently updated to the latest version 2.3 which brings numerous changes/enhances to the application when comparing with the previous releases.Although it doesn't support a huge list of micro blogging/social networks...

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How To Extract ".deb" Packages in Fedora Core?

Have you ever wondered about the difference between automated installer (.exe file in Windows) and an archive?. The simple answer is, they're both actually archives!. Although there few more differences. For instance, in MS Windows whenever we install a software using a wizard (setup/installer) what it basically does is, it just extract the content into the predefined folder/path.This is also what an archive does. But an installer goes further by...

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Foxit Reader 5 Is Released - GNU/Linux is Now Officially Supported!

Although there's nothing wrong with the default PDF reader from Adobe since it comes with a lot of features by default. Yet, if you have an old PC/Laptop, then reading a PDF file with decent amount of images, etc will require a lot of system resources from your PC (at lest in my personal experience anyway). This is where the tremendous success of Foxit reader comes from. The reason I said "tremendous" is because, not that long ago, if you search...

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How To Install Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal?

Anyone who uses Gnome desktop these days surely have heard about Rhythmbox even if your distribution does not come with it. For instance, in the past it was actually Rhythmbox which used to be the default audio handling application in Ubuntu. But then Banshee came around and impressed Canonical which ultimately replaced Rhythmbox.Although in the recent past Banshee and Canonical had a little, something going on (in a bad way :) ), I even thought...

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gekosMac (GTK Theme) - Make Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Looks Like Mac OSX!

It's no secret that GNU/Linux community, Gnome developers (especially) are admirers of Apple's Mac OS usability. Although to be honest I haven't used it, but from the screenshots and few videos I've seen, Gnome desktop 2+ version (including the Shell as well) resembles Mac OSX look-n-feel heavily.And when considering Unity's application dock, windows title buttons to the left-side, wallpaper etc and even Mark Shuttleworth said when asked whether...

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MediaInfo - An Advanced Audio/Video Tag "Reader" for GNU/Linux and MS Windows

If you have installed the proper codecs in MS Windows and GNU/Linux, the operating system can read Tag information which holds information such as Artist/Title/Album-name... + other various information such as bit rate, resolution, etc but it doesn't necessarily mean that they'll always display those information for you by default because...For instance, in MS Windows when you bring your mouse pointer towards a MP3 file, then even without you having...

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How To Install Thunar File Manager In Ubuntu?

A file manager or the default file management utility is one of the most important aspects of a modern desktop environment. From things like running your entire desktop screen to managing files/folders... by having a well equipped and a stable file manager is certainly a necessity. Although I'm drifted towards GTK written applications but I certainly am not a huge fan of the default fm in Gnome called Nautilus.For me it's too simple and I find it...

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Install gxmms2 in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - A GTK Written Music Player

In the past when Winamp used to dominate the audio players with its gorgeous GUI and features... few GNU/Linux enthusiasts created an audio player that has a very close look-n-feel to Winamp, which was called Xmms. It was a "hit" back in the day with GNU/Linux PC/Laptop users because it lets us manage/listen to your audio files with ease.But then as the time went on, Xmms project got frozen and I think the reason could be due to the fact of a GUI...

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They Weren't Kidding... Gnome OS is Underway!

Unlike with MS Windows or Mac OSX, even from the beginning GNU/Linux is (or "was" :) ) a somewhat "scattered" operating system. I mean, while a community of programmers design the Kernel others are busy building a desktop environment and lot of others are developing individual applications of their own which is something totally different from MS Windows, etc since all the parts of their operating system is being built by the same "people".So basically,...

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How to Install Decibel Audio Player in Ubuntu?

Decibel is another audio player for Gnome desktop what is written in GTK+ toolkit. It has a pretty simple interface, loads fast (one of its main key "features") and comes with decent amount of features too. Even after loading it with a huge list of files/albums... still it uses impressively lower PC resources, so it's a pretty powerful multimedia application for your GNU/Linux Laptop/PC nonetheless. But as I've said before, the "catch" with Decibel...

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How To Setup K-Lite Media Player to Automatically Download Subtitles?

If you want to install almost all of known multimedia codecs in MS Windows via a single application, then I don't think there are that many who can beat K-lite codec pack!. Unlike many other codecs... K-Lite developers make sure to frequently update their codecs and release new versions frequently.Not just for playback (decoding) actually, say that you also wanted to have their (both audio and video) encoders such as MP3, Vorbis, Xvid, Divx, etc...

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Wanna Know How To Create an Off-line Multimedia Codec Pack Of Your Own in Ubuntu!

I've said this before but will say it again for the sake of completion of this article :P. I do have my problems with Ubuntu/Canonical concerning many things, but from a newbie point of view, Ubuntu does make it really easy to setup proprietary software installations in comparison with many other distributions such as Fedora Core for instance. Although, I personally don't like Ubuntu much these days... it threatens a part of my "identity", yet if...

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Install Sunflower in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal (Simple File Manager for GNU/Linux)

One of the great things about GNU/Linux is that, despite all these difference... is its ability to give a huge "list" of options/solutions for the users. For instance, if you don't like an application then you can easily find another one that does it better, which is also true for all the other major operating systems as well.But with MS Windows or Mac OSX, if you're not happy with the way of the desktop and its behavior... then there's nothing you...

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