Posted 31 Jan 2007 — by Arun
Category Ubuntu
BasKet Note Pads is a multi purpose note taking application. Some of the features of BasKet Note Pads are:
Easily take all sort of notes
Collect research results and share them
Centralize your project data and re-use them
Quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes
Keep track of your information in a smart way
Make intelligent To Do lists
With BasKet Note Pads you can easily paste images, links, email addresses, files, application launchers, colors etc. You can order your notes in a hierarchy of baskets, by topic or project. Group notes together, collapse non-important groups etc.
You can attach tags to any note you take. For eg: ”Important”, “Idea”, “Work”, “Personal” etc. Tags change the appearance of notes, and multi-state tags let you create checkboxes for To Do lists, progress-bars, priority-meters, etc.
The application is always running in the background, minimized to a system-tray icon. Your data are saved as soon as you modify them. No need to manually save them. You can also password protect your data. You can use BasKet Note Pads as a stand alone application or you can use it as part of Kontact.
You can export the notes as HTML or you can publish them online. If you already use KNotes, KJots, KnowIt, TuxCards, Sticky Notes or Tomboy, you can easily import those notes into BasKet Note Pads.
You can download distribution specific packages or you can download the source and compile yourself.
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SIP phone launched a new service called Gizmocall. Using this service, you can call any number in the world from anywhere in the world. Calls are limited to 10 minutes per day to most landlines and some mobile numbers. You can call by entering the phone number in gizmocall.com or you can type in the URL with the phone number (for eg: http://gizmocall.com/1xxxxxxxxxx where x represent the phone number). You don’t have to install any software, but you have to install a plugin. It’s flash based, so you can use it directly from the browser. It currently supports Windows and Mac OS, but Linux support is on the way. Linux support is delayed due to delay in releasing the Flash Player 9 plugin by Adobe.
Update: You can call for 5 minutes every day for free and if you register, you can call for 10 minutes every day. I had problem getting it to work after registration. It worked fine for a call I made before I register. I used the 5 minutes limit and I wanted to register and use another 5 minutes. First, the registration didn’t work because my email address had a hyphen in it. When I gave a different email address, the registration went fine, but then the plugin stopped working. I was getting the same error message (install plugin) even though I reinstalled the plugin couple of times. I think the software seems to be like a beta version rather than a regular release.
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Posted 30 Jan 2007 — by Arun
Category Ubuntu
If you are an Ubuntu user and you love Ubuntu’s human theme, then you might love this theme also. Human theme for Thunderbird works only with Linux. It won’t work with Windows. It integrates well with Ubuntu’s Human theme.
Ubuntu Human Theme for Firefox is also based on Ubuntu’s Human Theme. This theme works with both Linux and Windows. I think you can install this theme through Synaptic Package Manager.
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Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development. All they need is is some kind of specification that describes how a specific device works or the email address of an engineer that is willing to answer questions every once in a while. What the companies get in return is a complete and working Linux driver that is added to the main Linux kernel source tree.
The driver will be written by some of the members of the Linux kernel developer community. This driver will then be automatically included in all Linux distributions, including the “enterprise” ones. It will be automatically kept up to date and working through all Linux kernel API changes. This driver will work with all of the different CPU types supported by Linux.
This is a welcome move. I hope the companies would grab this opportunity to enter the growing (slowly?) Linux market and in turn, help people to move away from money sucking Windows.
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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has released GIMP 2.3.14 developmental release. Changes in this version includes the following:
- added actions to control brush spacing
- polished appearance of image window
- scale the brush’s spacing when scaling the brush
- save tool presets when they are changed
- improved handling of vectors in the Python bindings
- allow for auto-cropping the result of the transform tools
- added GimpRatioEntry widget and use it in the rectangle tool options
- added functions to transform between preview and image coordinates
- added PDB functions to validate display, drawable, image and vectors IDs
- added HSL color model to Decompose and Compose plug-ins
- further improved status bar messages for tools
- on systems with D-Bus build gimp-remote functionality into gimp executable
- bug fixes and code cleanup
To learn more about GIMP, visit their website.
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If you own a legal copy of Windows XP, you wasted hundreds of dollars to buy Windows Vista upgrade version and if you wanted to perform a clean install of Vista, then you are out of luck. According to Microsoft, you can use the upgrade version only to upgrade over Windows XP. You cannot use it to perform a clean install (which you are allowed to in XP). You can either install it over a clean install of XP and install it over your full of crap XP or waste hundreds of dollars and buy a regular version. This is to stop the piracy (?).
Best option: Move to Linux.
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 — by Arun
Category News
Computer Business Review blog reports that Marten Mickos, MySQL’s chief executive officer, said that Oracle has suggested it will offer support for the MySQL code, undercutting the company, and Oracle is already distributing the open source database management system.
This is similar to Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux, undercutting Red Hat’s Linux distribution. Despite the competitive threat, Mickos is unmoved. “I hope they do that,” he said, noting that it would be seen as an endorsement of the open source database, and revealing that Oracle has already inadvertently endorsed the product.
Thanks to nixCraft for the news.
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 — by Arun
Category General
There are good people in every religion, every country, every company etc. Dan Fernandez proved that. You might have read my earlier post titled True face of Microsoft where I wrote how Microsoft stabbed Bluej product team on their back. Dan Fernandez, Lead Product Manager of Visual Studio Express, apologized for the mistake (in his blog) and wrote that Microsoft would remove the patent application. He also wrote that the product unit manager was going to investigate how this happened. I really appreciate him for leaving his comment with link to his post. He might have spent quite a good amount of time replying or leaving comments on other blogs as well. I really appreciate his prompt response and taking his time to leave his comments.
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Posted 29 Jan 2007 — by Arun
Category News
CNet news reports that Satellite navigation company TomTom shipped two viruses on a number of its devices. According to the company, a “small number” of TomTom GO 910 satellite navigation devices were shipped last year with malicious software preinstalled.
GO 910 units were running version 6.51 of TomTom’s software. The two pieces of malicious software are win32.Perlovga.A Trojan and TR/Drop.Small.qp, and are resident on the satellite-navigation hard drive within the copy.exe and host.exe files.
TomTom said the problem was not serious and was advised to remove the Trojans with antivirus software. The TomTom devices run on Linux, while the two viruses are Windows-based.
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