Posts Tagged 'ubuntu'

OpenShot on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on January 1 2010 by Andre Noel

OpenShot is a nice video editor, but it isn’t on Ubuntu repositories yet. So, they have requested on Launchpad to be included on universe repositories on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). If you want to help, do to the request page and mark the bug as “Yes, it affects me”.

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Google history in 2 minutes

Posted on October 30 2009 by Andre Noel

I saw on Google Discovery, a video made by Google UK about the Google history. Very good! Watch it:

How to create signatures with images on Gmail

Posted on October 29 2009 by Andre Noel

A friend of mine asked me about why gmail don’t have signatures with images. I said: “What? Sure it has!” I never thought it was something strange, but he said that had never found a good way to do this. So, look this.
First, you have to enable two options on Labs (don’t know what’s Labs? [...]

Very cool koala (9.10) T-shirt

Posted on October 29 2009 by Andre Noel

Today Ubuntu Karmic Koala will be released, and I didn’t buy a koala T-shirt yet (I’m accepting gifts). Look this:

Wow! I’m amazed! How they can do something so cool with just three circles (or elipses)?? If you want to buy one to send me, the link is: https://shop.canonical.com

Nerd Venn Diagram

Posted on September 11 2009 by Andre Noel

Just saw in Geeks are Sexy a Nerd Venn Diagram to determine which type of “nerd” you are:

Ubiquity for Firefox

Posted on July 31 2009 by Andre Noel

I installed Ubiquity on my Firefox and I’m a little crazy, because it’s very good…
See the video:

Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Google knows what recursion is

Posted on July 28 2009 by Andre Noel

Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance

Posted on July 27 2009 by Andre Noel

A few days ago I marked an article to read later and I finally read it. It’s about how to Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance.
According the post, “since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases”. So, optimize this databases is very healthy to Firefox.
And it’s very easy to [...]

Starting Linux through Windows XP boot list (boot.ini)

Posted on July 22 2009 by Andre Noel

Last week I had to recover the grub in a notebook after a Windows reinstall. The easiest way would be running an Ubuntu live cd and run the grub program. But I hadn’t a cd and tried with a bootable usb stick and… nothing. That notebook doesn’t boot by usb. I tried also with a [...]

How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux

Posted on July 19 2009 by Andre Noel

I was thinking about how to open a PDF file inside Firefox on Ubuntu, like the Acrobat plugin do on Windows, but using Evince.
So I “googled” about Evince and Firefox and found it quickly in the Lâmpada Azul site. Altought it has many steps, I used only the first and it worked very well. You [...]

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