Canonical have a tonne of ready-made merchandise readily purchasable from their on-line store. Whilst the cost of postage in the store doesn’t come cheap, you are allowed to treat yourself sometime…
Below are my favourite five items readily available form the store. To head to the store page for the respective item you need to click on the image.
Ubuntu Mug
Ubuntu Stickers
Ubuntu Laptop Sleeve
Ubuntu CD
Ubuntu Wearables
Source : http://shop.canonical.com
Google Chrome 13.0 stable was released yesterday and it’s available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux based distributions such as Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse etc. Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browser (and the popularity is increasing exponentially). it is developed and maintained by Google Inc. it uses RAD (Rapid Application Development) approach (Firefox also uses the same approach and releases new versions very frequently – the latest stable version – Firefox 6 for Ubuntu, covered few days before, will help you in installing/upgrading Firefox on Ubuntu 1.04/10.10/10.04) to release new versions quickly with new, exciting, cutting edge ( and experimental) features.
Anyway, this post will help you in installing new version of Google Chrome i.e ‘Chrome 13 stable’ on Ubuntu! If you are already using Chrome then you should upgrade it, if you are ready to try some experimental and innovative features.
New/Exciting features in Google Chrome 13
Google Chrome 13 has released with a lot of bug fixes and some improvement in XMLHttpRequest objects, which is typically used in creating a AJAX request from client side. One exciting feature is instant page loads – in which the pages are loaded before you click the link in Google Search, in other words it is just like a I’m feeling lucky button but to the next level. So this feature may be a big hit in Chrome 13, although some features similar to this has already been implemented such as Pre DNS lookups, Loading the page as you type in address bar etc.
How to install Google Chrome 13 on Ubuntu
1. Download the Debian Package (some_file_name.deb)
2. Open Terminal (hit CTRL+ALT+T) and type :
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
and relax until the installation is finish.
(Alternatively You can install the debian package by Right Click -> Open with Ubuntu Software Center and click on install or upgrade (if you already have older version of chrome installed on your computer))
3. That’s All.. Restart the chrome browser and Happy Browsing!
Few minutes before, PHP development team has announced (Official Website of PHP) the new version of PHP i.e PHP 5.3.8 released today! The new version i.e 5.3.8 fixes some major bugs such as related to crypt() (which returns only the salts for MD5) of its predecessor version 5.3.7 (released on Aug 18,2011).
PHP (Personal Home Page or Hypertext Preprocessor) is one of the most popular scripting language, originally developed for creating dynamic web pages. It is available as free software, released under PHP license (very similar to GPL). PHP runs on all platform. Most of the web pages uses PHP. The web page you are reading right now uses wordpress CMS, which uses PHP for server side programming.
Download PHP 5.3.8 from its official website.
Why PHP is so popular ?
References
Keylogger or Keystroke logger is some kind of software or hardware device (or may be combination of both) that is used to track the keys struck of the keyboard (The process is called ‘keylogging’) in such a way that the person whose keyboard actions are being monitored is totally unaware of that. Therefore keylogger can be used in many situation for getting all the data entered (So if the user press any key then it will be recorded) from keyboard e.g Passwords, Credit Card, critical conversation (mail, IRC chat …) and other confidential information.
Keylogger is one of the most popular spying software in the history of computer. This post is aimed to explain about a free and open source keylogger software (desktop utility) and hardware devices that you can use on Ubuntu (11.10/10.10/10.04/11.10).
So what do you think about keylogger ? is it really illegal to monitor someone’s keystrokes (of course without permission, otherwise there will be no problem at all – In that case either the user won’t use the system or they don’t care!) ? it depends! (it can be called legal if you are not using the captured data to harm others; certainly you have full right to install such Apps or monitor keyboard activities on your computer) but in some situation it may be really useful; you can easily guess when, Right? Just Think about it.
Software Keylogger for Ubuntu
Open terminal and type the command (Enter your password if required)
sudo apt-get install logkeys
Using Logkeys to start keylogging process
Open terminal and type (it will create a log file in your current directory (most probably in your /home/your_user_name/spy.log), where your target file will be stored)
touch spy.log
sudo logkeys —start —output spy.log
Now your keylogger is running in background you can close the terminal. The output will be stored in the spy.log (it’s just for example purpose, don’t use filenames like this ).
kill logkeys process to stop keylogging
sudo logkeys —kill
Reading keystrokes recoreded by keylogger
strings spy.log
The Ubuntu One Music Streaming app for iPhone is now available for download.
The Ubuntu One Music app allows users with music stored in their Ubuntu One account to listen to those tracks on their iPhones, iPods and iPad.
The application itself blends a sleek interface with all of the features you’d expect; you can browse/search tracks by artist, album, or song title; you can make playlists; and the usual combo of skip/shuffle/repeat functions give you great playback control.
The app is also able to cache tracks for offline listening and supports Apple’s AirPlay technology.
Source : www.omgubuntu.co.uk
A new unstable snapshot of Image Editing programme ‘The Gimp’ has been released.
Version 2.7.3 of the popular app finally sees a working – although not entirely finished – implementation of the much-lauded ‘Single Window Mode‘. Testers should note that Single Window mode is not default and needs to be enabled through the Windows > Single Window Mode menu
Other notable features and improvements present in this release include: -
Download
GIMP 2.7.3 can be downloaded as source at the official GIMP website.
Install GIMP 2.7.3 in Ubuntu
Ubuntu 9.10 through 11.04 users can install this latest release from Matt Walker’s GIMP PPA. This PPA is not provided by GIMP and should be considered unstable.
To install add ’ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn’ to your Software Sources. Following this either update and upgrade your existing GIMP installation, or update and install GIMP via the Ubuntu Software Centre.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn
Source : www.omgubuntu.co.uk
Distrowatch.com is such project/website which give observation on some linux distro trend and release, Distrowatch put ubuntu as the most popular distro on last 12 Month.
Mozilla Firefox version 7.0 a2 is available for testing and fun! (through Aurora Channel), for all common operating system such as Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac OS X; final version (Gecko 7.0) will be released on Oct 2011. If you are looking for an stable version of Firefox i.e 5.0 for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) or (Maverick Meerkat) or 10.04 LTS , then its OK for production environment but if you want to do some experiment and can’t stop yourself from trying something new, exciting and cutting edge features, then give it a try.
Probably your already know that – Firefox has been releasing its new version very rapidly which has both positive as well as some negative effect on its usage share. Anyway, the current share of Firefox is around 37% in the browser market. Firefox has huge number of plugins available free to use, which makes firefox the most popular among web developers.
New features & Improvements in Firefox 7
Firefox 7 has planned for lot of new features such as in Canvas element, CSS3 animation effects (e.g text overflow is supported, -moz-orient problem is fixed), WebGL related feature such as cross domain texture support, removal/addition of elements in HTML as well as DOM (Document Object Model), Navigation Timing etc.
Mozilla have announced the release of Firefox 6, which comes a mere two months after the debut of Firefox 5.
The browser update sees performance improvements, stability fixes and other ‘under the hood’ enhancements, with interface changes at a minimum. The only “noticeable” difference to many will be the doman highlighting in the address bar when visiting a web site.
The official release notes provide a more thorough breakdown of the technical changes.
Firefox 7
Firefox 7, which enters ‘beta’ following todays release, is targeted for release in late September.
Download
Ubuntu 11.04 users don’t need to do anything; the upgrade available via Update Manager in a few hours.
Users of Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users can upgrade using the Firefox Stable PPA.
After spending several months in limbo e-mail application Thunderbird has been confirmed as the official e-mail application Ubuntu 11.10.
Mike Conley, the driving force behind integrating Thunderbird with the Ubuntu desktop, shared the news on his blog, writing: -
“[The] first alphas were just to get a sense of how Thunderbird would work as the default client, and to gather feedback. At a moments notice, Canonical could have backed it out and switched it back to Evolution. But they’ve given their thumbs up, and they’re fully on board.”
What does this mean for you?
Come October and the release of Ubuntu 11.10 Thunderbird will be installed by default. It will boast integration with various elements of the Ubuntu desktop such as Messaging Menu presence, Unity launcher badge and Application Menu support, all out of the box.
Evolution fans don’t need to worry as their preferred application will remain easily installable through the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
Congratulations to all involved in the decision, and to Mike Conley espeically for his hard work on integrating the app into Ubuntu.
XFCE is a most popular lightweight desktop environment for Unix like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X etc. It is a free and open source software, consumes less resources then other desktops available for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) – such as Gnome 2.*, KDE etc. Xfce desktop comes along with some applications installed by default – e.g Thunar (File Manager), Midori (Web browser), Mousepad (Text Editor); that is very simple to use and provides pretty fast experience without consuming a lot of memory or other resources.
Why should you try XFCE ?
Ubuntu 11.04 uses ‘Unity’ desktop by default but if you are running ubuntu on a older hardware/computer or got tired with the slow performance of other desktops then Xfce is the right desktop for you. Since, Ubuntu has very modular structure you can install as many desktop as you want; it means you don’t need to go for Xbuntu distribution – The Xfce version of Ubuntu, if you are already using Ubuntu or any other flavor of Ubuntu. Xfce 4.8 is the latest stable version available, released in Jan 2011. You can install it either from command line or Synaptic Package Manager, and it works not only for ubuntu but also for other Linux distros such as Linux Mint, Fedora etc.
Installing XFCE Desktop on Ubuntu 11.04
step1 : Open terminal and type (You may need to authenticate yourself by login password):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xfce4
step2 : Wait until the installation is complete. Next, logout from the current session and select Xfce session in login prompt.
step3 : That’s all.. Enjoy XFCE.. if you want to use other desktop then just select it at the login prompt.
Source: blog.sudobits.com
An Ubuntu-branded neoprene laptop sleeve is the latest item to be added to the Canonical store.
“A synthetic polymer resembling rubber, resistant to oil, heat, and weathering.
It’s a shame that a 10″ version is not available. I have several netbooks that would love to be seen wearing this…
Ubuntu Neoprene Laptop Sleeve | Canonical Store
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
After many years of being a member of the bandwagon to unseat Rhythmbox in favor of Banshee as the default, I end up getting a PS3 and regretting my choice in media player due to the one small gem that is the Coherence plugin for Rhythmbox.
The Coherence plugin allows your Rhythmbox install to act as a UPnP media server on your network. Any UPnP client, such as a PS3 or Logitech Squeezebox device, can then connect to this server and access all of the music from your library.
Many of you may have decent sound systems for your PC already, but for those like myself who don’t, this plugin makes it one-click easy to share music over the network, access it using your favorite entertainment device, and play it directly on your sound system.
To give it a try, simply download the package, open Rhythmbox, and click on Edit -> Plugins to enable it. Please note that as of today, the plugin does NOT appear to work in Oneiric, but I have tested it in Natty and Lucid where it seems to function well. I will be looking into fixing this package before Oneiric launches.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
Linux users continue to pay more for the Humble Indie Bundle 3 than their Windows or OS X counterparts.
With just over one day left to nab eleven awesome DRM-free indie games for whatever price you’re willing to pay, I thought it would be nice to take a quick look at how the Bundle is doing before the last day splurge sets in.
So far the Bundle has amassed over $1.8 million – and should surely tip the $2 million mark by the end of its run this time tomorrow. For comparison the totals for the previous Bundles were as follows: -
Generous Linux folks
Once again Linux users are the most generous of the bunch so far, paying on average $12 for the compendium of titles. To put that $12 into context that’s almost $5 more than Mac users pay are willing to shell out, and over $7 more than what Windows users cough up. Previous Bundles have seen Linux and Mac users making up over 50% of all sales.
Why are Linux folks just so damn generous?
I lack a psychology degree, so I can’t expound on that question any certainty. The nature of sharing, supporting and giving that is so central to the Open-Source ethos, mixed in with a desire to thank and support developers who go out of their way to support them, are likely to be strong motives behind the support.
That and paying for software is a bit of a novelty ;)
Extra Titles
Extra titles have been added to Bundle 3 since its launch a week ago, making a total of 12 games (plus a free trial of Minecraft) are now on offer to anyone paying more than the ‘average price’ of $5.71.
Buy
With barely over one day left to buy get your skates on and humblebundle.com/
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
Ubuntu Gone
Over the last week we’ve heard from a number of our readers in India, the territory in which the ad is shown, that a new version of the advert is showing with the only perceivable difference being the removal of the Ubuntu logo from the beginning of the advert.
Anecdotally, Samsung also removed the ‘Ubuntu’ version of the advert from YouTube.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
User-friendly Conky setup Conky Colors has added a new ‘stylish lightening stats‘ mode as part of its 7.0 release.
“SLS” mode provides CPU and system process usage, weather conditions, GMail alerts, HDD usage, battery, and network statistics.
Other modes included with Conky Colors, but not new to this release, are ‘Rings’, ‘Board’, ‘Default’, ‘Slim’, and ‘Cairo’.
Also making up the 7.0 release are three new “themes” (the colours used for the various modes), script changes and general stability improvements.
Download
Download link and full instructions on setting up Conky Colors can be found at the author of Conky Color’s Deviant Art page @ helmuthdu.deviantart.com
The updated version also adds in a new feature: you can now drag’n’drop YouTube links from your browser on to the Minitube window to have them load.
DownloadMinitube 1.5 binaries for 32bit Linux (runs from the folder) can be downloaded at flavio.tordini.org/minitube
The release is also available for Ubuntu 10.04 through to 11.04 users via the MiniTube PPA maintained by Ferramosca Roberto.
Just add ‘ppa:ferramroberto/minitube’ to your Software Sources, run update manager then proceed to either upgrade any existing MiniTube installation or install anew via the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
Reader Juan Carlos Arroyo Callejas sent us his guide on getting a “clean looking Natty desktop”, which he dutifully shows off in the image below:
Only attempt to follow Juan’s guide if you are certain you want the look. To revert the changes you will need to work backwards reverting the steps (install instead of remove, true instead of false, etc.)
REMOVE FILES AND PLACES FROM UNITY LAUNCHER
ADD THIS LINE BELOW “Shortcut=” IN BOTH TABS:
REMOVE WORKSPACES (EXPO) FROM UNITY LAUNCHER
Run gnome-panel via terminal, and in workspaces make them all vertical
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
instead of
[1][2]
[3][4]
Close the terminal, log out log in voilà. As a bug, the WORKSPACE icon disappears.
REMOVE MESSAGING MENU FROM TOP PANEL
REMOVE ME MENU FROM TOP PANEL
Source :omgubuntu.co.uk
