Sunday, September 12, 2010

Install Gnome Photo Frame 1.0.1 in Ubuntu


Gnome Photo Frame is an application that allows you to display your photos as a slideshow on your desktop.

The photos can be selected from our local folder or through plugins from image hosting sites such as Flickr or Tumblr.

Besides being able to see photos in full screen, we are able to observe them in a framework which we can supply from its Preferences menu as pixels.

Install Shotwell 0.7.2 in Ubuntu


Shotwell, manager and editor of graphics that come by default in Ubuntu 10.10 has been updated to version 0.7.2

To have this new version need to have their PPA added to our list of sources. So open a Terminal and run to install following lines:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell
If you already have PPA Shotwell added and

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Install Wine 1.3.2 in Ubuntu


For several days, which is available version 1.3.2 of Wine, an application that allows execution of Windows programs on GNU/Linux

Public input now because just yesterday were added to PPA packages.

To install or upgrade to this version of Lucid, first add PPA repository and validated by opening a Terminal and typing:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get

Gnome Integration, Add-ons for Thunderbird


Gnome Integration is a Firefox add-ons for better integration of Thunderbird mail client.

Get it using libnotify integration and supports:Custom text (title and message)
Level of urgency (based on priority of messages)
Sound (No more "device or resource busy)
Icon or state.
If you want to install you can do from here

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Install Virtualbox Guest-Additions in Ubuntu 10.10 Beta, a solution

For some time I'm trying Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat in Virtualbox and following development of next version which Canonical will release within days.

One of things that bothered me is that Guest-Additions, package that among other things allows you to work at a higher resolution in VirtualBox did not work and had to settle for a resolution of 640 × 480, which is very annoying if you want to

Linux Mint Debian Edition


If you two days ago here on blog announcing release of Linux Mint 9 Fluxbox, yesterday, in Linux Mint Blog brought us a surprise.

This is release of Linux Mint Debian Edition, a new division, now based on Debian.

According to announcement of Linux Mint team, promises to be faster and more sensitive and be less dependent on primary components.

Perhaps a little harder to use than other issues,

F-Spot 0.7.3 released


It was announced launch of F-spot 0.7.3, this is a release candidate, who after a couple of bug fixes this weekend will become F-Spot 0.8.0.

F-Spot is a photo management application for GNOME desktop personal that simplifies digital photography with intuitive tools to help you share, edit, find and organize your images.

This version is based on more bug fixes and some small improvements, but