December 31, 2010 · General · 7 comments

Emma is a graphical toolkit for MySQL database developers and administrators. It provides dialogs to create or modify MySQL databases, tables, and associated indexes. The results of an executed query are displayed in a resultset where the record data can be edited by the user, if the SQL statemant allows for it. The SQL editor and resultset view are grouped in tabs. Results can be exported to CSV files. Multiple simultaneous opened MySQL connections are possible. Emma is the successor of yamysqlfront.
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December 31, 2010 · General · 3 comments

Google Japan recently announced on its blog that the Japanese Input Method, which has been in development since last December, is officially out of beta. There is actually an open-source version of this input method called Mozc.
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December 30, 2010 · News · 3 comments

What with Apple's iOS leading the tablet pack and a herd of Android-based fondleslabs poised to enter the market, it's enticing to read of an Ubuntu-based tablet that's rumored to hit the market in early 2011.
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December 29, 2010 · General · 6 comments

Orta is great looking theme with light weight for your desktop.
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December 28, 2010 · General · 3 comments

Appnr is a web-based package browser that install applications on Ubuntu. This is a web interface for APT system, and the package is downloaded and installed from Ubuntu/Third-party repositories.

The AptURL protocol handler and a web browser support are required to install packages from Appnr. AptURL is a program that handles special URLs to installing package on APT-based Linux systems. Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 or higher has AptURL installed by default.
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