VirtualBox 4.0 released and ubuntu 10.10/10.04/9.10 installation instructions included

December 23, 2010 · General · 19 comments

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0, a new major release. It now has an open architecture using extension packs and the base package is under GPLv2.

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Wibom – Manage wine program bottles

December 22, 2010 · General · 1 comment

Application called Wine bottle management (or wibom) is used to (as its name suggests) manage so-called Wine bottles.

Wine is the program for running applications for Microsoft Windows on other operating systems, primary on GNU/Linux. This program creates in the user's home directory a folder called .wine containing user preferences, the simplified version of Windows registers and files structure of simulated disk C:. Many Wine users don't know there can be more those folders coexisting. They are called bottles. Because of bottles it is possible to have a few isolated instances of “Pseudowindows” on one system.
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indicator-cpufreq – CPU frequency indicator (PPA installation instructions included)

December 21, 2010 · General · 18 comments

Indicator applet for displaying and changing CPU frequency on-the-fly.
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SBmanager – Manage iPhone/iPod Touch SpringBoard icons from Ubuntu desktop

December 20, 2010 · General · 5 comments

SBmanager is an utility to manage iPhone/iPod Touch SpringBoard icons from your Linux computer.Use SBmanager to arrange icons on the iPhone and iPod Touch device using drag and drop.
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Window Switch – Move applications between networked computers

December 19, 2010 · General · 14 comments

Window Switch is a tool which allows you to move applications between networked computers, the windows appear where you need them, as they were.
You no longer need to save and send documents to move them around, simply move the view of the application to the machine where you need it.
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