March 27, 2009 · News · 10 comments

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 9.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.
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March 26, 2009 · General · 3 comments

Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website -- apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window.Shutter used to be called GScrot.
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March 24, 2009 · General, News · 11 comments

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need -- a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
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March 23, 2009 · Networking · 10 comments

A simple Python program to simplify control of the AcerHK radio's --- Wifi and Bluetooth. It enables users to turn on / off the Bluetooth and Wifi Radios. It depends on the AcerHK driver to function.
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March 21, 2009 · General · 4 comments

One more improvement in jaunty is mozilla-gtk-vnc,mozilla-virt-viewer packages for firefox browser

mozilla-gtk-vnc

A VNC viewer widget for GTK+ (mozilla plugin)It is built using coroutines, allowing it to be completely asynchronous while remaining single threaded. It supports RFB protocols 3.3 through 3.8 and the VeNCrypt authentication extension providing SSL/TLS encryption with x509 certificate authentication.
The core library is written in C and a binding for Python using PyGTK is available. The networking layer supports connections over both IPv4 and IPv6.This package contains the experimental mozilla plugin.
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