March 30, 2009 · General · 46 comments

Ubuntu 9.0 is the upcoming version of the Ubuntu operating system. The common name given to this release from the time of its early development was “Jaunty Jackalope”.
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March 29, 2009 · General · 6 comments

TuxCards provides a hierarical notebook similar to CueCards under Windows. Every kind of note and idea may be managed and sorted within a tree structure.TuxCards is the notebook for TuxFreaks and for everyone who likes to use it or finds it useful during his or her work and play.
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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 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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