I have tried Flock long time back when it was released. But wasn’t impressed by it. But now thought of trying it out. For all those who haven’t known what is Flock - it is called the social web browser.
To quote the website “Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.”
As of now you can’t install Flock through synaptic. you have to download the archive and just run it.
Download flock from the website.
Extract the archive by typing
sudo tar -C /opt -xzvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz
Create a symbolic link to the executable
sudo ln -s /opt/flock flock /usr/bin/flock
Now you can run flock by typing flock or you can instead create a menu item.
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/flock.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec=flock
Icon=/opt/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Applications;Network
Then refrech the menu
killall gnome-panel
After that when you start flock it will automatically set up all your blog, photo, bookmark account and will be ready to use.
Blogged with Flock
For many days I wanted to try Enlightenment after reading and seeing many screenshots about it. Yesterday in the LUG meeting I saw it live and was impressed by E. Enlightenment is an open source window manager for X Window system which can be used alone or in conjunction with GNOME or KDE. It has extensive theming support and advanced graphics without sacrificing system performance. This window manager is fully configurable making it the best one out there
The latest stable version is 0.16.8.5 but the development release 0.17 also called DR17 is pretty usable and nice. I have installed DR17 on my Edgy. Here are the steps.
First you have to add a few repositories to your sources.list.
In terminal type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following repositories to the file
## E17 repository "edevelop.org"
deb http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17
deb-src http://edevelop.org/pkg-e/ubuntu edgy e17
You can replace edgy with dapper if you are using Ubuntu 6.06.
Then type the following lines to download the gpg keys and to add it
wget http://lut1n.ifrance.com/repo_key.asc
sudo apt-key add repo_key.asc
After the repositories are added, do a sudo apt-get update to update the packages list.
Then finally install e17 by issuing this command. sudo apt-get install e17
You have successfully installed e17 and can now logout of GNOME and again login by changing the session as Enlightenment.
Drupal the most popular open source content management system has moved on to version 5 after almost 8 months of development. The most important feature included in this version is the easy to use web based installer. The UI is also greatly improved and is easy to use. This version also allows themers to develop better themes for Drupal.
Drupal also celebrates its 6th birthday with its release of version 5.
Performancing is a popular blog network which released Performancing for Firefox - an extension for Firefox for bloggers. It also has various other services for bloggers like Metrics for tracking the visitors of your blog. It also an advertising network called Performancing Partners. Even I use these services and you too can advertise on this blog by clicking on the ad in the sidebar.
There is another good news for the FOSS community as Performancing will be releasing the code for Metrics as Open Source. It is great to see that we get such quality software and hope many developers continue to enhance it.
Today I was analyzing my RSS Feeds and saw that there are about 59 subscribers(thanks to Ubuntu Blog) and saw that there was a Reader called Liferea. I have heard of this before, but didnt give a try. So I thought - why don’t I install it and see how it works out. So I just went to Synaptic and did a quick search for Liferea and installed it.
It is cool and works great. It is actually developed for Linux users who want a good Feed Reader. You have easily customizable panes with 2 or 3 pane mode. Also you can set how many items to save under each feed. Overall: a nice and fast reader to try if you are under linux.
FrostWire is a fork of the very popular LimeWire Gnutella client. Gnutella is a popular file sharing network. It is a huge network hosting approximately 2.2 million users. It has numerous files ranging from mp3s, movies, ebooks, applications, etc.
FrostWire is a free and open source software without all the nasty nags. It also has a built-in bittorrent client. Here the steps to install FrostWire on your Ubuntu Edgy.First you have to install J2SE Runtime Environment (JRE).
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin
Then download the frostwire deb file and install it using dpkg.
wget -c http://www.users.on.net/~stubby/FrostWire-4.10.9-2.i586.deb
sudo dpkg -i FrostWire-4.10.9-2.i586.deb
That was so simple. You can run FrostWire by running Applications -> Internet -> FrostWire
OpenOffice.org has released the 2.1 version of the popular open source multiplatform office suite. The new version has support 64-bit linux and a number of improvements - like multiple monitor support for Impress, improved Calc HTML export and automatic notification of updates.
There are also numerous templates and clip-art available that were submitted for the template contest.
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MusikCube is an open source MP3 player for the “modern generation”. It helps you just listen to what you want to hear, while offering innovative features not seen elsewhere.
MusikCube is based on an embedded SQL database engine called SQLite. It is a very fast database engine which makes creating Dynamic Playlist easy.
It has an interesting feature where it automatically randomizes the playlist based on your listening habits. The more you listen, the more it becomes smarter.
It also makes transferring audio files to your removable devices. It can automatically detect your MP3 player and can transfer the files to it. Though the interface isn’t like iTunes or Winamp, it looks like a decent player.
But there is only a windows version of it and it can be downloaded from the sourceforge site.
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