Google Desktop gadgets are interactive mini-applications that can be placed anywhere on the user’s desktop to show new email, weather, photos, personalized news or other desired information. Google offers a gallery of pre-built gadgets for download on the official website. To install Google Gadgets on Ubuntu 8.10: 1. Download the .deb package. 2. Install the …
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Mac uTorrent beta is finally here!
For Mac users, the Mac version of uTorrent (beta) is officially here. Enjoy!
GrNotify: Your Google Reader Feeds Notification
I’m addicted to my rss feeds. I go over the feeds for tech news, current affairs, friends blogs, and many more. However, I don’t want to go to www.google.com/reader each time want to find out what’s new. This is where desktop applications that provides Google Reader notifications comes in. For Windows: We have Google Reader …
Cleaning up your Ubuntu Filesystem using FSlint
FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted/junk/lint files on your Ubuntu filesystem. For example, one form of unwanted files it finds is duplicate files, bad names, temporary files, files with bad symlinks, empty directory, and others. To install: sudo apt-get install fslint Using Fslint: If you want to open goto …
Drop it, Dropbox!
It’s been awhile since I’m searching for a perfect online backup application. I’ve tried many, but none have really captured my attention. Not until I’ve tried Dropbox. Dropbox is a free, multi-platform, online backup and synchronization application. My first attraction to Dropbox is because the client tools supports Linux. It also suports Mac OSX, and …
