Posts tagged linux

Firefox 4 Beta out now with modified user interface

It’s heeeere! The much awaited Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta (or rather Beta 2 to be exact). With its ‘all new’ layout. That’s quite similar to Chrome but still needs work. Feature-wise little has changed since the Firefox 3.7alpha5 release. And there are still plenty of gap areas. That in the Beta can’t be addressed through add-ons because of changes in the Firefox 3.7alpha5 add-on structure. Even Nightly Tester Tools, every tester’s jailbreak app, doesn’t work.

Right now there’s just the one add-on that does work: Mozilla Sync (aka Weave, Dec 9, 2009).

Several previewers have been complaining that Firefox 4 Beta starts More >

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Tip Jar: Pidgim – multi-service Instant Messaging (IM) client

Jun 21st

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

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Friends, family and customers frequently wonder which instant messaging client I use. The answer is the free Pidgin. That allows you to connect to multiple services like Yahoo, GMail (Jabber), MSN, AOL, ICQ, IRC, MySpace and more. And is available for the MacOS, Linux and Windows platforms.

There’s even a Skype plug-in for Pidgin but because of the Skype platform model, you also need to have Skype running. Which sort of defeats the purpose of a single IM client? Just use Skype for text, voice and video chats

Yes, some features like voice chat (VoIP) and file transfers are either crippled or plain More >

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VirtualBox Portable makes for easy virtual machine setups

Jan 25th

Posted by Administrator in E-Musings

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If you can spare 15-20 GB hard drive space, you may want to consider the free Wubi installer. This sets up a Ubuntu Linux virtual machine (computer) in a single file within Windows. Of course you need a really great Internet connection because Wubi streams in the 300+ MB of installation software via the Internet.

I use a simpler setup that only requires two downloads. For the virtual machine, consider Sun’s VirtualBox; especially the unofficial Portable VirtualBox 2.1.0. Doing so helps avoid the network driver corruption issues I encountered when I first installed VirtualBox and lost my broadband connection!

Download #2 would be of a More >

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