Monthly Archives: February 2009

Use Identi.ca Notices as your Pidgin status message

While surfing the net feeling bored  (after waking up in the middle of the night and finding it hard to sleep. well that is quite another story) I found a cool pidgin plugin called pidgin-identica-status what it does is Use … Continue reading...

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A Great way to handle mounted Devices in Gnome

They say its the little things in life that counts, fortunately this is also true with Desktop Environments. Recently i found a little applet that has greatly improved my gnome desktop experience in a huge way. It provide an Integrated … Conti...

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How to install Scilab-5.1 on Ubuntu LInux

Introduction Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software. Since 1994 it has been distributed freely ...

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Control PulseAudio streams with gnome-pulse-applet

Back in late 2007 i started seeing  news about some revolution that was coming to  sound in Linux . I remembered reading   about it being the: next generation sound server for Linux, making all sorts of “ear-candy” possible: from dyna...

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