Use Identi.ca Notices as your Pidgin status message

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

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 your  (or infact any ) Identica feed as your pidgin status message
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A Great way to handle mounted Devices in Gnome

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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 and intuitive means of handling devices mounted on my machine. This Tiny applet of not more than 50kb in size is the Gnome media applet. some of its features include

  • Easily mount / unmount devices
  • support actions on devices
  • support notifications
  • support network devices
  • Nice user interface

It provide an easy way for mounting and unmounting USB storage device, cd media and even Network device, with just a  few clicks.

Here are some screenshots showing some of its Features


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How to install Scilab-5.1 on Ubuntu LInux

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

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 along with the source code via the Internet. It is currently used in educational and industrial environments around the world.
Source: http://www.scilab.org/platform/
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