Category Archives: Gnome

How to Fix Pidgin and Yahoo Issues

Posted on June 21, 2009 by bigbrovar

Lots of people (including me) have been experiencing issues trying to connect to their yahoo messenger account via pidgin. The reason for this issues seem to be that Yahoo are updating their servers and are using a new authentication system? …...

Posted in Gnome, Guides | 31 Comments

An easy way to Spilt or Merge PDF Files in Linux

Posted on April 17, 2009 by bigbrovar

I work as  the IT guy of a school that runs free software on all our computers. So far majority of our computing needs has been  met by free software. ( all of them if we exclude matlab and some … Continue reading →...

Posted in Education, Gnome, Guides, Ubuntu | 21 Comments

Give Ubuntu Jaunty An Apple Flavour

Posted on April 12, 2009 by bigbrovar

So this month i decide to give my laptop an apple flavor, God knows how much i hate Macs and some element of their interface, like  the lack of right click-right out of the box (i initially stated that right … Continue reading →...

Posted in Gnome, Ubuntu | 33 Comments

Use Identi.ca Notices as your Pidgin status message

Posted on February 28, 2009 by bigbrovar

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...

Posted in Gnome, Ubuntu | 5 Comments