Gnome Schedule in Ubuntu Hardy

Ubuntu Hardy: For those who are not familiar with setting up a crontab through CLI and looking for a GUI (graphic user interface) alternative, you may want to install Gnome Schedule. Gnome Schedule provides GUI for users to easily manage their scheduled tasks without going through any command.

To install gnome-schedule

Steps:

1) open a Terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

2) Done

To Run Gnome Schedule

Steps:

1) Goto "System>Preferences>Scheduled tasks"



2) Click on "New" to create the type of schedule task you wants to create.



3) Create Task. Example: Play say.mp3 at 8 am Morning.



Source: gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | posted in gnome schedule, Ubuntu | 0 comments [ More ]

Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard

Register blogspot.com with your google account in order to use the new feature which can integrate "Blogger in Draft" to your dashboard.

"Blogger in Draft" is something similar to google sandbox, users get to test the new features before the official launch and keep up all the news by enable "added this blog as a tab on the Blogger in Draft Dashboard".

To add Blogger in Draft to your Dashboard, simply check "Make Blogger in Draft my default dashboard" checkbox.



Source: http://draft.blogger.com/home

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | posted in Blogger in Draft, google | 0 comments [ More ]

Goodbye to Professor Randy Pausch

My condolences to his family, friends and audiences.

He is a brave guy, good teacher and inspirational speaker who famous with his "The Last Lecture" speech.

To know more about Randy Pausch:

wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

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iGoogle Developer Sandbox

iGoogle sandbox is a develop site for iGoogle gadgets. If you are interested in building igoogle gadgets within iGoogle environment, plus you have some general familiarity with iGoogle, the Gadgets API, and JavaScript. You may want to register yourselves to iGoogle sandbox.

And for iGoogle users who wants to try out the new iGoogle layout may register as well. So you get to see the gadgets in large canvas views and adding useful gadgets to enrich you browsing experience.

A quick look on the iGoogle layout.

To register iGoogle sandbox, goto http://code.google.com/apis/igoogle/docs/gs.html and click on the "sign up for the sandbox" link.

The following are my favorate gadgets, let it become your favorate too :-D

• gmail


• google talk


• google reader


• google translate


• currency converter


• realtime forex live quote


• forex forecasts and analysis


• digg


• inspirational quotes and pictures


• how to of the day

Source: http://code.google.com/apis/igoogle

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Firefox 3 Crashes With Flash

Ubuntu Hardy: Recently many users complaint about firefox 3 keep on crashing whenever they try to load flash content websites.

To solve this problem:

Solution

1) Install nspluginwrapper

sudo apt-cache search nspluginwrapper

sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper

or

wget http://www.chenhow.net/downloads/nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb && \

dpkg -i nspluginwrapper_0.9.91.5-2ubuntu2_i386.deb

2) Install libflashsupport

sudo apt-get install libflashsupport

3) Reinstall flashplugin-nonfree

sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

4) Restart firefox

5) Problem solved

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Run Thotkeeper in Ubuntu Hardy

Thotkeeper is an open-source, cross-platform diary/journal application using XML datafile format. If you like to keep a journal where you can write down anything interesting that you see or hear in life and don't want it to be publish. And you don't need features to add images, audio, beautiful theme and etc. You should go ahead and a give it a try.

It's just a simple application to keep your journal in your system. I use it to write my diary, as you know or may not know, writing a blog is not as easy as you think, you need to provides accurate information to your readers and need to put effort to decorate or design your page. So if you don't feel like putting so much effort to write a blog, you can use thotkeeper to write your diary instead.

To run Thotkeeper in Ubuntu:

Steps:

1) Download thotkeeper from http://thotkeeper.googlecode.com or thotkeeper

2) Extract the downloaded file to your desire location

3) Open a Termial and run the following command to install python and wxpython

apt-get install python python-wxversion

4) Go to the extracted folder and execute the following command to run thotkeeper

./thotkeeper #if not working, try python ./thotkeeper

5) Done (Easy isn't it)

Source: http://code.google.com/p/thotkeeper/

Sunday, July 27, 2008 | posted in thotkeeper, Ubuntu | 1 comments [ More ]

Shift + z to Widen Your Google Calender Screen

GreaseMonkey: You can now maximize the width and height of Google Calender to have a better viewing.

By doing so, you are required to have Greasemonkey extension installed. Download and install the user script from userscripts.org

Once installed, you can now hide the header and the navigation bar by clicking key like 'shift' and 'z'.

Shortcut key to toggle the header and navigation bar:

'z' key = toggle navigation bar

'shift + z' key = toggle header bar

The following is the screenshot before and after clicking 'z' and 'shift + z' key

Before



After



Now you can have a wider Google Calender screen to manage your schedule. Viola :-D .

Source: userscripts.org

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ScreenGrab! Save Entire Webpages as Images

This morning when I was preparing to do some step-by-step guide on some article, I find myself needed to do alot of screenshotting from the webpage as this is a "step-by-step" guide. Looking into my ubuntu box, I found a screenshot tool in Applications ▸ Accessories ▸ Take Screenshot

I gave up trying after a few screenshots that doesn't really meet my requirement. I need something that can take screenshot based on my selection, but this software only can take entire screen and windows screenshot.

After consulting google master, I have found a Firefox plugin call ScreenGrab! This plugin can save what you see in the window, the entire page, just a selection or a particular frame.

Here is the sample image that i capture from the webpage

As you can see, it only capture the webpage without capture the whole browser window.

Source: ScreenGrab!

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