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"

gnome schedule

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

gnome schedule

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

gnome schedule

Source: gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

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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.

Blogger in Draft

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

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | posted in , | 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.


iGoogle Sandbox



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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