A few days ago the media exploded with astonishing news that OpenOffice.org developers created fully independent The Document Foundation and developed new fork of OpenOffice.org suite — LibreOffice. Moreover Mark Shuttleworth said that “Office productivity software is a critical component of the free software desktop, and the Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases of Ubuntu”. So it’s time to see how LibreOffice looks like and get it installed on your Ubuntu!
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Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, HOWTOs | 13 commentsBanshee 1.8 Released!
Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, News | 0 comments
The latest stable version of the most inspirational music player for Ubuntu has been finally released. Banshee 1.8 comes with dramatical list of improvements, changes and bugfixes including official support of Amazon MP3 store, Miro Podcasts, reworked Apple devices support and much more. See below for more details.
Firefox 4 vs. Firefox 3 — Visible Differences
Posted on September 1st, 2010 by kate.p in Applications | 32 comments
There is rather lively buzz around Mozilla Firefox 4 future release that should happen soon and of course meet all the expectations of the community and millions of Firefox users. But what do they all expect to see in the latest version and why its long-awaited final release should be a great deal? Let’s take a look at visible differences between future Firefox 4 and usual Firefox 3 to understand if Mozilla is going to beat upcoming Internet Explorer 9 finally by ease of use and functionality or still stay at the second stage of web browsers Olympus.
Firefox Panorama — New Firefox 4 Beta Feature
Posted on August 25th, 2010 by kate.p in News | 2 commentsIf you look through features list of the latest Firefox 4 Beta you will definitely notice that Mozilla reworked tabs in Firefox dramatically. First of all it concerns new tabs location (now they are shown above address bar just like in Google Chrome). But the latest announced and long-awaited feature is Firefox Panorama (formerly known as Tabs Candy) — this is a new approach for tab management in Firefox for organizing tabs when browsing websites.
In a few words it makes it possible to open multiple organized groups of tabs to prevent tabs chaos when you open more and more websites. Anyways it’s better to see it in action:
As before you can try the latest Firefox 4 Beta in your Ubuntu by downloading and unpacking firefox-4.0b4.tar.bz2 into, say, /usr/lib/firefox-4-testing directory (follow the post named “Try Firefox 4 in Ubuntu” to see more details on this approach).
Shutter: Powerful Screenshot tool for Ubuntu
Posted on August 5th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, Quick Tips | 3 comments
While writing articles for Ubuntuka I usually make some screenshots of my Ubuntu Lucid Lynx desktop. This is absolutely ok to capture just whole desktop or certain window (PrntScrn or Alt + PrntScrn keys) but it gets really annoying to edit every screenshot in gimp to cut something out or add a label/note etc. Thankfully there is extremely powerful and useful software to make life easier — Shutter screenshot tool for Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Command Line tricks (set #3)
Posted on July 21st, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 0 comments
This post continues Ubuntu Command Line Tricks posts series which I try to publish here on regular basis telling you about useful terminal commands. As it comes from the name “terminal command” or “console command” should be executed in Terminal: open Gnome Terminal in your Ubuntu menu to go on.
Install Firefox 4 Beta 2 via PPA
Posted on July 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 3 commentsCurrently Firefox 4.0b2 is the latest beta version of long awaited browser that is going beat Opera, Google Chrome as well as previous versions of Firefox in safety, speed and performance. There is a bunch of improvements which are already available for testing in Firefox 4 Beta 2 on Ubuntu: tabs on the top, crash protection, full webgl support, html5 video native support and many-many more. Now it is possible to install Firefox 4.0 Beta 2 in Ubuntu using PPA repository.
Handle DSLR Camera RAW Files in Ubuntu
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 5 comments
RAW image file is minimally processed data from DSLR camera. Depending on photo camera’s manufacturer RAW files can be named with the following file extensions: arw, srf, sr2 (Sony), crw, cr2 (Canon), nef, nrw (Nikon), orf (Olympus), ptx, pef (Pentax), raw, rw2 (Panasonic/Lumix). Most of photographers use Windows or MAC OS image editors to convert RAW images into compressed images like JPEG, PNG or TIFF. At the same time there are several free but competitive software applications for the same purpose in Ubuntu Linux.
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu
Posted on July 15th, 2010 by kate.p in HOWTOs | 2 comments
Java is a programming language that was developed by Sun Microsystems (it was acquired by Oracle Corporation). The major characteristics of Java is the portability meaning that the applications written in Java are cross-platform by default so can be run seamlessly on Windows, MAC OS X and Linux including Ubuntu. It is required to have Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed on your Ubuntu system to run Java programs or visit web sites with Java applets. See below how to get JRE installed and also how to test Java/JRE in Ubuntu.
