Category Archives: Applications

Nokia E-63 on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: November 14, 2009
Recently I bought a Nokia E-63 Symbian Series 60 3rd edition smartphone. It looks similar to the Blackberry smartphones. It has got QWERTY keypad, WiFi, 2MP Camera, 3G and Bluetooth. I have been using Nokia 6300 for a long time; and a month ago it fell down and the panel got broken. After the fall [...]
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Twitter on Pidgin

By Sreejith K | Published: September 18, 2009
There you go… Now there is a Pidgin plugin available for Twitter updates. For Ubuntu Linux users its very easy to install it. They only need to add Ubuntu PPA repository and install the plugin using apt. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Import PPA keys using the following command sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com [...]
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Google Chrome on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: June 7, 2009
Disappointed in not having Google Chrome for your favourite Linux distro ? Now you shouldn’t be. Fetch the Google Chrome packages from here. They are on the development stage and wouldn’t be a stable one. But you can give it a try. Features like Flash will not work in this release. Installing Google Chrome will [...]
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Making Photo Slideshow DVD’s under Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: January 1, 2009
As there are no simpler graphical tools available under Linux for this purpose, I’m explaining the method to create a slideshow video DVD of images/photos using a commandline tool called dvd-slideshow. Don’t be scared. It’s not that hard It can be installed via Synaptic under Ubuntu OR you can fetch the latest from here. Preparing [...]
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