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Ebook: A Beginner's Guide to Gambas

6:00 PM

Gambas is a full-featured object language and development environment built on a BASIC interpreter. Gambas' architecture is inspired by Java. So Gambas is made up of: a compiler, an interpreter, an archiver, a scripter, a development environment, many extension components. Essentially, Gambas is a good starting point to build such application in Ubuntu/Linux, moreover there is a good free e-book that covers most important things about Gambas. It will teach you how to become Gambas Ninja! :p

It has 364 pages divide into 16 chapters:
Chapter 1: Introducing Gambas
Chapter 2: Gambas Language Concepts
Chapter 3: Keywords and Program Flow Control
Chapter 4: Introducing the Gambas ToolBox
Chapter 5: Controls for Gathering Input
Chapter 6: Menus, Modules, Dialogs and Message Boxes
Chapter 7: Handling Strings and Converting Datatypes
Chapter 8: Using Advanced Controls
Chapter 9: Working with Files
Chapter 10: Math Operations
Chapter 11: ObjectOriented Concepts
Chapter 12: Learning to Draw
Chapter 13: Error Management
Chapter 14: Mouse, Keyboard and Bit Operations
Chapter 15: Gambas and Databases
Chapter 16: Global Gambas

Download A Beginner's Guide to Gambas

"GAMBAS Almost Means BASic" :p

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MacBook Pro Wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) Problem Fix in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

4:00 AM

Like what previously wrote in Install Ubuntu Natty in MacBook Pro some user found several problem with wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) so make their system got freeze and need to be restart forcibly. That's Problem usually occur when we use ndiswrapper not only in MacBook Pro but also some laptop, I've experienced it in my former laptop Acer 4520.

Referencing to Raimar Sandner blog, there is a good news for us because we can use MacBook Pro 8.1 Wireless directly without Ndiswraper, so you can avoid a system freeze as before. To perform this, you need to compile the driver and patch the kernel, read following step to Fix MacBook Pro Wireless (Broadcom BCM4331) Problem issue in Ubuntu.

Install All Required Application
Before it's start, install your system with required application bellow :

sudo apt-get install build-essential automake make

Download the Patch
Download Following Source for compiling the driver (Broadcom BCM4331) and patching the kernel.

compat-wireless
the patches, here
the latest version of bw43-fwcutter (version 015)
Broadcom's proprietary driver to extract the firmware

Patching and Compiling
Make a folder named bcm4331 and put all file you have download there, then

# tar xf compat-wireless-2011-08-27.tar.bz2
# tar xf patch_bcm4331.tar.bz2
# cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27/
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-1.patch
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-2.patch
# patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-3.patch

Next, enable the driver

# scripts/driver-select b43

Next, go to config.mk, find row 276 and remove `#`, so that become

CONFIG_B43_PHY_HT=y

Compile and Install the driver

# make
# sudo make install

Unpack and Compile b43-fwcutter:

# tar xf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
# cd b43-fwcutter-015
# make

Extract the firmware

# tar xf ../broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
# export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
# sudo ./b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

Unload all related modules that use wireless

# cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27
# sudo make wlunload

Reboot your system and load compiled Wireless b43 module

# sudo modprobe b43

Next, add the b43 to the list of modules so the system will load them on startup (the module is not automatically loaded).

# cp /etc/modules /etc/modules.old
# echo "b43" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Next, Sometimes the driver does not work properly after suspend and hibernate. It is necessary to unload the module before putting the laptop to sleep and to reload it after wake up. For Ubuntu, it is sufficient to create the file (or append to the file)

# cp /etc/pm/config.d/default /etc/pm/config.d/default.old
# echo 'SUSPEND_MODULES="b43"' >> /etc/pm/config.d/default

Yes it is.. I realy hope this will fix the MBP Wireless problem issue.

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How to Download All Videos of YouTube Playlist on Ubuntu

9:04 PM

Imagine you have a playlist on YouTube that contains hundreds of videos in it and you want to download them, what will you do? Do you really want to download them one by one? I think that's not a good idea. So, in this my first post, I'd like to show you how download all videos of YouTube playlist by simply type a few commands.

Applications used:
In order to getting this trick done, we have to install two applications called umph and youtube-dl. Umph is such an application that can parse YouTube feeds, it can parse playlists, favourite lists, and user upload lists. Youtube-dl is well-known command line tool for downloading YouTube videos by giving their video links.

Installing applications:
Fortunately, I've created a PPA contains those two applications. Simply type the following command to install them:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tldm217/tahutek.net
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install umph youtube-dl

Usage instructions:

umph playlist_ID | youtube-dl -l -a -

You can get playlist_ID from playlist URL, for example, we will download all videos in PHPAcademy 200 JQuery Tutorials, see the picture below for more details.

Take a look at part marked with red box, you will get the weird phrase "PL46408891B63317A4". By removing the "PL" characters, now you have the playlist ID: 46408891B63317A4. You're ready to go:

umph 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

By default, umph will parse 25 videos. So, by executing the above command you will download the first video until 25th video. If you want to download all videos (200 videos) you must add an argumen "-m 200".

umph -m 200 46408891B63317A4 | youtube-dl -l -a -

The tricky part is in umph command line arguments, please take look at this documentation for further information.

Have a question? Please let me know by filling in the comment form :)

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How to Install Evernote/Nixnote in Ubuntu

1:18 PM

Evernote is great application that used by many people to collect, spread, make, or store information (photo, video, and notes) in Internet or just save the information to be opened next time. As well as Ubuntu One or Drop Box, Evernote also provide free storage for registered user but the difference is the storage that provide by Evernote only can accessed by Evernote client application to save information which has made it, you can access information inside your account everywhere and anywhere through Evernote Client that available in Evernote Windows, Mac, IOS, or Android. Until now Evernote is available in Windows, Mac, IOS, Blackbery and Android but at this time not yet available in Linux or Ubuntu.

Install Evernote In Ubuntu Using Wine
Although until now there has never been Evernote available on Linux/Ubuntu, you can install it with Wine using Windows (*.exe) installer, you can use following Evernote Installer :

Download Evernotes Installer (exe)

What is Nixnote ?
Nixnote is a application that equal to Evernote which can run in both Windows or Linux/Ubuntu. NixNote (previously called Nevernote) designed to work with Evernote, it is in no way connected with or supported by Evernote. While Evernote now can run in Linux/Ubuntu through Wine, but sometimes that run quite slow so i think that Installing NixNote is the best choice to do. NixNote supports most of the Evernote features such us easily drag and drop images, tag and preview notes.

Nixnote Ubuntu Screenshot

Install Nixnote in Ubuntu

Now Nixnote has come to Version 1.0 and available various linux installer (.deb, .rpm, Tar.gz) 64 bit or 32 bit. You can download and install Nixnote from sourceforge link bellow :

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nevernote/files/

For ubuntu user, Nixnote also available to install via PPA, do following on terminal :

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vincent-c/nevernote
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nixnote

You can support Nixnote to be better, visit following pages for Nixnote Forum and FAQ page :

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ADOBE FLASH PLAYER 11 RELEASED AND AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

12:56 PM

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 for Final, Adobe Flash Player 11 Final available for download for Ubuntu/Linux with 32 bit and 64 bit support. According to official website, here are some Features you will find in Adobe Flash Player 11.

Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.

Download Adobe Flash Player 11 for Final

You can download Adobe Flash Player 11 Final both 64 Bit or 32 Bit for Linux/Ubuntu through http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html or via adobe lab here, esspecially for 64 bit user you can install Adobe Flash Player 11 through following PPA (note : available only for 64 Bit).

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu natty main

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sevenmachines/flash/ubuntu oneiric main

See available PPA that provide by sevenmachies here.

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Update proprietary software drivers (Nvidia And ATI) in Ubuntu with Jockey

9:53 AM

Jockey is the tool that used in Ubuntu to manage 3rd party drivers, particularly proprietary driver what i mean is something like NVIDIA or ATI Graphic Drivers. Jockey available in GUI and Text mode, you can find exact function in both of them. To list what drivers jockey thinks are available for your hardware use jockey-text --list in terminal, see following example :

jockey-text --list

if you use some Proprietary drivers software such us ATI or NVIDIA, you will get feedback something like this.

xorg:fglrx - ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)

To do some driver update or checking some available driver update to your hardware you can use 'jockey-gtk', you can access jockey-gtk by search it on application using keywords jockey (jockey is defaultly installed on ubuntu 11.04 and more).

Jockey-gtk search for update Drivers

Besides of using GUI, jockey-gtk also comes with update driver notification in system tray.

jockey update driver notification

it's easy right, now we don't need to worries if have find difficulty when finding some proprietary drivers software.

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Install Obnam Backup Application in Ubuntu, Another Rsync Alternative

8:41 AM

Obnam is simply backup application that closed to rsync which can Backups data then store into local hard disks or online storage through the SSH SFTP protocol, Obnam make simple procedure backup and didn't need any supporting application unless SSH. Till now Obnam have come to version 0.23 and ready to install in Ubuntu via PPA, even though we call `functionality is does not replace Deja-dup`, Obnam is such interesting application to Developer for trying.

Obnam 0.23 Backup features
here'resome features that will you get in Obnam :

Snapshot backups. Obnam is complated with snapshot features, you don't need to worry about full versus incremental backups, or rotate real or virtual tapes.
Data de-duplication, across files, and backup generations. If the backup repository already contains a particular chunk of data, it will be re-used, even if it was in another file in an older backup generation. This way, you don't need to worry about moving around large files, or modifying them.
Safe and secure backup using GnuPG.
Push or pull operation, depending on what you need. You can run Obnam on the client, and push backups to the server, or on the server, and pull from the client over SFTP (just like Rsync).

And in this released (Obnam 0.23) there are some visible changes are :

restore now complate with progress bar.
fsck now has more useful progress reporting, and does more checking, including the integrity of the contents of file content.
fsck now also checks the integrity of the B-trees in the repository, so that it is not necessary to run fsck-larch manually anymore. This works remotely as well, whereas fsck-larch only worked on B-trees on the local filesystem.
force-lock now gives a warning if the client does not exist in the repository.
Subcommands for encryption now give a warning if encryption key is not given.
The --fsck-fix option will now instruct obnam backup fsck to try to fix problems found. For this release, it only means fixing B-tree missing node problems, but more will follow.
SFTP protocol use has been optimized, which should result in some more speed. This also highlights the need to change obnam backup so it can do uploads in the background.

Install Obnam Backup Application in Ubuntu
If you ubuntu user, you can install Obnam Backup through 2 ways, you can install it via PPA other ways you can Download and install Obnam through direct download.

Add following Repository to Install Obnam via PPA (thanks to Chris Cormack by providing this PPA)

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-bigballofwax/obnam-ppa/ubuntu natty main

Check following page to download/instal obnam directly from source

http://code.liw.fi/debian/pool/main/o/obnam/

Interested to try it ?, find some valuable information about Obnam through following page.

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15 New Wallpapers Shipped in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

9:16 PM

Did you remember ?, Few month ago an Ubuntu Artwork has made a challenge for community/individual to submit their best wallpaper/artwork here to be include as default wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

The time has come, Ubuntu Artwork has choose best 14 community wallpapers, to be include as default wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 along with default wallpapers that provide by official, So you will get 15 Fresh Wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 which have never included in it's previous version.

Best 44 Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers Candidate

14 Wallpapers that been chosen has been selected from best 44 wallpapers picked by the the team including Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>, Kenneth Wimer <kenneth.wimer@ubuntu.com> and Otto Greenslade <otto.greenslade@canonical.com>, Is one of yours is chosen ?, Here are a 14 Default Wallpapers that will shipped in Ubuntu 11.10 :

Buck off! by SirPecanGum
Darkening Clockwork by Matt Katzenberger
Dybbølsbro Station by SirPecanGum
JardinPolar by CarmenGloria Gonzalez
Langelinie Allé by SirPecanGum
Momiji Dream by Deacon MacMillan
Mount Snowdon, Wales by Adam Vellender
Not Alone by Deacon MacMillan
Power of Words by Antonio Litterio
PurpleDancers by Emilio Merlino
Small flowers by Dariusz Duma
Stalking Ocelot by Sayantan Chaudhuri
The Grass aint Greener by fix pena
WildWheat by Brian Burt

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers
You do no need to wait till Ubuntu 11.10 Final Launched, you can download it now though following link :

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Default Wallpapers

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Gnome 3.2 Features and Review, See Gnome 3.2 in Action [Video]

11:22 PM

Today we search in YouTube looking for someone who have tried Gnome 3.2, Yataii !! and we found it. We found interesting video from fredbezies who have tried Gnome 3.2 in their machines (Archlinux). So check this out, give your own assessment.

Gnome 3.2 Features and Review Video

From video that uploaded by fredbezies above, i see that not so many thing changes (in term of appearance and artwork) in Gnome 3.2. Some visible change are it's using nautilus 3.2.0 and new window decoration, and some effect which remind us with safari (browser from Apple.Inc).

See our article here, To Install Gnome 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 via PPA.

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Firefox 7 Finall Ready to Upgrade/Install in Ubuntu via PPA

7:03 PM

Finally Mozilla Firefox 7 released, Since Firefox 7 beta shipped with Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2, we guess (can be ensured) that Firefox 7 Final will released soon along with ubuntu 11.10 release in October 13th and will be shipped as default browser there.

Firefox 7 Final Features
Unlike in the previous release, on this release there are not many changes happen, in term of performance or appearance, here some features you can found at Firefox 7 Final :

Simple options for add-ons embedded in the main UI, For detail of this feature you can read in here.
Improve Responsiveness with Memory Reductions, For detail of this feature you can read in here.

Install Firefox 7 Final in Ubuntu via Mozilla Firefox PPA Stable
Continue what we wrote in Download / Install Firefox 7 Beta (build 3), today Firefox 7 Final (Stable) are really ready to upgrade in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot and 11.04 Natty Narwhall or to Install in previous version of Ubuntu. If you are using Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 (Alpha/Beta) you do not need to do following step because you can install it automaticaly by the time your system update it's repository, Otherwise do following step to install Mozilla Firefox 7 Final in Ubuntu.

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox or sudo apt-get upgrade firefox

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Gnome Shell 3.2 ready to Install in Oneiric and Natty via Gnome-Shell Testing PPA

11:44 AM

GNOME 3.2 is ready to Rocks !!, The GNOME team is done with major revamps for a while, GNOME 3.2 is all about polish, adding new features and improving some else.

GNOME 3.2 scheduled to be released in 28 September 2011, but you can test it via PPA that maintain by Rico Tzschichholz. Gnome 3.2 come with an integrated chat, share files and even take calls from the GNOME without the need to install any additional apps.

Here some features and changes which available in Gnome 3.2 (GTK+ 3.2.0 Features) :

Many improvements to the CSS theming support
Width-for-height support in many more widgets:
GtkPaned, GtkMenuBar, GtkNotebook,
New experimental Wayland and HTML5 backends
GtkFileChooser and GtkAssistant have received face-lifts
The GtkFontSelection has been replaced by a new
family of GtkFontChooser widgets
New widgets: GtkLockButton and GtkOVerlay

Install or Upgrade Gnome Shell 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 via PPA
This PPA is Experimental channel so Install/Upgrade it wisely and do with your own risk :)

* updated 1 oct 2011

Use this PPA this PPA which provide by Gnome 3 Development team to install Upgrade Gnome Shell 3.2 in Natty or Oneiric :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

If PPA above not work you can try to use PPA that maintain by Rico Tzschichholz bellow.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu natty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu natty main

If you are using the Natty packages make sure you also added the Gnome3 PPA!
ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 (https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3)

Read also, 5 Step to make your Gnome Looks Great! (here)

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Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric via PPA

10:56 AM

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone, It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided.At present, Ubuntu Tweak have come to version 0.6 (beta).

On this release, Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta come with following changes and features :

New User Interface
New clips feature: first screen information
All features are plug-able
Package Cleaner becomes a new major part feature as the “Janitor”

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta Screenshot

Four `fresh` major features which available on this release is Overview, Tweaks, Admins and Janitor

Install / Upgrade Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta via PPA
you can install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta from PPA that maintanence by tualatrix team, this only provide `Beta` version of Ubuntu Tweak so do with your own risk.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

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Install Backtrack 5 Application in Ubuntu

10:14 AM

Continue what I wrote here about how to use any Backtrack 5 application ubuntu, a few days ago someone asked me "How to install Backtrack 5 r1 application in Ubuntu?", so I thought of having to write it here.

For those of you who focus on computer/network security and love being Ubuntu user, You do not need to consider switching to other distros because you can Install any security application which available on Backtrack 5 on your Ubuntu. You can add Backtrack 5 repository to your ubuntu following this :

Add Backtrack 5 Menu to Ubuntu Repository

Download the key, here (*if first link not work change with this here)
Add the key you have download through synaptic (or terminal), Open your Synaptics then go to Repositories > Authentication > Import key file
Add following Backtrack 5 Ubuntu repository

deb http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
deb http://32.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
deb http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
deb http://source.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing

If repository above not work, you can use following repository (taken from indonesian backtrack community)

deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/all revolution main microverse non-free testing
deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/32 revolution main microverse non-free testing
deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/source revolution main microverse non-free testing

Yes, that's it.

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Install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 11.10

11:54 PM

Note : Use only if you have Legal Copy of Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 is such a popular word processing application although until now it'a still not available yet for ubuntu or other Linux distro. When you are using Ubuntu and you do not feel familiar with LibreOffice it's good try to install Microsoft Office 2007 in your Ubuntu (*if you have the legal copy) I think it is a wise choice than you are sacrificing your time.

To be able to install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu we need such supporting application and library so that Office 2007 can be work properly, some of these applications are Wine 1.3, Winetrick, msttcorefonts-offline library (to make clear type and smooth font face) and some required library. Here are step by step to install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 11.10 :

Install Wine 1.3
Step first is installing Wine (windows emulator) version 1.3 through PPA, do following action in terminal :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.3

Download and Install Microsoft Core Font Library
To complate your Office 2007 font collection, download and install msttcorefont-offline as following :

wget http://imaginux.com/repos/pool/renzo/msttcorefonts-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i msttcorefonts-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb

Install Windows DLL Component in Ubuntu
To ensure your Windows application can work properly, install required windows library (DLL) through following step :

Run Winetrick (sudo winetrick)
Select Install a Windows DLL or Component
Components are selected: msxml3, dotnet20, gdiplus, riched20, riched30, and vcrun2005

Install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu
After you do some of the above, now is the time you install Office 2007 in your system, you can double click or open with `wine` the Office 2007 installer [setup.exe], or do following command in your terminal :

$ wine /path/to/office2007installer/setup.exe

Microsoft Office 2007 run on Ubuntu 11.10

If step by step above have been executed without error, you should have Microsoft Office 2007 installed in your Ubuntu. Go to Application > Wine > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Word 2007 to open the program.

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Want to design a dream home ? (Sweet Home 3D Video Tutorial)

11:28 AM

Sweet Home 3D allows you to design your dream home with ease. It comes with various "components" (furniture) ready-made such as sofas, tables, chairs, bed and others. The results of the design of artificial Sweet Home 3D can be exported into PDF, image files (PNG), video and 3D file format standard.
For more details, please check the video tutorial here.

Download Sweet Home 3D

You can download Sweet Home 3D Application through following links.

Download Sweet Home 3D

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Bossie (Best Open Software Source) Awards 2011

8:52 AM

Rapidly Open Source development encourage Infoworld to confer Open Source developer/application as `the Best Open Source of the year` are considered to be very feasible to accept the award in his field. Here are the best Open Source Application of the year picked from InfoWorld's Test Center compiled By Doug Dineley, James R. Borck, Peter Wayner, Serdar Yegulalp from InfoWorld.

Best Open Source Application 2011

Apache Lucene & Solr
Bonita Open Solution
Drupal
OpenBravo ERP
Pentaho BI Suite
Sugar CRM
WordPress

Best Open Source Application in Desktop and Mobile 2011

7Zip
Google Android
CamStudio
Google Chrome
LibreOffice
Oracle VM VirtualBox
PDF Creator
Pidgin
PortableApps.Com
TrueCrypt
VLC

Best Open Source Development Application 2011

CakePHP
CoffeeScript
Git
Apache Hadoop
Hudson & Jenkins
jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch
MongoDB
Node.js
Web2py

Best Open Source Application for Data Centre and Cloud Solution

Eucalyptus and OpenStack
Gluster
Talend Open Studio
Vyatta
Xen
WSO2

For the rest of this news, can be read in the official page here

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Install Plexydesk (Beautifull Desktop Widget) in Ubuntu

12:47 PM

What is PlexyDesk
PlexyDesk s such Desktop widget which run on various desktop envoroment (KDE,GNOME, Unity, Mac OS and Windows) powered by Qt/QML, through Playdesk you can easily changging wallpapers by dragging and dropping any image you like from your file manager. Here some features that you can get in Playdesk :

Small selection of widgets (clock, photo frame, file browser)
Some widgets have extra themes – just right-click to switch between them
Ability to change desktop wallpaper by dragging and dropping an image on to the desktop
3D support
Themepack support for changing themes (QML)
Drag and drop adding of new widgets

Install PlexyDesk in Ubuntu
You can install plexydesk through installed or using `unstable` plexydesk PPA channel that maintain by PlexyDesk team it self, download or install Plexydesk through following link :

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Download / Install Flash Player 11 RC in Ubuntu

1:04 PM

Yesterday (6 Sept 2011), Adobe labs officially released Flash Player 11 Release Candidate (RC) through this page, some new features that available on Flash Player 11 are :

Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.
Some other features you can find in here

Download Flash Player 11 RC Ubuntu
Adobe Flash Player 11 RC available for ubuntu and other operating system, you can download Adobe Flash Player 11 through following links

Especially for Ubuntu 64-bit users, you can also upgrade or install Adobe Flash Player 11 RC through this PPA :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

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Install Global Menu in Ubuntu Gnome 3 (Shell)

7:14 AM

Despite it's has been confirmed that Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric will not shipped with Gnome 3, some ubuntu user assume that Gnome still the best compared with Unity.Although Linus Torvald have expressed his disappointment to Gnome 3 performance, we still hope Gnome 3 will make significant changes and accommodate the user desire. If you feel confortable of using Global Menu, here is step to Install Global menu on Gnome 3 :

sudo apt-get install git-core valac-0.12 libvala-0.12-dev libgtk-3-dev gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev autotools-dev automake autoconf intltool libtool
mkdir -p globalmenu
cd globalmenu
wget http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
git clone git://github.com/gnome-globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu.git
cd gnome-globalmenu
git checkout gnome-3
cp ../gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5/src/{module.c,header.h,header-gtk2.h} ./src
autoreconf –force –install –verbose
./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
make
sudo make GTK2_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules GTK3_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules GLIB_COMPILE_SCHEMAS=/bin/true install
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
sudo sed -i ‘s/3\.0\.2/3\.1\.4/’ /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/GlobalMenu@globalmenu.org/metadata.json
ln -sfv /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk2.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk.so
gnome-globalmenu-manager & GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gtk gedit
sudo cp ~/globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu/globalmenu.sh /etc/profile.d/
sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/globalmenu.sh
sudo reboot

reference : http://frijal.com/global-menu-ubuntu-gnome3/

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How to Increase / Extend Battery Life in Ubuntu

11:06 AM

Since Ubuntu 11.04 released many people feels their battery life getting shorter than previous, This problem might be caused by difference kernel used and ofcourse a`luxury` display and some desktop effect make GPU should work more hard. We think it's possible to extend a battery life of a laptop/notebook/netbook by disabling various services and installing various packages. Here is tips to extend your battery life summarized from askubuntu.com.

jupiter screenshot

Changing a Habit
you can increase / extend your battre life by changing your habits when using netbook/laptop/notebook, we can start by disabling some uneccessary service and run itonly when needed, here common tips that you can try :

Reduce screen brightness.
Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth. Disable wifi an bluetooth when you do not use it, disabling wifi eill extend your battery life.
Reduce desktop effects (System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->None). even its has been has stated that enabling or disabling desktop effects generally has no impact on battery consumption (codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html), we think that to much desktop effect will disturb your work and GPU will need more power consumption.
Use Hibernate rather than suspend power features. (System->Preferences->Power Management->On Battery Power).
Turning off a bunch of services that you don't need, and unloading their kernel drivers. See how to do it here.

Installing Additional Package
Some other tips that make you increase battery life is installing some package that help you to reduce power consumption, here are some package/program that will help you to manage a power consumption :

Use powertop to find which unneeded programs that running on background such as beagle/tracker, weather notifications, gnome-do, and (if you don't need the internet) network-manager, mail-notifications. powertop is Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle.
Install the package laptop-mode-tools. laptop-mode-tools lets us spin down a hard drive. In addition it allows us to tweak a number of other power-related settings using a simple configuration file. See it here.
Install Jupiter, Jupiter applet give quick access to some of the commonly needed hardware controls like screen output and resolution, WIFI, and bluetooth. If you use Linux in a netbook/laptop/notebook, it's take the effort out of going mobile. See it here.

here are a tips to Increase / Extend a netbook/laptop/notebook battery life, hopefully that next release (ubuntu 11.10) will care about power consumption.

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Fixing Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card Error in Ubuntu

9:23 AM

In several case Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card often getting error in Ubuntu (since ubuntu 8.04), some of them `recognize` the device but the wireless didn't work moreover the system can't detect any wireless installed (no wireless found). Regarding to that problem many forum have been discussed, here are summary of step by step how to fix Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card Error in Ubuntu.

Make sure Broadcom Wireless card installed properly
First step, make it sure that some of Broadcom Wireless card has been installed properly and detect by kernel, do following command on the terminal :

lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation

If give following output :

0000:02:0d.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

it's mean that your Kernel has been recognize your device, if that command above didn't give any output but you're sure that Broadcom Wireless has been installed do following command and restart.

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo reboot

Installing Broadcom 43xx Wireless Driver in Ubuntu
Second step, After make the system recognizing your device, next step is installing appropriate driver to your device, if your device is any of these :

BCM4306/3
BCM4311
BCM4318
BCM4321
BCM4322

do following step :

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer bcmwl*
sudo reboot

other, if your Broadcom Wireless series is any of these :

BCM4301
BCM4303
BCM4306/2
BCM4306

do following step :

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer bcmwl*
sudo reboot

if you have completed all the steps above without error you should have Broadcard Wireless on your system, try to open your network manager and connect to any hot spot.

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Linus Interviewed at LinuxCon Japan 2011

9:49 PM

A resume of Linus Torvald (a person who made Linux kernel) Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman at Linuxcon Japan 2011 above, also can be read on following links :

http://lwn.net/Articles/445687/

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Linus Torvalds Quotes

9:07 PM

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

Linus Torvalds

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Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta (Build 3)

9:09 AM

Seems a long time not update this blog, this morning we have been check Mozilla Firefox FTP we found Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Beta (Build 3) has been available and ready for download since 30 August. This Version has been release within 15 Days from previous release Mozilla Firefox 6 Final.

Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta

Can't wait to try it, download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta through following link to see what's new out there ? :

Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta (FTP)

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Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta [Video Review]

8:26 AM

Yesterday, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (first) Beta has been released and ready for download. As previous, a Beta release is always likely/closed to the Final release, what changes would get there, find out here on quidsup's youtube video.

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta Review Video

What changes, what different, and what features will you find in Ubuntu 11.10 [Final] seems you can peek on this release, check following Ubuntu 11.10 Beta Review Video.

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric ISO

You can download Ubuntu 11.10 Beta various image through following links.

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta Iso

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