Cinnamon 1.3 Released! See What's New Inside

Good news for Cinnamon users! Cinnamon 1.3 has been released. This major update brings many improvements, new features and bug fixes. Below is a brief overview of the new features and major improvemets.

Applet improvements
Now, every component on Cinnamon panel is an applet. So, you can remove it, add third party applets or drag and re-arrange it to fit your need.

Settings Improvements
A lot of new features come to Cinnamon settings which let you to customize not only Cinnamon preferences, but also fonts, desktop icons, cursor theme, gtk themes, etc. It gained ne graphical user interface too that makes it more simple and without using more screen estate.

Menu Improvements
Cinnamon menu gained the following improvements:

• New hover delay preference
• Better icon sizes (crispier icons)
• Fixed menu size when the number of favorites is high
• More exhaustive search results

Other Improvements

• Panel launchers can now be re-ordered by drag & drop
• Improved visuals in the default theme
• Workspace navigation is now possible in scale mode (note that we’re still planning an Expo mode)
• Multiple bug fixes

Install Cinnamon 1.3 on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can "taste" Cinnamon on his/her desktop by typing the following command:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install cinnamon

Once installed, there will be a new option called "Cinnamon" in login window, select it and give the new version of Cinnamon a try.

via: Linux Mint

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Weather Information in Linux Terminal

Linux Terminal makes life easy for day to day administration on a Linux Desktop. And if you are a Power user and spend most of the time on the command prompt, you might want to have some dynamic information such as Weather condition available each time you open the Terminal.

Here is a way to get Weather Information in the Linux Terminal both in graphic (gnome, KDE, Unity) and text login (Ctrl + Alt + F1 to F7) modes.

First install the weather-util package from apt repositories.

• $ sudo apt-get install weather-util

You’ll need your local weather code, which you can get from this website.

For Graphic Login:

Open the .bashrc file

•  $ sudo vi ~/.bashrc

Press Insert, And append the following lines at the end of the file.

# Weather Information
weather -i CODE 

Where CODE is the code of your location, like VIDP is the code of New Delhi in my case.

Press Esc, and :wq to save and exit the vi editor.

Close the Terminal and reopen, it will display the weather information before the bash prompt.

For Text Login:

You first need to create a script in the appropriate location using vi editor.

• $  sudo vi /etc/update-motd.d/98-weather

Press Insert and enter the following code, replacing CODE with your local weather code

#!/bin/sh
echo
weather -i CODE
echo

Press Esc, and :wq to save and exit.

Make it executable using chmod

• sudo chmod +x /etc/update-motd.d/98-weather

Press Ctrl + Alt + F1 and login to see the script working.

Voila :)

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Zmail: Fake Email Sender

ZMail is open source fake email software that allows you to send fake emails, using Zmail you can send email from anybody, to anybody!

If you need to send a quick email to someone without opening your regular email program, test an email server, or perhaps play some pranks on your friends, ZMail is for you.

Installing Zmail

Zmail is available as a source code tarball in python from sourceforge website. You can download the latest version of Zmail from here.

To run the source code you need to have python and wxPython installed on your machine. While python is installed by default in Ubuntu, you need to install wxPython if you already don't have it. To install wxPython open the terminal and issue the following commands.

• $ curl http://apt.wxwidgets.org/key.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Now append the following lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

# wxWidgets/wxPython repository at apt.wxwidgets.org
    deb http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ natty-wx main
    deb-src http://apt.wxwidgets.org/ natty-wx main

Update the apt repositories

•  $ sudo apt-get update

Now you are ready to install wxPython from apt repositories,

• $ sudo apt-get install python-wxgtk2.8

To send emails install "sendmail" program

• $ sudo apt-get sendmail

Extract the Zmail tarball and change to the Zmail directory, double click the zmail file or run ./zmail in the terminal to run Zmail.

Checkout the following tutorial on how to send emails and setup mail server to send emails.

Disclaimer: The above Program can be used for both legal and illegal purposes, please use this program only for educational purposes such as testing email servers etc only,  Neither Author of the above article nor ubuntubuzz.com is responsible for any illegal use of the software. Please also read the Zmail disclaimer in Help < About.

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Get Dynamic Wallpaper on Ubuntu with Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper

Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper is an applications which turns your static wallpaper into dynamic wallpaper.  While static wallpaper enhances your desktop with  a static beautiful images, real-time sunlight wallpaper displays sunlight that changes every 30 minutes and a unique clouds displayed every 3 hours.

Watch the sun rise, sun set and cloud system all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness or watch the moon phases.

The main features of this applications are:

• Real-time Sunlight Wallpaper is completely free
• Lightweight software
• 4 different types of maps: Mercator, Peters, Mollweide, Equirectangular
• It can display all moon phases
• Dawn to dusk display
• It can follow the big clouds formations from all over the globe
• Accurate data
• Easy to install and use
• Simple and intuitive interface
• User friendly

Install Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper by typing the following command:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:realtime.sunlight.wallpaper/rsw
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install gtk-sunlight

Once installed, Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper can be accessed from Accessories section in the applications menu.

Real-Time Sunlight Wallpaper can be installed on other distributions too, click here to download the application manually.

Enjoy :)

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How To Modify Bash Prompt

Bash Shell is a powerful stuff in Linux. We can do almost everything there. Installing and removing applications, doing system upgrade, downloading files, even listening to your favorite songs. Although, there are many GUI applications which can do such tasks, many people still love using command prompt because it's handy, incredibly fast and we can see exactly happens in the background. If you are one of those people who loves using command prompt to perform such tasks, you might want to read this post on how to modify bash prompt.

What is bash prompt? Bash prompt is a like a bridge connects you to the shell. Bash prompt is a place where you type a command to ask the shell to perform a task. Bash prompt is usually represented by a dollar sign "$".

By default, Ubuntu and its derivative has bash prompt with the following format:

• hok00age@Laptop-Q:~$

The above bash prompt format can be divided into three parts:
1. The word "hok00age" is username who types the command.
2. The word "Laptop-Q" is the hostname of the computer.
3. The character "~" is the working directory of current shell.

Today, I'd like to show you how to change this bash prompt format into something like this:

• [08:47:50][hok00age]:~$

The first part of the above format "[08:47:50]" is the current time of the computer.

How to do that? Simply type the following command on currently opened Terminal:

• export PS1="[\t][\u]:\w\$ "

Please pay attention on the above command. The part who will become "current time" in bash prompt is "\t", "\u" will become username, and you can guess that "\w" will become working directory. The key of this trick is bash prompt special characters to display any information on the shell. You can see all of available special characters that can be used to modify bash prompt here.

Please note, that any modifications you've made only affect the currently active shell. In other words, if you open a new Terminal emulator window, bash prompt is still in Ubuntu default. To make it permanent, you have to edit ".bashrc" file located in home directory. Open it with your favorite text editor or simply type the following command:

• gedit ~/.bashrc

All you need to do is adding export PS1="[\t][\u]:\w\$ " line to the end of .bashrc file (see the figure below):

Now save the change and test it by opening new Terminal window.

Regards :)

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LibreOffice 3.5 Released

 

Document Foundation has announced today the release of its next major roll out of LibreOffice suite, version 3.5, calling it as "The best free office suite ever".


The new version boast to include many new improvements such as,

Installing LibreOffice 3.5 in Ubuntu

Careful users can wait for LibreOffice PPA to be updated and install the latest version through ubuntu update manager, while power and curious  users can download the latest version and install it right now using the following method.

• $ sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-core

Extract the downloaded archive and change to the DEBS directory containing the .deb installers. Issue the following command at the terminal

• $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Now change to the "desktop-integration" sub-directory in the DEBS 

•  $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

Enjoy!

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Newbie Guide: How to Use PPA Purge

Have you ever upgraded an application via PPA that makes trouble? For example, upgrading Firefox that causes add-ons incompatibility and you want to have your "old" version back? If so, you are in the right place. Today, I'd like to write a post intended for newbie in Linux on how to use PPA Purge. What is PPA Purge? It's an application which lets you to downgrade your installed application to its "original" version from Ubuntu repository. It is like a first-aid-kit when you are going mad encountering many problems after upgrading application from PPA Launchpad.

Installing on Ubuntu
PPA Purge is available in official Ubuntu repository, so you can install it by typing the following command:

• sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

How To Use PPA Purge
For example, you've upgraded Mozilla Thunderbird from PPA with this command:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next

To downgrade Mozilla Thunderbird from the above PPA, you should run this command:

• sudo ppa-purge ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-next

PPA Purge will automatically remove Mozilla Thunderbird which is installed from PPA and then install the "original" version of Mozilla Thunderbird from Ubuntu repository.

"Unfortunately, I forget what PPA I've used to install the app?" Well, you should make use of "history" command on Terminal combined with "grep" function. Here's the example:

• history | grep add-apt-repository

The output of the above command is shown below

Now you have a comprehensive list of  "add-apt-repository" commands you've typed on Terminal. They can help you to remember what PPA you've used to install certain application.

Regards :)

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AirDroid: Access Your Android Phone From Ubuntu Linux

Android is one of many successful Linux innovations in the market. Built from versatile Linux kernel, Android phones are widely used nowadays and give freedom for its users and developers for creating many excellent applications such as AirDroid. AirDroid is a free application which lets you control and manage your Android devices wirelessly via web browser. Via web browser, huh? Yes, you can use many functions of Android devices from any operating system including Ubuntu. All you need is Android phone and a computer with a web browser in it.

OK! Let's jump into the river! First, install AirDroid to your Android device from Android Market. Once installed, go to the app and set the web (ip) address and port, also the password to connect then press Start to activate the service.

Once service have started, open your web browser and type the web (ip) address you've set on AirDroid application. You need to enter the password to connect.

Done! Once connected, you can do a lot of stuff there such as:
Files
Transfer files between Android devices and computers.
Cut, copy, paste, search, rename or delete files on the SD card.
SMS
Read, send, forward or delete SMS messages.
Applications
Install, uninstall, backup, search apps and do batch processing.
Photos
Preview, delete, import, export, set as wallpaper and photos slide show from desktop.
Clipboard
Share clipboard text between desktop and device.
Contacts
Group, search, create contacts, check and delete call logs.
Ringtones
Search, preview, import, export, delete and customize ringtones for phone calls, notifications and alarms.
Music
Play, search, import, export, delete, or set as phone call, notification and alarm ringtones.

For additional information, below is the AirDroid features walk through video:





via: MakeTechEasier

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Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is a starting point for large-scale corporate desktop deployments. It is inspired by a review of common changes made by IT departments deploying Ubuntu at scale.


Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is the newest enterprise ready spin of Ubuntu announced today by Mark Shuttleworth on his website.

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is built with enterprise oriented software such as VMWare, OpenJDk, Adobe Flash and getting rid with unnecessary software such as games, file sharing and social networking apps like Gwibber etc. The first release of Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is based on 11.10 Onieric Ocelot. 

Ubuntu Business Desktop Remix is created for the purpose of Evaluation in Enterprise and Institutes. 

According to Mark Shuttleworth,

"This remix takes the most common changes we’ve observed among institutional users and bundles them into one CD which can be installed directly or used as a basis for further customization. Before anyone gets all worked up and conspiratorial: everything in the remix is available from the standard Software Centre.  Packages out, packages in. No secret sauce for customers only; we’re not creating a RHEL, we already have an enterprise-quality release cadence called LTS and we like it just the way it is. This is a convenience for anyone who wants it. Having a common starting point, or booting straight into a business-oriented image makes it easier for institutional users to evaluate Ubuntu Desktop for their specific needs."

Download of the remix image requires registration (because of EULAs). For more information head over to ubuntu.com/business/desktop/remix 

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Marlin File Browser

Marlin is a lightweight, sleek & fast GTK3 file manager for elementary OS. Marlin is designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.

The interface is minimal as compared to Nautilus. Yet it does its job pretty well. The interface is divided into a left panel that provides fast access to bookmarks and common places, the right panel shows the preview for files and the middle window offers the file browsing.

Install Marlin from Marlin Daily PPA:

The “marlin-development” team created a ppa for daily build of Marlin and they publish packages for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and 11.10 Oneiric. Run the following commands to add this ppa and install Marlin.

•         sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily

•         sudo apt-get update

•         sudo apt-get install marlin

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Opera Mobile for Ubuntu

Opera Mobile 11.5 is the latest version of Opera Software’s browser for mobiles and tablets. Its a touch friendly mobile browser for Tablets or Tablet PC computers, the Linux version  for the browser is originally released for Meego based Tablets and Tablet PCs.

Opera Mobile is Flash capable; comes with Opera Link – a bookmark/speed dial/notes synchronisation service -  and Opera Turbo – a web page compression service using Opera servers that reduces  bandwidth consumption by up to 80%. (So its a must have if you have slower Internet connections while roaming).

Apart from being touch friendly Opera Mobile 11.5 works smoothly with Mouse and keyboard unlike the version 11 of the Browser, you just need to change the user agent from Tablet to Desktop and disable the on screen keyboard in settings for better performance with mouse and keyboard.

Installing Opera Mobile 11.5 on your Ubuntu desktop.

Since the Linux version of Opera  Mobile is available in RPM package, you first need to download the alien and fakeroot utilities from apt repositories, to convert the rpm file into a deb installer.

• $ sudo apt-get install alien

• $ sudo apt-get install fakeroot

Once you are done with the above steps, you are ready to install Opera Mobile 11.5 on your Ubuntu desktop.

You can download the rpm package for Opera Mobile from here.
Change to the download directory, issue the following command to convert the rpm package into a deb installer.

•  $ fakeroot alien Opera_Mobile-Labs-MeeGo-11.50-39.i386.rpm

After a while, you will get the converted deb installer for installation.

• $ sudo dpkg -i opera-mobile-labs-meego_11.50-40_i386.deb

After a successful install you can find the Opera Mobile browser in the Internet section of your menu Items. 

Opera Mobile might not be a very great browser for day to day browsing on your laptop but it can serve you as a very handy tool while moving or traveling (with Opera Turbo enabled) with slower Internet connections.

Happy Browsing :)

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Trimble Yuma : A Military Standard Ubuntu Powered Tablet

“Our customers have told us that they need a rugged, military-grade, tablet computer running Linux. We are pleased to provide that option for them”, Todd Blumer

Once again Ubuntu was trusted by a large vendor to powered one of their products, recently you can find Trimble Yuma Tables Ubuntu edition.

Yesterday, SDG System announced the availability of Trimble Yuma tablet with preinstaled GNU/Linux OS (say Ubuntu). Trimble Yuma is rugged computer tablet which designed for use in an uncertain condition like extreme weather and even for war, which qualified U.S. military standards MIL-STD-810F. Although equipped with Ubuntu, you can meet geospatial applications like GRASS or Quantum GIS installed there.

Trimble Yuma Ubuntu Tablet Specs
Trimble Yuma tablets has following specifications :

• Processors : 1.6 GHz Intel® Atom processor .
• RAM : 1GB DDR2 RAM.
• Display : 7-inch sunlight-readable touchscreen display in a magnesium alloy shell.
• Connectifity : 802.11 b/g  Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.
• 32 or 80 GB SSD (Additional expansion is provided by SDIO (SDHC) and ExpressCard slots) .
• IP67 rating. 
• Operating System : Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Netbook Edition.
• Accesories : 2 cameras 2MP and 1.3 MP with Geotagging,  Vehicle docking station.

Trimble Yuma was pegged at a price $3.695, very expansive price if compared with its specs, but if you have a plan to open twitter and facebook when you are in War this tablet may be an option :).

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DownVerter: Free YouTube Video Downloader and Converter

DownVerter is a free, fast, and easy-to-use YouTube video downloader and converter which can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It can convert YouTube videos to many video (and audio only) formats: MP3, AVI, 3GP, MP4, MOV, WMV for your handheld devices. It allows you to "download only" without converting too!

To download and convert YouTube video, all you need to do is follow the three easy steps. First, paste the video link in the given field, wait a moment until DownVerter displays the information of the video such as thumbnail, total views, available download quality, etc. Second, select your download and convert settings. You can set download quality, conversion format, conversion quality, video volume, and destination folder to save converted video. Third, simply hit the "Download & Convert" button and DownVerter will do the rest.

Installing on Ubuntu
Ubuntu users can install DownVerter by downloading the *.deb package here. It's available for 32bit and 64bit architectur. Once downloaded, type the following command to install:

• sudo dpkg -i downverter-32.deb

Change "downverter-32.deb" with the filename of downloaded file.

Once installed, DownVerter can be accessed from Internet section on Menu. Enjoy :)

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Mandriva ROSA Launcher for Kubuntu

Gone are the days of press to start pop-up or pop-down menu launchers for operating systems and desktop environments. Ubuntu have its very own Unity launcher with various lenses, Gnome 3 have Activities hot corner, Apple introduced Launchpad in OSX Lion to go with the trend and even Microsoft is planning to ditch the legendary "Start" menu in Windows 8. But in KDE we still have the same boring Press to start pop-up menu launcher.

Mandriva Linux might be a sinking ship for now but with their latest release in 2011, they have introduced an innovative and eye candy Menu Launcher called ROSA Launcher from Rosa Labs in Russia.

Rosa Launcher have 3 tabs just like the unity lenses, first one is a simple Welcome tab which shows recent applications, places and documents, the second tab has the Applications listed in categories, such as Internet, Office, Multimedia etc., and the third tab is more like the Zeitgeist Journal extension in Gnome 3 which shows the time line for documents and applications, you need to keep the Nepomuk file indexing enabled to use this feature.

Installation:

Now we will learn how to install the eye candy menu launcher from Rosa Labs in your Kubuntu installation.
You first need to download the deb file for the rosa-launcher, you can download the deb file from here.

Open the terminal, change to the download location and install the deb file as given in the commands below.

• $ cd Downloads

• $ sudo dpkg -i rosa-launcher_0.30.12-2_i386.deb

For me Rosa Launcher installed without any dependency problem in Kubuntu 11.10, if you face any dependency problem, then install the required packages from Ubuntu/Kubuntu apt repositories.

After the installation of Rosa Launcher, you need to install the plasmoid widget for the launcher to use it as an alternate to classic KDE launcher.

Download the zipped plasmoid widget file from here.

Installing the plasmoid widget:

Change to the Download directory, and install the plasmoid widget using the following command.

• $ plasmapkg -i  rosastarter.zip

After the successful installation of the Rosa Launcher plasmoid, the Rosa Launcher is ready to use from the add widget menu. Drag the widget to your desktop or taskbar and enjoy the eye candy launcher for KDE.

Troubleshooting:


Error: Installation of rosastarter.zip failed.
Solution: enable more verbose output from plasmapkg. Run kdebugdialog:

• kdebugdialog --fullmode

and enable the outputs for 1209 libplasma.

Error: Could not create a python scriptengine for "Rosa Launcher"
Solution: Install "plasma-scriptengine-python"

• $ sudo apt-get install plasma-scriptengine-python

You may additionally need to install "python-dev" package in case the error persist.

•  $ sudo apt-get install python-dev

Note: If the download links for the Rosa Launcher deb file and Rosa plasmoid widget do not work, you can download the files from the launchpad website as given below.

https://launchpad.net/mandriva-rosa/mandriva-rosa-launcher/mandriva-rosa

Enjoy!

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Newbie Guide: How to Change Default Boot for GRUB

If you are new in Linux, especially for you who still use dual-boot with Microsoft Windows or other operating systems, I will share my knowledge on how to change default boot for GRUB. There are a lot of GUI applications to do such thing but knowing the basic concept is important if you want to know more about Linux. Before we get started, please take a closer look at the picture below:

OK! Let's make an assumption, we have five entries in GRUB numbered with 0 until 4 which number "0" (Ubuntu) is default boot for GRUB. It means that if you don't do anything when this screen appears, the "0" entry will be selected to boot. Now, we want to make the "4" (Windows XP) entry to be a default boot for GRUB. To do such thing, we have to edit "/boot/grub/grub.cfg" file, simply type the following command:

• sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

New Gedit window will be opened and shows the content of "/boot/grub/grub.cfg". Search for statement set default="0"!

Do you find it? All you need to do is changing the "0" number to "4". It makes the "4" entry (Windows XP) set to default boot for GRUB. Don't forget to save your work and reboot to see the changes.

Regards :)

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Kubuntu: No longer a Canonical's flagship distribution!

Jonathan Riddell, lead developer for the Kubuntu project and the only guy employed by Canonical to work on the KDE variant of the popular distribution, has announced that after the 12.04 release, Canonical will no longer pay him for developing  KDE variant of Ubuntu, putting Kubuntu on the same level as other Ubuntu variants like Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu etc. which are already community driven projects.

Riddell will continue to be employed by Canonical, but working on Kubuntu will be confined to his free time. In order for the Kubuntu project to continue operating, Riddell says that community members will have to take a more active role in doing unpopular tasks such as ISO testing.

According to Riddell

"Kubuntu has not been a business success after 7 years of trying, 

and it is unrealistic to expect it to continue to have financial 

resources put into it."

Although this will not going to be a disappointing news for the guys at KDE and the users who prefer KDE over other desktop environments since there are enough other KDE-centric distributions around, and we cannot blame Canonical for not wanting to invest in a project which worth nothing financially.


Kubuntu users who want to join the development effort and participate in testing and maintaining the distribution can learn more about how to get involved at the project's website.

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Footnote: Eyecandy note taking app from Elementary OS

Footnote is an eycandy, fast, and simple note taking app from Elementary OS team, this app allows you to take notes efficiently and helps keep them organized. It also support exporting your notes to pdf format for record keeping.

Installing Footnote in Ubuntu.


Add this ppa for the dependencies:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nemequ/sqlheavy

• sudo apt-get update
  

Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 can get Footnote from elementary-os daily build ppa.

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily

• sudo apt-get update
  

Install footnote:

• sudo apt-get install footnote

Note: Footnote 0.1 is still in development phase, consequently, the app is  unstable  and not suitable for mission critical purposes.

Report Bugs to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/footnote

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Fbcmd: Use Facebook from Command Line

Hello everybody! How are you? I hope everything is well there :) Today I'd like to write a post about Fbcmd. Fbcmd is a command line interface (CLI) for Facebook which is open-source and works on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Fbcmd was originally created for "fast" status update and posting some items on news feed, but it has additional features too! In this post, we'll cover how to get Fbcmd running on Linux system, how to configure it and finally a simple example on how to post status update on Facebook with this cool stuff.

Installing required components
Fbcmd created with PHP programming language, so we need PHP interpreter to run this application:

• sudo apt-get install php5 php5-cli

Check whether everything is installed correctly by typing the following command:

• php -r "echo phpversion();"

Now, please make sure that PHP is configured correctly, especially "allow_url_fopen" variable in php.ini  must be set to "On".

• cat /etc/php5/cli/php.ini | grep allow_url

If the value of "allow_url_fopen" is still "Off" set it to "On"!

Installing Fbcmd
Please download Fbcmd zipped package here, then type the following commands to install it:

• unzip fbcmd.zip
• cd fbcmd
• sudo php fbcmd_update.php
• sudo php fbcmd_update.php install

It needs some times to install because it will search for update on the Internet. Once installed, please type "fbcmd" on Terminal the check wheter Fbcmd is installed correctly.

One-Time Configuration
The purpose of this step is to gain access to your Facebook account, so please be patient if there will a lot of commands to run. Don't worry, you should run this step only once!
Please make sure, you have logged into your Facebook account:

• fbcmd go access

A window of web browser will be opened and you will be prompted to give "initial" permission to Fbcmd accessing your account (for Auth Code generation process). Now, Fbcmd needs to generate Auth Code (or One-time code) from your account, simply type the following command:

• fbcmd go auth

A web browser window will be opened again and you need to "Generate" one-time code which will be entered to Fbcmd application in order to gain "full" access to your Facebook account. Please, generate the code and remember, copy, or save the unique code.

Once, One-time code successfully generated, run this command to enter it to the application:

• fbcmd auth XXXXXX

Replace "XXXXXX" with your unique code. There is one more step to give Fbcmd "full" access to your Facebook account:

• fbcmd addperm

You've done! Now you can use Fbcmd as you wish. I'll give an example on how to post status update using Fbcmd:

• fbcmd status "This is a test status update using Fbcmd"

There are still a lot of commands of Fbcmd, you can read all of them including the examples here.

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Unity 5.x Design Concept (Mockup) for Ubuntu 12.04

Frederico Araújo Mendes sent us his design concept (Mockup) of Unity 5.x that was intended for Ubuntu 12.04, is this design will be the next candidate of Ubuntu 12.04 Unity design? I hope so ..

That was interesting design from him, this design reflects the power of modern desktop, all we want are available in a single click. I think some of this features may indeed be present in Unity today or tomorrow. Some of features that's good and should be considered to be the next Unity features are :

• Unity Widgets - Some poeple used to install an application like Screenlets, Conky and Super Karamba to get some widget for complement a desktop features or just to decorate a desktop appearence, it think it was good idea if Unity bring this thing by default. 

• Unity Appearence Setting - there was unity appearence setting provided which can be used by the user to setting or choose unity dash display that according to own taste. 

• New Design of Lens : We're interested in new design that made for unity music lens, you can browse and play music directly from dash which designed very close to the music player. 
• Feel interested in this design, See following video :

Ask and suggestion can be forwarded to : nq6@hotmail.com

@Thanks and good job for Frederico Araújo Mendes

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Firefox Menu Button Icon

Are you getting bored with the ugly Firefox menu button in Linux and want to change it to some colorful icon ?

Then here is a userstyle for Stylish Firefox extension. It contains loads of Icons for your every mood. Works great with most of themes in Firefox.

If you already have Stylish extension installed you can directly apply these icons to your Firefox, otherwise it will ask you to install Stylish extension from same link.

Enjoy!

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How to Change LibreOffice Splash Screen

LibreOffice is default Office Suite applications for latest Ubuntu so it becomes popular nowadays. Recently, I wrote a post about how to boost LibreOffice startup by tweaking some options. Now, I'd like to share another LibreOffice trick that's how to change LibreOffice splash screen. This trick is useful - for example - if you want to "match" your LibreOffice splash screen with your remastering or desktop modification project. OK! Let's get started.

In this post, I use "theme" created by Kasenkov @gnome-look.org. Please download the theme here and extract it to place which is easy to remember then type the following command to replace default LibreOffice Splash Screen (please back up the original file if needed):

• sudo cp about.png intro.png /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/

Once replaced, you need to configure the progress bar color, size, and position. You can do it by editing "sofficerc" file.

• sudo gedit /etc/libreoffice/sofficerc

Edit the file as follows:

• [Bootstrap]
• HideEula=1
• Logo=1
• NativeProgress=true
• ProgressBarColor=78,158,1
• ProgressFrameColor=45,45,45
• ProgressPosition=60,277
• ProgressSize=320,6

ProgressBarColor and ProgressFrameColor is in RGB value, of course you change it with any values you like. ProgressPosition is declared in X and Y coordinate, in this example, the progress bar is located at 60 pixels from left and 277 pixels from top. ProgressSize declared in width and height in pixels, in this example, we set it to 320 pixels width and 6 pixels height.

Don't forget to save your work and test it by opening LibreOffice. Hope it works.

Regards :)

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Mandriva a sinking ship?

My very first tryst with Linux started with RedHat version 8, the time when RedHat was a free operating system like any-other Linux distro and there was no Ubuntu. But RedHat never worked the way I wanted my desktop to be, and I tried as many Linux distro as I could find. A distro which stood apart and worked beautifully for me was Mandriva (known as Mandrake Linux that time).


 

In one sentence, Mandrake Linux was like the Ubuntu of this era in terms of usability and ease. Mandrake Linux provided the easiest way to the Internet and software availability in its infamous discovery and power pack flavors packed with both open source and proprietary software.

Down the year 2012 the old shine and luster is all lost and the company behind the Magical Linux is on the verge of disappearance from the legendary wall of fame of Linux distributions.

But what made this transition from being a legend to a forgotten tale ?

Brian Proffitt argued in his article  “The diminishing of the operating system” that not keeping up with the trends of time is the reason for the decline of French Linux distributor, the other OS vendors are no longer selling Operating System as a standalone solution, rather they offer services such as virtualization and cloud computing along with the OS, training and support (which is no longer a minting machine for Open Source companies).

Brian could be correct in his deduction as far as RedHat and SUSE are concerned since these companies no longer rely on the sale of their brand of operating system and offer a basket full of innovative services and solutions for the enterprise and server space. But it is not the case with Ubuntu, the move towards Smart TV , Mobile and Tablet platform are only the plans for the future and do not create funds for canonical right now.

One should also take the community factor into the consideration when talking about FOSS. One cannot deny that the main source for the new innovations in open source space for RedHat & Novell stems from their community offerings namely Fedora and OpenSUSE which are among the most active free and open source communities along with Cannonical for Ubuntu.

In my opinion the lack of contributions from an active community is also a reason behind this deadly jerk for Mandriva. Mageia Linux which forked out from the Mandriva in 2010 is not a supported community initiative from Mandriva, but an effort from the bunch of dissatisfied developers from the French Linux company.

So even if the Mandriva will recover from the financial crunch (as they had done in 2010) the community effort from the Mageia will carry the legacy of the Magical Linux Desktop forward in the coming years.

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Laptops/Desktops/Servers That Ready for Ubuntu - Ubuntu Hardware Certification

To ensure that Ubuntu runs smoothly in every laptops/desktops/servers, canonical has a program called Ubuntu Certification. Ubuntu certification is a program where ubuntu is working together with several laptops/desktops/servers and hardware providers to make sure that Ubuntu can work well on some product they produce.

Official Ubuntu (community) conducted some tests on every laptops/desktops/servers using predetermined testing and validation criteria before a servers/desktops/laptops or hardware awarded as 'Ubuntu Certified'. Some laptops/desktops/servers providers who have cooperated with ubuntu including Dell, Wipro, Lenovo, HP, IBM, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, System76, Intel, HCL Infosystems Limited, Citrix Systems, VMware, Sun, and Quanta.

List of  laptops/desktops/servers which have been certified by ubuntu can be seen here, at glance dell laptop series dominating the total of laptops that have been certified by Ubuntu.

So, if you've a plan to buy some new device (servers/desktops/laptops) and wondered if "can ubuntu works well there ?" , i think it is better idea if visiting this page first.

Besides of the project above, there are also Ubuntu community called Ubuntu Friendly which driven hardware validation programme for desktops, netbooks and laptops which running Ubuntu 11.10 and up, The aim of this community is to have a simple and quick way to look up how well machines work with Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu friendly now running in beta and planned to be  launch in April 2012. you can also participate in there, see following participation guide  or visit Ubuntu Friendly site. 

Reference site :
[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification
[2] https://friendly.ubuntu.com
[3] http://webapps.ubuntu.com/partners/certified-software/

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Mounty: Easily Mount Disk Images from Application Indicator

Mounty is small application which can mount popular disk images such as iso, img, bin, mdf, nrg directly from Application Indicator. Windows users who is familiar with Daemon Tools should know what Mounty is. There is another feature of Mounty, that's capability to burn disk images to CD/DVD.

Mounty has a easy-to-use interface, this application is suitable for people who is "lazy" to open the Terminal, and type some weird commands for mounting disk images. With Mounty you can mount and burn disk images with few of clicks even with single hands! :D

Installation on Ubuntu
Many of Ubuntu users have created PPA for Mounty, but there is an official repository for it. So, please type the following commands to install Mounty for its official repository:

• sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss / #SKSS"
• wget http://download.learnfree.eu/repository/skss/repo.pub.asc -q -O- | sudo apt-key add -
• sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mounty

Once installed, Mounty can be executed from Accessories section in the menu. For convenience, you can enable "Load at startup" to automatically run Mounty when computer starts.

Regards.

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We Need Contributors - Let's Participate in UbuntuBuzz!

We would like to invite you to contribute in UbuntuBuzz!, Whether you're an experienced ubuntu or someone who just knows ubuntu yesterday we give you same opportunity.

Along with increasing of the number of people who like ubuntu and people who access this blog (for now, we have at least 20,000 page hits every day), we hope that our readers can be more interact and directly participate, regarding to that, we would like to invite you to share your experience and knowledge with other readers by writing some article.

What Should I Write?

If you have joined in ubuntubuzz you can write in your own, but please consider that you should be able to take responsibility for what you write. We give some criteria that maybe interesting to be shared, among others ... Read More

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