Adobe has just made available the second prerelease of x64bit flash player for all platforms. The version is 10,0,42,34. You can download the file from. http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
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Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome. Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try
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Firefox 3.6 beta 3 is already available in Ubuntu 9.10. The Mozilla development team has released it to the development ppa . To install , add the mozilla ppa from the Ubuntu tweak 3rd party repository section and hit the refresh button. A new window will pop up with newly available packages. Install firefox from
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GIMP can now be operated in a single window mode. All you need to do is enable the testing repository from Ubuntu Tweak. Then hit the refresh button. When the update manager pops up just install the updated GIMP package. Then open GIMP . go to Windows -> single windowed mode. Thats it. enjoy !!
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When I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora 11 , catalyst 9.9 stopped working and I got blank screens. I had to be content with the opensource graphics drivers which did not provide 3D acceleration in fedora 11 systems (surprisingly!) Now, after the release of catalyst 9.10 , I’m back using compiz and my favourite
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I have been testing video calls from the newly launched pidgin voice/video service. The test was done with a windows user on the other end , on a dell studio 15 laptop running windows vista home premium. On my end i have been using the latest ubuntu 9.10 alpha4 daily release 29th of august 2009.
Pidgin voice & video calls from gmail actually working!! Read More »
TIme to rejoice for Skype Linux users!!!! Skype developers yesterday released the much awaited beta of skype 2.1 . This new version is hoped to improve on all the pulseaudio related issues in Ubuntu distros and all the other distros using pulseaudio as the main sound server. Plus it is touted to provide better video/voice
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All of us who are using Ubuntu 9.04 &/or its derivatives like super os or linux mint 7 or ultimate edition 2.2 must have had the a few issues with skype. 1. Call drops after approx 4 mins 2. Call muting after approx 4 mins 3. High CPU usage . 4. Crashing of Skype. Searching
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“Lastly, thanks to everyone who has written in asking about support for Linux. We’ve had to rewrite a key piece of technology, so this has taken some time. However, the results will be worth the wait.” This is what Justin Uberti (Tech Lead, Google) wrote on his blog on 30th of June. Looks like google
Google Video Chat In Linux , Long wait to end soon! Read More »
For those who have been eagerly waiting for a new updated release for google gears to work with firefox 3.5 in windows , linux and macs, i have a good news for u guys. Geza Kovacs , developer, has developed some custom versions of google gears to work with firefox 3.5. Go here for downloads
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