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Archive for February, 2008

Tribute to Herbie Hancock – Grammys’ Album Of The Year

By • Feb 15th, 2008 • Filed under: Extras, Jazz Review

This years Grammy Awards for “Album Of The Year” goes to River: The Joni Letters by Herbie Hancock. Herbie Hancock is an amazing contemporary jazz pianist and composer. In his early carrier he played for several years with the second Miles Davis quintet and helped in redefining the role of rhythm in Jazz with his […]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron replaces Gnome BitTorrent with Transmission

By • Feb 15th, 2008 • Filed under: Ubuntu

The fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 bundles up many new features and changes. Ubuntu Hardy Heron gives up the problematic Gnome BitTorrent and adopts the GTK version of Transmission BitTorrent client as its new file downloader. Transmission is a feather weight BitTorrent client with a very easy-to use interface for those new to the […]

Test Firefox 3 Beta 3 and give feedback to Mozilla Team

By • Feb 14th, 2008 • Filed under: Firefox

Firefox lovers can now test the latest Firefox 3 Beta 3 release. This is release available for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms and it comes in over 30 different languages. It will be interesting to try out its new features and changes, and give feedback to the Mozilla Developer team. These new features include; Improved […]

Discover and Share your Favourite Websites Without Installing StumbleUpon Toolbar

By • Feb 13th, 2008 • Filed under: Extras, Firefox

All lovers of StumbleUpon use the traditional StumbleUpon toolbar for Mozilla and Internet Explorer to discover and share with friends their favourite websites. Given that other browsers like Opera, Safari, or Prism- the web app launcher and more do not support this toolbar for now, what can StumbleUpon fans, who use these browsers do to […]

Switching Gnome On and Off from the Command Line

By • Feb 12th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

What happens when you’re Gnome Display Manager(GDM) crashes? It could happen when playing 3d games or when running an automation software or for some other reason. When it happen you’re keyboard and mouse could get blocked. If you can still get to the command line then the easiest way to affront this issue is restarting […]