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GnoMenu gets ‘wrapped up’ in Avant Window Navigator (AWN) 0.4 Beta

By • Nov 11th, 2009 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

GnoMenu , eye-candy Applications Menu will have version 2.0 out soon, maybe on the 15th of this month and Avant Window Navigator, my favorite dock will soon be releasing version 0.4 with support for non composited Linux desktops. Right now you can get version 0.3.9.1 also considered as AWN 0.4 beta from PPA for Awn […]

App Tab Brings Chrome-Like Pinned Tabs to Firefox

By • Nov 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

If you love the Pin Tab feature in Chromium and Google Chrome browsers that crops tabs down to favicon-size, so you gain more tab bar space and would like to give it a try in Firefox, then grab the App Tabs Firefox extension. Pinning tabs doesn’t mean holding them down to a fix position, pinned-tabs […]

Install SopCast Player in Ubuntu 9.10 from Repository

By • Nov 8th, 2009 • Filed under: Multimedia, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video

SopCast Player makes use of the P2P(Peer-to-Peer) technology to bring live streaming video and audio to your Ubuntu. Getting it installed on Ubuntu 9.04 was rather tricky: How to Setup P2P Tv with gtk-SopCast on Ubuntu 9.04 , but that was then.

Chromium Linux now Installs User Scripts as Extensions

By • Nov 7th, 2009 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Recently released Chromium nightly 4.0.239.0 (Ubuntu build 31231) now converts and installs Greasemonkey user scripts as an extension, just like its Windows sibling that got this new feature 2 days ago. So to install a user script from UserScript.org in Chromium Linux build just click on the install button of the script, hit “Continue” and […]

Firefox: Relocate the Progress Bar on each Tab with Tab Progress Bar

By • Nov 6th, 2009 • Filed under: Firefox, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

Current versions of the Firefox (Firefox 3.5.5/ Firefox 3.6 Beta) browser have the “Progress bar” located at the “Status Bar” but upcoming Firefox 3.7 will introduce a new feature that moves the “Progress bar” into each tab. You can add this feature to your current Firefox by installing this feather-weight extension called Tab Progress Bar […]