Windows/Mac/Linux: With the release of Thunderbird 3 Beta 3, Mozilla’s desktop email client takes another step towards the final release of Thunderbird 3.
The Thunderbird 3 beta 3 is a bug-fixes packed release that focuses on testing the core functionality of Thunderbird 3’s new features and platform changes.
These are the new features that require feedback from the community:
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Ubuntu 9.04 notification alerts still has to be exploited by many applications like Firefox. Mumbles, for example tries to bring Mac growl-like pop-up notifications to several Ubuntu apps like Pidgin, Thunderbird, Amarok and Firefox, whilst FirefoxNotify does so only for Firefox, just like Skype-Notify Script ; a Skype for Linux only pop-up notifier.
Single purpose FirefoxNotify works fine, its lightweight; just about 10K and integrates well with the Ubuntu notification system.
FirefoxNotify is a Firefox add-on, its compatible with recently released Firefox 3.5 and work on Ubuntu Linux 9.04.
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For Windows, Linux: Recently released VLC 1.0’s has a cool feature that permits you to trim-down video, be it a DVD or an AVI file, by simply recording the wanted segments, thus leaving out the unwanted.
This feature that records almost everything that VLC 1.0 plays is found in Advanced Controls; View -> Advanced Controls. Just hit the “Record” button to start saving/recording a video, and hit it again to stop recording.
Each time you stop recording a new segment of the video is saved in your Home /home/username directory in Ubuntu, in Windows in your Document folder.
So you can create many video segments from one big DVD video and upload say to YouTube.
Ripped DVD segments are saved in MPG format, but the FLV – Flash Video files I recorded with VLC 1.0 were saved in the AVI file format and often had poor sound quality.
via Lifehacker ~ VLC 1.0 Records Video from DVDs
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Solang the open source Photo Manager for the Gnome Desktop keeps growing. It was first mention here on this blog when it was at its very first release -- version 0.1, now its at version 0.2.
Solang 0.2 comes with new features like;
but it also comes with new dependencies ; Flickcurl, LibSoup and WebKit Gtk+ to be added to these;
libcairomm-1.0-dev libexiv2-dev libgdamm3.0-dev libgda3-sqlite
libgdl-1-dev libglade2-dev libgphoto2-dev libgtkimageview-dev
libgtkmm-2.4-dev libmagick++-dev
For more on the new features in Solang 0.2, hit the link below and move to the authors website.
via Santanu’s Mindspace ~ Solang 0.2 released
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If you’ve got Google Earth, then go explore the moon like Neil Armstrong, 40 years after.
Google Earth now has a new feature that permits you Explore the Moon by just selecting Moon from its top ToolBar.
With Moon in Google Earth you can
If you don’t have Google Earth 5.0, then follow the link above and get it on your Ubuntu.
via Official Google Blog ~ Explore the Moon in Google Earth
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