Mozilla has dropped support for the 1.x series of its all-in-one internet application suite, SeaMonkey. SeaMonkey 1.0 was released four years ago and v1.1 came a year later (v.1.1 is three years old). Today, SeaMonkey project hasdecided to discontinue the 1.x series in favor of the more modern and secure SeaMonkey 2.x. More
On installing Gnome Gmail on your Ubuntu Desktop you get the option to set Gmail as your default mail reader in Preferred Applications. In other words, with Gnome Gmail, Gmail becomes an email desktop client like Thunderbird or Evolution. Its supports “To:”, “Subject:”, “body”, “CC:”, and “BCC: fields, so when you click on an email link in your web browser Gmail readily comes-up, you can right-click a file, select “Send to” to attach the file and place it in your Drafts folder, naturally you’ll have to emit your Gmail username and password. More
x.minutes.at is a smart web utility that helps you control the time you spend on a website. In case you want to spend just 4 minutes of your time on Kabatology without exceeding it all you have to do is launch your preferred web browser and add http://4.minutes.at in front of kabatology.com,to get http://4.minutes.at/kabatology.com. The “x” stands for, time in minutes, so you can change that figure each time you visit different web sites, for example http://20.minutes.at/cnn.com. More
The open source music player Amarok takes a big leap from version 2.2.2 to version 2.3.0. Amarok 2.3 codenamed “Clear Light” comes with many bug fixes and several noticeable changes that made its developers opt for a new label name that skips the nomenclature. The new condensed experimental main toolbar displays only one control button at a time – the next and previous control buttons display the names of the respective track. The old slim toolbar is still available at View -> Slim Toolbar. More
Eye-candy, theme-driven Applications Menu, GnoMenu updates to version 2.5 with lots of bugs fixes and a new theme called iTheme, see screenshot above. GnoMenu 2.5 also improves gtk theming, its now smoothly continuous than ever before, those who have used previous version will certainly notice that.
You’ll also get a notification bubble when you add new items to the favorite list, needs libnotify – ça va sans dire, make use of the right-click menu to quickly add items to the favorites list.
GnoMenu is available in the Launchpad Repositories, its a free download for Gnome desktops like Ubuntu – it is released under the GNU/GPL license.