Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on September 29, 2006 by CyberNet.

The Ubuntu team is now ready to showcase the next upcoming version of their popular Linux operating system: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft. It is currently in the Beta stage but it appears that they are progressing nicely and doing a great job of adding new features. If you are skeptical about installing a Beta release then you should hold off because the final version should be available within a month.

Here are some of the things that are new:

• New theme and bootup splash screen
• Tomboy – used for note-taking (pictured above)
• F-spot – photo manager
• Firefox 2
• OpenOffice 2.0.4 RC2
• GAIM 2.0 Beta 3

If you are currently running Ubuntu 6.06 then you can quickly upgrade to 6.10 if you choose to.

I haven’t tried running this version but Ubuntu hasn’t been very friendly with my laptop in the past. Luckily the wireless does work on it but that doesn’t makeup for the fact that Ubuntu can turn on my laptop’s fans. Sure it is always quiet but if you have this thing sitting on your lap then you’ll quickly notice how hot a laptop can get if it doesn’t have a fan.

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This article was written on September 15, 2006 by CyberNet.

Mozilla has released Thunderbird 2 Pre-Beta 1 onto their FTP. I have been using the latest nightly build since before Alpha 1 was released but I have only noticed one significant change and that is with the Options screen (pictured below). I am sure a lot has been done but it is probably more “under-the-hood.”

Here are the download links for Thunderbird 2 Pre-Beta 1 which are currently only available in English:

• Linux (TAR)
• Mac (DMG)
• Windows (EXE – Installer)
• Windows (ZIP)

I hunted around to look for a release date on Thunderbird 2 Beta 1 but the most specific thing that I could find was “mid-September.” Since the Pre-Beta 1 was just released today I would treat that as a Release Candidate, which will normally float around for a few days before being marked as a release.

Here is what the Options screen now looks like:

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This article was written on January 22, 2007 by CyberNet.

One of the most used Firefox extensions has to be FoxyTunes. It is designed to control a large range of media players right from your browser, and it is compatible with both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Just when you thought the best couldn’t get better…

They are currently testing FoxyTunes Planet which is a music aggregation service. They have a nice search engine (pictured above) that will let you search for artists or you can browse for them by genre. Once you find the artist/group you’re looking for it will take you to a customizable page featuring videos, photos, news, bios, and much more.

They also offer a version of the FoxyTunes add-on/extension that works seamlessly with FoxyTunes Planet. While you’re playing a song all you have to do is click on the “planet” icon in the Status Bar to have it retrieve that artist’s page:

As you can see from the screenshot above a wealth of information is presented to you in just seconds…and the best thing is that you can customize how much stuff is shown. One of the planned features is to let users add widgets that aren’t already pre-designed, but until that happens you’ll be limited to these:

• Amazon.com
• Last FM
• Flickr
• Google
• iTunes Music Store
• eMusic
• Hype Machine
• Rhapsody
• Pandora
• YouTube
• Yahoo! Images
• Yahoo! Music

So…one thing that is important for you to know is that the service is currently in a private Beta and you’ll have to request an invite to get in. “Jack of all Trades” is the one who sent me information on this and he told me that I should request an invite myself…so I did. The only thing that he said the service lacks is a widget to retrieve the lyrics for a particular song, and I’m sure that will get added very soon because a lot of people would love to have that.

Here is some more information on the FoxyTunes Planet:
Frequently Asked Questions
FoxyTunes Planet announcement

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This article was written on June 16, 2008 by CyberNet.

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About two weeks ago we gave you a heads up that Flock 2.0 Beta was coming, and there was a lot of excitement surrounding the release since it’s based on Firefox 3.0. With that you get all of the Firefox 3 goodness including performance enhancements, advanced bookmarking, new address bar, and much more.

The Flock team has done a tremendous job of integrating Firefox 3 with all of the social features we’ve come to know and love in Flock. A good example of that is with the new bookmarking system which you can access by pressing the star located to the left of the address bar. You’ll notice that it looks incredibly similar to Firefox 3’s bookmarking system, but it also has the section dedicated to the online bookmarking services Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia:

The most important improvements come in the way of performance, and that is largely due to the better memory management that Firefox 3 has brings to the table. Personally I opened up over a dozen tabs in the new Flock 2.0 Beta, and it just barely broke 100MB of memory usage on Windows. That’s definitely not too shabby, but they wanted to point out that it will likely still use more memory than Firefox 3:

As you probably already know, Flock has a number of powerful features built on top of the Firefox architecture that allow you to have a truly unique browsing experience. These features come with a price, and that price is a slightly larger memory footprint. Comparing Flock to Firefox with no extensions installed is like comparing apples with oranges. In order to enjoy any advanced functionality in Firefox you need to install extensions, unlike Flock which has lots of advanced features built right in. Firefox extensions will increase both the memory footprint, and the risk of memory leaks over time. That said, all of the memory improvements in Firefox 3 (including many memory leak fixes and much better memory management ‘housekeeping’ practices) apply to Flock 2, so you should experience notably improved browsing performance with Flock 2 than you’ve experienced in prior versions.

Here’s some more information that Flock has posted in regards to enhancements for the new version:

• Performance – Better memory management
• Security – Anti-virus integration, secure add-on updates, and more
• User Interface – Media Bar has some new features
• Favorites – New interface for managing and creating bookmarks
• New Flock-specific Features – Manually refresh your feesd

If you’re a social media addict then I highly recommend you take Flock 2.0 for a spin. I’m not sure if I’ll use this over Firefox 3, but I’ll definitely give it a real shot now that the performance isn’t unbearable.

Flock 2.0 Beta [via Download Squad]

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This article was written on December 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

It is hard to believe that Ubuntu is already releasing another milestone but that is pretty much how Linux works…every few weeks there is something new. This version, named Feisty Fawn Herd 1, is just a pre-release to test out some of the new things that will be integrated in Ubuntu 7.04 when it is available in April of 2007. I just love the names that they pick for their releases…they are pretty, um, unique.

The changes aren’t that noticeable but there are two new games (chess and sodoku) along with a cool hard drive visualization utility that are all pictured above. Other than that there is a lot of under-the-hood work that you won’t notice while using this release.

Similarly there are “Herd 1″ versions of Kubuntu and Edubuntu available for download.

The Herd images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Feisty. You can download it here, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu respectively:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/feisty/herd-1/ (Edubuntu)

With most Linux Distributions I am a fan of the KDE interface but choosing between Ubuntu/Kubuntu makes me lean toward Ubuntu. There is something about the brown interface, simple layout, and enormous number of guides that really makes me love using it. Kubuntu doesn’t have the same sense of warmth but overall I am still partial to the OpenSuse distribution. It is a little disappointing that there hasn’t been many versions of Linux that try to make it easy for users to activate the XGL/Compiz but I’m sure that will come with time.

You can find out more about the changes in Ubuntu here and the changes in Kubuntu here in case you want to know about the nitty gritty.

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