Ubuntu 9.10

Posted: October 29th, 2009 | Author: adq890 | Filed under: ubuntu | Tags: | No Comments »

Email and chat

  • Chat to friends and colleagues through Empathy which integrates: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL, QQ and many more.
  • Evolution gives you email, an address book and a calendar and works well with colleagues and friends using MS Outlook.

Browse the Internet

  • Ubuntu includes Mozilla Firefox 3.5 for faster and safer browsing.
  • For a choice of other open-source web browsers visit the Software Centre and take your pick.

Photos

  • Upload from your camera or phone to F-Spot.
  • Manage, tag, share and sort your photos.
  • Upload easily to your favourite social network or photo-sharing sites inlcuding: Flickr, Facebook, Picassa and many others.

Music and videos

  • Plug in your PSP, iPod, MP3 player and use Rythmbox to download, store, buy and play music.
  • Share playlists with your friends.
  • Access Last.fm directly through Rythmbox to stream your favourite music.
  • Stream and play video from YouTube, BBC and others.

Office applications

  • Create professional documents, spreadsheets and presentations with OpenOffice.org 3.0.
  • OpenOffice.org is compatible with all office applications including Microsoft Office.
  • The big difference is that OpenOffice.org is free (and promises never to introduce Mr Clippy)

Play games

  • Over 400 completely free and completely cool games. Solitaire is not the only game in town.
  • Visit the Software Centre to easily browse, select and install games.

Store, sync and share

  • Integrated “Ubuntu One” technology gives you 2 GB of online storage for free.
  • Easily share files between your own and your friends’ computers.
  • Upgrade at low cost for more storage if you need it.

Software Center

  • Instant access to thousands of free and open-source applications
  • Categories include: Education, Games, Sound and Video, Graphics, Programming and Office.
  • Simply select the applications you want to use and the Software Center will add them to your computer
  • No CDs, no licenses, no hassle.

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Install PDF printer – Ubuntu

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: adq890 | Filed under: ubuntu | Tags: , | No Comments »

Get cups-pdf installed. Open up a terminal session (or use Synaptic) and type the following:

sudo apt-get install cups-pdf

Finished install. ThenĀ  cups-PDF isĀ  automatic load into your printer list.

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Install Firefox 3.5 – Ubuntu

Posted: July 2nd, 2009 | Author: adq890 | Filed under: general, internet, ubuntu | Tags: , | No Comments »

firefox

To install the latest Firefox 3.5

Add to repositories list : /etc/apt/source.list

sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list”
sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main’ >> /etc/apt/sources.list”

Then add the Launchpad PPA GPG key:

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 247510BE

And finally, install Firefox 3.5 :

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox-3.5

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