Android: iTag is a free service and application that offers several tools for locating—and if necessary, remotely wiping the data on—your lost, stolen, or misplaced Android phone.
On top of the hassle involved when you lose your phone, you also have to deal with the potential of somebody getting access to the private stuff on it. iTag is here to help.
iTag isn't just a basic tracking application, but a full-featured suite to help you recover and control access to your phone. Once you sign up for an iTag account and install the iTag application on your phone, you can locate your phone, shut your phone down, back up your phone's contacts before locking it, force your phone to ring—overriding silent mode—and even see if the thief who grabbed the phone swapped out the phone number. Check out the video above to see it in action.
The beautiful Bisigi themes were available for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx users in a testing PPA. Well, today the themes have moved to the main PPA.
Also, the Karmic versions of the themes have been updated to Murrine 0.90.3 so they should look the same as the Lucid versions.
There is also some bad news: the Hardy and Jaunty packages (apparently there were not packages for Intrepid) will be removed from the Bisigi PPA, so only Ubuntu Karmic and Lucid will be supported from now on.
Ubuntu One started as a simple cloud sync with only a few features but it's slowly becoming an amazing application! After getting integration with the Ubuntu Music Store, Firefox bookmarks sync and mobile phones sync support, 2 new features have been announced today.
We've known about the first for some time: Sync any folder - which will allow you to right click any folder in your home directory and choose "Synchronize on Ubuntu One". So you can sync any folder with Ubuntu One, not just those in the Ubuntu One folder.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx Release Candidate is available for download.
There aren't many visual changes since Beta 2, however we're going to cover this few changes anyway.
Note: If you've installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha, Beta 1 or 2 and kept upgrading, you already have all the changes in this post.
Here's a quick tip which many will find very handy. UNP is a small script which makes it very easy to extract almost any archive via command line. If you can't remember the command to extract tar.gz, rar and so on, you will love unp.
Basically to use unp, all you have to do is type:
When Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx got new wallpapers about a week ago, all the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic wallpapers which were still present in Lucid at this point, were removed.
But today, the Karmic wallpapers were saved (freeze exception) and repackaged into "ubuntu-wallpapers-extra" so you can install in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx by simply pasting this in a terminal:
As you probably know, Docky will not be a part of Gnome Do anymore. There was a PPA to install the development version of Docky in Ubuntu, but the Docky package has been removed. Fortunately, there now is an official Docky development PPA.
To add the Docky development PPA to the Ubuntu Karmic (also works for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx) software sources, run the following command in a terminal:
The following step by step guide will help you in installing Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard as a guest virtual machine in Windows 7. You’ll need to have a system with an Intel processor which supports hardware virtualization, original OS X Snow Leopard retail disk, VMware Workstation 7 and Windows 7, Vista or XP installed as host operating system. If you meet all these requirements, you can then install OS X Snow Leopard as a VM under Windows and can enjoy the best of both worlds.
This is the quickest option for most users. FFmpeg from the repository does not include many restricted encoders, formats, and codecs including: h263, aac (libfaac), mp3 (libmp3lame), h264 (libx264), xvid (libxvid), and mpeg4. You can fix this by installing the unstripped or extra (Ubuntu Karmic renamed unstripped to extra) FFmpeg libraries that will enable these restricted encoders. Open up Terminal and enter:
MultiBoot is an application similar to the MultiCD script which we wrote a while back, except MultiBoot comes with a GUI so is somewhat easier to use for non-technical users.
What MultiBoot does is allows you to make a live USB with multiple Linux distributions. A list of supported Linux distributions can be found HERE.
To install MultiBoot in Ubuntu, simply paste this in a terminal: