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MacOS 10.6.2 kills support for Intel Atom

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:18:00 +0000

Apple continues its fight against increasing number of hackintosh community, particularly the growing part devoted to modification of the Atom netbooks machines. Apple will upgrade the upcoming Snow Leopard 10.6.2 to exclude the possibility of successful installation on Atom driven netbooks.

Something similar may be included in MacOS 10.5.9 update. So if you are already MacOS user on Atom netbook avoid these upgrades.

Hackintosh scene has experienced rapid popularity among cheap netbooks owners because the Mac Os installation process is very easy with minimal modifications. Especially popular are Dell Mini 9 and 10 becouse all hardware components simply works with MacOS system.

10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 9.10

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:39:00 +0000

Ubuntu 9.10 is excellent, it has improvements in every field, it is faster, more responsive, the effects are smoother, the apps installation easiest than ever :)) But after installing your system you must spend some time of fine tuning your system... Here is 10 things how to do that:

1. Install Graphics drivers. According to your graphic card, you need to install graphic drivers to support advance compiz effects. In this particular case, I'm using nvidia, so in Applications/Ubuntu Software Center search for “nvidia drivers” without quotes (or ATI, Intel, VIA or other – depending of your graphic card). Next select the newest one and click install. If you have older graphic card maybe you should downgrade your driver version. Ubuntu will automatically suggest that when you start System/Administration/Hardware drivers to activate your graphic driver. Select the driver from the list a click activate. After restart you will have new drivers activated with advance compiz effects..

2. Fonts. To install Microsoft Windows fonts, open your terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and enter:

sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

If you want to install any other fonts you can get from the net or use your font database follow this steps:

Go to your home folder (Places/HomeFolder)
Enable “Show Hidden Files” option from Nautilus View menu
Then create new folder with name “.fonts” (with dot in front)
Now in new folder copy all your true type fonts. If you want to copy your Windows fonts, you can find it in WINDOWS/Fonts folder.
After that, the new fonts will be active, you can try it with OpenOffice or other application.

3. Make LCD Monitor Adjustments – To optimize your Ubuntu LCD Screen go to:

System/Preferences/Appearance and choose Fonts tab.
Select the SubPixel Smoothing (LCD) and click details.
Next - find “Hinting” field and select “Medium”.
Close the Appearance window. Your pixels should be smoother now.

4. Make Ubunty 9.10 Multimedia ready (DVD, Divx, Xvid, MP3, WMA, WMV, MOV, etc..). Go to Applications/Ubuntu Software Center and search for Gstreamer plugins. From the list bellow, install one by one next Gstreamer plugins:

GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin
GStreamer extra plugins
GStreamer plugins for mms, wavpack, quicktime, musepack
GStreamer plugins for aac, xvid, mpeg2, faad

After installation you can play all you favorite songs and movies in various multimedia formats.

To enable protected DVD playback, you must install a few things more:

First, Medibuntu to the repository - Medubuntu is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc). Doing that is quite easy, just copy and paste in terminal this commands block by block(Ctrl+Shift+V in terminal to paste):

For DVD:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/karmic.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2

You can also add Windows, Real Networks, Quick Time and other codecs support:

Ubuntu 9.10 32bit

sudo apt-get install w32codecs

Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

sudo apt-get install w64codecs

That's it. For DVD player, we recommend to install VLC media player. For anything else, the native Ubuntu player is excellent.

5. Install Screenlets – Screenlets are Widgets (Clock, Calendar, Weather and other useful things on your desktop). Go to Application/Ubuntu Software Center, search for Screenlets and Click install. Next you can set up screenlets from Applications/Accesories menu.

6. Mount your Windows HDD 's on Ubuntu startup with PySdm. You can install Pysdm with Ubuntu Software Center or with your terminal:

sudo apt-get install pysdm

Next run the app with

sudo pysdm

On partition list you can found all your hard drives. Click on the drive you want to mount, then on general preferences tab click Mount and apply. If the disks are not mounted on startup, start your Pysdm again and select Mount on startup options then apply. Be careful, don’t play with the rest options if you are not experienced user because you can damage your Ubuntu system.

7. Set another Keyboard Layout – If your language is not native English, you can set another keyboard layout so you can write to you native language.

Open System/Preferences/Keyboard and select layout tab.
Then click Add, and from the new window select your country or language and click add again.
You default keyboard layout shortcuts are both ALT. If you want to change that, go to Layout Options/ Keys to Change Layout/ and select your combination.

8. Add Rar support to Ubuntu. Many files on the net (music, subtitles, e-books, rapidshare files etc...) are packed in .rar so you must add rar support to use them. It is easiest part of all tuning processes so open your terminal and copy/paste next line:

sudo apt-get install rar unrar

9. Install Skype and additional themes on your Empathy messenger. To install Skype go to Skype official page and download the latest Skype for Ubuntu 8.10+. Open it with gdebi installer and follow the on screen instructions. After that you can find Skype on Applications/Internet menu.

To install additional empathy themes follow this excellent DetectorPRO tutorial.

10. Install Adobe Flash Plugin to Firefox – You can do it manually from Ubuntu Software Center or Adobe official page (select .deb package in version download) or enter some address with flash content – example "youtube" and select install missing plugins from Firefox

After all this tunings, make update to your system – Go to System/Administration/System Update and make sure that everything is on and up to date. Enjoy and have fun with your new Ubuntu 9.10 experience.

Easy Install 65+ empathy chat themes on Ubuntu

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:33:00 +0000

To install new chat themes first download the themes .deb file from here.

Install it with double click and then follow the next easy tutorial. You must copy the installed themes on your home folder. Here is the steps:

Find the installed files in “/usr/share/empathy-chat-themes” . You can do it manually or in nautilus – click on pencil below the back/forward icons and copy the path without quotes.
Next open your local folder on new nautilus window: Click Places/Home Folder.
From the View tab select “Show hidden files”
Go to “.local/share” folder and make new folder “adium” then make another folder inside adium called “message-styles”.
Final step, copy all files from “/usr/share/empathy-chat-themes” (Ctrl+A to select all and Ctrl+C to copy) and copy to “.local/share/adium/message-styles/” (Ctrl+V to paste)
That's it, you can found empathy themes in edit/preferences/themes in empathy window

time Edition - Tracking your projects time hours

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:57:00 +0000

If you work on some project and have issues for successful tracking of your work hours, it’s time to get timeEdition software. TimeEdition is targeted at all users in a computer workplace who value detailed documentation of their working hours, whether they use it for customer billing or for monitoring the duration of individual projects.

timeEdition focuses on simple usability and a thoroughly clear overview for day-to-day use. It has very simple user interface and users only see those functions that they really need to record their daily working times. All other advanced functions can be accessed from the main menu.

TimeEdition simplifies the work involved in entering your time data, while at the same time it ensures that incorrect time data cannot be input. For example, if you forget to stop time recording when you are off your computer, timeEdition will stop recording automatically when there is noticeable user inactivity (there is no keyboard or mouse input for a specific period).

Also timeEdition works perfectly with Apple's iCal, Microsoft Outlook and Google Calendar. The software lets you automatically transfer your time records into these applications and add a note to each time(helping you to keep all the important details of your projects in sight) so later you can retain a complete overview of your work even in retrospect. You can export your time hours in XLS, XML, CSV and iCal format so you can easily use the time data for invoicing or for your personal documentation.

TimeEdition is cross platform. It works on Windows, Linux and MacOS. Read more about and download timeEdition here.

The hardest task of every webmaster and how to solve it

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000

The hardest task of every webmaster is the first - finding the right hosting site where he could put and maintain his/her web site. There are a lot of hosting companies all over the world which offer their services with different prices and hosting quality. Many are fakes and many are legitimate web hosting companies. But, how you will decide which hosting service is right for you?

As internet become a common way our life, more people are starting to realize that the global network has opened the doors to them around the world to communicate, seek entertainment, shop and conduct business online. If you are just starting out and want no string attached, there are plenty of alternatives.

Choosing a web hosting company that fits your budget can be little overwhelming, since it involves doing some research. Nowadays, Web hosting plans are very competitive and hosting companies are giving more features for less price. Some of the best hosting companies offer reliable and quality hosting, but are on the pricey side. If you are looking to get a quality hosting service at best price, budget web hosting is the best solution for you. Following web hosting guide may help you determine that:

Definition of budget for hosting
Budget web hosting refers to any hosting provider offering hosting service $10 per month or less.

Determine your needs first
What features does your site need? Is this a business web site or just a personal site? Do you need a blog? Do you need to host mission-critical applications? Do you need ecommerce hosting? Do you need a Linux based hosting or windows based hosting? Once you have your feature list ready, start exploring web hosting providers one by one. This site provides a very good list of providers that specialize in each area.

Well explained features and How to
Visit the web site of the hosting company and see how well they explain their features. Are the features listed and well defined? Does the site look professional? A professional looking site reflects the professionalism and also tells you they are serious in business. Do they list a contact number? All the information you need, are they accessible from the homepage? How will you contact them with questions: email, phone, toll number… Lack of support or contact number should raise an immediate red flag.

Reliability and up time Guarantee
Best hosting providers offer up time of over 99%. This shows that the provider is committed to keep all servers up all the time. They are essentially guaranteeing that your site will be functional 99% of the time. The rest downtime of 1% would represent an estimated 8 hours of downtime for the whole year. If you cannot find an up time Guarantee listed in a hosting plan, move on to next provider in your list.

Reliable Servers
Best providers keep a limit on number of sites per server(in case of Shared hosting - multiple hosting accounts on same server). Some hosts do oversell their plans for quick profit, which may result in sites being slow. Call or chat with the support and ask how many sites are supported per server in a shared hosting environment.

You can try WebHostingRating.com. I assume that this is the largest web hosting directory which offers complete up-to-date information of all major web hosting providers, present monthly best web hosting awards, the best of best web hosting offers, discount coupons for website hosting, and un-edited web host reviews by real customers. There you can always find the latest top 10 hosting companies in every moment for your website .

Symbian is now Open Source

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:54:00 +0000

Symbian has announced that the kernel of their popular Symbian OS will now be open source. Currently, Symbian OS is the most popular mobile operating system and is widely used by Nokia phones and other smart phones.

Since the foundation of the Symbian in July 2009, the Symbian OS has been in the process of becoming a full open source OS. Announcement that the kernel is now open source is one big step in that direction. They have also released a Kernel Taster Kit, which is like a scaled down version of PDK 3.0.b, to help the open source developers get started quickly. Download Kernel Taster Kit here.

Opening the kernel opens up a lot of potentially interesting possibilities for the Symbian platform. Now, the developers from all over the world will join their forces to bring more refine and more hardware supporting kernel and also new features and possibilities for new user interfaces, interesting application, new ideas to use phones and social media networks or just – connect to each other. More at Symbian blog.

Cannabis for iPhone and iPod

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:40:00 +0000

The team gathered around the site AJNAG.com released an application for iPhone and iPod with name Cannabis, and Apple approve it for distribution on AppStore. The application is quite unique and as you can infer from the name, users of this application have opportunity, primarily in U.S., but also in Amsterdam, to find sites where you can buy marijuana. As some U.S. states have legalized use of marijuana for medical purposes, this site will send you to the nearest medical center, there you can get a grass (with prescription of the doctor, of course!), and in case you're in Amsterdam, you will be able to find the nearest coffee shops in which the you can use marijuana.

However, if you get caught in illegal use, application seeks the address of the nearest lawyer specializing in such cases...

Facebook upgrade their servers

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:10:00 +0000

Recently, Facebook social network announced more than a 300 million users, while new trends show no decrease in popularity in the coming months. However, very small percent of facebook users thinks about the logistics that stays behind Facebook network so the whole system can work without problems.

The last official outdated data of Facebook servers comes from April 2008 and it counts about 10.000 servers, and today info counts about 30.000 servers serving the social community. The servers for 300 million users are maintained by 230 engineers and they consumed almost $20 million US dollars per year.

Rothschild has also published a few interesting statistics: Currently Facebook stores totally 80 billion photos (20 billion different, each in four sizes), while the servers every second serve approximately 600.000. In every month there are showing around 200 billion pages and only logging size is 25 terabytes of data - per day. Interesting??

How to check battery status on Ubuntu

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:24:00 +0000

Ubuntu provides you with the proc filesystem from you can get very useful information’s for your system. If you need info for your battery, you can found at /proc/acpi/battery folder. If you use only one laptop battery you can find info on BATO folder, otherwise there will be several folders according to your number of batteries. So for quick check, open terminal and copy/paste yhe next code into it:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info

You can then see useful information about your battery’s health etc..

For current battery state enter this lines to the terminal:

cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Now you can see how long will the battery last and other useful info. Have fun.

The Fastest Hard Disk on the World – Sun Flashfire

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:30:00 +0000

Sun claims that they have the fastest network disk system FlashFire. It is a 2TB capacity device that is mounted in a standard network racks, and according to the official statement the speed is 1.6 million operation in reading and 1.2 million in writing per second. More impressive is the speed of data transfer which is 12.8 GB/s.

At this moment the only competitor of Sun is RamSan-440 from Texas Memory Systems that provides bandwidth of "only" 4.5 GB/s.

Shared folders in Google Docs

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:25:00 +0000

Although Google Docs before allows document sharing among users, from Monday started new service which allows sharing of folders also. In this way, by setting access rights to the shared folder, and define access rights to each document in the folder - whether on the text, table or presentation. In short, the end user access to the document on the Internet with the same way as he access to the document in a shared folder on a local network.

Details can be found on the official Google blog here.

Easy Install Wordpress on your Windows

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:24:00 +0000

For easiest Wordpress windows installation you can use Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer and with a few clicks, you will be running a full WordPress blog on your computer without doing any complex stuff.

Microsoft Web Platform Installer is free product designed to make it easy for you to develop and run websites on your Windows PC. It provides a wizard which will help you to install the wanted blogging or CMS platform. The installer is web based and it will install only necessary components that you need for specific platform.

Download and run the Web Platform Installer (download here), click the “Web Applications” tab and then select the “Blogs”. Find and select WordPress to install. The other options needed for Wordpress installation will be automatically added to the installation.

When the installation is done, you will be asked for specific information about your website and passwords for database admin and the Wordpress database. You can use the default options.

Next, setup your Wordpress blog.

1. When everything is installed, “Launch WordPress,” with the top link or you can do it manually with your browser. Enter on your address bar:

http://localhost/wordpress

2. Enter the name and password for your website and click install wordpress.

Wordpress will use admin as a username and will generate password for your blog.

After you log in, WordPress will show you a reminder to change the default admin password or you can change your password in user/your profile.

Next, you can tune your WordPress as you like. Read more about that on future detector-pro posts.

To access your local WordPress site in the future, enter in address bar of your browser:

http://localhost/wordpress/

Or login with :

http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

Have fun and Enjoy.

Windows 8 in 128–bit variant in 2012?

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:33:00 +0000

Microsoft eagerly awaited starting sale of Windows 7 in 22nd October, and initially (like Vista) in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. At the same time, 64-bit version take more and more users from the "ordinary" users, so Microsoft is preparing a new revolution for future versions.

According to unofficial information, the new windows name will be Windows 8 and Windows 9 in 128-bit variant, which is necessary and appropriate hardware. Information are coming from the LinkedIn profile Robert Morgan, long-term employee in Microsoft research and development department. The description stated “Development of 128-bit compatibility for Windows 8 and Windows 9 center, in collaboration with Intel, AMD, HP and IBM”. Morgan pointed out that they are developing a binary instruction set compatibility IA-128 with the existing IA-64, while the simulations are already in progress.

Whatever the case, Windows 8 should bring important changes compared to previous systems. It is mentioned a new algorithms and API functions for hibernation, support for clusters, better support for the SSD's and a lot of other features. Of course, all this information has not officially confirmed.

Windows 8 will be released on the market probably in the year 2012.

Firefox 3.6 Works With The Accelerometer

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:20:00 +0000

If you own a notebook or handheld device equipped with accelerometers, which are more common part of these PCs, the new Firefox 3.6 will be able to use that part of the equipment.

The new version of Firefox is able to take data of the orientation of the device from the built-in accelerometer and inform application executed in the browser window. In Mozilla think that this feature is useful for early web-lab type games where the user control the movement of an object with movement of device, such as (from “that” time) Marble Madness, for those which still remember it.

Of course, not exclude the possibility of some other applications outside of games, but in this moment nothing comes to mind...

How to put music on Facebook

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:38:00 +0000

If you are fan of Facebook and you would like to put a song with your profile, be alerted for concerts and new releases by the artists you enjoy, see what music and concerts your friends like, and communicate directly with your favorite artists, iLike Facebook application is the right application for you.

The iLike sometimes will just play a snippet of the song, you cannot find all possible songs, and it is not exactly the best thing that professionals are looking for, but it helps a lot for normal Facebook user. Over 50 million music lovers use iLike's Music applications on Facebook and on other platforms. And, if you like simple way for putting music in your profile, you can put a music on your Facebook with adding YouTube video/music link.

Other rumor for Facebook about music is that in the near feature Facebook and iTunes will release “something” for every Facebook lover and, as it said, it will be very pro stuff, so stay tuned.

iLike app link: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php

iLike inc on iLike - Get updates inside iTunes

Blaze Smart Launcher – Unique Desktop Experience

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:33:00 +0000

At first glance, acting as just another tool for a faster start of applications and programs, but after a short testing becomes clear that despite the very early release, offers more than many other similar Utilities ...

This is the new name in the world of such utility programs, unlike the vast majority of its is also free for use (Blaze is actually open source), goes a step further. In fact, at first sight behaves as a typical tool to quickly launch applications, indexes the contents of the start menu (and every fifteen minutes), the contents of recently opened documents, favorites, and similar, and provides a compact interface to enter the first few letters of what you want to start.

Blaze is enough "smart" to realize what is actually looking for, and it offers. For example, when we typed firefox, Blaze realized that actually want to run Mozilla Firefox, which he did after we confirmed it.

There is no doubt that Blaze is more of application launcher. Therefore, he presents most of its counterparts features and much more:

Launches Applications.
Browses the File-System and the Web.
Searches for stuff on the Web.
Performs calculations.
Performs in-place calculations.
Performs base conversion.
Creates emails on-the-fly.
Inserts quick texts.
Perform CMD commands on a specific Explorer Window.

There are still a few features missing, like:

Skin support.
Enhance the command learning system. Right now, only commands related to application launching are learned.
Allow Blaze Assistant to export suggested automations to IronPython scripts.
Enhance Blaze integration with IronPython. Currently, the first time a script is run takes quite a while.
Blaze Assistant doesn't detect extension changing on file renaming actions yet.
Support cronjobs.
It's only Windows…

We hope that team from Blaze will implement these missing features soon. Anyway, it is open source better and faster from other similar programs and it is free for download. Here is a link.

HTC HD2 - HTC Sense

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 06:35:00 +0000

HTC from yesterday was richer with another mobile device - HTC HD2. It is a mobile phone based on gigahertz Snapdragon, and operating system Windows Mobile 6.5. Interface is based on the HTC Sense which with 4.3-inch touch screen allows easy allegedly navigation for all the functions and capabilities of this device - from browsing, zooming and resizing web pages, Microsoft Office and PDF documents and photographs and image display. Large display enables faster, more efficient and more accurate typing through keyboard on the screen.

HTC in HTC HD2 included a new version of Twitter, based on the Windows operating system - HTC Peep. Photos taken with 5-megapixel camera can be quickly shared via Facebook or Twitter.

HTC HD2 is possible to upgrade equipment for the car that he will be transformed into a navigation system.

The device dimension is 11 * 120.5 * 67 mm, weighing 157 grams, and the screen resolution is 480 * 800 points. It has built in memory of the 512 Mb RAM and 448 MB ROM, with a possibility of expansion through MicroSD memory cards. Supports 3G connection, GPRS, EDGE and Wi-Fi, and there is a Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, accelerometers addition, 5-megapixel camera, internal GPS, digital compass and other appliances. The good news is that comes with installed Opera Mobile. Price in is not known yet (550-600 Euros for European markets).

New Windows 7 Tablet From Gateway

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Specifications and official photos of the new tablet from gateway leak out. According to Engadget, a tablet with mark EC18T will come with Windows 7, will have a screen with diagonal of 11.6 inches, which can be rotated and placed above the keyboard.

Embedded processor will be Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR3 RAM, and graphics will be integrated in the Intel chipset GS45 Express. Tablet will be delivered with Windows 7 Home Basic or Premium. There are no other additional details, and a launch can be expected after start of the sale of Windows 7 - 22 October 2009.

Prices, of course, not leak out.

New Multitouch input from Apple

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:34:00 +0000

Apple recently patented a new multitouch input method that looks like Star Trek starship - Enterprise. The patent describes a large multitouch-enabled surface that will allow input of all ten fingers at once, plus palms and wrists.

This new idea-patent will enable a multitouch surface to act like one big keyboard and mouse combo.

This patent leads to a long-rumored Apple tablet, but also can be used and implemented in apple keyboards, mouse or other multitouch product. The company often patents concepts without ever bringing them to the market. So we hope that this patent will see the light some day and we all can have an own Enterprise input control.

Google Wave – real time web communication

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Google Wave is ready, and more than 100,000 invitations are being sent out to users who had previously requested access to the web-based real-time communications service on a first-come, first-served basis.

Google Wave is a real time web-based application that combines multiple forms of communication, including chat, mail and wikis, into a unified interface that runs in one browser window. For example - you can even see a comment being made as the person is typing it, character by character.
Wave solves a unique problem for web users as we deal with the latency of web-based collaboration tools and real-time communications services. On one side, you have cloud-based document sharing, photo sharing, wikis, chat and other other services like Twitter and Facebook.

Wave was soft-launched in May with a public demo at Google’s I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Access was given only to early testers and developers at the time. Today, Google is still pushing Wave out gently, so even though well over a million people have asked for access, Google is only honoring a fraction of the requests. We hope that Wave is not too buggy so the final release will see the day really soon.

Read more and watch the presentation here.

Seavus Project Evolution - Integrated Project Collaboration Environment for MS Project users

ukioff@gmail.com (Ukion) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:12:00 +0000

Seavus Project Evolution is a MS Project based suite of tools, designed to create a real collaboration environment for all projects in your company. It is a suite for project teams to successfully manage task updates, report and track issues, as well as acquire knowledge using wikis.

This collaborative project management suite allows project viewing, updating, tracking and team collaboration.

This suite include tool for every team member of the project team:

For team members - Seavus Project Viewer - Team members install Seavus Project Viewer in order to view mpp files and more important to collaborate amongst each other in order to provide greater value to the project.
For Project Managers - MS Project Standard add-in - Project managers install the add-in to their MS Project Standard. Once the project manager is logged into the server she/he can explore and use the Seavus Project Evolution features.
For team members out of the office - Seavus Web Client - If you are out of the office on a meeting or a business trip you can use the Seavus Web Client to access Seavus Project Evolution and work on your projects same as if you are in your office.
Storage of information - Seavus Project Server - The server is where the collaboration happens. Project managers and team members connect to the server to manage/update task progress, report and track issues, acquire knowledge using wikis.

What should we say more! This is the best compact EPM (Enterprise Project Management) suite on the web.

Link for more: Seavus Project Evolution

Install Emesene 1.5 with one click on Ubuntu

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:30:00 +0000

The new emesene version comes with various bug fixes and improvements and new features:

Compatible with the latest Window Live Messenger(tm)
New plugin set (Plus! colors, Notifications, Mail check, etc.)
HTTP connection and proxy support
@msn accounts support
Better contact list management with Privacy Tab and ability to reject users
Improved Offline Messaging experience
Support for msn groups
No more gui locks
Experimental webcam support with a configurator
New layout options and improved usability along with customization
Tons of new languages supported

To install emesene 1.5 on your Ubuntu system with just one click, download .deb package from getdeb.com according to your Ubuntu version or follow the next links:

Emesene 1.5 for Ubuntu 9.04 32bit – click here
Emesene 1.5 for Ubuntu 9.04 64bit – click here

Emesene 1.5 for Ubuntu 8.10 32bit – click here
Emesene 1.5 for Ubuntu 8.10 64bit – click here

After downloading, double click on downloaded .deb file to install it. Enjoy.

How to mount your hard drives on Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:58:00 +0000

Usually Ubuntu mounts your hard disks during OS installation, but sometimes your windows hard drives are not mounted and you must mount manually for every use. Fortunately, there is a simple solution with a an app called Pysdm. This app has Graphical User interface and mounting your disks and setting mount options on every Ubuntu start is a breeze. To install the Pysdm, start your terminal and enter:

sudo apt-get install pysdm

After installation enter:

sudo pysdm

How to make song list from Winamp

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:50:00 +0000

If you want to record some mp3’s to CD or other media and you don’t want to make song list with a hand writing, you can use Winamp as a song list generator. Open the songs or add the songs you want to burn in Winamp and press Ctrl+Alt+G. Next, the Winamp list will be shown on your internet browser. Copy that list in Notepad, Write, Word, OpenOffice for printing, font changing editing… That’s it, easy and simple.

How to launch OpenOffice.org faster on Ubuntu

viktoru.u@gmail.com (Viktor Ustijanoski) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Open Office is a little start up slow, so to fix that follow this excellent tutorial. Open the Startup Manager, you can find it on System-Preferences-Startup Applications and add a new entry. In the command filed type:

openoffice-nodefault-nologo

and reboot.

With this option, OpenOffice.org will be cashed on system start up, so the feature OO opening will be blink fast. There will be a little startup delay to initial boot-up but I'm sure that you'll hardly notice it. Enjoy.