Archive for July, 2009
Installing latest version of Firefox in Ubuntu
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
After release of Firefox newer version, it usually takes some time for it to hit the official Ubuntu repositories.
If you don’t want to wait , than go for Ubuntuzilla. Ubuntuzilla is a python script that allows one to install the latest Mozilla products like Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey in a Ubuntu Linux machine. It automatically downloads [...]
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SourceForge Community Awards
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Twelve SourceForge community choice awards have been assigned to nine different open source projects.More than 47,000 open source projects were nominated for slots in one of 12 categories, but only 85 were chosen as finalists.
PortableApps won four awards, included “Best Project”. OpenOffice.org, awarded with 3 prizes last year, won ‘just’ an award, resulting the “best [...]
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MySQL Librarian
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
The MySQL Librarian is an initiative aimed to collect links to the best MySQL-related material on the web.
The MySQL Librarian initiative is very young, at the moment there are about 217 items, 140 of them are presentations, 33 videos plus pictures and books. We need to wait for sometime before seeing if this new initiative [...]
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Twitter Debuts New Front Page
Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Nikhil Sheth.
Twitter rolled out its redesigned front page.
Twitter now places an emphasis on search, the very functionality that helped Twitter earn prominence among a core, passionate, and extreme group of digital extroverts.
This moves follows the release of the Twitter 101 guide designed to help businesses embrace and leverage the power of Twitter and the Tweets that [...]
