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Getting down to the meat of the issue. After lots of considerations I finally got myself an android tablet. The device I choose is the Galaxy tab 8.9. I have used the device for close to a week and here are my thoughts about it, android honeycomb and tablets generally.

First of, I never ever been a fan of Adobe Air apps, their lack of integration with the native OS UI (At least on Linux) is a big turn off of me. Hence when Adobe announced that they would be pulling the plugs off adobe air for Linux. My reaction, similar to that of many Linux users, was Meh

I accidently stumbled upon this feature while trying to run skype via krunner when something else I did not quite intend showed up as I was typing skype into krunner ... the fact that I could install an application via krunner caught my fancy. .. it has gone a long way to enhance my workflow on kubuntu. I can now install any package I want right from Krunner without having to open a package manager or Terminal.

Ever since I got my HP probook 4420s I have been on a search for the Touchpad (or Clickpad as it is called) Nirvana. On Kubuntu 10.10 Out of the box the clickpad was basically useless, right click and middle click did not work. Thankfully though, a work around helped get the most basic functionality working, but lacked multi-touch (even though the clickpad supports multi-touch) Another patch was released which gave clickpad multitouch support but removed right click option (You have to do a 2 finger tab to right click)

Trouble started when I wanted to send some files to my phone from laptop via the bluetooth. (You see I happen to be among the unfortunate set of people who have the same button for enabling wireless and bluetooth.) I tried enabling the laptop’s bluetooth when the whole system came to a standstill

One thing admire about Macbooks is their Multitouch enabled Touchpads which allows for advanced gestures like pinch to zoon, double tapping to right click, Two finger scroll etc. I recently bought a new laptop which did not ship with the traditional laptop touchpad but with something called a clickpad.

About 3 years ago when I started my my Linux adventure one of the challenges I initially had was finding an easy way to convert videos to formats I could play on my mobile phone. I remembered having to search through the web and the only option available then was FFmpeg which (don’t get me wrong) is a very power ?tool for converting from one video file format to another, but it was commandline and not something a newbie like me (coming fresh from windows) would want to try out. Fast forward to 2010 and the landscape has changed.

A preview of some of the features currently in the development snapshot of clementine and which should be part of the next stable release

Out of the box Ubuntu 10.10 does has a regression which prevent people who use laptop with clickpads from being able to right or middle click. Here is a documentation on how I walked around that issue. I hope someone finds it useful.

Compared to Ubuntu The out of the box experience of Kubuntu can be a little rough edge and quite overwhelming especially to a user who is very new to KDE. It is for this reason that I decided to share some tips and walk around for minor annoyances I encountered using Kubuntu Lucid and generally things I did after installing Kubuntu

Lets say I was going through my RSS reader and I found a word am not familiar with I just need to highlight the word, press the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+W (Which can be changed to any key combo that suits you) The meaning of the word gets displayed as a Notification Bubble .

The first thing which put me off after logging in to the kubuntu (9.10) desktop for the first time was the fonts. They are two problems I have with the default Kubuntu fonts (Well the first one is not much of a problem but personal taste.)

We sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, When I stumbled upon (no pun intended) a packaged named ppa-purge.

My music collection is composed of different formats .mp3, ogg, aac but i want to sync everyone of them as mp3 to my Nokia e71. This is where .is_audio_player comes in, nope its not an application, nope its not a codec, its not a library either. its just a file (yeah file) its a file you place in the root directory of the storage of your music device from where it does its magic.

one thing i have always wished for is the ability to run thunderbird in the background so that if i close is i want it to minimize to the system-tray/notification area and inform me real time when i have a new mail.

Ever since i started a blog i had always wanted a wanted a application which would allow me do my blogging (preferably offline ) without having to use the web browser. One of the reasons for this was because i (as at then) did not have a stable Internet connection and had to go to Internet cafe to do my blogging which wasn’t really convenient.

Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi.

Lots of people (including me) have been experiencing issues trying to connect to their yahoo messenger account via pidgin. The reason for this issues seem to be that Yahoo are updating their servers and are using a new authentication system? Thankfully i found a workaround

After installing the dell installing the dell jaunty jackalope image am happy to say that ubuntu jaunty jackalope is shaping up to be one of the best ubuntu i have ever used. very smooth and solid as a rock. It still has some nagging issues out of the box, but most of this issues have simple fixes and work around which when applied made ubuntu 9.04 rock on my dell m1330.

I have always tried to focus my blog posts on Guides and Howtos as they relate to my experiences in free and open source software. Today however i take an Exception and i will like to speak let out on my opinion about the Ubuntu One issue. First to set some things straight. Am not saying that canonical should not make proprietary software i have never complained about launchpad or Landscape And my issue with ubuntu-one has nothing to do with the fact its not been free of cost. I am a bit