The following articles below were published during the month of January 2012 (times are based on UTC):
In keeping with the 6 week release cycle, Firefox 10 has landed. You should notice some minor improvements in speed (you may miss them), and a slight difference in the interface, as the forward button is hidden unless needed. Also, WebGL is now anti-aliased. Other than these changes, there probably won't be anything noticeable in FF10. Oh, btw, users of 10.04+ no longer have to use a PPA (as of yesterday), as Ubuntu has adopted Mozilla's release cycle. You'll now get Firefox updates the same time way as all other updates - through the standard repositories.
The new, improved, and slick Epiphany (now labeled as "Web", though the package name remains the same) is available in Ubuntu 12.04 (as of today). Early adopters no longer need a PPA. One of the awesome things I noticed is a new, slim, progress bar when loading pages
This is something I can not condone or advise, nor will I take responsibility if you break your idevice but idownloadblog.com shows how you can jailbreak your iOS device using Ubuntu, which as far as I know this is the first time it has been possible (you can correct me if I am wrong). You can take a look at the destructions here. Once again I do not condone and will not offer support or take any responsibility if thing don't go right for you, but the process does seem pretty easy and hard to mess up. For those of you not familiar with jail-breaking it is a method that allows you to make you device run in ways nor ...
Canonical announces that they will be replacing the menu with a "HUD" or heads up display. What this means is a user will no long have access to menus and your menu option will be accessed by typing the various commands. What does this mean to me and probably every other user out there? Well at first thought it means that now instead of worrying about what is where in the menus I am going to have to memorize all the commands. Also I don't see how this is going to improve my work flow now that I will have to activate the "HUD" and then type 5 letters to bring up the print dialog instead of the two clicks ...
You are probably asking the question "Why is an article about JavaScript being published here?" Good question. The answer lies in some future articles I have planned for later that include Chrome / Chromium extension development - and you can't write a Chrome extension without a firm grasp on the basics of JavaScript. So without further explanation, here is an introduction to JavaScript (or the first part of the introduction, anyway). What isJavascript? That is another good question - there is no point to learning a language that we have no use for. The term "JavaScript" as it is commonly used refers to ECMAScript, a standardized language designed for application scripting. Most people immediately picture interactive web applications when the ...
A stable AP... wha? "Many things." If you were at, or followed UDS-P, then you're probably aware that one of the aims for future versions of Ubuntu (12.04+) is to have a stable API for Application Developers to target... but what will that mean? How will it affect regular users? Will we still be able to get the latest and greatest applications? Will some older applications break? Let's take a look. What is a stable API anyway? First of all, to understand what a stable API is, you need to understand what an API is, in the first place. An API - application programming interface - is in essence the pathway into the libraries (code form) that is available for ...
2011: Glad that's over! What cool stuff happened this year? [notice] 2011 was a year of ups, downs, heartbreak, excitement, speculation... you name it. It hasn? been the year of the Linux Desktop either, but it sure could have been, had it not been for this becoming the year of the Desktop wars. More on that later. You could also call this the year of the tablet, the year of the Android, the year of Microsoft doing it? worst... whatever you want - but we?l reveal what we chose this as the year of at the end of the post. We can? possibly list all of the Tech, Linux, and really important events that have touched the community this year, ...
Well, the long wait is over! No longer do you need to install the Ask Ubuntu Unity lens via a PPA! You can now install it straight from the Ubuntu Software Center! Simply click this link and it will happily download and install itself. For the terminal savvy, install the unity-lens-askubuntu package. Example of it in action:
I've been frustrated in recent times trying to find a good G+ icon, so I decided to make one for myself. Source: ">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/240188/Gplus.svg License: if you mod it, share it. :) Made with Inkscape (and nothing else :P).
Ubuntu user days is back on, this weekend (on the 14th and 15th of January). If you don't know what Ubuntu user days are, they are a way for users to learn via IRC chat. Questions are answered usually at the end of a lesson which are usually an hour long each. The IRC channels for these are #ubuntu-classroom for the class and #ubuntu-classroom-chat to ask questions on irc.freenode.net. You can also login to these rooms via the webchat. Personally, I feel the best tool you can use to attend these Ubuntu classroom sessions is via Lernid (click on the link to see its features and download it on to your Ubuntu machine). You can follow the latest news and ...