The following articles below were published during the month of March 2013 (times are based on UTC):
Using Google Drive on Linux via Insync? Well, come April 15th, if you don't (or can't) pay up, you'll be left out in the cold. Announced just today, Insync 1.0 is on the way, and with it, commercial pricing. Oh and, guess what? There is no free option. Not even for Linux users. Once 1.0 goes gold on April 15th, that's it. So all you who said I was being silly in comments across the internet when I cautioned that Insync is not the answer to our Google Drive woes, the joke is on you, not me. There is no official client for Linux, and now we are even more in the cold. Of course you can use Owncloud with ...
A much needed feature Ubuntu, being able to control the access of your online account data for individual applications was missing since the Online Accounts feature was introduced. However, recent updates to the Gnome Control Centre in Ubuntu (which is separate from that included in Gnome proper), have finally brought this option into reality. This should bring a much smoother and more secure experience to Ubuntu, and put to rest some of the common criticisms regarding privacy.
Google announced recently that it was doing some spring cleaning, and what should finally end up on the chopping block than Google Reader. The beloved service used by many had been dodging and avoiding the axe for quite some time now and the cat has finally fallen on the wrong side of the wall. Google will shut down Google Reader on the 1st of July, 2013 and in the meantime devoted users can migrate/liberate their Google Reader data from here Note: This link is only a Google Reader takeout, to liberate more of your Google data visit - Google Takeout Full list of Google's Spring Cleaning*
FYI: This post is just to vent my frustration! Note to self: Turn off DNT plugin during dev. Was trying to embed the Twitter Timeline Widget today when something annoying happened, the widget loaded and worked flawlessly on Chromium but didn’t load on Firefox! Imagine the frustration! That obviously led me to tinkering and searching various posts and discussions online, then while googling about one result caught my eye – it said something along the lines of Twitter, Firefox and Comodo – EUREKA!!!! Firewall issues!!! But it was working properly on Chromium so what could be blocking Twitter on FF? Yup, you guessed it, a plugin that tries to block sites from tracking you (in this case it worked extremely ...
We have a ton of choices to choose from when it comes to using a Public DNS service – Google Public DNS, Open DNS, etc., but which one is the best for you? The main reason you use Public DNS is to bypass the slow or prohibitive DNS lookup by your ISP. And most of the time it’s for the speed. And namebench will help you find the fastest Public DNS for your location. Running Namebench on Linux (in the screenshots, Ubuntu) is as easy as pie – Download, extract and run! It’s the same if you’re running another Operating System too (Mac OS & Windows), visit the project site and do the needful :) Anyways, Linux folks, these are ...
Though increasingly fewer people use this struggling Office Suite, Apache OpenOffice is reporting 40 Million downloads, since the release of 3.4.0. This is is a good sign for Apache's office suite, but not necessarily a good sign in any other way. Why? Well, if so many people are still using this Office suite (and so many downloads suggests to me that many of them are new users), then it means that too few people are aware of the better alternative - LibreOffice. Now, don't get me wrong, Apache OpenOffice is Open Source software, and its existence is quite okay, but it's lagging behind the competition in a serious way, and its unlikely for things to change very soon in the ...
Apparently I made a mistake here (teaches me not to write these posts late at night :P). I got the packages from the Gnome 3 PPA which I forgot I had enabled :/... Believe it! In what is a somewhat unexpected move, components of Gnome 3.7.x (3.8 has not yet been released) have begun to land in Ubuntu 13.04, including Gnome Shell 3.7.90. It seems that the issues blocking Gnome 3.8 in Ubuntu 13.04 have been resolved, and users of the Ubuntu Gnome Remix can rejoice, because they will get the latest and greatest that Gnome has to offer. Screenshot, therefore, it happened. Of Note: Baobab Eog Evince (Which sports a new interface) Gnome Games (many of them renamed) Gnome ...