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gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
Install gfa in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude gfa
This will complete the installation
Using gfa
If you want to open go to Applications—>Accessories—>gfa
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
If you want to view more fields click […]
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gfa is a small and fast address book written in C and GTK+2. It uses sqlite as backend for the addresses.
Install gfa in Ubuntu
sudo aptitude gfa
This will complete the installation
Using gfa
If you want to open go to Applications—>Accessories—>gfa
Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen
If you want to view more fields click […]
Shift Linux has moved away from it’s Morphix base and is now based on Ubuntu. This version incorporates Firefox 3 (GranParadiso), OpenOffice, new themes, and a tested installer. Its also updated to KDE4. This is a transition version as we move away from Morphix and port over its previous versions to Ubuntu.
Neowin Community has released […]
The first beta, codenamed Ophrys, for Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (2008.1) is now available. This pre-release should provide a measure of out-of-the-box support for the multimedia keys present on many modern keyboards.
Simple functions such as changing sound volume should work immediately. If you have multimedia keys on your keyboard but they do not seem to […]
addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list
Install addrepo in Ubuntu
This is very simple process just use the following two commands
sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo
Using addrepo
addrepo [repository]
Now you just replace ‘[repository]’ with a repository name
addrepo example
addrepo deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
It already includes ’sudo,’ so adding […]
GParted is the Gnome Partition Editor application. Before attempting to use it, here is some basic background information.
A hard disk is usually subdivided into one or more partitions. These partitions are normally not re-sizable (making one larger and the adjacent one smaller) The purpose of GParted is to allow the individual to take a hard […]
With the cursory hat tip to Marketing Pilgrim who does a sentiment analysis for firefox Vs. Internet Explorer, lets get started on Ubuntu and Windows. Sorry folks, I just could resist plugging in the words and let them duke it out.
Most interestingly, according to opinmind, 87% of all bloggers who have blogged about Ubuntu like […]
Microsoft’s new ClearType fonts for Vista are great. The fonts include Constantia, Corbel, Calibri, Cambria, Candara and Consolas.
Getting them installed in Ubuntu is a breeze, thanks to a script I found.
To install the Vista ClearType fonts in Ubuntu, you need to install cabextract first. Cabextract is a utility found in the universe repository, so before […]
I was looking for a replacement for SecureCRT in Ubuntu. Something that would let me save all my SSH connections and make it possible to open a connection with the least effort.
As is often the case, I found something better than SecureCRT - a panel applet for GNOME that gives me a drop-down list of […]
I read the impressive growth and traffic details for WordPress.com at Matt’s Blog. WordPress has always been very dear to me, and it makes me happy to note that the WordPress team grows from strength to strength, without compromising on values, and while keeping things open, almost entirely so.
However, the stat freak in me […]
