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Dropbox
Due to the upcoming release of Dropbox 0.8 and its ability to support Application Indicators (and custom icons), many people have been creating icons for it to blend into the Ubuntu-Mono icon set.
However I have yet to find a set that is made in the Elementary style, so I decided to do it myself 
(the initial idea is based on these icons)
Below is a link to the GNOME-Look page where you can download them. Once the ZIP file has downloaded, you need to extract the files into ~/.dropbox-dist/icons
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=128132
What do you think?
Original Source: http://whyareyoureadingthisurl.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/elementary-dropbox-indicator-icons/
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User Guide for iPhone 4 and iOS 4 Now Online.
iPhone 4 Is Fast, But Not As Fast As The iPad
Mac terminal users like me will love this – open terminal from Finder with OpenTerminal.
Dropbox For Chrome Browses, Downloads Files From The Popular Syncing Service
more Dropboxy goodness with Add PDFs To Your iBooks Collection Using Dropbox
How To Sync iPhone Notes To Your Gmail Account
Opt Out Of Targeted iPhone iAds (But Not Location Tracking)
iPad Books Software Still Messy For Australians
What Telstra’s $11 Billion NBN Deal Means For Consumers
NicePlayer – A Quick and Light Alternative Media Player For Mac.
Original Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ItsAboutTime/~3/L0Bd2GM_Yzk/
This is just a short blog post to note that Matt Griffin has updated the FAQ for the Ubuntu One Music Store that I previously blogged about.
Most notable is probably this update:-
There will be no embedded ‘watermarks’ of any kind on the MP3s in the Ubuntu One Music Store.
Original Source: http://popey.com/blog/2010/02/28/ubuntu-one-music-has-no-watermarks/
It looks like 7digital are providing the back-end for the Ubuntu One Music Store which is due to land in Ubuntu Lucid at Alpha 3 – real soon now. The screenshots below were taken by me today on my laptop. They’re from Chromium browser, not from the embedded Rhthmbox store. That should be activated soon, and I’d imagine will look similar. Here’s a little screenshot tour.
The landing page clearly has the Ubuntu One branding.
As you’d expect you can easily search for music..
..to find your favourite artist or album..
Download tracks.. In the case of this album it’s available in MP3 format at 320kbps with no DRM
Clicking ‘Download’ adds tracks to your basket..
The store also has support for ‘vouchers’. Pretty sure I recall Elliot Murphy say podcasters should get vouchers for testing the store. 
(although perhaps I’ve screwed that with this blog post)
The store supports Credit/Debit cards, Click&Buy and Paypal..
You can also track your existing downloads.
Of course this isn’t ready yet, so we can’t see it in Rhythmbox on Ubuntu yet, but it’s clearly getting there.
Interesting that they’re using 7digital, where it was expected by some that Amazon would be the choice. Also note that you can download each track 3 times on different computers. Of course you could download tracks once, then plop them in your Ubuntu One or Dropbox so they’re synced (and effectively backed up) across your machines.
I’d be interested to hear your opinions of the store in the comments.
Original Source: http://popey.com/blog/2010/02/19/ubuntu-one-music-store-sneak-peek/
Taking a break from Mumbuntu blog posts. I mentioned this on the latest epsiode of the Ubuntu Podcast that we released yesterday. I see Fab from Linux Outlaws has blogged about his geekbox.
I have this tin box.
The contents are very useful to me.
Contents:-
- 32GB USB stick
- 3G Dongle – with 4GB Micro SDHC card installed in the side for extra storage
- USB Bluetooth Dongle – In case I am on a machine that has no bluetooth and want to sync stuff to my phone
- Numerous Micro SDHC cards – that I had kicking around from old phones etc. More storage!
- USB Micro SDHC adapter – for connecting all those Micro SDHC cards
The general idea being that I can walk up to pretty much any computer and use it without touching the installed OS. With this setup I don’t want or need to install Ubuntu onto the local machine, I want everything to run off the USB stick.
The 32GB USB stick has Ubuntu installed onto it. This was installed by booting off standard Ubuntu 9.10 CD, plugging in the stick and going through the standard Ubuntu installer. Key things I did that might be interesting include:-
- Use UUID in the /etc/fstab (which is the default) – not use device names such as /dev/sda1 so nothing gets confused about which partition I am booting from
- Configure a small (1GB) amount of swap space on the USB stick – so I don’t get Out of Memory errors on low spec machines
- Enabled encryption of my home directory – so I am less worried if I lose the stick
- Installed Dropbox – to ensure my data is synced to other machines. No, not Ubuntu One. I use Windows, OSX and Linux and want my files synced over all three
- Installed Chromium – because I like it
- Configured Tomboy to store notes in my Dropbox so they are in sync
- Installed Firestarter so I can turn the laptop into an impromptu access point / internet gateway
- Install Prey so I might have some chance of getting the stick back if someone boots it up
- Installed ClamTK/ClamAV anti-virus software so I can scan the hard disks in a machine I’m booted on (if required)
You might like to get one too, or indeed you may already have one. Tell me about it in the comments below. I’d also be interested to hear how I could improve this setup.
Original Source: http://popey.com/blog/2010/02/18/geekbox/
