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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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mbooth commented on one of my last post (How To: GNOME GMail Notifier) informing that he/she uses mail-notification. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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</p><p>mbooth commented on one of my last post (<a title="Permanent link to How To: GNOME GMail Notifier" rel="bookmark" href="http://gofedora.com/gnome-gmail-notifier/">How To: GNOME GMail Notifier</a>) informing that he/she uses <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/" target="_blank">mail-notification</a>. I was curious to check it out for mail via IMAP and I found it way more useful as compared to Gnome Gmail Notifier. I especially like the option to configure it to check the mails every ten seconds. Thats way cool for anxious people like me <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  Keeping in mind the huge advantages of mail-notification, I thought of writing an howto for configuring it <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" /> </p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Install Mail Notification</strong></span></h3>
<p>Installing something can&#8217;t be simpler. Just use the following command as root</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ yum <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">install</span> mail-notification</pre></div></div>

<p>Configuring mail-notification is very simple. Its as easy as it can get but there are tricks for special cases like Gmail for  Google Apps hosted websites.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Launch Mail Notification</strong></span></h3>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Mail notification loses a point here. It doesn&#8217;t show up in any of the menus. You have to launch it from command line.</span> You can launch mail-notification from <em>System -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Mail Notification</em> (Thanks mbooth for correcting). Or use the following command as normal user to launch mail notification</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>saini<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ mail-notification <span style="color: #660033;">-p</span></pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Configure Status Icon Behaviour</strong></span></h3>
<p>On mail notification properties windows, select <em>Status Icon</em> tab and choose the appropriate behaviour.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01.-Mail-Notification-Status-Icon-Action.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-892" title="Mail Notification Status Icon Action" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01.-Mail-Notification-Status-Icon-Action.png" alt="Mail Notification Status Icon Action" width="250" height="160" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>New Message Popup Settings</strong></span></h3>
<p>Now go to <em>Message Popups</em> tab, and select appropriate options. If you don&#8217;t enable popups, using mail notification doesn&#8217;t really make sense (though none can prevent you from doing so <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  ). Keeping popus stacked is good because it shows you all messages in case you get more than one new mails in an interval. Also, you can configure the expiration time for the popups.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/02.-Mail-Notification-Message-Popups-Settings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-893" title="Mail Notification Message Popups Settings" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/02.-Mail-Notification-Message-Popups-Settings.png" alt="Mail Notification Message Popups Settings" width="250" height="300" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Add New Mailbox</strong></span></h3>
<p>Now select <em>General</em> tab and click of <em>Add</em> button. Mail-notification supports checking new mails from Evolution, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, any IMAP and POP3 Server and moreover your system mailbox <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  Select Gmail for mailbox type. Enter username and password for Gmail account.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/03.-Mail-Notification-Supported-Mailboxes.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-894" title="Mail Notification Supported Mailboxes" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/03.-Mail-Notification-Supported-Mailboxes.png" alt="Mail Notification Supported Mailboxes" width="400" height="260" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/04.-Mail-Notification-Add-Gmail-Account.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-895" title="Mail Notification Add Gmail Account" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/04.-Mail-Notification-Add-Gmail-Account.png" alt="Mail Notification Add Gmail Account" width="380" height="250" /></a></p>
<p>Now move over to <em>Details</em> tab and set delay between checking mails. I keep it 10 seconds <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/05.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-Account-Settings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-896" title="Mail Notification Gmail Account Settings" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/05.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-Account-Settings.png" alt="Mail Notification Gmail Account Settings" width="380" height="210" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Add a Google Apps Hosted Email Account</strong></span></h3>
<p>This is totally optional <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  Now we&#8217;ll add a Google Apps hosted account. This is a bit tricky. For mailbox type, you&#8217;ll have to select Gmail. For username, you&#8217;ll have to provide your email address.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/06.-Mail-Notification-Add-Google-Apps-Hosted-Account.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-898" title="Mail Notification Add Google Apps Hosted Account" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/06.-Mail-Notification-Add-Google-Apps-Hosted-Account.png" alt="Mail Notification Add Google Apps Hosted Account" width="360" height="140" /></a></p>
<p>Also, the mailbox name has to be modified in this case to make things work. Move over to <em>Details</em> tab and change mailbox name to your email address.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07.-Mail-Notification-Google-Apps-Hosted-Account-Settings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-899" title="Mail Notification Google Apps Hosted Account Settings" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07.-Mail-Notification-Google-Apps-Hosted-Account-Settings.png" alt="Mail Notification Google Apps Hosted Account Settings" width="290" height="110" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Add a new IMAP mailbox (Gmail)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p></span></h3>
<p>This is totally optional <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  Keep mailbox type as IMAP. IMAP Server has to be imap.gmail.com . Username and password are same as Gmail Account.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Note:</strong></span> For this mailbox to work, you&#8217;ll have to enable IMAP in settings tab in Gmail.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/08.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-IMAP-Account.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-900" title="Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/08.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-IMAP-Account.png" alt="Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account" width="360" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Now move over to <em>Connection</em> tab. Connection for Gmail IMAP has to be SSL enabled. So, select &#8220;<em>SSL/TLS on separate port</em>&#8221; and make sure the port number is 993.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/09.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-IMAP-Account-Connection-Settings.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-902" title="Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account Connection Settings" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/09.-Mail-Notification-Gmail-IMAP-Account-Connection-Settings.png" alt="Mail Notification Gmail IMAP Account Connection Settings" width="360" height="330" /></a></p>
<p>Well thats all you need to do for configuring things for getting new mail notifications lightning fast <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" />  Now sit back and relax until someone sends you a mail <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: New Mail Notification" /> </p>
<p>The only major disadvantage that I found with mail-notification is that it doesn&#8217;t stay in notification area all the time. It appears only when there is a new mail.</p>
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		<title>How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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As promised in my last post (News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI.
Hardware Used
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard)
 Monitor 0: ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440&#215;900 (19&#8243; LCD, Connected via DVI port)
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a class="post_image_link" href="http://gofedora.com/how-to-configure-dual-display-ati-radeon-fglrx-xinerama/" title="Permanent link to How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)"><img class="post_image alignnone" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Dual-Display-Configuration-ATI-Radeon.jpg" width="330" height="175" alt="Dual Display Configuration ATI Radeon" title=" How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)" /></a>
</p><p>As promised in my last post (<a title="News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released" href="http://gofedora.com/news-ati-catalyst-drivers-released/">News: ATI Catalyst Display Drivers 9.9 Released</a>), I am back with a post on configuring dual display with ATI Radeon HD Graphics Card and proprietary catalyst (fglrx) drivers from ATI.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Hardware Used</strong></span></h3>
<p><strong>Graphics Card:</strong> ATI Radeon HD 3200 (256MB, onboard)<br />
<strong> Monitor 0:</strong> ViewSonic VG1930WM 1440&#215;900 (19&#8243; LCD, Connected via DVI port)<br />
<strong> Monitor 1:</strong> Samsung SyncMaster 793S 1280&#215;1024 (17&#8243; CRT, Connected via VGA port)</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Types of Dual Display</strong></span></h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Mirror:</strong> Both screens have same content, identical refresh rate and resolution.</li>
<li><strong>Clone:</strong> Both screens have same content but refresh rates and resolutions can be different.</li>
<li><strong>Horizontal:</strong> Both screens can have different content, refresh rates and resolution. Screen 1 is left or right of Screen2.</li>
<li><strong>Vertical:</strong> Same as horizontal. The only difference is that Screen1 is above or below Screen2.</li>
</ul>
<p>In this post, we are interested in Horizontal setup with <strong>xinerama</strong> on. This way we can have two desktops allowing full screen modes on both of them and allowing us to drag and drop windows from one screen to the other.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Install ATI Drivers</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you don&#8217;t have ATI drivers installed already, follow this <a title="How To: Install ATI Catalyst (fglrx) 9.8 Drivers on Fedora 11" href="http://gofedora.com/how-to-install-ati-catalyst-fglrx-98-drivers-fedora-11/">How To: Install ATI Catalyst (fglrx)  Drivers on Fedora 11</a> (works for any version of ATI Catalyst drivers).</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Generate xorg.conf file</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you don&#8217;t see the xorg.conf file at <em>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</em>, then you need to generate it to proceed to next step. Use the following command as root to generate one</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ Xorg <span style="color: #660033;">-configure</span></pre></div></div>

<p>This command will generate the default <em>xorg.conf</em> file at <em>/root/xorg.conf.new</em>. Copy it to <em>/etc/X11/xorg.conf</em>.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">cp</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>xorg.conf.new <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>etc<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>X11<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>xorg.conf</pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Backup xorg.conf file</strong></span></h3>
<p>Backup your original xorg.conf file so that you can restore it in case the configuration doesn&#8217;t work the way you expected.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">cp</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>etc<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>X11<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>xorg.conf <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>etc<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>X11<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>xorg.conf.backup</pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Generate Configuration for Dual Display</strong></span></h3>
<p>Now we are ready to generate the configuration for dual display. Use the following command with appropriate arguments (in accordance with your hardware configuration)</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># --screen-layout will place second screen on left of your first screen. Other possible values are right,above,below.</span>
<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># --xinerama=on option enables you to have two different desktops and one of them being passive.</span>
<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># You can drag and drop windows from one desktop to the other. Task bars appear only on one of the desktops.</span>
<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ aticonfig <span style="color: #660033;">--initial</span>=dual-head <span style="color: #660033;">--screen-layout</span>=left <span style="color: #660033;">--xinerama</span>=on
<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># --resolution=_screen_number_,widthxheight</span>
<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ aticonfig <span style="color: #660033;">--resolution</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">0</span>,1440x900 <span style="color: #660033;">--resolution</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">1</span>,1280x1024
<span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># Set horizontal sync and vertical refresh rates for both monitors.</span>
<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ aticonfig <span style="color: #660033;">--hsync</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">0</span>,<span style="color: #000000;">30</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">60</span> <span style="color: #660033;">--hsync</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">1</span>,<span style="color: #000000;">30</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">60</span> <span style="color: #660033;">--vrefresh</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">0</span>,<span style="color: #000000;">30</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">60</span> <span style="color: #660033;">--vrefresh</span>=<span style="color: #000000;">1</span>,<span style="color: #000000;">30</span>-<span style="color: #000000;">60</span></pre></div></div>

<p>You can download my xorg.conf file via <a rel="nofollow" href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/linux/xorg.conf_f11_dual_display_fglrx.txt">this link</a>.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Reboot or Logout and Login Again</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you just setup your ATI drivers and configured the dual display, you need to reboot so that fglrx module can be loaded properly. If you rebooted after setting up the drivers, just logout and login again to checkout your dual display <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title=" How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)" />  If everything works fine, say thanks to me and if not blame ATI <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' title=" How To: Configure Dual Display with ATI Radeon (fglrx)" /> </p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Adjust DPI for Normal Font Size</strong></span></h3>
<p>I faced a problem with my font sizes being too big while using <strong>xinerama</strong>. It was easy to fix by adjusting DPI. Go to <em>System -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Appearance</em>. Go to <em>Fonts</em> tab. Click <em>Details</em> located near the bottom right corner. On that window, try descreasing the &#8220;<strong>Dots Per Inch</strong>&#8221; value. Mine worked fine with 85 DPI.</p>
<p>Below is an image of my dual display setup. Click to enlarge.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Dual-Display-Configuration-ViewSonic-Samsung-Using-ATI-Radeon-Catalyst-fglrx.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-883" title="Dual Display Configuration ViewSonic Samsung Using ATI Radeon Catalyst (fglrx)" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Dual-Display-Configuration-ViewSonic-Samsung-Using-ATI-Radeon-Catalyst-fglrx-500x281.jpg" alt="Dual Display Configuration ViewSonic Samsung Using ATI Radeon Catalyst (fglrx)" width="500" height="281" /></a></p>
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		<title>How To: GNOME GMail Notifier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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</p><p><strong>GNOME GMail (Google GMail) Notifier</strong> is an awesome tool for GNOME/Linux users if you are addicted to checking mails every few minutes. GMail Notifier solves a bit of your problems by notifying about multiple gmail accounts. One more plus point is that it can display GMail Notifications for new mails in accounts for which you are using Google Apps. Below is a step by step howto on installing and configuring GMail Notifier in Fedora (may apply to other distros as well).</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Install GNOME GMail Notifier</strong></span></h3>
<p>You can download and install it from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gnome-gmail-notifier/" target="_blank">GNOME GMail notifier home page</a> or just use yum</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ yum <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">install</span> gnome-gmail-notifier</pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Launch Gmail Notifier</strong></span></h3>
<p>If installation was successful, go to Applications -&gt; Internet -&gt; Gmail Notifier.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-833" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/01.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier" width="329" height="78" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Open Preferences</strong></span></h3>
<p>Right click on Email icon in taskbar and click <strong>Preferences</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/02.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Select-Prefreneces.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-834" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier Select Prefreneces" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/02.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Select-Prefreneces.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier Select Prefreneces" width="170" height="130" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Preferences</strong></span></h3>
<p>Set inbox update time to 1 minute. Check display notifications for new messages and errors. Also select a sound to play for new mails.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/03.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Prefreneces.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-835" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier Prefreneces" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/03.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Prefreneces.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier Prefreneces" width="315" height="453" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Add GMail Account</strong></span></h3>
<p>Click Add on preferences window and add your GMail account.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/04.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Add-GMail-Account.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-836" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier Add GMail Account" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/04.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Add-GMail-Account.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier Add GMail Account" width="270" height="203" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Add Mail Account (Google Apps)</strong> (Optional)</span></h3>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know what Google Apps is, leave this step. If you do know, then add your mail account.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/05.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Add-Google-Apps-Account.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-837" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier Add Google Apps Account" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/05.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Add-Google-Apps-Account.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier Add Google Apps Account" width="270" height="203" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Check Mail</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you can&#8217;t wait for 1 minutes to see GMail Notifier in action, just right click on email icon in taskbar and click <strong>Check Mail</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/06.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Check-New-Mails.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-838" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier Check New Mails" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/06.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-Check-New-Mails.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier Check New Mails" width="160" height="120" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Mail Notifications</strong></span></h3>
<p>Whenever you get a new mail, you&#8217;ll have bubble like the one in image below and a sound will also be played.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-New-Mail-Notification.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-839" title="GNOME Gmail Notifier New Mail Notification" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/07.-GNOME-Gmail-Notifier-New-Mail-Notification.png" alt="GNOME Gmail Notifier New Mail Notification" width="430" height="130" /></a></p>
<p>Enjoy the notifications <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: GNOME GMail Notifier" /> </p>
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		<title>How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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Frequently I get messages like &#8220;I have accidentally deleted my project. Is there any way to recover it in Linux?&#8221; or &#8220;I worked really hard on that program and managed to deleted it right before submission   How do I recover?&#8221;. Well I didn&#8217;t really have any idea on &#8220;How to actually recover deleted [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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</p><p>Frequently I get messages like &#8220;I have accidentally deleted my project. Is there any way to recover it in Linux?&#8221; or &#8220;I worked really hard on that program and managed to deleted it right before submission <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec" />  How do I recover?&#8221;. Well I didn&#8217;t really have any idea on &#8220;How to actually recover deleted files in Linux&#8221;.</p>
<p>A few days back I was designing the new logo for <a href="http://cachevideos.com" target="_blank">Videocache</a> in Inkscape. After finishing the design, I saved the svg file carefully. And deleted other images which I embedded in the logo. A few moments later I realized that I just screwed up myself by deleting all those files as the svg file is now good for nothing.</p>
<p>I searched a lot on recovering files in Linux but in vain. Then a friend (<a href="http://gaganpreet.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">bitgeek</a>) told me about Photorec. I managed to recover all the files using photorec. I thought it would be a good idea to let others know and spread a good word about Photorec. Below is a step by step howto on using Photorec to recover your files.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What is Photorec?</strong></span></h3>
<p>From Photorec website,</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec" target="_blank">PhotoRec</a> is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (thus, its &#8216;Photo Recovery&#8217; name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media&#8217;s filesystem has been severely damaged or re-formatted.</p></blockquote>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>For This HowTo</strong></span></h3>
<p>Lets say I had a file download_arrow.png in /home/saini/Desktop which I have removed accidentally. Login as root and create a directory recover which will be used to store all the recovered files.</p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Install testdisk/PhotoRec</strong></span></h3>
<p>Photorec comes as a part of testdisk package in Fedora (I hope its same for other distributions as well). Use yum to install testdisk.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora-tips ~<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ yum <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">install</span> testdisk</pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Launch Photorec</strong></span></h3>
<p>Once you are done with installation. Open a terminal and launch photorec (as root).</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedora-tips recover<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ photorec</pre></div></div>

<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Hard Disk</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you have more than one hard disk in your system, select the one from which you have deleted the file(s).</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1.-PhotoRec-Hard-Disk-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-793" title="PhotoRec Hard Disk Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/1.-PhotoRec-Hard-Disk-Selection-500x283.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Hard Disk Selection" width="500" height="283" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Partition Type</strong></span></h3>
<p>If your hard disk has Linux partitions, then select <strong>[Intel]</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-794" title="PhotoRec Partition Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection-500x345.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Partition Selection" width="500" height="345" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Filetype Option</strong></span></h3>
<p>Move to [File Opt] and press enter. Here you can disable all file types by pressing &#8217;s&#8217; . Use space to toggle the check button. Now since we removed a png file, we are going to check only png file type.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3.-PhotoRec-Filetype-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-795" title="PhotoRec Filetype Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/3.-PhotoRec-Filetype-Selection-500x350.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Filetype Selection" width="500" height="350" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Options</strong></span></h3>
<p>Photorec also has a list of different options. Under normal circumstances you don&#8217;t need to modify them</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/4.-PhotoRec-Option-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-796" title="PhotoRec Option Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/4.-PhotoRec-Option-Selection-471x375.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Option Selection" width="471" height="375" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Partition</strong></span></h3>
<p>Move the selector to the partition from which you have removed the file. Then press enter on search.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/9.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-799" title="PhotoRec Partition Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/9.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection-500x347.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Partition Selection" width="500" height="347" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Filesystem Type</strong></span></h3>
<p>If you are using Linux, its going to be ext2/ext3/ext4. So the default selection is file.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/5.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection1.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-798" title="PhotoRec Partition Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/5.-PhotoRec-Partition-Selection1-500x347.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Partition Selection" width="500" height="347" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select Space for Analysis</strong></span></h3>
<p>Select <strong>free</strong> if you didn&#8217;t write to that partition after removing the particular file otherwise select <strong>whole</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/6.-PhotoRec-Space-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-800" title="PhotoRec Space Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/6.-PhotoRec-Space-Selection-500x271.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Space Selection" width="500" height="271" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Select a Directory to Recover Files</strong></span></h3>
<p>Now select the path where the recovered files will be stored. Then press &#8216;Y&#8217;.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/7.-PhotoRec-Recovery-Directory-Selection.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-801" title="PhotoRec Recovery Directory Selection" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/7.-PhotoRec-Recovery-Directory-Selection-499x243.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Recovery Directory Selection" width="499" height="243" /></a></p>
<h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Recovery Progress</strong></span></h3>
<p>Photorec will show how many files it has recovered.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/8.-PhotoRec-Recovery-Progress.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-802" title="PhotoRec Recovery Progress" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/8.-PhotoRec-Recovery-Progress-499x248.jpg" alt="PhotoRec Recovery Progress" width="499" height="248" /></a></p>
<p>All recovered file will be stored in the directory selected above. Open them in a file browser and you&#8217;ll get the removed file there. I hope this howto will help you recovering files you accidentally delete <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="How To: Recover Deleted Files in Linux Using Photorec" /> </p>
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		<title>MSN Crawlers Pawned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
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After seeing the way MSN crawled my last post, I just realized why Microsoft could never do good in Search Engine Market  
I wonder why MSN would crawler same page from two different machines. I wonder if a single page can be divided further for crawling. Checkout the screenshots below  

A few minutes [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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</p><p>After seeing the way MSN crawled <a href="http://gofedora.com/archives/2009/07/29/google-translator-pawned/">my last post</a>, I just realized why Microsoft could never do good in Search Engine Market <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="MSN Crawlers Pawned" /> </p>
<p>I wonder why MSN would crawler same page from two different machines. I wonder if a single page can be divided further for crawling. Checkout the screenshots below <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="MSN Crawlers Pawned" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Why-Google-Wins.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-659" title="Why Google Wins" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Why-Google-Wins.jpg" alt="Why Google Wins" width="400" height="320" /></a></p>
<p>A few minutes later. Three Microsoft machines were crawling the same page <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' title="MSN Crawlers Pawned" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Why-Google-Wins-2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-660" title="MSN Crawler Pawned" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Why-Google-Wins-2.jpg" alt="MSN Crawler Pawned" width="490" height="450" /></a></p>
<p>I have conformed using <a href="http://ws.arin.net/whois/?queryinput" target="_blank">ARIN</a> that all these IPs belong to Microsoft <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' title="MSN Crawlers Pawned" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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		<title>Google is Fastest</title>
		<link>http://gofedora.com/google-fastest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While testing a piece of code for my squid plugin, I ended up changing permissions of /tmp/ directory to 0755. A few minutes later (after making changes to the code), I tried committing it to fedorapeople.org and got this error

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&#91;project@bordeaux youtube_cache&#93;$ git push --all ssh://kulbirsaini@fedorapeople.org/~kulbirsaini/public_git/youtube_cache.git
Enter passphrase for key '/home2/Studies/project/.ssh/id_rsa':
ssh_control_listener bind&#40;&#41;: Permission denied
fatal: The remote end [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>While testing a piece of code for my <a href="http://cachevideos.com" target="_blank">squid plugin</a>, I ended up changing permissions of <em>/tmp/</em> directory to 0755. A few minutes later (after making changes to the code), I tried committing it to <a href="http://fedorapeople.org" target="_blank">fedorapeople.org</a> and got this error</p>

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</pre></td><td class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>project<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>bordeaux youtube_cache<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$ git push <span style="color: #660033;">--all</span> <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">ssh</span>:<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">//</span>kulbirsaini<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>fedorapeople.org<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>~kulbirsaini<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>public_git<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>youtube_cache.git
Enter passphrase <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">for</span> key <span style="color: #ff0000;">'/home2/Studies/project/.ssh/id_rsa'</span>:
ssh_control_listener <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">bind</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#40;</span><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#41;</span>: Permission denied
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
error: failed to push to <span style="color: #ff0000;">'ssh://kulbirsaini@fedorapeople.org/~kulbirsaini/public_git/youtube_cache.git'</span>
<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>project<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>bordeaux youtube_cache<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span>$</pre></td></tr></table></div>

<p>Well, I couldn&#8217;t understand the error and jumped to <em>#fedora-admin</em>. I pasted the error on pastebin. Almost a minute laster, while trying to conquer the error, I Googled the exact error and I was damn surprised to see the paste as first result. What an indexing speed Google has??? See the screen shot for proof <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Google is Fastest" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Google-is-Fastest.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-332" title="Google is Fastest" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Google-is-Fastest-620x246.jpg" alt="Google is Fastest" width="620" height="246" /></a></p>
<p>In <em>#fedora-admin</em> ricky confirmed that nothing was wrong on server side and it should be a local problem with my machine or proxy server at my insti border. A few minutes later, I reliazed the <em>/tmp/</em> permission thing and changing permissions back to 0777 fixed everything <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Google is Fastest" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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		<title>Review: Spicebird &#8211; A Collaboration Platform</title>
		<link>http://gofedora.com/review-spicebird-collaboration-platform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 19:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I happened to attend this workshop on &#8220;How to build business around open source tools&#8221; organized by Twincling Society and IIIT Hyderabad. There I came to know about Spicebird. Spicebird is a single platform for many collaboration needs.          It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Well, I happened to attend this workshop on &#8220;How to build business around open source tools&#8221; organized by <a href="http://twincling.org/">Twincling Society</a> and <a href="http://www.iiit.ac.in/">IIIT Hyderabad</a>. There I came to know about <a href="http://www.spicebird.com/">Spicebird</a>. Spicebird is a single platform for many collaboration needs.          It provides e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging with         intuitive integration and unlimited extensibility.     Spicebird is being developed by a Hyderabad based Indian start-up named <a href="http://www.synovel.com/">Synovel</a> (All four founders are alumni of IIIT Hyderabad). Below we look at some features that Spicebird provides.</p>
<h4>1. <strong>Tabbed Interface</strong></h4>
<p>The tabbed interface for different utilities like mail, calendar, contacts, tasks etc. looks pretty clean. The interface is not at all cluttered in any way and navigation to different utilities is straight forward. You don&#8217;t have to brainstorm before getting something done.</p>
<h4>2. <strong>Familiar Interface &amp; Crisp Icon Set</strong></h4>
<p>Spicebird has an interface similar to loads of mozilla based application out there. The settings, preferences and the way things have been managed are familiar. So people who are switching from other open source email clients will not face any problems at all. Spicebird uses icons from <a href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library" target="_blank">Tango Project</a>. The icons used are really good looking.</p>
<h4>3. <strong>Nice Home Tab</strong></h4>
<p>The way Home tab has been organized is really appealing. You can add applets which includes rss feeds from you favourite blogs, mail folder views, calendar, upcoming events and Date &amp; Time. Geeks love rss feeds. And what can be better than having it on your home tab all the time along with your mails. Event applet comes handy to remind you of the upcoming meetings and deadlines. And its on home tab all the time <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: Spicebird   A Collaboration Platform" />  Date &amp; Time is specially helpful when you collaborate with people in different timezones. So you can add their timezone on home tab and you know when is the right time to ping them.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/02.SpiceBird-Home.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-206" title="Spicebird Home Tab" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/02.SpiceBird-Home-620x387.jpg" alt="Spicebird Home Tab" width="620" height="387" /></a></p>
<h4>4. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Email</span></h4>
<p>Email experience is more or less like any other open source email client. But Spicebird provides some intitutive features like if it finds that the content of a mail is about a meeting, it&#8217;ll give an option for creating a calendar event for the same. This is a really good feature and this is just the begining. Spicebird is still beta.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/05.SpiceBird-Intution.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-207" title="Spicebird Intutive Mail" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/05.SpiceBird-Intution-620x309.jpg" alt="SpiceBird Intutive Mail" width="620" height="309" /></a></p>
<h4>5. <strong>Instant Messaging</strong></h4>
<p>This is a really cool feature from collaboration point of view and which makes Spicebird different from the masses. Spicebird is supporting IM via any jabber server. So if you are a startup, setup your own jabber server on Intranet and use it for collaboration. Mind blowing!! This also includes Gmail/GTalk. So you can just say bye bye to your messenger and start using it right away with GTalk. Plus this will import all your contacts to your local address book. Another real good feature which is not there in lot of other email clients.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/01.SpiceBird-Instant-Message.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-208" title="Spicebird Instant Message using Jabber, GTalk" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/01.SpiceBird-Instant-Message-620x387.jpg" alt="SpiceBird Instant Message using Jabber, GTalk" width="620" height="387" /></a></p>
<h4>6. <strong>Calendar &amp; Task Management</strong></h4>
<p>Another good feature. Integrated calendar and task management. You can quickly add tasks and events. And you need not check your calendar for upcoming events, add upcoming event applet on home tab and you will have them all the time in front of your eyes <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: Spicebird   A Collaboration Platform" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/04.SpiceBird-Task-Manager.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-209" title="Spicebird Calendar and Task Manager" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/04.SpiceBird-Task-Manager-620x261.jpg" alt="Spicebird Calendar and Task Manager" width="620" height="261" /></a></p>
<h4><strong>Conclusion</strong></h4>
<p>Whether you are a startup which is looking for tools to collaborate or a user who is excited about using open source tools, just go and download Spicebird from <a href="http://www.spicebird.com/download" target="_blank">here</a> and explore a new way of managing things at a single place <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: Spicebird   A Collaboration Platform" /> </p>
<p>You can look at Spicebird Roadmap <a href="http://www.spicebird.com/en-US/spicebird/roadmap" target="_blank">here</a> and checkout the video demo of Spicebird <a href="http://www.spicebird.com/demos/spicebird.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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		<title>Review: KDE4 &#8211; Is it worth upgrading?</title>
		<link>http://gofedora.com/review-kde4-worth-upgrading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[KDE4 was released on Jan 11, 2008. I noticed the rpms for Fedora on rpmfind.net on Jan 13. It was a big trouble to get packages one by one keeping in mind the dependencies. I tried Yum with rpmfind repo but it didn&#8217;t work out. Then I used the server where my domain is hosted. [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.kde.org/announcements/4.0/" target="_blank">KDE4</a> was released on Jan 11, 2008. I noticed the rpms for Fedora on <a href="http://rpmfind.net/" target="_blank">rpmfind.net</a> on Jan 13. It was a big trouble to get packages one by one keeping in mind the dependencies. I tried Yum with rpmfind repo but it didn&#8217;t work out. Then I used the server where my domain is hosted. I have 15GB bandwidth per month and the download speed on the server is awesome (average 400kbps). So, I just ftp to rpmfind.net and downloaded all the rpms on the server hosting my site. And then I downloaded the packages from my domain to my local machine ( No effort for searching now and I can do parallel downloading now). So, lets see how to install KDE4 on Fedora.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Step 1:</span></strong></h3>
<p>Get the KDE4 rpms from <a href="http://rpmfind.net/" target="_blank">rpmfind.net</a> . <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/linux/kde4_rpms.txt" target="_blank">Here</a> is the list of all the kde4 rpms that you need to download from <a href="http://rpmfind.net/" target="_blank">rpmfind.net</a>.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Step 2:</span></strong></h3>
<p>Enable the fedora development repository. In <code>'/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-development.repo'</code> file check if enabled is equal to 1 for development repo. If its zero, then change it to 1.</p>
<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Step 3:</span></strong></h3>
<p>Use yum to install the kde rpms that you have downloaded.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>bordeaux KDE4_RPMS<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># yum install *.rpm [Enter]  (do as root)</span></pre></div></div>

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Note: After the KDE4 rpms are up in the fedora repos, then you can skip the step 1 and directly install kde by issuing the command</span></p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#91;</span>root<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>bordeaux saini<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#93;</span><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># yum install kde* [Enter] (do as root)</span></pre></div></div>

<h3><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">My Experience</span></strong></h3>
<p>I was expecting a lot from KDE4. But a lot of things went wrong. When I logged into KDE4 for the first time, everything was looking awesome and very sharp. But then I faced the first crash while editing the settings for a widget and I realized that its not possible to have a crash free KDE application. After upgrade ( which cost me around 1GB of downloading via yum) and spending a lot of time manually downloading the packages, all I got was a desktop environment which will crash frequently to remind that you just wasted 1GB of bandwidth.</p>
<p>After upgrading, Kopete stopped working due to some conflict in ssl libraries, xchat is also not working due to some other library conflicts, dolphin the new file manager for KDE doesn&#8217;t even start and flush all kind of errors and faults when launched from command line. After the first crash the panel disappeared and I couldn&#8217;t get it back. Launching kicker returns the kde3 panel.</p>
<p>KDE4 is awesome when you just sit back and look at it. But when you want to work with some apps, its miserable. One of my friend had this status message on gtalk &#8216; KDE4 : KDE3.5.8 :: Vista : XP &#8216;. KDE4 is as good as Vista when it comes to looks but its equally bad as Vista as compared to XP when it comes to work with it.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Conclusion:</strong></span> Don&#8217;t upgrade to KDE4 and wait till May, 2008 when KDE4 will be shipped with Fedora 9. I hope that KDE4 will not crash frequently when it&#8217;ll be embedded natively.</p>
<p>Here are some screen shots if you wanna have a look <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: KDE4   Is it worth upgrading?" /> </p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/01-kde4-desktop.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-194" title="KDE4 Desktop" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/01-kde4-desktop-125x125.jpg" alt="KDE4 Desktop" width="125" height="125" /></a> <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/02-kde4-menu.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-195" title="KDE4 Menus" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/02-kde4-menu-125x125.jpg" alt="KDE4 Menus" width="125" height="125" /></a> <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/04-kde4-konqueror.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-196" title="KDE4 Konqueror" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/04-kde4-konqueror-125x125.jpg" alt="KDE4 Konqueror" width="125" height="125" /></a> <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/05-kde4-logout.jpeg"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-197" title="KDE4 Logout Screen" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/05-kde4-logout-125x125.jpg" alt="KDE4 Logout Screen" width="125" height="125" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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		<title>Review: Firefox 3 Beta 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available now. I downloaded the package yesterday morning and started using it right away. While using, I figured out some of the good things and at the same time there are some bad things about this test release. Here is what I feel about Firefox 3 Beta 1.
BTW, you can [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available now. I downloaded the package yesterday morning and started using it right away. While using, I figured out some of the good things and at the same time there are some bad things about this test release. Here is what I feel about Firefox 3 Beta 1.</p>
<p>BTW, you can get beta 1 for Firefox 3 <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I am not going to tell, how to install firefox <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: Firefox 3 Beta 1" /> </p>
<h2><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Positives:</span></strong></h2>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1.Nice Default Font:</span></h4>
<p>Well someone may argue that you can configure any font in any version of Firefox, so whats the good thing about this default font in Firefox 3 Beta1. Well, I&#8217;ll say that configuration is always available but nobody gives a damn to configure the font in browser. I am liking this default font in FF3 Beta1 and everything now seems interesting to read. I have Read more than 40 wiki pages since last two days.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2.New FTP Listing Style:</span></h4>
<p>The FTP listings in Firefox 3 Beta 1 has got new stylesheet. Its not dirty any more. It feels good while browsing ftp now. See the screen-shot below.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/1-ftp-listing-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-172" title="FTP Listing In Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/1-ftp-listing-in-firefox-402x469.jpg" alt="FTP Listing In Firefox" width="402" height="469" /></a></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">3.Website Identity:</span></h4>
<p>This is new feature, but I couldn&#8217;t find it useful. When you click on favicon in the location bar, a pop-up kinda thing comes up, which tells about the identity of the site you are visiting. Check out the snapshot below.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/2-website-identity-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-173" title="Website Identity in Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/2-website-identity-in-firefox-620x368.jpg" alt="Website Identity in Firefox" width="620" height="368" /></a></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">4.Drag n Drop:</span></h4>
<p>You can now hold any thing in Firefox 3 Beta 1 and drag it anywhere you want. Though I could not drop the images to gimp or anywhere else, it looks good. I think its in the development stage right now.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/3-drag-n-drop-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-174" title="Drag and Drop in Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/3-drag-n-drop-in-firefox-620x454.jpg" alt="Drag and Drop in Firefox" width="372" height="272" /></a> <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/4-drag-n-drop-2-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-175" title="Drag and Drop in Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/4-drag-n-drop-2-in-firefox-519x470.jpg" alt="Drag and Drop in Firefox" width="363" height="329" /></a></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">5.Bookmarks:</span></h4>
<p>Bookmarking a website or editing your bookmarks is far easier now. You can edit a bookmarked site while its loading or can bookmark the site by just clicking a button. A new star-shaped button has been added in the location bar before the go button. If a site is not bookmarked, clicking the button will just bookmark it without asking for anything. If you again click on the button, now you can edit or delete the site you just bookmarked.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/5-bookmark-editing-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-176" title="Bookmark Editing in Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/5-bookmark-editing-in-firefox-620x319.jpg" alt="Bookmark Editing in Firefox" width="620" height="319" /></a></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">6.Adding Search Engine:</span></h4>
<p>In firefox 3 beta 1, you can add the site you are browsing in you search engine list just like google, imdb, wikipedia, yahoo or whatever. But this is not valid for every website. Every website in this world can&#8217;t be a search engine <img src='http://gofedora.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' title="Review: Firefox 3 Beta 1" />  Checkout the snapshot or KDE.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/6-adding-search-engine-in-firefox.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-177" title="Adding Search Engine in Firefox" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/6-adding-search-engine-in-firefox.jpg" alt="Adding Search Engine in Firefox" width="338" height="402" /></a></p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">7.Link sorting/searching in location bar:</span></h4>
<p>Firefox 3 beta 1 implements a new searching/sorting mechanism for links in location bar. As you type some letters, those are now searched in the link as well as the title of the page and then the links are sorted and displayed as list. In drop down list, you can also see the sites on your bookmarks.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">8.Places Folder:</span></h4>
<p>A new bookmark folder named &#8216;Places&#8217; has been added. It has 6 sub-folders which contains links to different site based on a particular criterion. Some of them are &#8216;Recently Starred Pages&#8217;, &#8216;Recently Visited Starred Pages&#8217;, &#8216;Most Visited Starred Pages&#8217; etc. I was looking for something like this since a long time. Because every time I login into my PC and fire up my firefox, first of all, I visit 8-10 sites (students mail, slashdot, iiit blogroll, yahoo mail, gmail, forum, orkut etc.). Now, I can open all of them in just one click. I click on &#8216;Most Visited Starred Pages&#8217; and done.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">9.Low Memory:</span></h4>
<p>Well, a review of Firefox 3 Beta 1 on <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=960" target="_blank">zdnet</a>, say that Firefox 3 beta 1 is consuming low memory than Firefox 2 and IE 7. That review is for Firefox in windows. But in Fedora 7, I didn&#8217;t experience any reduction in memory usage.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">10.Faster:</span></h4>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how to justify this, but Firefox 3 Beta 1 seems to load pages faster. What I could think was that, when you click go, it loads the page in the background for some-time and then suddenly flushes the page to the screen and it appears that the entire page has been loaded in one go. I may be wrong though.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">11.Improved GUI:</span></h4>
<p>The rendering of buttons, input fields, images in the pages have improved a lot and buttons and drop down menus look better now.</p>
<h2><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Negatives:</span></strong></h2>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1.Extensions:</span></h4>
<p>Life is a bit or I should say a byte difficult with Firefox extensions. Now, I am too much used to use these extensions that I can&#8217;t live without them. I&#8217;ll crash if I don&#8217;t have &#8216;Undo Closed Tab&#8217; extension. I keep making stupid mistakes. All the extensions are not yet available for Firefox 3, so its a problem.</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2.Multiple Tabs:</span></h4>
<p>Firefox 3 Beta 1 immediately dies if I open more than 20 tabs. I opened my wiki saved session (39 tabs) and after sometime I was searching for Firefox. Where the hell firefox window has gone?</p>
<h4><span style="text-decoration: underline;">3.Crashes:</span></h4>
<p>I don&#8217;t know what exactly is the problem, but I think Firefox 3 revolts against Yahoo Mail and GMail. Whenever I open Yahoo Mail or GMail, Firefox 3 Beta 1 crashes. Either there is some problem with the heavily loaded mail pages or it doesn&#8217;t want me to use GMail or Yahoo.</p>
<p>Well, there may be lot more positives and negatives. These are the things I noticed about Firefox 3 Beta 1 in last two days. As the positives list is ruling the negatives, I am using Firefox 3 Beta 1 full time these days.</p>
<p>PS : @Paresh I think FF3 is better than FF2 in many ways. But you may want to wait for all the extensions to be compatible with FF3.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Kulbir Saini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can&#8217;t accept that. As I am  a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can&#8217;t sit back and say &#8220;ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am [...]<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I installed Fedora 8 32 bit from a leaky mirror on Nov 7th and I just had a very bad experience with it. Nothing seemed to be working. But I can&#8217;t accept that. As I am  a hardcore fan of Fedora, I just can&#8217;t sit back and say &#8220;ah, Fedora 8 sucks, i am not gonna use that&#8221;. I fetched Fedora 8 x86_64 (64bit) from a mirror yesterday, after the release. I installed it and everything worked out of the box. I can&#8217;t believe that I <a href="http://kulbirsaini.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/fedora-8-sainicoin-released/" target="_blank">wrote</a> something wrong about Fedora. How could I do that ?</p>
<p>First of all, I would like to say that The artwork team at Fedora has done a very fantastic job. The graphics right from installation up to the desktop are just awesome. Especially the default background is very nice.  Here is shot of the default Gnome Fedora 8 Desktop.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/01-fedora-8-desktop.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-122" title="GNOME Fedora 8 Desktop" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/01-fedora-8-desktop-620x387.jpg" alt="GNOME Fedora 8 Desktop" width="620" height="387" /></a></p>
<p>Right after the installation, I fetched the nVidia proprietary drivers from <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html" target="_blank">here</a> and installed them. And those were installed successfully without giving any errors or problems. [ If you want a complete howto on installing nvidia drivers. Its <a href="http://gofedora.com/archives/2007/04/27/howto-install-configure-nvidia-drivers-beryl/" target="_blank">here</a>.] A reboot after the installation and compiz worked out of the box. Here is shot.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/02-compiz-fusion.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-123" title="Compiz Fusion" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/02-compiz-fusion-620x387.jpg" alt="Compiz Fusion" width="620" height="387" /></a></p>
<p>Ok, graphics done. What now ? I just realized that there is no mp3 support. No worries. Codeina aka Codec Buddy is there. Just issue &#8216;codeina&#8217; command from command line and a window like this will appear.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/13-codeina-sound-codec-fetcher.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-124" title="Codeina Audio Codec Fetcher" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/13-codeina-sound-codec-fetcher-620x353.jpg" alt="Codeina Audio Codec Fetcher" width="620" height="353" /></a></p>
<p>Check Fluendo MP3 Audio Decoder and click get selected, accept the license conditions and you&#8217;ll see that codeina is fetching the codecs. [If codeina does not fetch codecs or give error like timeout or some other network error. Try checking your proxy setting in System -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Internet And Network -&gt; Network Proxy . It may help. ]</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/14-codeina-installing-mp3-support.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-125" title="Codeina Installing MP3 Support" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/14-codeina-installing-mp3-support.jpg" alt="Codeina Installing MP3 Support" width="323" height="128" /></a></p>
<p>Ok. Now, codeina has done the job. Lets play some mp3. Note that amarok still can&#8217;t play mp3 files because it uses xine engine. So, you can choose either Totem or Rhythmbox to play your mp3 files. Here is a shot of Rhythmbox. So, Codeina also works out of the box.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/16-rhythmbox-playing-mp3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-126" title="Rhythmbox Playing MP3" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/16-rhythmbox-playing-mp3-620x415.jpg" alt="Rhythmbox Playing MP3" width="620" height="415" /></a></p>
<p>Another major improvement in Fedora 8 in audio section is introduction or pulseaudio. Issue command &#8216;pulseaudio&#8217; from command line and you will see a window like this.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/17-pulseaudio-is-just-awesome.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-127" title="Pulseaudio Device and Application Control" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/17-pulseaudio-is-just-awesome-620x437.jpg" alt="Pulseaudio Device and Application Control" width="620" height="437" /></a></p>
<p>You can control the sound stream from different players or whatever. You can mute individual streams and can even set the default devices for certain streams through this fantastic gui.</p>
<p>Another good thing in Fedora 8 is Eclipse. Eclipse 3.3 is back in Fedora 8. They excluded it from Fedora 7. I am happy to see it back here in Fedora 8.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/07-eclipse-33.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-128" title="Eclipse In Fedora 8" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/07-eclipse-33.jpg" alt="Eclipse In Fedora 8" width="455" height="295" /></a></p>
<p>Another utility that I found helpful is Remote Desktop utility. Launch System -&gt; Preferences -&gt; Internet And Network -&gt; Remote Desktop and you&#8217;ll see a window like this.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/10-remote-desktop-utility.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-129" title="Remote Desktop Utility" src="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/10-remote-desktop-utility.jpg" alt="Remote Desktop Utility" width="396" height="326" /></a></p>
<p>Set your preferences and now you can browse your desktop from anywhere using &#8216;vncviewer &lt;yourIP&gt;:0&#8242;. Though one call always configure vncserver to get that done. But for newbies it&#8217;ll be a great help.</p>
<p>Also, My wireless lan card, Ralink rt2500 WNC-0301 is detected successfully in Fedora 8. But I am not sure whether it works or not, because there is not wifi environment in my lab and I can&#8217;t check it without that. [ Anyway if your wifi card doesn't work, <a href="http://gofedora.com/archives/2007/06/06/howto-configure-wireless-ralink-rt2500-level-wnc-0301-fedora-7/" target="_blank">here</a> is a howto on installing Ralink rt2500 WNC-0301 using drivers from serailmonkey. ]</p>
<p>Another improvement is that cursor was never invisible. Up to Fedora 7, I suffered cursor invisible problem on first login. [ If you are facing the same problem, add line</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;">Options <span style="color: #ff0000;">&quot;HWCursor&quot;</span> off</pre></div></div>

<p>to "screens" section in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and issue 'gdm-restart' command. It'll be fine afterwards. ]</p>
<p>The boot time has also improved significantly. My Fedora 8 boots in just 45 seconds.</p>
<p>These Fedora 8 Screenshots and other related to Fedora 8 can be reached <a href="http://gofedora.com/wp-content/uploads/linux/Fedora8/">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://gofedora.com/">Fedora Tutorials</a> and <a href="http://cachevideos.com/">Videocache</a> by <a href="http://saini.co.in/">Kulbir Saini</a>.</p>
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