Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Is this the Firefox4? Now with a brand new Addon Manager

I simply couldn’t resist myself from capturing the screen shots of the brand new Addon Manager being developed for Firefox 4 (3.7a5pre). The new UI is slick and feels more like a part of the browser. Here are is a quick screen shot of the Themes section. The Addons section It seems like this is [...]

Howto fix slow and choppy flash/video on ThinkPad T61 running Ubuntu Jaunty

Very recently, I upgraded from Ubuntu Intrepid to Ubuntu Jaunty – and to my horror, the system went very slow! I wasn’t sure what was causing the problem but Xorg reported near 100% CPU utilization in “top” output, Firefox felt very very heavy, flash videos on youtube were choppy and slow – even Gedit felt [...]

Finally made that little sticker…

After setting up the feed aggregation at ApnaBill.com’s Blog, I now had an uphill task in front of me – to tell people that such a blog exists. Writing about it at my blog was one thing, letting it known to ApnaBill’s users was another. And those small sticker like graphics on the topmost right [...]

GTK+ needs you…

Tim has written a very well timed mail to the gtk-devel-list regarding how you can help the GTK+ project. Do give http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-March/msg00122.html a look if you are interested. Any contributions/comments would be welcome [ofcourse, please redirect them to the gtk-devel-list]