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Emesene

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I try Empathy, Pidgin, aMSN and Emesene. After all, I still choose Emesene. Good enough for me. To install, run the following command from terminal. sudo apt-get install emesene Once installation completed, several things I will do. Go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications , add emesene into startup program. For some people, their wireless connection may not connect immediately when boot up. This will cause connection error on emesene. What you can do is add a delay to the application startup. Enter the command: bash -c "sleep ; emesene" bash -c "sleep 30; emesene" On the Emesene, go to Options > Plugins. Check on CurrentSong > Configure. As for my case, I choose Rhythmbox as my music player. You can have Lastfm, Songbird, VLC and etc. Once done, just press on the music icon to enable or disable the current song. Not only that, you can enable others features such as gmailNotify, Facebook and etc. All the plugin comes along by default and you ca

Top 10 applications to be install in my Ubuntu

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I had been using Ubuntu for quite sometimes. I can't recall when but it was since 6.06LTS (Dapper Drake). It was introduce by my ex-colleague. Back then, Ubuntu was so limited features. I use to have dual boot, Windows XP and Ubuntu. After several release still dual boot. I can't let go Windows and most of the time I'm using Windows. From time to time, my system always infected with virus. I purchase original Antivirus, yet still infected by virus. Time to time, Ubuntu getting mature and stable. More features arrive and getting user friendly. I decided to go for Ubuntu permanently. Being using it for a year plus and still happy using it. I'm currently using Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). Although Ubuntu comes with lots of built-in applications, still I feel there are some applications which I prefer using. 1. Ubuntu Restricted Extras Some applications we may need it but not bundle along with Ubuntu due to legal issues. Example mp3, flash, java , some codecs and fonts

Android Screencast

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I always want to get a screen capture of my Android device to my PC. I found this application name screencast. It's use for Android application development. Although I don't developed application but it is useful for me to capture screen shot. 1. Go to this LINK and download the installer for SDK. I downloaded the exe. 2. If there are no Java JDK installed, it will prompt you to do so or you can download it from HERE . Get the JDK installed in your PC. Then install the Android SDK installer. 3. Download the android screencast file here HERE and drop to the Android SDK Manager folder. 4. Make sure the HTC sync driver is installed. Do not launch the HTC sync application, we just need the driver. 5. Connect the HTC and select HTC sync mode. 6. Launch the SDK Manager. Ignore any prompt. Go to available packages, install the Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 3. Once completed, close this Android SDK manager. 7. Launch command prompt, navigate to the SDK Manager installation fo