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Google Desktop now available for Linux
28 June 2007 in Linux & Random tidbits | Comments (2)

Finally the Google tool (my favorite) is available for all main platforms: Windows, Mac and Linux.

You can search your Linux files and applications on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1 and Red Flag 5.

The big advantage Google Desktop has over built-in search solutions (like the Mac’s Spotlight or Vista Search) is its ability to include Gmail messages in its results, and the use of Google’s advanced search operators, which are nice to learn once and use both on the web and desktop. For more on Google Desktop power using, see how to get more from Google Desktop. GDesktop is a free download, now truly cross-platform.

Linux Comic
23 June 2007 in Linux | Comments (0)

Moonlight coming very soon
22 June 2007 in Linux & Microsoft & Programming | Comments (0)

The all so spoken Moonlight, the Silverlight alternative to Linux users (based on Mono), is almost ready to public release.

For the last three weeks, a decentralized group of Mono developers has been hacking together an implementation of Silverlight for Linux. Project lead Miguel de Icaza chronicles the process on his blog, calling the weeks of 12-hour-plus days “the most intense hacking days that I have ever had.”

Miguel will be presenting a demo for Linux at ReMix07, the traveling Microsoft event landing Thursday in Paris.

The code is currently on a working state (alpha), and if you want to give it a try, follow this steps:

1. Install Mono 1.2.4 for Unix
2. Download and install the olive module
   1. Standard configure; make; make install
3. Install dependencies for module moon from your distro:
   1. Gtk+ 2.0 development package
   2. cairo 1.4.xx development package
   3. ffmpeg from SVN
   4. Mozilla NSPR development package
      1. one of: nspr mozilla-nspr firefox-nspr xulrunner-nspr seamonkey-nspr)
   5. Mozilla NSS development package
      1. one of: nss mozilla-nss firefox-nss xulrunner-nss seamonkey-nss
   6. Mozilla XPCOM
      1. one of: xpcom mozilla-xpcom firefox-xpcom xulrunner-xpcom
   7. Alsa
4. Download and install the moon module from SVN
   1. Standard configure; make; make install

After that, You should be able to run silverlight applications with moonlight on Firefox (Linux).

Cool shortcut in Windows Vista
20 June 2007 in Random tidbits & Windows | Comments (0)

If you still have the Quick Launch toolbar in you taskbar, pressing the Windows key plus the index of the shortcut in the toolbar will launch that application.

For example, on my desktop Windows + 1 launches the ‘Show Desktop’, Windows + 2 the ‘Flip 3D’, etc.

It would be even great if you could see the indexes on a tooltip when you hover the shortcuts.

Outlook Clone using WPF
14 June 2007 in Programming & Windows | Comments (2)

A group in Microsoft Switzerland have put together a WPF Hands On Lab to demonstrate building an Outlook UI using WPF… and it is a lot simple, as it contains barely any custom code. Done 90% in Blend 1.0 and 10% with manual XAML. No single third party control used.

XBAP Demo: http://www.00001001.ch/download/HOL/WPF_XBAP/OutlookWPF/OutlookUI%20Browser.xbap

The lab manual can be downloaded from: http://www.00001001.ch/download/HOL/WPF/Outlook_HOL_WPF.pdf

The lab binaries are located here: http://www.00001001.ch/download/HOL/WPF/Outlook_HOL_WPF_projects.zip