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First you must have tethering enabled in the iPhone, either via your carrier, or via a 3rd party app such as MyWi.

Simply add the corresponding PPA repository, either via your prefered GUI or with the command:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

The update your sources with your GUI or with:

sudo apt-get update

And the install ipheth-utils via Syaptic, or with the command:

sudo apt-get install ipheth-utils

Ready, next time you connect your iPhone, Ubuntu Lucid will automatically connect.

There is no “crop” function in inkscape, how to achive that?
1-Draw a rectangle en top of the image as the size of the resulting image.
2-Select the original image and the rectangle.
3-Menu: Object->Clip->Apply

Ready, Image cropped.

Today I visited the NASA Space Center at Houston.
At the Mission Control Center there was a computer showing a Windows XP screensaver. Someone asked:
Do you use windows on all your computers?
The NASA guy answered:
“No, we use Windows  only on the computer for the projector, for the rest, we use Red Hat Linux which is more reliable than Windows. Failure is Not an Option”

Well, I have installed ubuntu 10.4 beta 1 and updated until today.
And it’s true!
iPhone works out of the box in Ubunu 10.4 Lucid Lynx

iphone and ubuntu can be much more well integrated now.

If you used the previuose method described here some months ago, you must first remove those changes:

First remove the packages

sudo apt-get remove gvfs-backends ifuse libiphone-dev libplist0 libplist-dev libiphone0  libgpod4 libusbmux0 libusbmux-dev gtkpod

Now let’s remove the jonabeck PPA repo:

Either adding it as root to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

Or with the GUI “Software sources”

Now:  lets perform an update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

At this point it might be a good option to reboot the system.

New Mehod starts here

Let’s add a new PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmcenery/ppa

Let’s make a full update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Let’s install the new needed packages:

sudo apt-get install gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-bin gvfs-fuse libgvfscommon0 ifuse libgpod-dev libgpod-common libimobiledevice-utils libimobiledevice0 libimobiledevice-dev python-libimobiledevice libplist++1 libplist-utils python-plist libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmuxd1 usbmuxd

Now we have to add our own user to the fuse group:

sudo adduser $USER fuse

Let’s modify the fuse config file:

gksudo gedit /etc/fuse.conf

Uncoment the line that says

“#user_allow_other”

(uncoment means remove the “#”)

Ready: Now symply connect your iphone and it will be detected, you can see it in Rhythmbox and other media players.

Tip: iPhone should not be password protected when connected

You will notice that you have two iphone mounted devices, one as camera, and one as phone. Enjoy

There is a 14 weeks old snapshot of gnome-shell in the karmic repositories.
You can try it by simoky installing the gnome-shell packaged vis asynaptic or with the command:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
But If you want an updated version, you can do the following:

1-Install the unofficial gnome-shell ppa repository: ppa:vperetokin/unofficial-gnome-shell
You can do that with the command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vperetokin/unofficial-gnome-shell

2-Update your sources, and then your packages either via synaptic or with the commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

3-Install gnome-shell package:
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

OK, it’s installed, now in orden to use it:

1-Compiz (Desktop Efects) should be disabled firts, so dissabke it from the Menu:
System>Preferences>Appearances
Then go to the Visual Efects tab and select None.

2-You can now start it at any time with the command:
gnome-shell replace &

This method is deprecated
Use This other method instead to sync iphone and ubuntu

http://www.mexlinux.com/how-to-sync-music-between-iphone-and-ubuntu-using-new-ifuse/

OK, now is beginig to be possible to sync your music from Ubuntu to your iPhone, thanks to the work of marcan and many others.

Disclaimer: This is very Alfa software, I didn’t invented any of the things I’m writing about, I just adpated the marcan instructions in the way they worked for me, to my personal systems, wich I’m sure many are using: Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and iPhone 3G with OS 3.1.2, by the way you need to have some music synced by iTunes before you can start.
Don’t cry if your iPhone melts:

1- update your system, either via synaptic or with

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

2- Add the PPA repository with the needed packages :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonabeck/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

Either adding it as root to your /etc/apt/sources.list file

Or with the GUI “Software sources”

Then add the key for the repo with this command:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com F0876AC9

And update again with:

sudo apt-get update

3- Install the packages required for compilation, and the already packaged libraries:

sudo apt-get install git-core cmake autoconf libtool libglib2.0-dev intltool gtk-doc-tools libsqlite3-dev libxml2-dev  libiphone-dev libplist1 libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev libusbmux0 libusbmux-dev ifuse libiphone0 libplist0 libplist-dev

4-Get the libgpod code and compile it:

$ git clone git://gtkpod.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/gtkpod/libgpod
$ cd libgpod
$ CFLAGS=”-g -O0″ sh autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install

5-Create a folder to mount it, and mount it:

sudo mkdir /media/ipod

**connect your iPhone**

sudo ifuse /media/ipod

6-Create the needed directory and files:

cd /media/ipod/iTunes_Control
mkdir Device

Find your UUID with

lsusb -v | grep -i iSerial

grab your UUID wich is the 40 characters long text
and run the following command replaceing with yours:

ipod-read-sysinfo-extended /media/ipod

This has generated a needed file into the Device folder.

7-Thats it. Now you can open the gtkpod application and sync your iPhone.

Notes:
In order tu unmount your iphone first dissconect it via gtkpod and the you can use

sudo umount /media/ipod

And to mount it again just

sudo ifuse /media/ipod

There is a way to sync your files in the iphone, and also shering not only with ubuntu, but also with Windows or Mac.

It’s a free service called dropbox that offers 2Gb of space for your files.

1-Click here to go the dropbox website and create a free account.

2-Click on the Install link to Download dropbox and install it on your PC, there are versions avilable for Ubuntu, Fedora, and Sources (there are also Windows and Mac versions).

3-On Your iPhone go to the Apple Store and search for dropbox and install it.

4-Now You have a Dropbox folder in your PC, and a Dropbox app in your iphone. Any file that you copy to your Dropbox folder will appear on your iphone, and viceversa.

Have fun!

This is just another real case showing that Linux has become way much easier than Windows:

My daughter has a netbook with Windows XP, I have a Laptop with Ubuntu 9.10

We have a printer HP Deskjet 460 that we used today to print a drawing that my girl was making.

-In Windows XP, we plugged the printer, it detected some device asked for autodetection, I say yes, it did not found anything suitable…It asked to try via Windows Update, it found nothing, we choosed to specify model… It’s not listed…. we choosed similar models.. did’n worked…

My girl was irritated, so I said, OK let’s make a PDF email it to me and let’s try in Ubuntu:

-In Ubuntu I plugged the printer, it was deteced, installed, and we printed the drawing, just like that!

Ubuntu netbook remix includes maximus, which is an application that maximizes all the new windows and removes the decoration, this is is very good to make it easier to work with small screens, and even to save space in regular screens, the last is my case…

Well but sometimes maximus might annoy you because it maximizes all windows, even the ones that where designed to be small.

There is no maximus icon or preferences at first sight, but you can find it under the hood, via the gconf-editor:

So open the gconf-editor with the command:

gconf-editor

open /apps/maximus

You will see some options, that can help you to select applications that you don’t want to get maximized, you can keep decoration, and you can stop automatic maximization…play with that.