Today I have just updated my chromium browser (from the proposed repo), and now I found that CloudPrint is available in Settings>Advanced
I configured on my ubuntu laptop, and I was able to print from my iPhone.
It works!
OpenOffice.org has been removed from the Natty repositories, and LibreOffice has landed:
LibreOffice has landed to Natty
The first approach of what the unity dash will be has landed to Natty, see the screenshot:
Dash in ubuntu natty
The rules have changed, now is completly posible to move from the desktop to the cloud, let’s do the leap:
A desktop or even a laptop is not competly needed for the daily average use today, let’s inspectmy daily activities:
-Emailing can be done from any of the excelent webmail services that exist today, I have been using Gmail for the last 4 months. It’s fun to see how the world is upsode down, I rememeber some years ago when we were trying to use webmail service like hotmail from the desktop email client like Outlook in Windows… Now I do the opposite, I fetch my messages from my domains to Gmail, and manage everything from the web.
-Productivity Suites: Lots of people uses Microsoft Office, many have moved to OpenOffice.org (LibreOffice), and some other use many other options, Now this huge applications are NO LONGER NEEDED, Most of the daily work can be done in the excelent Web Applications like http://www.zoho.com or of course Google Docs (http://docs.google.com).
-Photo Management can be hosted on free services like FLICKR or http://picasaweb.google.com
-Many Diffrent files can be hosted on free services like Dropbox or UbuntuOne.
There will be of course several caveats -that I’ll be bloggin here-, but the benefits are huge:
-I can relay on inexpensive -very light- hardware, In fact one of the resons for this movement is to prepera myself for the adoption of a tablet next year, now it does not matter wich one, because anyone will be compatible with what I need (maybe even the iPad).
Let’s move on.
There is a problem with the default configuration of Virtualbox in Ubuntu Lucid that avoids the iPhone in Recovery Mode to be visible inside virtualbox. Therefor this grays out the option to connect the device.
Solution is very simple:
Add your user to the vboxusers group, and start over.
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 
