Weather radar on weather applet

The cool weather applet I posted about before now has a cool radar feature. If you right click on the applet the context menu come up and you can select, "view weather map":



Once you get it open it looks like this:




To downnload the new version you can grab it from here.

Automatic Codes detection!

This is another super cool feature in Ubuntu Gutsy that just happened to occur today. I was trying to play a video file I had just downloaded and this message came up(click the picture to make it larger):


It asks if I want it to find the right codec so I could watch the movie! No more trying to Google around if you can't play certain media on your linux computer, because Gutsy does the looking for you and will install it easily for you.

How do you get your Ubuntu?

I am sure most people who run Linux downloaded there .iso and burned it to a cd. Then I bet there are a few of you who maybe bought a cd or got a free cd mailed to your house. Well what if you saw one of these in your local mall:
I would probably say something like, "what the hell is that?" Well if thats what your asking, its called the freedom toaster....according to its website, its a:

Freedom Toasters are conveniently located, self-contained, computer-based, 'Bring 'n Burn' facilities.

Sounds to me like you bring em a disc and they will speed burn things for you....sounds kind of interesting. Apparently its a new way of thinking By Shuttleworth to distribute Ubuntu. I was referred to that website for the freedom toaster by this article.

New Awn CLock and Date Applet

Another clock applet that displays the current time and date. This applet is extremely simple, no pop outs or anything but it does what its supposed to do well. It simply displays the time and date in a nice way on your awn dock. Currently you can change the font of the text and text color and shadow color changing are coming soon.


How bout we zoom in there on this applet:



Now for a link to download I do not want to link to the direct download because it is contently changing as the creator updates his code. So here is a link to the forum post it is being discussed, the download link is in the first post.

To install just open up your awn manager and go to applets and drag this downloaded file into the right column then place it on your dock.

Awn 0.2 Official release

Awn has officially released a stable version 0.2!!!! If you have been reading my blog for news on Awn I will recommend njpatels blog, because he is the great man who started awn, so go read what he has to say about this release.

I can't wait to see where Awn will be going next, and Neil said he may be spending some time on Arena which I would be looking forward to see!

Almost have desktop effects workign in Gutsy...

So I have been tryign to get them to work, and I have done kind of a work around, but it seems to allow me to turn on compiz fusion. But I am not getting any window boarders or animations for that matter, its like only composite is working. Heres my output while using the fusion-icon to start it:

mike@mike-desktop:~$ fusion-icon
* Detected Session: gnome
* Searching for installed applications...
Backend : ini
Integration : true
Profile : default
Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
Initializing decoration options...done
* NVIDIA on Xorg detected, exporting: __GL_YIELD=NOTHING
* Using the GTK Interface
* Starting Compiz
... executing: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --loose-binding --indirect-rendering
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't load plugin 'ccp'

Gutsy bug reporting

So I could have sworn this was a feature in edgy but it never happened when something crashed. But I was happing something in Firefox and it crashed!!! But anywho my disappointment quickly vanished when I saw something come up about reporting the crash to Ubuntu. Gutsy automatically gathered all the right log files that would help people figure out why Firefox crashed for me, then I click like report and it automatically uploaded everything onto launchpad!

This will be great in getting more bugs and more information on the bugs onto launchpad for people to fix. This I believe will help get bugs fixed faster. Never have I been happy about something crashing....