Screenlets without Composite!

Could it be true!! Could someone with out compiz fusion or xcompmgr actually run screenlets? Well apparently it is true! 

A new version of screenlets came out revision 0.0.12 final rev 174

In tis version there are new screenlets, lots of bug fixes and optimized code, along with non composite support!

Well at least that is everything that is advertised. I am on a mac now, so can't test it but will by tomorrow. If you want to try it yourself you can grab the deb from here.

If you try it before me please leave us some comments and share your experiences, until then I will post again whit my findings later!

Have Fun!

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The Best Linux gmail Checker

The best Linux gmail checker is named CheckGmail. Now why am I raving about a gmail mail checker? You ask, how different can it be from the other gmail checkers, because don't they all do the same thing, notify you when you get mail?

Well yes this notifies you of new gmail message with a pop up like most do. But it also allows you to interact with the new mail without having to visit your inbox! That one little thing is so convenient its great! Look at the screen shot below for explanation on how it works:


AS you can see in the above image, it shows the Subject of the email, and also a quick snippet of text from the email. Then there are a bunch of buttons in red between the subject and the snippet of text. The read; Open, Mark as read, archive, Report spam, and Delete. These are great because you can delete archive etc. all from here and not even havign to open up a Firefox window and go into gmail. yes it sa small feature but its worth its weight in gold for me!

Wuala Free Online storage

This is a wonderful new online storage idea that works on windows, mac, and linux!!! Why else would I report about it, if it did not work on Linux. Anywho how it work is it connect to everyone on the network, and you can give part of your hard drive to the network to share files on. Well to use this you do not need to give any space on your computer, and you will be given 1g of free space with unlimited file size upload (I am pretty sure, haven't tested that yet though).

If my explanation wasn't good enough then you can read wuals' here.

Unfortunately it is in private beta, so you all just can't join yet. Between steamy and this I have good luck with getting into these.

I would like to point out I have it working for myself only partly. I have full access to the free on gig of online storage which is great. But you can get more if you share part of your hard drive space. Unfortunately to be able to this is pretty tricky and you need to have knowledge with router things and ip addresses and UPnP.

Instand Bird Chat

There is a new Chat client on the block! Its called Instant Bird. It is based on Mozilla and Pidgin. I gave it a try and so, far its pretty basic, and can not I believe compete with Pidgin or Kopete on Linux.

But on the upside, it seems to have the same theme and exstenion manager as Firefox does. I mean there interfaces look exactly the same. What could this mean? Well maybe that this will be super easy to theme and extend with extensions. And anyone who has read my blog for a while knows that I hate how you can't easily theme Pidgin...

ANywho if you want to check this out its here.

Ubuntu Tweak

This is a nice little program that can help you easily and quickly tweak some little things in Ubuntu which aren't easily changeable normally. Check it out here.

Pandora Screenlet

Ok I know I have been gone awhile, my computer was very badly messed up and i had like 3 different version of Linux on it it was like a tri booter. Anywho I re-installed for liek the millionth time, and will try my hardest not to mess things up too badly....

So I got Compiz working great again so I decided to go grab some screenlets. I am a big user of www.pandora.com so thought a screenlet for that could be awesome.

So I found one here: