Font Manager - Easily Manage Fonts in Linux [Gnome, KDE, XFCE and Enlightenment]

Although designed with the GNOME desktop environment in mind, Font Manager (for Linux) should work well with most major desktop environments such as XFCE, Enlightenment, and even KDE, as long as PyGTK is available.

Font Manager currently allows the user to:

* Preview installed fonts
* Easily activate and de-activate installed fonts
* Specify different directories to search for fonts
* Group fonts into "Collections", and easily activate or de-activate groups of fonts
* Export "Collections" to an archive for easy backup, sharing, etc.
* Provides quick access to the users font folder so that font installation or removal can be done by drag and drop
* It can also display basic information about the selected font, detailed information if gnome-font-viewer is available


In the future Font Manager intends to allow the user to:

* Export "Collections" to a PDF "fontbook"
* Compare fonts

Download: Fedora 11 (.rpm) | Ubuntu 9.04, Linux Mint 7 .(deb package) | More info

You may also want to read about installing hundreds of free fonts in Ubuntu via repositories

Preventing Some Content To Be Indexed By Google

You must know of the rel="nofollow" link attribute which tells Google not to index the link to which is applied. Well, it seems there are some tags you can use to prevent Google from indexing certain parts of the website too: googleoff and googleon.

How googleoff and googleon work

There are 3 different parameters. Words surrounded by the googleon/off tags will not be indexed as occurring on the current page.

The "all" attribute turns on all of the attributes: index, anchor, and snippet:

<!--googleoff: all -->
everything between these tags will not be indexed
<!--googleon: all -->

Index attribute:

this is indexed by google
<!--–googleoff: index–--> this is NOT indexed by google <!--–googleon: index–-->
this is indexed by google

Anchor attribute:

<!--googleoff: anchor-->
<A href=linked_to_page.html> shark </A>
<!--googleon: anchor-->

This will not cause the word "shark" to be associated with the page "linked_to_page.html". Otherwise, this hyperlink could cause the page "linked_to_page.html" to be a search result for the search term "shark".

And finally, the snippet attribute:

<!--googleoff: snippet-->
The text surrounded by googleon/off tags will not be used to create snippets for search results.
<!--googleon: snippet-->

This is basically kind of like the Adsense tag:

<!--– google_ad_section_start–-->
relevant area for the ad
<!--– google_ad_section_end–-->

(More details about the google_ad_section_start, HERE)

For more about these, see this Google document | via vegabundia

Scan Files For Viruses Before Downloading With Dr.Web LinkChecker [Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer]

Dr.Web anti-virus link checker allows you to check any file you are about to download, any page you are about to visit with online version of Dr.Web anti-virus and it works on Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer.

For Firefox, all you have to do is install Dr. Web add-on like any other Firefox add-on.

For Opera:

From Windows Explorer go to Opera’s default directory under C:\Program Files\Opera\defaults. The defaults folder is the location for all of Opera’s configuration files. Then open and edit (using Notepad) the standard_menu.ini configuration file. The sections – [Link Popup Menu], [Document Popup Menu] and [Image Link Popup Menu] need to be edited with an item entry pointing to Dr.Web’s online scanner. The detailed instructions can be found here.

After that, a Scan Link with Dr.Web gets integrated in the right-click menu.

Internet Explorer users:

Go to the download page for MS Internet Explorer and download registry file drweb-online-ru.reg from the language choice among the seven given. Then double-click the file and confirm to add it to the registry.

Restart Internet Explorer and use with a right-click on a download link.

[via makeuseof]

The First Lubuntu ISO Was Published

The Lubuntu project (Ubuntu based on LXDE) just published it's first ISO. LXDE is a very lightweight and minimal desktop environment using the openbox window manager, the PcManFM file manager, and a very select list of default applications. It is compatible with basic freedesktop standards and all needed parts are already packaged in Ubuntu today.

Lubuntu is based on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and these are some of the applications that come with it:

· Linux Kernel 2.6.31 RC8
· Openbox 3.4.7.2
· Firefox 3.5.2
· Pidgin 2.5.8
· Aqualung R-1061
· Xfburn 0.4.2

The final version is planned to be synchronized with the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, and is scheduled for the 29th of October, 2009.

The Lubuntu project started in March 2009, with the purpose of creating a lighter and less resource demanding alternative to the Xubuntu operating system, using the LXDE desktop environment. The ultimate goal of this project is to join the ranks of Kubuntu and Xubuntu and become an officially supported derivative of Ubuntu.

The developers claim that, while Xubuntu is often represented as a lightweight distro, it actually fails to run on older hardware, so they are targeting their Linux distribution at older legacy computers and devices with less than 256 MB of RAM.

While this project hasn't received too much attention until now, the LXDE project received an invitation to become a self-maintained component of Ubuntu back in February 2009, straight from the Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth.

You can download Lubuntu from the following locations: lubuntu | softpedia

[Credits: softpedia]

Alt + Tab Navigation For Firefox [Add-on]

TabNavigator is a Firefox extension which allows desktop style tab navigation (alt-tab on windows) with option of tab preview. It combines the MS Windows style window navigation (small icons with name of the application) with the form of navigation found in Ubuntu (preview of the windows as you browse).

After the default installation TabNavigator enables Alt+R and Alt+W for forward and backward navigation through your tabs. You can modify the navigation keys to be any combination of Ctrl, Alt, or Shift + another key.

The initial preview is simply the favicons of the sites plus the title bar text at the bottom of a small gray box. You can increase the size of the icons or switch from icon view to full preview. Instead of the favicons you'll see a preview of the actual page. The default preview size is 500px, which isn't a bad size for previewing—although if you frequently tab between pages that are very similar looking, you may want to increase the preview size for clarity.

This Firefox add-on is experimental, so you'll have to check the "Let me install this experimental add-on" box to be able to install it.

[via lifehacker]

How To Find Out When Someone Un-Friends You On Facebook

Facebook, by default, doesn't allow you to see when someone removes you from their friends list, so a script was needed. There’s now a Greasemonkey add-on (available here) called Facebook Friends Checker that will check your network at scheduled intervals to see if anyone has removed you from their friends list and alert you when it happens.

When the script detects that someone you used to be friends with is no longer one of your friends, a message will appear informing you about who it was and giving a link to their profile page.

The script checks by default once per hour when on Facebook, but this time can be increased through "Tools > Greasemonkey > User script commands... > Set time interval to check for removed friends...".

How Facebook Friends Checker works

Any time a page is loaded on Facebook, the script will run and it will follow the following basic algorithm;

* If the script has checked your friends in the past <<insert number here>> hours, do nothing.
* Otherwise, load a page on Facebook with a list of all of your friends.
* Go through each of these friends and add them to a list.
* Compare this list with the list saved the last time the script checked your friends.
* If someone was on the list before who isn't now, post the box informing the user.
* Save the new list of friends over the old one.
* Save the current time as the last checked time.

It is kind of like Quitter for Twitter.

[via mashable]

Download Opera 10 Final

Opera Software has now unveiled the final version of Opera 10 and is available for download.

Opera 10 showcases a sleek new design coupled with our new Turbo technology, which keeps Web pages loading lightning fast, even if your connection slows down. Download Opera 10 and experience the difference.

If you've been keeping up with the beta updates, the final build of the cross-platform browser shouldn't surprise you. Opera Turbo, the browser's much-publicized compression engine for slow-poke connections, remains a feature highlight. Opera claims that Opera Turbo runs the browser up to eight times faster on suffering connections than do competing browsers.

The refreshed user interface is also noteworthy. Joining the new default skin (changed from version 9.6), are changes to tab bar behavior. The conventional tabs double as thumbnail images. Double-click the thin gray bar below the tabs (indicated by dots) or click and drag to expand open tabs into preview windows that you can navigate by clicking among them.

Other enhancements include an expanded Speed Dial (a feature that has later been adopted and adapted in Google's Chrome browser) that shows more commonly visited Web pages than in previous Opera browsers. You're also able to customize it with a background picture. You'll see that spell check will be applicable to any text field (for 51 languages), and that Opera's incorporated e-mail client takes a page from Google's books by threading e-mail conversations.

Opera Software did not forget developers. In this regard, the release of Opera 10.0 Final is accompanied by a new update to Opera Dragonfly. Offered in no less than 36 different languages, the Opera 10.0 on-board, Web development tools simplify the work of developers using the browser as a platform.

Despite all the additions that Opera hopes will keep Opera 10 competitive, there are still two notable omissions for this final release. The first is Opera Unite, which uses your browser as a Web server for sharing your content with others. The second is the Carakan JavaScript engine that promises to process JavaScript about 2.5 times as fast as the engine used in Opera 10 alpha.

Opera 10 comes in 43 languages, and works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. You can download it from http://www.opera.com/.