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Run Google SketchUp on Ubuntu

Submitted by TBarregren
on Thu, 2010-12-30 20:08

Google's SketchUp is a 3D-modeling program designed for ease of use. It has many great features. There is only one problem. It is not available on Linux. A workaround is to run SketchUp under Wine.

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How to install Wine 1.3 on Ubuntu

Submitted by TBarregren
on Thu, 2010-12-30 17:06

This mini-HOWTO explains how to install Wine 1.3 (the latest version of Wine) on Ubuntu. Wine is a free and open source software that allows Microsoft Windows programs to run on Linux and other Unix-like operative system.

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Gmail notification

Submitted by TBarregren
on Fri, 2010-08-06 18:53

Gmail notify in action.

In my last blog I wrote how to use notify-send to make a balloon notification from the command line. The reason I researched that subject, was that I wanted to make a Bash-script that runs on cron to notify me of any emails on my Gmail and Google Apps accounts. There are of course several such applications already. But it wanted to do it myself as an excuse to play with Google's mail feed, which I recently became aware of. In this blog post, I will explain how you can make such script yourself.

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Pop-up notification from the command line

Submitted by TBarregren
on Sat, 2010-07-31 01:40

If you are running Ubuntu on your desktop, you certainly have seen the ephemeral balloons that pop-up with notifications. These are designed to make you aware of something, e.g. that you have email, without interrupting your work with a window that you must close.

These balloons, also called bubbles, are shown by a notification daemon, that receives messages from other programs, queue them and presents them in a overlay for a short period of time. On Ubuntu (from 9.04) the notification daemon is called Notify OSD.

Many GUI programs use this desktop notification service to provide unobtrusive information about progress, events and such things. Wouldn't it be nice if you could send such messages from your own Bash scripts? Well, you can with notify-send.

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How to install the most current stable version of Git on Ubuntu

Submitted by TBarregren
on Thu, 2010-07-29 02:23

The easiest way to install the version control system Git on Ubuntu is of course to do apt-get install git-core. But that will not give you the most current stable version of Git.

Usually, that wouldn’t matter to me. I prefer the stability of Ubuntu’s official repositories, instead of having the latest version of every software. But with Git it is different.

In previous versions of Ubuntu, the repository have had very old version of Git. That has improved with Ubuntu 10.04, but I guess it will fall behind again. So therefore, I have previously compiled Git from source. But there is actually a

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