Give Ubuntu Jaunty An Apple Flavour A lot of people like to dress up their Linux (Gnome) computer with a Mac OS X interface. One way that I learned is to install Mac4Lin theme, I tried this before, but I don’t like Mac4Lin interface. Well, this article gives Gnome a fresh new look, and, it’s similar to Mac.

Schedule & Automate Tasks In Linux With Gnome Schedule I know a tool which called crontab, which can execute commands or scripts automatically at a specified time/date, so that you are allowed to do some things repeatedly on your computer and automactically, to use crontab, you must learn some Linux commands, because crontab is a command line based program. I like doing some basic job in terminal, but I hate commands, because I know only a little.

Well, if you don’t like Terminal either, you can try Gnome Schedule. This is a graphical equivalent of the crontab, which you can use it very easily. Here is a howto which you can learn from it.

Hello, guys, I started a program recently on Twitter since Mar. 21st this month called “1 Linux Software 1 Day“, which is aim to recommend ONE linux software ONE day to the CHINESE linux users. I think this is a good idea to introduce others a perfect linux application they would like so as to promote Linux as a lot of people still think there’s not as many software as Windows or Mac (I think a lot of people refuse Linux just because of this).

I read articles on tuxmachines.org almost everyday, and a lot of applications are introduced, but I don’t have enough time and energy to translate or forward them on my blog, but Twitter is a good place to do such things, it’s convenient engouth for me.

At very first, I just tweeted in Twitterfox the software I like in Chinese language, but I found it’s hard to be archived every software that I recommended, and other people who didn’t follow me can hardly have a chance to know them too, so I added every tweet a tag “1soft1day“, this tag is currently unique, so, when you try to search this tag on Twitter Seach, you can get all softwares I recommended before.

Well, now, I brought this “1 Linux App 1 Day Program” to English-speaking Linux user too, with another tag “1app1day”, when you type this tag name and search on Twitter, you will be able to see all of my recommended software, and all  in English. You can also visit this url directly: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%231app1day

In general, please seach #1soft1day for Chinese, well, #1app1day for English. Please help me and keep these two tags unique (you’d better use another tag if you have related program), and, please don’t post this tag in your tweets (so there’s no waste)

I suggest you follow me @pengjiayou on Twitter, so that you’re be able to know what I recommend at an early time, and, to recommend me the software that you like by @ replies. Thanks.

When I logged in my Windows Live Hotmail just now, Microsoft told me to upgrade my firefox browser to get most out of it. Stupid Microsoft, my firefox is already the latest version, did you ever know that? When I logged in my Hotmail in firefox under Windows XP system, this situation never happened.

Windows Live Hotmail is one of my frequently-used mail services except Gmail, it supports firefox well. Maybe you can gain the best experience when you use Windows and Internet Explorer browser, so it tells you to upgrade your firefox if you are using Linux system. I hate Internet Explorer 7, I don’t think it’s a better browser than Firefox 3, even if some webpages I must use IE7 to open it.

Microsoft knows what operating system and what browser I am using when I input my hotmail account and password, but my firefox has been the latest version, it’s somewhat stupid, I think.

I talk with my foreign customers via MSN, so a Hotmail account is needed, although I have a company mailbox of my own, many customs still send emails to my Hotmail box, i was forced to use it.

Information Appliance Associates, the creator of the original Mac-to-BlackBerry sync solution (also known as PocketMac for BlackBerry), announced on Tuesday a beta release of the first tool to sync Linux user data to the BlackBerry. The tool is dubbed “PocketMac for BlackBerry Linux Edition.”

This beta version is the result of more than 18 months of development and testing; it’s now open to the public for more input before a final version is created. The beta period starts Tuesday and is limited to a set number of users; if you’re interested, you’d better sign up now.

It’s worth noting that the beta version of PocketMac for BlackBerry Linux Edition is currently only being tested on the Xandros Linux distribution, and syncs against the KDE PIM application. However, in the near future, it will be made available to and functional with other distributions of the OS as well.

This is significant news for BlackBerry users, considering the proliferation of Linux-based PCs, especially with the introduction of ultratransportable computers, such as the Asus EeePC, that take advantage of Linux’s low hardware requirement.

Like the previous sync tool for Macs, this Linux Edition likely will be made available for free once the beta test is over.

This report is originally posted on CNET NEWS on http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10060142-1.html , I am so happy to hear this news as my Blackberry 7100V mobile can be synced on my Fedora 9 linux laptop in the future.

For the 7100V, it only has some basic mobile fuctions, so I want to buy a new BlackBerry Curve 8330 device sometime later this year, and then at that time, the Linux-to-BlackBerry sync tool will go final release, I will be able to backup my SMS messages and contacts, or transfer file to the phone on my Fedora 9 laptop very easily.

Runing 165 programs on Linux, you guys believe it ot not, but it’s true. I don’t know hardware of this computer. But Linux really did.