Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Easily Install Adobe AIR and TweetDeck on Ubuntu Karmik

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Today I tried to install TweetDeck in Ubuntu Linux. It is a desktop application for different social networks. The main feature being to stay updated on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.

To know more check out their features page.
Ok, now lets start. (more…)

Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 3: Ubuntu (Linux)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

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Series: Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1
Continued from: Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 2: Windows

Instructions For Ubuntu Users:icon-ubuntu

A special plugin and a midi software ‘renderer’ is required for playing embedded midi file types from within the browser. (more…)

Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 2: Windows

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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Continued from: Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1

Instructions For Windows Users:icon-windows

Quicktime is useful for playing embedded midi file types from within the browser in windows.

Clicking the “Install missing plugins” button in firefox brings up Apple QuickTime, which you mostly have installed in windows. But it still does not work. (more…)

Playing embedded midi file in firefox – Part 1

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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Many web sites that you may visit will have embedded media that requires the use of a plug-in for playing these embedded “midi” background music files.

When somebody opens a web page or may be an eCards site which is supposed to have a background music, we get the banner in Firefox “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page”, and there is a button “Install missing plugins

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Solved a Dropbox install error in UBUNTU Jaunty easily

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

To my utter dismay after twice restarting the PC and nautilus too, I could not use dropbox. The link was sitting perfectly in Applications> Internet> Dropbox but right after clicking it the tray icon flashed in the system tray/notification area for a few seconds and then vanished.

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Unable to connect MSN through pidgin in Ubuntu

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

From few days, I cannot connect to my Msn account. I use Pidgin Universal Chat client to connect to my multiple network Instant Messenger (IM) accounts i.e for my home and work like Msn, Yahoo, Google etc. in one single interface. (more…)