Google Gears now works on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation, at least almost. For Google Docs the little green symbol appeared after I had installed Google Gears for Linux. Then I headed to Google Reader, but there the symbol for offline support did not show up.I do not know, what is going wrong, but my Google […]
Category Archives: Software
Creative – Where creativity dies…
Imagine a company which produces sound cards. Their sound cards do not work properly under Windows Vista. At least not as good as they were working for Windows XP. So, there comes a young programmer and develops new drivers that actually work. You would guess that the company offers this guy a job, right? Not […]
Spicebird – Information & Communication Center
A few days ago the guys at Synovel released Spicebird. It integrates the excellent programs Mozilla Thunderbird (email), Sunbird (desktop calendar) and Xmpp4moz (instant messaging). I am using the first two myself on Ubuntu 7.10. Well, instead of Sunbird I am using Lightning, which is integrating in Thunderbird as a plug-in.