Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q_U80Z7v7S0/T_7Pm2bQ3GI/AAAAAAAAJRQ/W3sTgCoWeaU/s1600/indicator-remindor.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="163" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-q_U80Z7v7S0/T_7Pm2bQ3GI/AAAAAAAAJRQ/W3sTgCoWeaU/s320/indicator-remindor.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is an Ubuntu appindicator that lets you easily schedule reminders or set alarms and it notifies you using notifications, a sound or you can set a custom command.  </b><b>The reminders / alarms can be set to run only once or every day, every month and so on. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many situations in which you'll find Indicator Remindor useful: you can use it to set reminders about important events, to get a notification when your favourite TV show is about to start or to wake you up in the morning, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Using Indicator Remindor is very simple: start the appindicator and click "Add" and you'll see a window like this:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nJQc3dogRzc/T_7Psmt-4TI/AAAAAAAAJRY/MFBDyB8DDng/s1600/indicator-remindor_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="indicator remindor" border="0" height="258" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nJQc3dogRzc/T_7Psmt-4TI/AAAAAAAAJRY/MFBDyB8DDng/s320/indicator-remindor_2.png" title="indicator remindor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can set the time when the alarm / reminder should run, set a label for your new reminder, enable/disable sound (and select a sound file) or notification, an option to loop the sound, set a custom command and so on. <b>Under "date", you can set either a numeric date like "07/12/2012" or "today", "every day", "next monday", etc.</b> - you can see all the supported options by opening the Indicator Remindor help (press F1 or open it from the menu).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also set a quick alarm to run in a given number of minutes by selecting "Quick Add". </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From the Remindor main interface you can select to postpone an alarm by 30 minutes, by clicking  the "Postpone" button. There's also an indicator menu entry that lets you stop the alarm sound.</div><br /><h2>Install Indicator Remindor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Indicator Remindor is available for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin only right now. To add its PPA and install it, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bhdouglass/indicator-remindor<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install indicator-remindor</code></pre><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-remindor">Launchpad</a>.

Schedule Alarms / Reminders In Ubuntu With Indicator Remindor

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NitroShare: Easily Send Files To Other Machines On The Local Network [Linux, Windows]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9pOhHtKdBAY/T_wprbCVbPI/AAAAAAAAJQA/tbwXs6FcBgw/s1600/nitroshare_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nitroshare" border="0" height="139" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9pOhHtKdBAY/T_wprbCVbPI/AAAAAAAAJQA/tbwXs6FcBgw/s320/nitroshare_1.png" title="nitroshare" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>NitroShare is an application that works on Linux and Windows which can be used to easily send files to other computers on the same local network. It supports drag'n'drop, sending folders, file compression, comes with Nautilus integration and more.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application requires almost no configuration: simply install NitroShare on the machines you want to transfer files from/to, follow the initial configuration wizard (in which you basically don't have to change anything, just click "Next"), run it and <b>each machine should automatically discover all the other machines available on the LAN (obviously, NitroShare needs to be running on those computers)</b> and you can start sending files.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ROpyCf-d01U/T_wpxBBRkQI/AAAAAAAAJQI/xD0q-wMl6qQ/s1600/nitroshare_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nitroshare" border="0" height="250" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ROpyCf-d01U/T_wpxBBRkQI/AAAAAAAAJQI/xD0q-wMl6qQ/s320/nitroshare_3.png" title="nitroshare" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In Linux, you have three ways of sending files over the LAN network using NitroShare: using the tray icon / Ubuntu application indicator, from Nautilus by right clicking a file or folder and selecting "Send item with NitroShare" or using the so called "share boxes"</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R27t5dgsTgg/T_wqro_aGKI/AAAAAAAAJQQ/oRoPsBgW_5s/s1600/nitroshare_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nitroshare" border="0" height="288" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R27t5dgsTgg/T_wqro_aGKI/AAAAAAAAJQQ/oRoPsBgW_5s/s320/nitroshare_4.png" title="nitroshare" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When running NitroShare, a "share box", which is basically a desktop widget, is displayed and when dragging and dropping files or folders onto it, a popup is displayed, asking you to select the target machine. You can right click the default share box (or select "Add Share Box" from the tray / application indicator) and select to create more share boxes for specific computers in your local network.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GPv8c5zD0Mg/T_wrBDgZikI/AAAAAAAAJQY/N4iySX4IPSc/s1600/nitroshare_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nitroshare" border="0" height="259" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GPv8c5zD0Mg/T_wrBDgZikI/AAAAAAAAJQY/N4iySX4IPSc/s320/nitroshare_5.png" title="nitroshare" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, the received files are saved on the Desktop but you can change this from the NitroShare settings dialog, along with other settings like the machine name. From the settings, you can also tweak some more advanced options, like: </div><ul><li>dynamic file compression during the transfer to decrease transfer time and reduce bandwidth</li><li>CRC chcksum generation to ensure file integrity</li><li>various network settings</li><li>option to automatically accept files (all or those that match a regular expression) and more.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install NitroShare</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like other applications we've been posting about these days, NitroShare was developed for the Ubuntu App Showdown and has been <b>recently labelled as stable by its developer with the <a href="https://launchpad.net/nitroshare/+announcement/10301">release</a> of version 0.2</b>, so it should work pretty well. Still, if you find bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/nitroshare">Launchpad</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/nitroshare/+download">Download NitroShare 0.2 (stable)</a> - available as .deb, .rpm, Windows .exe for 32bit only for now, and source files.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu Quantal, Precise, Oneiric and Natty users can also install NitroShare by using its daily PPA</b>(the packages in the PPA are not considered stable):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/nitroshare<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nitroshare</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install NitroShare via <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60326">AUR</a> (though it's not the latest version at the time I'm writing this).</div>

NitroShare: Easily Send Files To Other Machines On The Local Network [Linux, Windows]

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Monitor Hardware Temperature In Ubuntu With Psensor

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tEZO2DOzco/T_a8MvJ-xjI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/dnsL2a8qkQ8/s1600/psensor_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="psensor" border="0" height="134" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--tEZO2DOzco/T_a8MvJ-xjI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/dnsL2a8qkQ8/s320/psensor_1.png" title="psensor" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/">Psensor</a> is a tool to monitor hardware temperature</b> that integrates nicely with Unity by using an Unity Launcher counter which displays the enabled temperatures as well as an appindicator that you can use to take a quick look at all available hardware temperatures or cpu usage.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Psensor can monitor:</b><br /><ul><li>motherboard and CPU temperatures</li><li>the temperature of Nvidia GPUs</li><li>experimental ATI/AMD GPUs temperature monitor (not enabled for the Ubuntu PPA as it requires compilation using libatiadlxx)</li><li>hard disk drives temperature</li><li>fan speed</li><li>CPU usage</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yq1XxQbTKsA/T_a8TS8cmqI/AAAAAAAAJPY/IaGH1VxZabg/s1600/psensor_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="psensor" border="0" height="119" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yq1XxQbTKsA/T_a8TS8cmqI/AAAAAAAAJPY/IaGH1VxZabg/s320/psensor_2.png" title="psensor" width="320" /></a></div><br />The application can also display <b>hot temperature alerts using desktop notifications and the application indicator </b>which turns read when a threshold is reached. The alerts are not enabled by default - to enable them, select Sensor Preferences, then select a sensor check the "Activate desktop notifications" box under "Alerts".<br /><br />From its preferences, you can select to hide the Psensor window on startup so you can use it as a stand-alone indicator or to hide window decoration and use the Psensor graph as a desktop widget</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A new Psensor version has been uploaded recently into the Psensor unstable PPA, which fixes many bugs (including a bug that was casing the systray and appindicator to be visible in the same time when the systray is whitelisted) and adds some new features like:</div><ul><li>low thresold support for alerts</li><li>fan alert support</li><li>added --new-instance option to allow the creation of multiple instances of Psensor</li><li>you can now select between Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature units</li><li>added option --use-libatasmart to use atasmart library for disk monitoring instead of hddtemp daemon</li><li>more</li></ul><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Psensor in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>1.</b> Firstly you need to install lm-sensors and hddtemp; these packages are required for Psensor to be able to monitor CPU, hard disk and motherboard temperatures as well as CPU fan speed:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install lm-sensors hddtemp</code></pre><br /><b>2.</b> Set up lm-sensors:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo sensors-detect</code></pre><br />And answer "yes" to everything.<br /><br />You can now either restart the computer or run the following command to load the modules required by the sensors:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo service module-init-tools start</code></pre><br /><b>3.</b> Install Psensor<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Psensor is available in the official Ubuntu repositories starting with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot so to install it, click the button below:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="apt://psensor"><button class="thoughtbot">Install Psensor</button></a></div><br />Or run the following command in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Psensor is also available in a <b>stable PPA</b> which you can use to install newer, stable Psensor versions:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jfi/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also an <b>unstable Ubuntu PPA</b> which comes with the new features I've mentioned above and many bug fixes. Using this package, you'll get newer features faster, but you may also encounter bugs. Add the PPA and install Psensor from the unstable PPA using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jfi/psensor-unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install psensor</code></pre><br /><b>To install it in other Linux distributions, see the Psensor <a href="http://wpitchoune.net/blog/psensor/">homepage</a>.</b>

Monitor Hardware Temperature In Ubuntu With Psensor

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Bridge: New Zeitgeist-Powered Related Activities Indicator

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yIm_hx28UU/T-iBIrRC81I/AAAAAAAAJL4/fh4pFVuMWgc/s1600/bridge-indicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="bridge indicator" border="0" height="118" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7yIm_hx28UU/T-iBIrRC81I/AAAAAAAAJL4/fh4pFVuMWgc/s320/bridge-indicator.png" title="bridge indicator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge">Bridge</a> is a cool new indicator developed by <a href="https://plus.google.com/117867558830601601230/posts">David Callé</a> (who's also behind some great Unity lenses and scopes), that uses Zeitgeist to provide quick access to documents, files and websites related to your current activity</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many cases in which you'll find Bridge useful. For instance, let's say you visit some website and download a video. Months later, when you open that video, if you can't remember the website from where you've downloaded it from, you can take a look at Bridge which should display a link to that website. Or, let's say that while working on some document/project, you do your research on Wikipedia and other websites, save some images on your computer and so on - when you open the document, you can quickly see the websites you've accessed, images and other related resources from Bridge.<br /><br />Besides the related items, there's one more menu entry in the Bridge indicator: "Focus on <window title>" which can be used to keep focus on a specific window and disable tracking of other windows of the same type.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoSCke0MwrQ/T-iAueOwRHI/AAAAAAAAJLw/LaRgBjAQlqc/s1600/bridge-hud.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="bridge hud" border="0" height="108" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YoSCke0MwrQ/T-iAueOwRHI/AAAAAAAAJLw/LaRgBjAQlqc/s320/bridge-hud.png" title="bridge hud" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Accessing Bridge via HUD</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The Bridge indicator icon is only displayed when there are items related to your current activity (focused window / active tab) and is hidden when there aren't any related items. This can be a bit distracting, at least for me but it could easily be solved in the future by either implementing an option to always show Bridge Indicator or to completely hide the indicator and use Bridge from HUD only (if it's possible to use HUD with hidden indicators). That's because <b>HUD can search indicator menus</b> too, so<b> you can already access Bridge results via HUD</b> (they show up as "Related Activities").</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Bridge in Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bridge is very new and under heavy development</b> so you'll find irrelevant items showing up sometimes, but this should improve in the future.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge/Installing">wiki page</a>, <b>the accuracy depends on the Zeitgeist Data-Sources you have installed on your system</b>. These Data-Sources allow certain applications to notify Zeitgeist of their activity so not all events / activities will show up in Bridge. The Bridge wiki recommends installing more Zeitgeist Data-Sources from source - more info <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bridge/Installing">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you use Firefox, you can<b> install the Firefox Zeitgeist extension</b> (data-source) using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:markjtully/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install zeitgeist-datasource-firefox</code></pre>From the same PPA, you can also install a Thunderbird Zeitgeist Data-Source plugin:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install zeitgeist-datasource-thunderbird</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Google Chrome / Chromium, you can install the Zeitgeist extension from the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/zeitgeist">Chrome Web Store</a>.</b></div><br /><b>To install Bridge indicator in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the commands below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bridge/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install bridge</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, Bridge will be added to your startup applications and should start automatically the next time your log in. To start it the first time without logging out/in, you can run "/opt/bridge/bridge-daemon". And remember, the Bridge indicator icon is only displayed when you focus a window for which there are related activities.</div><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bridge">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via David Callé @ <a href="https://plus.google.com/117867558830601601230/posts/4P5YvB475p3">Google+</a></i></div>

Bridge: New Zeitgeist-Powered Related Activities Indicator

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