Well, tomorrow Ubuntu 10.10 comes out. In preparation, I always like to post up a list of all the programs I am presently using regularly. It’s actually a pretty small list this time:

• Chromium (web browser)
• Hotot (Twitter desktop client)
• Kupfer (kinda like gnome-do…but it’s working more dependably for me)
• tilda (desktop terminal)
• Avant Window Navigator (very solid dock, though I think for the next six months I’m going to use Docky to see how it holds up for an extended period of time)
• Tomboy Notes
• Basket Note Pads
• Guayadeque (music player)
• Xiphos (Bible software)
• PDFmod
• Ubuntu Tweak

That’s all the main ones! I’m planning on posting up a quick installation guide which will include installing these apps, so keep an eye out for that!

With the release of Froyo for Android came the awesome ability to send stuff to your phone from your browser. Very simple and straight-forward to set-up. From what I can tell it uses your Google account to connect devices. Pretty easy to set up. Here’s what I did…

• installed the app on my phone (appbrain link)
• then install the extension on your browser of choice – firefox or chrome
• fire up the app on your phone and follow the prompts – it will have to log into your google account
• click on the extension in your browser, the first time you do this you will have to log into your google account.

I did a test run of this and the response was almost instantaneous. The best part? Since it’s browser based, it’s not OS specific – this will work in OSX, Windows, Linux or whatever else you might desire that has a firefox or chrome browser. I actually use Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome) and it worked perfectly in it as well.

Oh, and here’s a video of it for your viewing pleasure:

If you use Chrome or Chromium (and I highly suggest you try them out if you don’t!) here are a couple extensions for Gmail that I discovered that I actually use a lot. Not ground-breaking or breathtaking, but very useful:

Gmail checker – shows if you have any new emails and how many, and also serves as a shortcut to Gmail (opens it in a new tab)

Send from Gmail – does exactly what it says, it just copies the address bar of whatever page you are on and opens up a small gmail window to compose mail with that address in the email. It’s great for tossing pages at friends!

Everyone is still waiting on Google to release the Chrome browser in Linux. But if you want to play with it now, you can try it in wine, or actually install from the Chromium code (instructions courtesy of Ubuntu Geek here).

First you gotta grab the .deb package (in terminal):

wget http://media.codeweavers.com/pub/crossover/chromium/cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

then you unpackage and install:

sudo dpkg -i cxchromium_0.9.0-1_i386.deb

Now, just to let you know, when I first did this, I got some randomn error message at the end. I tried to open Chromium and nothing happend. So I figured it didn’t take. Then a week later I saw the “Crossover Chromium” category in my main window, browsed through it and thought, “hey, lets try this…” and the next thing I knew, I was using a Chrome-like browser.

Just from the layout and the way the mouse looks in the window, I think this browser still uses Wine. And the fonts look a little funny – but hey, it’s just like Chrome and it’s running in Linux!