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Weather Indicator used to be one of the most popular Ubuntu appindicators but unfortunately, it doesn’t work properly any more: it crashes when trying to add a new location and the weather forecast doesn’t work – because of this, it was even removed from the Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) official repositories.However, if for whatever reason [...] A new extension adds Ubuntu Unity-like AppIndicator support for GNOME Shell, a feature for which some patches were submited more than a year ago, but they were rejected because the feature “conflicts with the design”.AppIndicators have are widely used now, with Ubuntu disabling the message tray (systray) by default, and popular applications like Dropbox or [...] Old notification area (before AppIndicators)The notification area (systray) was removed from the Unity panel with Ubuntu 11.04, but you could still use it by whitelisting applications which would allow the icons to show up in the notification area. But not any more! A recent Unity update in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail mentions that the “Notification [...] The work to “make Ubuntu fit on mobile” has advantages for the desktop users and recently, some changes have landed in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (currently under development) which should reduce the memory used by some default packages.For instance, a recent GTK3 update comes with a patch to “only load CSS image data when needed, [...] Indicator Remindor, an application that can be used to schedule alarms or reminders has been updated to version 12.12, getting some new features and GNOME Shell support.Indicator Remindor can remind you of various events using notifications, a popup window (so you don’t miss the reminders), it can change the AppIndicator icon, can play a sound [...] SparkleShare is an open source file synchronization and collaboration tool somewhat similar to Dropbox, available for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.SparkleShare uses GIT version control system and can be used with code hosting services like GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitorious as well as your own server.SparkleShare features:presets for projects hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitoriousa recent [...] Calendar Indicator, an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Google Calendar, has been updated to version 0.1.0.0. The new version brings options to add, edit and delete Google Calendar events as well as to create new calendars. Until now, Calendar Indicator would only display Google Calendar events in the indicator menu and through notifications. There’s also a new [...] StickyNotes Indicator is a simple appindicator which can be used to place post-it (sticky) notes on your Linux desktop.The notes placement on the desktop is restored on each login, which is very useful if you use the notes as reminders. This tiny application doesn’t come with a huge list of options and instead, it only [...] Indicator Remindor, an Ubuntu appindicator that can be used to schedule reminders or alarms, has been updated to version 12.10.Indicator Remindor 12.10 comes with a new design for some UI parts like the time, date and command, along with a new option to have a reminder popup dialog window, which you can use to make [...] `My Weather Indicator`, an appindicator which displays the weather on the Unity panel, has been updated to version 0.5.3.2 yesterday and comes with an interesting new feature: a weather forecast map through the OpenWeatherMap service.The new weather forecast map displays the following information as an overlay:Radar (USA and Canada)Clouds forecastPrecipitation forecastsCurrent weatherStations informationWeather forecast mapThe [...] Evernote is a note taking service in which the notes can be text, images, voice memos, handwritten notes or file attachments. There are Evernote clients available for Windows, Mac OSX, Amdroid, iOS and WebOS, but there’s no official Linux client.On Linux, you can use NixNote (previously Nevernote), an unofficial Evernote client written in Java but [...] |
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