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Friday, January 9, 2009

Celebrating ubuntu!

Specimen Font Previewer - Preview and compare fonts.



With the 'Specimen Font Previewer, you can preview all your system fonts in regular, medium, bold, italic and bold italic formats.This program allows you to write a custom text
and then preview it in the font selected in the left sidebar.Preview text size can also be adjusted.Comparison between different fonts becomes pretty easy by simply selecting a font category and then clicking on the 'Add' button.
To find a particular font, simply click on the 'Edit' menu and then 'Find' or use the 'CTRL + F' shortcut.Text and background colors can also be customized under the Edit' menu.

'Specimen Font Previewer' can be installed from the 'Synaptic Package Manager'.Search for 'gnome-specimen' and mark for installation.


Watch a Specimen Font Previewer video here.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

'Arora' Web Browser - A lightweight Qt based web browser.


Arora is a QT based web browser for your Ubuntu desktop. It has all the standard features that you look for in a web browser. Qt is a c++ based toolkit that provides cross platform application development.It provides a single-source portability across Windows, MAC and most Unix variants.You will surely feel a smoother interface while navigating in the 'Arora' web browser.It has a n integrated web search feature ( Google ) that you get in other standard browsers like Firefox and IE.


'Private Browsing' allows you to browse the web, without leaving behind any browsing and download history.Searches are also not added to the pop up menu and sessions are also not saved.
'Arora' also supports the usual tabbed windows.

Monday, January 5, 2009

iCalc- A Simple Text Based Calculator


'iCalc' is a very simple text based calculator for Ubuntu. Maybe simplicity is its USP.Do not compare it with the conventional Gnome click based calculator.What you get with 'iCalc' is a simple black window with a welcome message, previous number in the memory and an option to choose an operator.You can choose up to 10 operators or commands. Two of these commands are the 'help' and 'quit' options.Simply type in the command or the operator symbol and work according to the next message displayed.The arithmetic operators work only with two numbers at a time.The 'log' command provides you with the natural logarithm of the number typed in.Type in 'help' to view some more details about 'icalc'.
There is another version of 'iCalc' called 'iCalc-Term' that works in the terminal.The working of this version is same as that of 'iCalc'.


Download 'iCalc' by clicking here.