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New in Labs: Unread message icon

Posted by Manu Cornet, Software Engineer When you’re visiting sites other than Gmail, it’s easy to find out how many unread messages are in your inbox by glancing at the title of your Gmail tab or window. However, if you have a ton of tabs open, or if you use Chrome’s “Pin Tab” feature that hides everything except the tab’s icon, it can be tricky to figure out without switching tabs. If you’ve ever found yourself in this situation, you may like the new Unread message icon we just added to Gmail Labs. It embeds the number of unread messages you have right into the Gmail icon itself, like this: To turn it on, go to the Labs tab in Settings, enable this lab, and click the “Save Changes” button at the very bottom of the page. Note that it’ll only works in Chrome (version 6 and above) and Firefox (version 2 and above).

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How To Install Microsoft Office 2007 In Ubuntu (Under Wine)

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Today I had to install Microsoft Office 2007 at work. I don't like it but I had to install it because I work with storyboards (created in MS PowerPoint) and apparently these look differently in OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Microsoft Office 2007+. Since some of you are probably in the same situation as me (one way or another) and have to use Microsoft Office, I though I'd let you know how to install and get it to work in Ubuntu - the process is fairly easy but it involves a little "trick" to get PowerPoint to work.

Install and get Microsoft Office 2007 to work in Ubuntu

1. Firstly make sure you're running the latest WINE:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.3

2. Go to Applications > Wine > Configure Wine and on the "Applications tab" select "Windows XP" under "Windows Version" and click "Apply". 3. Now install Microsoft Office 2007 - to be able to run the "setup.exe" installer, right click it, select "Properties" and on the "Permissions" tab check the "Allow executing file as program" box. Now double clicking setup.exe should open it using WINE. If it doesn't, right click it and select "Open with Wine Windows Program Loader". Now you can easily install Microsoft Office 2007.

4. At this point, PowerPoint will fail to start. To fix it, go to Applications > Wine > Configure Wine and on the "Libraries" tab, under "New override for library" type: "riched20.dll", then click "Add". Now click the newly added "riched20" file, click "Edit" and select "Native (Windows)".

Microsoft Office 2007 PowerPoint should now work. See also: Fix The "Open With" Menu When Using MS Office Under Wine [Quick Tip].

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Install and get Microsoft Office 2007 to work in Ubuntu

1. Firstly make sure you're running the latest WINE:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wine1.3

Now install Microsoft Office 2007

At this point, PowerPoint will fail to start. To fix it

go to Applications > Wine > Configure Wine and on the "Libraries" tab, under "New override for library" type: "riched20.dll", then click "Add". Now click the newly added "riched20" file, click "Edit" and select "Native (Windows)".

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Cool Linux command tricks

The Linux command line is one of the most versatile tools you will ever use. It can do just about anything you can image for a machine. With such a large scope of tasks you can imagine just how much there is to learn. So, it’s always good  to have an arsenal of tricks at your fingertips.

seq

This is one of the coolest (and most useful) tips I have ever come across.  The seq command will print out a sequence of numbers. So if you issue the command:

seq 0 50

You will see the numbers 0-50 printed out on the terminal. Very simple. Sure that’s great but what good is a sequence of numbers? Let’s apply it and find out. Remember you can always declare a value in bash and by making use of the $ symbol you can use variables in your commands. So what happens if you issue the command:

Quick, how much space do you have left on your drive(s)?  And where are those drives mounted on? Do you have the answer yet? If you had a terminal window open you could have issued the command df -h and you would have seen, in a user-friendly format, the percentage of your hard disk space that has been used. Very handy command.

Do you prefer the colors you see in bash? Do you even know about the colors in bash? From the command line issue the command ls you will see that files are black, folders are blue, executables are green (that’s a simplistic explanation). What if those colors bother you (or cause your pretty transparent terminal from giving you a good read on your file listing)? You can turn that off easily from the command by issuing:

ls --color=none

Install from source to package

That might not make any sense. It will in a moment. Say you’ve downloaded the source for a package that you want to install, but you want to keep with the standard for your distribution by installing it from a package (so your package manager is aware of it). You can do this with the help of the checkinstall application. This isn’t installed by default, but you can install it with the command sudo apt-get install checkinstall. Once installed you can install from source with the command (from within the source code directory):

./configure && make && checkinstall

This will ask you some questions regarding your distribution and will install the application.

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How To Browse Your Linux Partition from Windows

Ever need to grab a file or two from your ext4 partition?  Maybe you’ve wanted to backup a few important files while you were in Windows.  Here’s how to browse your Linux partition from Windows using a tool called Ext2explore.

Most Linux distributions nowadays use the ext4 partition by default, and while there are some tools that can read the older ext2 and ext3 partitions, Ext2explore (also known as Ext2Read) is the only one that we’ve seen that is able to read all three.  In the spirit of Linux, it’s also open source.

The program automatically scans your disks for ext partitions.  This also works on USB disks, too!  If nothing is shown or you get an error message stating no ext partitions were found, verify that ran the program as an administrator, and rescan by clicking the computer monitor icon in the top bar (next to Tux the penguin).

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