Setting Up Bluetooth Adapter (or the embedded one) in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

You might have an embedded bluetooth device on your Ubuntu laptop or a plugged-in bluetooth adapter in your Ubuntu PC. But you don't know how to sending and receiving files via bluetooth to and from your mobile device. Here's the solution for this mess.

typical bluetooth adapter (left) and plugged-in bluetooth adapter (right)

Step 1: Go to synaptic. update your source.list by clicking "reload".

Step 2: Install the "blueman" package.

Step 3: Press Alt+F2. Run "blueman-applet" command.

Step 4: There will be two bluetooth icon on your desktop on the panel. click the little one, near the date panel item. Then, click "Preferences".

Step 4: In Bluetooth Preferences dialog box, tick the "Make Computer Visible" option. You can change bluetooth name under friendly name field.

There you go. You can send and receive files from and to your mobile device.

Chromium Browser in Lucid Repository Now!

For those who don't know what Chromium Browser is, here's some hints.

Chromium is the open source web browser project from which Google Chrome draws its source code. It implements the same feature set as Google Chrome, but has a slightly different logo.

One of the major aims of the project is for Chrome to be a tabbed window manager, or shell for the web, as opposed to it being a traditional browser application. The idea is for the application to be minimalist in the same way Windows Explorer or Mac OS X's Finder are minimalist. The developers state that it "should feel lightweight (cognitively and physically) and fast".

This week, there is one good news for ubuntu user all around the world. Chromium Browser has entered into the Ubuntu repository list, precisely at the universe repository.

Previously, Firefox 3.6 has become the top choice by Ubuntu users. However It seems will soon be replaced by Chromium, where a series of tests recently  Chromium's JavaScript performance is four times better than Firefox's.

So what browser you choose? You set yourself.