This nameless little guy from Huawei has Android 2.2 (Froyo), a 2.8″ QVGA touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, and HSDPA 3G. The Google logo is awfully prominent on the back, making me think this will be a “with Google” experience, but’s pretty up in the air right now. Android 2.2 has a few new features, like dedicated phone and browser shortcuts, Exchange support, upgraded gallery, and portable hotspot functions. It’s interesting seeing a phone like this get the latest software, while stuff with more impressive specs will have to wait.
This phone looks awfully similar to two Android handsets that Huawei released this month and a few from MWC, which were also on the lower end. Nokia’s already proven that swamping the market with affordable but reliable handsets is a strategy the works overall, but won’t do Huawei any favours if they ever want to try to pierce the high-end Android smartphone market. Hey, maybe they’ll just stick to the low-hanging fruit for the forseeable future.
No word on release markets, but since the source was Chinese, I’d say the odds of a North American release are 50/50. Whereever this sucker’s going, Huawei’s aiming to get it out in August.
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The case involved copyright claims brought by a plaintiff who licensed his artwork to a garment maker. The plaintiff claimed that the defendant-licensee used the copyrighted material outside the scope of the license and breached the license agreement. The defendant-licensee issued a subpoena to Facebook seeking the plaintiff's Facebook wall posts, profile information, and communications with a third party. The plaintiff moved to quash the subpoena, arguing that the Facebook messages, wall postings, and certain profile information fell under the Stored Communications Act and therefore could not be produced by Facebook pursuant to a civil subpoena.That definitely makes sense, but with so much attention recently on Facebook's ever changing privacy policies, you may have to add in a time-component as well. However, it does seem weird that a change in Facebook's policies could determine whether or not your Facebook wall ends up in court...
The court largely agreed, although it remanded to the magistrate judge for the magistrate judge to address the factual issue of whether certain of the sought after information was publicly available. To the extent the privacy settings on the profile page allowed the general public to access the information it could be produced by Facebook, but non-public information would be treated differently.
Twitter has made an expected announcement, it will be introducing its own URL-shortening service. What’s more, the new service will be used all the time, regardless of whether a link is already shortened with a third-party service. Twitter’s URL shortener will use the t.co domain and will eventually be rolled out to everyone this summer. read more)
From the official blog:
Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL. Links reported to us as malicious are blacklisted, and we present users with a page that warns them of potentially malicious content if they click blacklisted links. We want users to have this benefit on all tweets.
When this is rolled out more broadly to users this summer, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL. A really long link such as http://www.amazon.com/Delivering-Happiness-Profits-Passion-Purpose/dp/0446563048 might be wrapped as http://t.co/DRo0trj for display on SMS, but it could be displayed to web or application users as amazon.com/Delivering- or as the whole URL or page title. Ultimately, we want to display links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened link and lets you know where a link will take you.
In addition to a better user experience and increased safety, routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm—the way we determine if a Tweet is relevant and interesting to users. We are also looking to provide services that make use of this data, an example would be analytics within our eventual commercial accounts service.
Already using your own URL shortener for analytics? Don’t worry – they’ve got that covered.
If you are already partial to a particular shortener when you tweet, you can continue to use it for link shortening and analytics as you normally would, and we’ll wrap the shortened links you submit.
Sounds sensible. And the wrapping means that reports of bit.ly’s demise might have been greatly exaggerated. Which is good news for me, as my tailored URL shortener is ticking along nicely.
(Source: Twitter blog.)
As Twitter makes the transition from profitless startup to revenue-generating business, the massive number of links that are shared on its service on a daily basis represent valuable currency. Given this, Twitter naturally wants to exert more control of those links.
This summer, it will do just that when it finally rolls out its own link shortening service that wraps all links shared through Twitter.com and third party clients using the company's t.co shortener.
For users, tweeting long links via the Twitter website will become less painful, as URLs can be shortened from within the tweet box. And because Twitter will be able to track links to a much greater extent than it can now, it says that it will be able to blacklist links that are reported as being abusive.
But the real beneficiary of Twitter's move is, of course, Twitter. By making sure that all links shared on Twitter go through its shortener, Twitter will be able to gather an enormous amount of data that it hopes will be of significant commercial value. To its credit, Twitter is up front about this:
In addition to a better user experience and increased safety, routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm—the way we determine if a Tweet is relevant and interesting to users. We are also looking to provide services that make use of this data, an example would be analytics within our eventual commercial accounts service.
While it's understandable that Twitter wants to control links, there are a few potential problems:
Finally, Twitter's track record when it comes to performance isn't the best in the world. If the fail whale invades t.co, watch out.
By trying to seize control of links, Twitter is arguably making its biggest consumer-facing change. It will be interesting to see if it can pull it off with less fanfare than some of the other major players in the social networking space.
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It's a widely known fact that Nintendo's 3DS system will be unveiled at next week's E3 event, and to go along with that, Nintendo will apparently lift the embargo from other publishers who want to announce 3DS titles....
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Last week, Steve Jobs promised that his iPhone and iPads would be open to outside ad networks. Yesterday Apple made good on his promise, by changing the terms of its developer agreement. But he may not have opened the door all the way.
Backstory: Apple’s original license agreement, released in April, appeared to effectively ban third-party ad networks from selling “in-app” ads on its gadgets, by crippling their ability to track user data. In the absence of any clarification from Apple, it seemed to me (and others) that Apple was set on locking up its platform from advertising competition.
But last week at the D8 conference, Jobs either changed his stance or spelled it out, depending on your persepecctive: Apple wasn’t interested in banning rivals to its iAd platform, he said — it just wanted to cripple third-party analytics companies like Flurry.
And yesterday, Apple changed its legal language to reflect Jobs’ words. Here’s the revised language for section 3.3.9 of Apple’s developer agreement, concerning the use of data collection:
3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect, use, or disclose to any third party, user or device data without prior user consent, and then only under the following conditions:
- The collection, use or disclosure is necessary in order to provide a service or function that is directly relevant to the use of the Application. For example, without Apple’s prior written consent,
You may not use third party analytics software in Your Application to collect and send device data to a third party for aggregation, processing, or analysis.- The collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of serving advertising to Your Application; is provided to an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving
mobile ads (for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other
than Apple would not qualify as independent); and the disclosure is limited to UDID, user location data, and other data specifically designated by Apple as available for advertising purposes.
If you compare and contrast with Apple’s earlier version, you’ll see the message is clear: It’s OK to collect user data to help sell ads — though you will need to get their permission to do so.
UPDATE: One important caveat here: It appears as if Apple may still be limiting its biggest potential rival — Google’s AdMob. Note the language about only allowing “independent” ad serving companies to collect data: “For example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent.”
Google (GOOG) certainly qualifies as a developer/distributor of mobile operating systems, right? The language also appears to disqualify potential rivals — if, for instance, Microsoft (MSFT) tried entering the mobile display market. I’ve asked Apple for comment, but I’m not expecting any.
Meantime, Apple’s language does appear to be good news for smaller competitors like Greystripe, Millenial Media and Medialets — though it may make them less attractive to potential acquirers
Here’s Jobs’ own words on the topic, last week at the D8 conference.
Big changes are coming to Twitter links. In a post just published on the Twitter blog, the company has announced that it will soon be using its official link shortening service t.co to wrap all links shared on Twitter. Starting this summer, every time you share a link through either the Twitter web client or a third party, it will be be wrapped in a link with the format t.co/******.
So what does this mean for the Twitter ecosystem? Twitter VP Product Jason Goldman says that the feature serves three purposes. First, it’s going to help Twitter crack down on spam, as they’ll be able to accurately monitor the distribution of each link. Second, it will allow users to better understand where links are going (more on that below). And third, it will help Twitter with analytics, which is related to its Promoted Tweets. Goldman says that Twitter is pre-announcing the feature (which is currently only active with three accounts) to give the developer community a heads up for what’s ahead.
This didn’t come as a surprise — back in March, Twitter began routing direct messages through a new link shortening service as an anti-phishing mechanism. It didn’t take long for users and developers to question whether the service would soon be broadly launching a link shortening service, and Twitter confirmed that it would in April.
Still updating
Twitter To Begin Wrapping All Links With Official t.co Link Shortener
- Chuck Reynolds
Twitter is to introduce its own automatic URL shortening service, a move that may kill off many of the URL shortening companies that currently provide these services to Twitter users.
Under the changes, Twitter will now automatically shorten links using the t.co domain, including links already shortened by third party URL shortening services.
In an interesting step Twitter describes as removing “the obscurity of shortened link and [letting users] know where a link will take you” the original URL, or if the URL is too long, a shortened version of it will appear in Twitter streams vs the t.co link.
The move makes sense for a number of reasons, the most notable is that URL shortening is not currently available for those users who use Twitter directly and not a third party client, a majority of Twitter users if previous surveys are to be believed. On the financial side, Twitter notes that
“routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm—the way we determine if a Tweet is relevant and interesting to users.”
Third party URL shortening services do have a place outside Twitter, but in a market space that has struggled to make money (and has seen a number of services already fail,) the loss of Twitter shortening, in full or even in part may deliver a final blow to many existing URL shortening services.
The announcement by Twitter follows the recent pattern of Twitter offering its own services that compete with third parties, and really should not come as a surprise. The term “mugs game” still applies to companies trying to make money from offering third party Twitter services.
Twitter is to introduce its own automatic URL shortening service, a move that may kill off many of the URL shortening companies that currently provide these services to Twitter users.
Under the changes, Twitter will now automatically shorten links using the t.co domain, including links already shortened by third party URL shortening services.
In an interesting step Twitter describes as removing “the obscurity of shortened link and [letting users] know where a link will take you” the original URL, or if the URL is too long, a shortened version of it will appear in Twitter streams vs the t.co link.
The move makes sense for a number of reasons, the most notable is that URL shortening is not currently available for those users who use Twitter directly and not a third party client, a majority of Twitter users if previous surveys are to be believed. On the financial side, Twitter notes that
“routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm—the way we determine if a Tweet is relevant and interesting to users.”
Third party URL shortening services do have a place outside Twitter, but in a market space that has struggled to make money (and has seen a number of services already fail,) the loss of Twitter shortening, in full or even in part may deliver a final blow to many existing URL shortening services.
The announcement by Twitter follows the recent pattern of Twitter offering its own services that compete with third parties, and really should not come as a surprise. The term “mugs game” still applies to companies trying to make money from offering third party Twitter services.
Photo enthusiasts take note, as Adobe is rolling out the official retail version of Lightroom 3 today. Available as a public-beta since October 2009, the latest, official version of Lightroom features a brand new processing engine that improves performance and offers an enhanced, easier to use UI. Noteworthy features include: support for DSLR video files, improved noise reduction, lens correction and sharpening tools, and tethered shooting (with select Nikon and Canon cameras). Lightroom 3 is available for both Macintosh and Windows systems with a price point of $299; an upgrade licences retails for $99. You can grab a copy of this latest offering directly from Adobe today, or from a third party retailer in the near future.
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First Twitter shortened how we communicate, muzzling the long-winded on its popular Web service. Now it’s cutting down on all those extra characters in our URLs, too.
As Twitter put it: "Length shouldn't matter." At least when it comes to Web links.
Twitter is testing internally a new service called t.co that will be available to all users this summer. It will automatically shorten links, the San Francisco company announced on its blog Tuesday.
The service will work if you are using Twitter on the website or if you are on a third-party service. But if you are on a computer rather than mobile phone, you will see the entire link. That way you will know what you are clicking on before you click, removing some of the "obscurity," the post said. The number of characters in the shortened link still count toward the 140-character limit.
Twitter says the service should help in its fight against spam. It could also set the stage for Twitter to offer analytics, the way other shortener services such as Bit.ly do. Because Twitter will be tracking the links (in aggregate, not in a personally identifiable way), TechCrunch also points out that Twitter may be looking at content recommendation, basically suggesting content based on what kinds of information you like to consume.
In March, Twitter began routing direct messages through a new shortening service to prevent phishing and malware. It confirmed in April that it would launch a shortening service for its users.
Even though this move was expected, it can't be welcome news for companies like Bit.ly that make URL shorteners. Of course, Bit.ly also offers corporations analytics and custom domains to go along with the shorteners. So it's not clear that this latest move, one in a series that have shaken up the start-ups that have built their businesses on Twitter, will cut short their life span.
-- Jessica Guynn
Twitter will soon automatically shorten all links shared on its website—a move that may once again pit it against startups that have built their business around the site. The company says in a blog post that beginning this summer “all links on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL.” One reason: “If you want to share a link through Twitter, there currently isn’t a way to automatically shorten it and we want to fix this. It should be easy for people to share shortened links from the Tweet box on Twitter.com.” True, although Twitter clients—like TweetDeck—have made it incredibly easy to shorten URLs using services like bit.ly and tinyurl and Twitter’s move may now put the future of those services into question. Twitter says people will still be able to use their existing link shorteners—although it will “wrap” those links with its own.
By taking over the link shortening process, Twitter says it will also be able to improve its fledgling ad platform, which will take into account how users engage with sponsored Tweets to determine how often the ads show up. Twitter says that data comes from shortening URLs will be useful for that—and that it might also provide some other services based on it.
More to come.
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Twitter's powers always seem to grow in surprising ways, simultaneously via organic developments and third-party apps. Like this latest one for example, a feature of Twitpic that helps Twitter rival Facebook: Face tagging.
Twitpic's system is completely familiar to anyone who's ever tagged someone's face in systems like Flickr or Facebook--you submit a picture of someone, then manually select the portion of the image that corresponds to the person. A little dialog box pops up, prompting you to enter their name, and then anyone who views the picture through Twitpic's Web page will see that name when they mouse-over the image.
So far so groovy, but of course Twitpic is leveraging all of Twitter's social networking powers, so that dialog box also lets you enter the Twitter ID of the "target." You can then Tweet out this activity, as well as choose to alert the person you've tagged that you've done so. This is all extremely similar to the way Facebook handles person tagging, but since it's operating outside Twitter, and Twitter is by nature an open-transmit social network unlike Facebook's traditional (but fast-eroding) "circle of friends" model, Twitpic's system may actually be more powerful.
Since Twitpic also recently added the ability to group photos into events, in combination with Twitter itself, Twitpic has emulated or exceeded some of the core functionality of Facebook. Since one of Facebook's most frequently used functions is as a shared digital picture library, this is placing Twitter and its cloud of third-party apps as an increasingly serious competitor.
There are three further tweaks that Twitter could deploy to make the photo tagging feature even more competitive. The first is to take Twitpic inside Twitter itself, as the company has done with other third-party apps--this would give it better control over the functionality and enable still tighter integration into Twitter's systems. Next up would be to add face recognition tech. This is a long shot, but it would utterly transform the powers of the face tagging and turn Twitter into a serious social photo app. Finally, if Twitter added a third layer of communication to its two existing ones (to everyone who follows you, or a direct person-to-person message). This new layer could be called "Friends" and it would let you share stuff with just the group of people you used to consider "private" on Facebook.
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Twitter will roll out its own link shortener, ‘t.co,’ for all web content shared through the network in yet another move that could threaten startups in its ecosystem.
Link shorteners compress very long web addresses into ones that can fit in 140-character tweets. They grew in popularity along with the microblogging service, but have long been dominated by third-parties. Since sharing content is such a core pare of the experience on Twitter, it’s not surprising that the microblogging network is taking it in-house.
In fact, the only thing that’s surprising is that it took this long.
Chief executive Ev Williams hinted at the move at the company’s developer conference April and Twitter has been using shortened links for private direct messages since March to counter spam and phishing attacks.
Later this summer, all links shared on Twitter.com or through third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL. But users will also be able to expand them on the website to make sure they’re know where the link is taking them. The data on how these links are shared will also feed into Twitter’s new advertising system, Promoted Tweets. It will form a core part of the service’s Resonance metric, which shows how well a sponsored tweet is performing with users.
When Twitter first started, TinyURL was the early leader in link shortening. But it soon fell by the wayside as it couldn’t compete with New York-based bit.ly’s analytics, which could track click-through rates and virality.
Bit.ly, in anticipation of such a move — which to be honest has been very obvious for awhile, started moving into paid link shortening and analytics for bigger brands like The New York Times. It’s not clear how this will affect their business even further. We’ve asked Twitter whether it will allow other companies to shorten links, but they haven’t responded for immediate comment.
Tags: link shorteners
Companies: Bit.ly, Tinyurl, Twitter
Twitter just announced a new URL shortener, t.co, in a post on its official blog.
The new service, currently being tested internally, will be available for all users later this summer.
Twitter will automatically shorten, or, as it says, "wrap" all links automatically, whether you are tweeting from the company's website, or using a third-party client.
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Twitter has been shortening links for quite some time, but there are some other features that you might not know yet. Since sometime in March, according to the Twitter blog, any links in Twitter DM’s have not only been wrapped, but also scanned for malware, phishing and other dangers.
Some new steps have just been taken to expand Twitter’s link service, so here’s what we’re being told:
Later in the summer, any link being shared through Twitter will be wrapped with a t.co URL. Yup, even things that you send into Twitter through a third-party application will get the t.co treatment. The goal is to show all links into Twitter to be safe and processed.
Second to the safety aspect is the fact that all wrapped links will contribute to the Promoted Tweets platform These wrapped, and thus processed Tweets will help Twitter to have a higher quality of information for what its calling the Resonance algorithm. The algorithm, in Twitter’s words, is a “way we determine if a Tweet is relevant and interesting to users”.
We’ll see an early developer release of the new platform first. In fact, this Group is already planning. The group of developers will be planning on how to display the wrapped links in the best manner possible.
@TwitterAPI @rsarver and @raffi will be the first accounts to have the links show up, sort of as a test bed combined with a display platform.
Oh, and for those of us who love other services such as Bit.ly? No worries. The new Twitter shortener will wrap your already-shortened links, so you won’t lose any of the lovely tracking information that we’ve all grown so fond of.
And, as someone once said…one more thing:
The 140 character limit? That’s still in place. But it will now count as 140 characters after the link wrapping. And there was much rejoicing!
Original title and link for this post: Twitter releases its new URL shortener, wrapped in magic.
I have no idea what they're saying but it has something to do with URL shortening. http://r2.ly/zfak
Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn’t Matter
- Louis GrayRT @hackerwatrcoolr: Twitter launches own shortener t.co http://bit.ly/9HytFa
- Tac AndersonSo they're gonna re-wrap already shortened links? Madness!
- Stephen MackFirst wall around the garden about to get hoisted up.
- MicahLinks and Twitter: Length Shouldn’t Matter
- Rob DianaSharing: Links and Twitter: Length Shouldn’t Matter http://bit.ly/aXhuZk
- Rob Diana
Don’t you wish you could listen to your collection of MP3s from any computer without toting around a thumb drive or MP3 player? What about sharing the music with others? Wouldn’t that be cool? Also, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to share podcasts and other similar soundbites on your website or another social media page?
All of this could be done if only you could stream your MP3 audio files for free, and embed the player. Well, it is now possible and even made easy by a new tool called Iradeo.
You might be thinking that there are services out there like Orb and JukeFly that allow you to stream your audio for free from your computer to the Internet. Yeah, you can do that if you want, but you’d better leave your computer on and hope it stays online because you’re hosting your own music in those cases. What about Nutsie that lets you sync your iTunes collection on their server? Great thought but what if you don’t use iTunes? And that doesn’t let you embed a player wherever you want.
In the last paragraph I spoke of a few other services. Among those choices you were given the ability to stream your music from your home computer (Orb and JukeFly) or a third party service (Nutsie). Iradeo does things a bit differently. They allow you to stream MP3 files hosted on a web server. In other words, if you have webspace, you can stream your MP3s from there instead of using a third party or your own computer’s resources. So in essence they are only providing the platform to stream.
All of those details aside, Iradeo is the simplest way how to stream your audio for free.
Head to Iradeo and sign up for an account.
Once you finish filling in the fields and have signed up, you will be taken to the dashboard.
Notice that you will need to go to the settings page to set some things up before the player will be ready to go. Head over to the settings page and begin to set things up.
One of the fields labeled “Audio Location” is not looking for your city and state, believe it or not. It is looking for the online location of your MP3s (we will be setting this up in the next step).
Also head to the Profile page to add information there.
This will help the public find your “station.”
Since Iradeo streams from your webspace, you must create a directory and upload the MP3s that you want streamed. You will also have to upload a “txt” file containing all of the names of the MP3’s in it, one per line. You’ll need to name it whatever you are told to in the sidebar of the settings page.
Once you have everything set up (account, profile, MP3s) you should be able to go back to the dashboard and preview the player.
This is also where you grab the embed code from. Just pop this code wherever you want your player to show. Now you can stream MP3s anywhere and to anyone just using webspace and Iradeo.
What other uses can you think of for a service such as Iradeo? Do you have your own Iradeo station?
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Microsoft and third-party security experts warned that users could be subjected to drive-by downloads because of flaws in Windows and Internet Explorer that received fixes on Patch Tuesday this week.
It comes as no surprise — since Steve Jobs hinted at it during D8 — that Apple has once again revised the controversial section 3.3.9 of its iOS developer agreement. Section 3.3.9 deals specifically with what App Store applications can and cannot do when it comes to the collection of user and device data. The new modifications seem to be more lenient towards independent ad agencies; allowing them to collect user data after obtaining explicit permission from Apple to do so. However, what they’re not so lenient towards is allowing non-independent ad agencies, such as Google’s AdMob, to collect user and device data. The language of the agreement seems to create a legal loophole, that, if exercised, would allow Apple to cut AdMob out of serving ads to its iOS devices:
3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect, use, or disclose to any third party, user or device data without prior user consent, and then only under the following conditions:
- The collection, use or disclosure is necessary in order to provide a service or function that is directly relevant to the use of the Application. For example, without Apple’s prior written consent, You may not use third party analytics software in Your Application to collect and send device data to a third party for aggregation, processing, or analysis.
- The collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of serving advertising to Your Application; is provided to an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving mobile ads (for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent); and the disclosure is limited to UDID, user location data, and other data specifically designated by Apple as available for advertising purposes.
At last week’s D8 conference, Jobs singled out ad agency Flurry for its role in outing prototype iPads through the collection of device data embedded in iPad applications. Apple insists that its data collection policies are about protecting the privacy of its users and not thwarting competition.
Users who are new to Ubuntu might find it somewhat difficult to configure. Today we take a look at using Ubuntu Control Center which makes managing different aspects of the system easier.
About Ubuntu Control Center
A lot of utilities and software has been written to work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu Control Center is one such cool utility which makes it easy for configuring Ubuntu. The following is a brief description of Ubuntu Control Center:
Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution. UCC uses all the native applications already bundled with Ubuntu, but it also utilize some third-party apps like “Hardinfo”, “Boot-up Manager”, “GuFW” and “Font-Manager”.
Ubuntu Control Center
Here we look at installation and use of Ubuntu Control Center in Ubuntu 10.04.
First we have to satisfy some dependencies. You will need to install Font-Manager and jstest-gtk (link below)…before installing Ubuntu Control Center (UCC). Click the Install Package button.
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You’ll be prompted to enter in your admin password for each installation package.
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Installation is successful…close out of the screen.
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Download and install Font-Manager…again you’ll need to enter in your password to complete installation.
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Once you have installed the two dependencies, you are all set to install Ubuntu Control Center (link below), double click the downloaded Ubuntu Control Center deb file to install it.
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Once installed you can find it under Applications \ System Tools \ UCC.
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Once you launch it you can start managing your system, software, hardware, and more.
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You can easily control various aspects of your Ubuntu System using Ubuntu Control Center. Here we look at configuring the firewall under Network and Internet.
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UCC allows easy access for configuring several aspects of your system.
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Once you install UCC you’ll see how easy it is to configure your Ubuntu system through an intuitive clean graphical interface. If you’re new to Ubuntu, using UCC can help you in setting up your system how you like in a user friendly way.
Home Page of UCC
Links
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Download jstest-gtk
Ubuntu Control Center (UCC)
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