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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) Ubuntu users: When you try to compile and install an application from source, occasionally you will run into missing packages that you just can’t seem to find with apt. A tool exists in the form of an IRC bot that can help you locate exactly what package you need to install. All you need to do is fire up your favorite IRC client (XChat for instance) and send Ubotu a message from any channel with the following syntax: /msg ubotu find package.pc
Replace “package” with the package you are trying to locate. Ubotu will give you a response in about 10 seconds with exactly the package you need. Additionally, as shown above, you can also throw other search phrases at Ubotu and get pretty good results.
Pixar’s latest movie, Ratatouille, opens in Australia today. To celebrate Pixar in all its geeky goodness, we interviewed expat Aussie and Pixar Image Mastering Engineer Dominic Glynn on his job at Pixar, the tech tools he uses at work and play, and of course how he landed a job with probably the most cutting edge animation studio in the world.
Read on for the full interview including Dominic’s tips for working with images, and why his car doubles as a UFO. :)
Oh, and don’t forget to enter our Ratatouille competition – it closes tomorrow!
Windows only: Freeware application emailStripper removes the barrage of greater-than (>) signs and other formatting characters from your email threads. (Apologies if you were hoping for an application that undresses scantily clad emails.) Just paste your email into the utility, click the Strip It Button, and copy the cleaned up results ready for pasting wherever you need them. EmailStripper also cuts out all line breaks preceding the unwanted text so when you’re done, you shouldn’t need to do any more formatting. This isn’t an everyday app for most people, but its simple, one-use purpose might come handy if you ever need to pull content from a long email thread. EmailStripper is freeware, Windows only.
emailStripper [via MakeUseOf]We’ve covered a ton of resume do’s at Lifehacker, but AOL Jobs highlights 10 resume don’ts that are likely to get under your hiring manager’s skin. For example:
Outdated information. Leave off the activities that you did in high school if graduation was a few years ago and omit jobs you held 10 or more years ago, as the information is probably irrelevant to the position you’re trying for now.
If we’ve got any hiring readers, we’d love to hear your tips for resume additions that get on your nerves.
10 Ways Your Resume Irks Hiring Managers [AOL Jobs]Power up your right-click menu even more with 125 Nautilus scripts. We introduced a few Nautilus scripts in the past, but the Ubuntu Unleashed weblog introduces the grand-daddy of them all. You can accomplish practically anything from the right-click menu with these scripts, including editing image, audio and video, creating DEBs and RPMs, launching terminals and much more. These scripts can be installed with the following three commands:
cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/nautilus-scripts.tar.gz tar zxvf nautilus-scripts.tar.gz
125 Nautilus Scripts To Simplify Nautilus [Ubuntu Unleashed]Now you can post to your blog or Twitter account, schedule an appointment or post to a Yahoo Group with previously mentioned voice-to-text phone service Jott. Jott can now transcribe voice notes and post them to WordPress, TypePad, LiveJournal and Blogger; for social updates, Jott now integrates with Twitter and Jaiku; and for scheduling, there’s 30 Boxes support (please to add Gcal?). Somewhat less exciting, you can also post to Yahoo Groups and get real estate estimates from Zillow. We’ve heard both positive and negative feedback from readers about the accuracy of Jott transcriptions, but with all of the new web integration, there’s no question that Jott’s making huge strides in innovation. Thanks Bryce!
Jott Links and Accessing the Online World with Your Voice [Jott Blog]Windows only: Define and switch between custom keyboard layouts with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, a freeware download from Microsoft. Let’s say, for example, you type a lot of accented letters or you’re thinking about switching to a Dvorak keyboard layout; with the Keyboard Layout Creator, you can keep your traditional Qwerty keyboard, but quickly toggle to your new custom layout at any time using the Caps Lock button (most of us hardly use it anyway). When you’re done with the alternate layout, just toggle Caps Lock again and you’re back to your main layout. The software can be a little tough to wrap your head around, so take a look at this US/German template after you install KLC to get an idea of how it works. Thanks xeen!
The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator [Microsoft]The leaves are browning, your pencils are sharpened and the lecture hall awaits—it’s time to head back to school, and this semester you can arrive at your ivy-covered bastion of higher education armed with power tools for the wired scholar. Whether you’re looking for deals on textbooks, the most productive Facebook apps, research utilities or the best ways to share and organize your class notes, there are more downloads and web services available for the tech-savvy student than ever. Before you head off to PSYC 310, take a gander at our top 10 software and webapps for students this fall.
Mac OS X only: Wake yourself and your Mac with freeware app Alarm Clock 2. It boasts tons of features like repeating alarms, “easy wake” (the volume of the alarm slowly increases), wake to music or podcast and customisable snooze duration. The two most appealing features of Alarm Clock 2 are that it also comes with a countdown timer and a stopwatch, and that prior to activating, Alarm Clock 2 will also bring your Mac out of sleep mode. You might also want to check out the popular Mac-only alarm clock Aurora or web-based alarms ALARMD and the Online Alarm Clock. Alarm Clock 2 is a free download for Mac OS X.
Alarm Clock 2 [via Of Zen and Computing]Your Facebook profile will soon be available to search engines unless you disable search engine indexing in Facebook’s Privacy Settings for Search.
