Hi all,

Google Chrome beta is already released for Linux, but in this post i am not going to explain something about Google Chrome. Its about Chromium. But if you want to download and install Chrome beta version, download from here.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

Note: I think, there will be no flash plugin installed, one need to install it manually and copy it to browsers plugin directory.

Now lets jump to Chromium, what is chromium, if there is already Chrome?

So to elaborate a bit, Google Chrome is the same software offered by Google, while Chromium is offered by open source community, they release fixes and patches on daily basis. And further more there is no need to install flash plugin, installing it from the community repos will automatically install every thing for you. Currently i am using Chromium 4.0.283, and i love it. Its fast, simple and easy to use.

NOTE: There is no big difference between Google Chrome and Chromium.

To install it in Ubuntu:

1- Add this repo(URL) to software sources.

Software source -> Third party software(Tab) -> click add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Ubuntu will prompt for reload, just cancel it, because we need to add OpenPGP key.

2- Open terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

3- Now update the system repos with:

sudo apt-get update

4- Now lets install chromium:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

And you are done, you can find Chromium in Applications -> Internet -> Chromium Web browser

To install in openSUSE:

1- Open YaST, goto software repositories, click add button, choose community repositories from the choices, and click next. Now select Contrib repo and click OK.

2- Now open software management from YaST, and search for ‘chromium’ without quotes and mark it for installation, click Accept button and you are done.

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More easy than Ubuntu in openSUSE.

Good luck with it and enjoy.

Arif

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Hi all,

Are you using openoffice for your daily word processing files and office work?

Did you face situation like, where you saved a document but mistakenly deleted/removed and no more available in your PC?

And at the end you are stuck to write it again? Are you going to do that? for sure we will.

Openoffice is almost an alternative of M$ office, as i did not use M$ office so i am not sure they have this feature or not. But openoffice does have this feature. Openoffice will make backup copy of your files, while you are writing/doing your work.

Open openoffice writer(openoffice word processor), click on Tools menu, select Options and choose Load/Save. Click on General and tick this line “Always create backup copy“, and openoffice will start backing up your files from now. You can also change the time for “Save Autorecovery information every“, i am using 1 minute to save the documents automatically.

At the same option page, you can even change the default saving format for openoffice. There are also other useful options which you can change according to your taste.

Now, if you missed any file, where you can find the backup files. So its easy. Just go to your home directory, look for .ooo3(in my case is this, maybe change for different versions or distros) directory, click user directory, now click backup directory. And there your backup files will be.

home/user/.ooo3/user/backup/

user =  your username

That’s it, you have backup copies of your files with No Worries now.

Arif

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