Gedit Latex Plugin

Did you know that Gedit, the ultimate Gnome text editor, has a Latex plugin? Yes, you can now install this plugin easily and Gedit turns into a Latex IDE. It will give you syntax highlighting, code completion, compiling into DVI, PS or PDF, etc. All from within Gedit. This is highly recommended for all Texers.

If you already upgraded to Jaunty, all you have to do is open up your console and type in:
sudo aptitude install gedit-latex-plugin

If not, you need to follow the guidelines described in the following page:
Gedit Latex Plugin.

Gedit is now just perfect!

Dropbox for synchronizing files among different computers

Dropbox is a wonderful web service that allows you to synchronise your files among all of your computers. The web site offers a program to install to your computers, and it creates a folder named Dropbox in all computers. You can then move any file you want into this folder and it will automatically be detected and synchronised with the web service. The next time you use another of your computers, the file will be synchronised with that computer as well. All of your changes to the existing files in this folder will also be synchronised among all computers. Moreover, you can access all of your files using their web interface. So, even if you are using a friends computer, you can still download any of your files. Now, isn't this awesome? And it all comes for free. Dropbox offers you 2gb of web space for free, but you can register to their advanced service for a small fee if you need more space.

You can also use the following link to register, which will immediately give you (and me) 250mb more space. This is even better than directly going to their web site for registration. Seriously guys, this is one offer that you don't want to miss:
Click here to register for free.

Jaunty Jackalope Day!

Today is the day Canonical releases the next version of their GNU-Linux operating system Ubuntu: Jaunty Jackalope. I have been using Jaunty for some time. The beta and release candidate versions were quite stable and faster than the previous versions for me.

An important improvement in this release is the shorter boot time. Of course, do not expect anything under 30 secs. But it is definitely booting faster than Intrepid. With this new version we also receive the latest version of GNOME and finally: Open Office 3. Obviously, almost all Ubuntu users already switched to OOo3, but Ubuntu was slow to realize the change as official.

By the way, there are three new themes for Metacity and in my opinion they are the best themes ever included in a Ubuntu release.

Once again: two thumbs up for Ubuntu!