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[How To] Add Skype to The Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Skype – the most parochial of IM apps, but one many of us can’t do without. In Ubuntu 11.10 Skype uses an ‘indicator applet‘ to display its tray menu and presence. The use of an indicator-applet makes for a consistent user-experience across the top panel, with all menus behaving the same way (i.e click > menu): – But [...]
Ubuntu 11.10 Says Goodbye to the ‘Me Menu’
The ‘Me Menu’ will no longer be installed by default in Ubuntu 11.10.
In its place comes a rejigged Messaging Menu.
How to Add and control Skype via the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
A day or two back we ran a nifty how-to feature on controlling Skype from your instant messaging application in Ubuntu 11.04.
This approach integrated your Skype contacts into your Empathy or Pidgin buddy list, but also told you how to ‘hide’ the lurid green icon from the system tray.
Whilst many of you found this a neat tip a number of you weren’t so keen to give up easy access to Skype itself and sought something a little less final – such as adding Skype to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu.
Thunderbird Messaging Menu integration ready for testing
Work on integration between Mozilla’s e-mail client Thunderbird and the Ubuntu Messaging Menu is made available for public testing.
Googsystray 1.3.0 released with tasks support, fixes
Googsystray, the tray-residing Google services notification app, has improved Calendar support, added Google tasks notifications and splatted a few bugs, too.
How to add more apps to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Mario Tomljenović sent us a tip on how to add custom entries to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu.
Whilst this method doesn’t provide notification support for any added application – which is sort of the point of the Messaging Menu – it’s nevertheless an easy way to add an accessible launcher.
Easily Integrate Thunderbird into the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Thunderbird users seeking out native notifications and interactive integration with their Ubuntu desktop need look no further than this neat add-on.
Popper – Feature-filled e-Mail notification applet for Ubuntu
Fed up with service-specific e-mail notification applets/tools for Ubuntu?
So is Popper.
GmailWatcher – Another way to get GMail alerts in the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
If Evolution is overkill for your needs than a simple Gmail notification application is ideal. There are plenty of solutions available – in fact we’ve reviewed two such applications previously. Say hello to another, then, as we peek at GMailWatcher – a simple Messaging Menu application for alerting you to new mails in your inbox [...]
Add Google Voice alerts to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Users of Google Voice will be thrilled to learn that thanks to the work of Ken Van Dine you can now receive instant notifications of new voicemail, SMS’s and other Google Voice messages directly to your desktop via the Ubuntu messaging menu. Finally! I’ve wanted to blog about this application for a little while now [...]
Add more apps to the Ubuntu Messaging Menu
Over the last few weeks we’ve blogged about various different applications that slot neatly into the Ubuntu Messaging Menu, giving you an easy way to stay on-top of alerts and notifications. For those that may have missed them here’s a concise run-down of the top 5: – GMail Users who don’t use the default Ubuntu [...]
Get Google Reader updates in the Ubuntu messaging menu
Users wishing to get handy desktop-bound updates of E-mails, tweets and un-read items in Google Reader should check out ‘CloudSN’ – a multi-service notification applet that integrates with the Ubuntu Messaging Menu. Currently it allows you to receive notifications for: – GMail Google Reader Twitter Identi.ca POP3 IMAP New updates are also displayed via the native Ubuntu [...]
Wouldn’t it be cool if… there was a Facebook-only Messaging Menu notifier?
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Like most “mainstreamers†my sister wastes spends a massive amount of her time on social networking site Facebook. Guaranteed that whenever she’s on her netbook working, watching a film or just leaving it sat idle (!) there ever-omnipresent Facebook will be the only tab open in Chrome. I recently asked her why she spends so [...]