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Download1 00:00:01,183 --> 00:00:03,832 Hello, this is Alan Pope with the seventh screencast 2 00:00:03,951 --> 00:00:06,157 in the Ubuntu Month of Screencasts. 3 00:00:06,302 --> 00:00:08,844 All of the screencasts in this month can be downloaded for free 4 00:00:08,944 --> 00:00:12,968 from our website, which is screencasts.ubuntu.com 5 00:00:14,205 --> 00:00:16,798 In this screencast we are going to look at some of the applications, 6 00:00:16,898 --> 00:00:19,727 that are installed by default with an Ubuntu installation. 7 00:00:19,827 --> 00:00:22,158 Now I am using the very latest version of Ubuntu, 8 00:00:22,301 --> 00:00:25,383 so some things might look a little bit different to your install. 9 00:00:25,598 --> 00:00:29,131 First application we are going to look at here is the text editor 10 00:00:29,328 --> 00:00:34,397 and in the text editor we can edit multiple text documents. 11 00:00:34,918 --> 00:00:37,788 It has some standard features like search and replace, 12 00:00:37,888 --> 00:00:41,742 it also has syntax highlighting, if you are a programmer that's very useful. 13 00:00:41,936 --> 00:00:46,834 It also has a spellchecker and when you go to close the text editor, 14 00:00:47,045 --> 00:00:52,359 it will prompt you to save all of the documents you have open, which is quite a useful feature. 15 00:00:53,955 --> 00:00:57,744 Other applications that are under the Accessories menu, 16 00:00:57,872 --> 00:01:01,886 include the Disk Usage Analyzer and the Screenshot tool. 17 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:03,850 We will use these two together. 18 00:01:04,091 --> 00:01:06,574 The Disk Usage Analyzer, if I just click Scan Home, 19 00:01:06,674 --> 00:01:08,878 will go through all of the folders in my home directory 20 00:01:09,006 --> 00:01:12,794 determining how much volume of data is in each folder 21 00:01:13,127 --> 00:01:16,096 and then produce a nice little diagram over on the right hand side, 22 00:01:16,196 --> 00:01:20,985 showing proportionately how much space in my home directory is taken up. 23 00:01:21,182 --> 00:01:23,695 So we can see here, the largest chunk of space is taken up 24 00:01:23,819 --> 00:01:26,827 with some music that is in my home directory. 25 00:01:28,090 --> 00:01:30,271 You can drill down on these folders 26 00:01:30,371 --> 00:01:33,714 and as you hover over a folder it tells you how much space there is. 27 00:01:34,150 --> 00:01:39,505 You can also double-click on the menu, the tree on the left-hand side to navigate around. 28 00:01:39,653 --> 00:01:46,704 And the list is sorted by most data in a folder at the top, largest at the top. 29 00:01:47,095 --> 00:01:49,955 So let's take a screenshot of this, because it looks quite neat. 30 00:01:50,055 --> 00:01:53,591 If we grab a whole desktop and hit take screenshot 31 00:01:53,931 --> 00:01:58,288 then we get a picture which includes the desktop background, the panel and so on 32 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:00,452 and we'll save that on the desktop. 33 00:02:00,670 --> 00:02:04,645 That might not be what you are after, you might just want a screenshot of one application. 34 00:02:04,818 --> 00:02:09,272 So let us take another screenshot, but this time choose Grab the current window 35 00:02:09,493 --> 00:02:11,360 and add a delay of three seconds. 36 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:14,896 We'll also add a drop shadow border around the picture to make it look nice. 37 00:02:15,048 --> 00:02:18,556 It looks especially nice if you put it in a web based documentation 38 00:02:18,656 --> 00:02:21,759 or put the picture in a word document or something like that. 39 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,983 So we'll save this 40 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:28,231 and now we have got another image on our desktop. 41 00:02:28,571 --> 00:02:33,807 If we double-click the first one, you can see that it covers the whole desktop 42 00:02:34,219 --> 00:02:39,261 and the second one is just a screenshot of the application, with this funky little border. 43 00:02:39,431 --> 00:02:41,637 You can't really see the drop shadow border. 44 00:02:41,830 --> 00:02:44,061 So what I'll do is just show you... 45 00:02:44,885 --> 00:02:48,254 If I open up a web browser. 46 00:02:49,515 --> 00:02:55,090 So I find Firefox, the web browser, which we'll come back to a little bit later. 47 00:02:57,926 --> 00:03:02,674 And by default it shows us some documentation, local documentation on my machine. 48 00:03:02,871 --> 00:03:06,241 If I move this out of the way and just drag the image in to the browser, 49 00:03:06,871 --> 00:03:10,483 you can see there the nice funky drop shadow around the picture, 50 00:03:10,871 --> 00:03:14,192 which makes it look rather nice in documentation. 51 00:03:17,949 --> 00:03:21,949 So that's the Disk Usage Analyzer and the Screenshot tool. 52 00:03:22,652 --> 00:03:26,021 There's also another neat tool under accessories called Tomboy. 53 00:03:26,191 --> 00:03:31,933 Now Tomboy is a note taking application, it's sometimes thought of as a small wiki. 54 00:03:33,972 --> 00:03:35,911 A local wiki. 55 00:03:36,154 --> 00:03:39,935 Here it lists all of the documents we have already created. 56 00:03:40,105 --> 00:03:42,893 and there's a couple created and delivered with Tomboy. 57 00:03:43,450 --> 00:03:47,135 Up here we have a panel icon, where I can create new notes. 58 00:03:47,235 --> 00:03:51,570 I can give my notes a title and then put some content in. 59 00:03:51,789 --> 00:03:56,271 There's some basic text formatting in here, like bullet points, underline and so on. 60 00:03:56,446 --> 00:04:01,313 And we can change the size of the text as well and highlight it too. 61 00:04:05,340 --> 00:04:08,806 The nice thing about Tomboy is it provides very quick access to 62 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,009 documents and it saves straight away, 63 00:04:11,109 --> 00:04:15,206 so you don't have to save your documents, as soon as you edit them, they become saved. 64 00:04:15,378 --> 00:04:17,993 We can also link one document to another. 65 00:04:18,478 --> 00:04:22,087 There are a few ways to do this, I'll just do it by clicking the link button. 66 00:04:22,238 --> 00:04:25,241 It's now created an extra document, 67 00:04:25,341 --> 00:04:28,902 a Tomboy note and in here I can make further notes 68 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:32,320 and the two are now linked together. 69 00:04:33,750 --> 00:04:38,210 So now you can see in my list of all notes, I have got multiple documents. 70 00:04:38,501 --> 00:04:40,949 You can also see by clicking on the panel icon. 71 00:04:41,070 --> 00:04:43,955 Here is my list of documents and if you push the little push pin 72 00:04:44,076 --> 00:04:48,173 then it makes a document stay in that list permanently, 73 00:04:48,318 --> 00:04:51,373 no matter how many documents you have. 74 00:04:52,245 --> 00:04:55,515 We also have a Dictionary application under the accessories menu. 75 00:04:55,736 --> 00:04:59,854 So here we can just type in a word and we will get a dictionary definition. 76 00:05:02,378 --> 00:05:06,111 Pretty basic, but also there is a little sidebar, 77 00:05:06,211 --> 00:05:10,908 where we can get similar words and a few other features as well. 78 00:05:14,983 --> 00:05:18,668 Very useful if like me you can't spell. 79 00:05:19,825 --> 00:05:21,882 There is also a Character Map. 80 00:05:21,982 --> 00:05:25,512 Now this is useful if you want to put any characters in to a document, 81 00:05:25,612 --> 00:05:30,037 that you don't have on your keyboard or it's not easy to get on your keyboard. 82 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:35,536 So if we choose to view by Unicode blocks, say I want a Greek symbol, 83 00:05:35,709 --> 00:05:40,118 I can choose Greek and over here if I want the Delta symbol, 84 00:05:40,266 --> 00:05:44,311 if I just double-click it, then it appears down the bottom and gives me a description. 85 00:05:44,487 --> 00:05:48,605 If I hit the copy button, I can then go to some other document, 86 00:05:48,847 --> 00:05:52,871 like for example my ToDoList and do a right-click, paste 87 00:05:53,025 --> 00:05:54,738 and there's the Delta character. 88 00:05:54,883 --> 00:05:57,975 So you can pick any character out of there or multiple characters out of the character map 89 00:05:58,107 --> 00:06:03,004 and copy and paste them in to documents elsewhere. 90 00:06:05,695 --> 00:06:08,361 There's also a neat search tool called Tracker. 91 00:06:08,555 --> 00:06:11,970 There's a daemon that runs in the background that indexes your files 92 00:06:12,122 --> 00:06:15,730 and this tracker search tool allows us to search for files that have been indexed. 93 00:06:15,830 --> 00:06:18,421 So here's all of the files with bots in their name 94 00:06:19,027 --> 00:06:23,888 and we can filter this to show only folders or all files or different types of files. 95 00:06:24,043 --> 00:06:26,127 So these are all the music files. 96 00:06:26,227 --> 00:06:30,288 And down the bottom you get a little summary of the file as well 97 00:06:30,784 --> 00:06:34,299 and in some cases you also get a preview. 98 00:06:34,517 --> 00:06:37,935 There's also a rather extensive calculator, 99 00:06:38,565 --> 00:06:40,744 which can be made a little bit more basic as well. 100 00:06:40,844 --> 00:06:44,577 There's not really much to say about a calculator, that I am sure you probably don't already know. 101 00:06:44,750 --> 00:06:49,425 So I'm not going to say anything else about a calculator. 102 00:06:52,552 --> 00:06:58,515 Let's move on to the next menu under applications, which is Games. 103 00:06:58,685 --> 00:07:02,100 Now you can see there are quite a few games, I'll just show you a couple of them. 104 00:07:02,251 --> 00:07:06,806 Four-in-a-Row, I'll play red and I'm absolutely rubbish at this, 105 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,660 so no doubt the computer will beat me. 106 00:07:10,849 --> 00:07:12,831 Yes, there we go. 107 00:07:12,931 --> 00:07:15,883 So yeah, he got four in a row, often known as Connect 4. 108 00:07:16,053 --> 00:07:18,009 What other games have we got? 109 00:07:18,109 --> 00:07:20,116 We've got Chess, ah, now this is really cool. 110 00:07:20,216 --> 00:07:23,241 The chess you can either view in two dimensions, like this 111 00:07:23,341 --> 00:07:26,316 or there's a 3D version of it as well. 112 00:07:26,416 --> 00:07:29,177 And if a start a new game I can either play against another human 113 00:07:29,277 --> 00:07:32,113 or I can play against the computer. 114 00:07:32,501 --> 00:07:35,288 If I start the game, 115 00:07:35,991 --> 00:07:38,658 I can make my first move 116 00:07:38,997 --> 00:07:41,252 and then the computer will make it's first move. 117 00:07:41,421 --> 00:07:43,648 And if I don't want to continue playing right now 118 00:07:43,748 --> 00:07:46,145 I can just close it and it will save my progress. 119 00:07:46,245 --> 00:07:50,027 And then if I go and open the Chess program again, 120 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:54,487 it carries on from where it left off, which is quite a neat feature, 121 00:07:54,826 --> 00:07:58,293 given how long Chess games tend to be. 122 00:07:59,432 --> 00:08:02,220 Another feature of some of the games 123 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,105 including this one, Nibbles, is network play. 124 00:08:05,205 --> 00:08:09,371 You can play on-line against other people. 125 00:08:10,583 --> 00:08:14,074 So under the game menu, if I choose New, it plays locally, 126 00:08:14,195 --> 00:08:17,101 if I choose Network Game, then I can play against other people on-line. 127 00:08:17,201 --> 00:08:20,473 And there's some settings here for what server you connect to. 128 00:08:20,594 --> 00:08:23,285 And We can see here I am connected to a server. 129 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,891 It shows who is on-line, what rooms there are and what tables are available. 130 00:08:28,060 --> 00:08:32,203 If a try and join a table that has already got all the places filled, 131 00:08:32,303 --> 00:08:33,781 then I get an error message and 132 00:08:33,902 --> 00:08:37,948 you can see those two people are probably playing against each other at that table. 133 00:08:38,145 --> 00:08:42,144 There's a preferences dialog, where you can make changes to some of the settings 134 00:08:42,314 --> 00:08:45,999 and determine which server you connect to. 135 00:08:46,217 --> 00:08:48,980 It's pretty straight forward. 136 00:08:49,465 --> 00:08:53,270 I managed to connect and lose at Nibbles earlier on today. 137 00:08:54,513 --> 00:08:56,849 Another neat game is Sudoku. 138 00:08:57,028 --> 00:09:01,468 So if you are a Sudoku fan, this is a very good way to pass a large amount of time. 139 00:09:01,634 --> 00:09:04,882 Pretty standard, you can highlight a box 140 00:09:04,982 --> 00:09:08,246 and fill in the number that you think should be in the box. 141 00:09:08,785 --> 00:09:11,109 There's a nice highlighter that shows all of the 142 00:09:11,209 --> 00:09:13,606 horizontal, vertical and the box of nine 143 00:09:13,706 --> 00:09:15,742 around the number you are currently looking at. 144 00:09:15,842 --> 00:09:18,772 You can also put guesses in the boxes 145 00:09:19,039 --> 00:09:22,069 and there's a hint system as well 146 00:09:22,238 --> 00:09:27,156 and you can get it to just fill in the answer for you, if you are really stuck. 147 00:09:31,014 --> 00:09:34,898 You can also print out the Sudoku puzzle or puzzles, 148 00:09:35,062 --> 00:09:39,670 if you want to do them on paper rather than the computer screen. 149 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:42,284 So there's quite a few games there to play with. 150 00:09:42,384 --> 00:09:44,394 Plenty of things to pass the time. 151 00:09:44,494 --> 00:09:46,878 Let's move on to the next menu. 152 00:09:47,231 --> 00:09:49,366 The next one is Graphics. 153 00:09:49,534 --> 00:09:52,951 Now the first one we use is the gThumb Image Viewer. 154 00:09:53,051 --> 00:09:57,109 Now I have downloaded some photos from my digital camera to a folder called temp_pics. 155 00:09:57,291 --> 00:09:59,981 And here you can see I have got seven photos, 156 00:10:00,081 --> 00:10:02,960 and if I just double-click them, it is very quick and easy to view them. 157 00:10:03,060 --> 00:10:07,873 I can show a little slide show of the pictures and that works quite nicely. 158 00:10:08,005 --> 00:10:12,320 So it's a nice little basic application for viewing your photos. 159 00:10:16,174 --> 00:10:19,662 There's a more comprehension photo management program, 160 00:10:19,762 --> 00:10:22,816 which is F-Spot, also under the same menu. 161 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,785 And with F-Spot we can import photos, 162 00:10:27,907 --> 00:10:30,643 so if I import them, I can import them from a folder, 163 00:10:30,743 --> 00:10:34,091 but I can also import them directly from my digital camera. 164 00:10:34,355 --> 00:10:38,109 So I am going to import photos from the temp_pics folder, 165 00:10:38,209 --> 00:10:41,893 which are the photos that I have already dragged off of my digital camera, 166 00:10:42,137 --> 00:10:44,142 just to save time. 167 00:10:44,269 --> 00:10:46,448 And here you can see it's loading the pictures, 168 00:10:46,548 --> 00:10:51,247 I can tag them and I can also get it to copy the photos to a photos folder. 169 00:10:51,420 --> 00:10:55,080 So if I was copying them off of my digital camera, I could do that. 170 00:10:55,371 --> 00:10:59,492 You can tag your photos by dragging the tags over the photos. 171 00:10:59,638 --> 00:11:02,520 So those are my favorite pictures in that collection. 172 00:11:02,668 --> 00:11:05,164 Which is neat, because when you double-click the tag, 173 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:07,516 it filters out all those that do not have the tag. 174 00:11:07,616 --> 00:11:10,134 So it's only showing my favorites right now. 175 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:13,536 There's a time-line across the top, so that you can see 176 00:11:13,746 --> 00:11:15,876 how many photos you took at various points and 177 00:11:15,976 --> 00:11:18,470 you can change the size of the thumbnails as well. 178 00:11:18,570 --> 00:11:20,668 So you can view more or less images at once. 179 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,917 There's also a slide show feature, you can view them full screen 180 00:11:24,096 --> 00:11:28,996 and you can also open the images with external tools, such as the GIMP Image editor, 181 00:11:29,163 --> 00:11:31,805 which is an Image manipulation tool. 182 00:11:31,950 --> 00:11:36,737 You can also export the photos to on-line galleries or export them to a CD 183 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,416 or just dump them out to a folder. 184 00:11:41,762 --> 00:11:45,715 It's a very useful way of getting your photos out of your photo management suite 185 00:11:45,874 --> 00:11:48,313 and into form that you can maybe give to other people, 186 00:11:48,413 --> 00:11:51,356 either an on-line gallery or a CD. 187 00:11:51,998 --> 00:11:55,342 So I mentioned the GIMP Image Editor. 188 00:11:56,103 --> 00:11:59,464 This is a very comprehensive image manipulation tool. 189 00:11:59,633 --> 00:12:03,413 I am by no means an expert on this at all. 190 00:12:03,718 --> 00:12:06,275 Having very little artistic talent at all. 191 00:12:06,375 --> 00:12:09,074 If we go and open an image though. 192 00:12:09,277 --> 00:12:12,451 I'll grab one of the photos that we imported in to F-Spot. 193 00:12:12,551 --> 00:12:14,678 We imported them to the photos folder 194 00:12:14,778 --> 00:12:18,161 and you can see there, it sorts them by date, by default. 195 00:12:18,323 --> 00:12:22,300 So here are some image in one folder, that were taken on one particular day 196 00:12:22,462 --> 00:12:24,462 and there is some images that were taken on another day. 197 00:12:24,562 --> 00:12:28,238 And if I open one of these images up, 198 00:12:28,965 --> 00:12:33,443 It's a very comprehensive package and you can see there's plenty of features 199 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:37,731 and options for manipulating the image. 200 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:44,965 I'm not going to do anything with it though. 201 00:12:46,031 --> 00:12:48,392 So that's the Graphics menu. 202 00:12:48,551 --> 00:12:53,242 Let's have a look at the next menu on the list, which is Internet. 203 00:12:53,442 --> 00:12:55,751 So the first thing we'll look at is the Pidgin Instant Messenger, 204 00:12:55,851 --> 00:12:58,296 also previously known as GAIM. 205 00:12:58,396 --> 00:13:02,026 Now Pidgin allow you to connect to instant messaging systems, 206 00:13:02,126 --> 00:13:06,441 like Yahoo!, IRC, AOL, MSN and so on. 207 00:13:06,683 --> 00:13:09,516 If I fill in my MSN credentials here, 208 00:13:09,616 --> 00:13:12,209 then Pidgin will connect to the MSN network. 209 00:13:12,331 --> 00:13:17,519 and I'll be able to chat with my on-line buddies on MSN. 210 00:13:18,343 --> 00:13:22,762 You can set a buddy icon if you have got a photo that you want to use. 211 00:13:22,963 --> 00:13:25,467 You can set that, I have not got one on this machine, 212 00:13:25,567 --> 00:13:28,116 so I'll just use the default and save that. 213 00:13:28,282 --> 00:13:31,517 As soon as you save, it will try and connect. 214 00:13:32,558 --> 00:13:37,027 And depending on the messaging system it might pull down a list of your buddies. 215 00:13:37,226 --> 00:13:39,665 So let's double-click one of my friends 216 00:13:39,844 --> 00:13:42,874 and see if we can have a quick conversation with him. 217 00:13:43,044 --> 00:13:45,453 So you type in the box at the bottom 218 00:13:45,614 --> 00:13:49,920 and their response is time stamped at the top of the screen. 219 00:13:50,326 --> 00:13:52,834 You can talk to multiple people at once, 220 00:13:52,934 --> 00:13:55,986 you can invite multiple people into conversations, 221 00:13:56,086 --> 00:13:59,034 you can send files to people, you can receive files from people, 222 00:13:59,164 --> 00:14:01,346 it works much much the same as any other 223 00:14:01,446 --> 00:14:03,476 instant messaging system really. 224 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:05,581 You can log your conversations to disk, 225 00:14:05,681 --> 00:14:09,367 so that in the event that you want to go back and recall what was said, 226 00:14:09,467 --> 00:14:11,826 you can do that. 227 00:14:12,739 --> 00:14:15,531 It seems to work quite well. 228 00:14:16,012 --> 00:14:19,136 One thing that Pidgin currently doesn't support is web cams, 229 00:14:19,236 --> 00:14:21,926 there are other instant messaging tools that do support web cams, 230 00:14:22,072 --> 00:14:23,590 but this one doesn't at the moment. 231 00:14:23,690 --> 00:14:27,666 You can see I have now got an icon in the panel up here, which shows my status. 232 00:14:27,841 --> 00:14:33,249 If I right-click that, I can choose to change my status. 233 00:14:33,877 --> 00:14:36,955 There we go, so I'm now away. 234 00:14:38,022 --> 00:14:41,092 Another friend pops up and says hello. 235 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,509 If I was talking to multiple people, multiple different individuals 236 00:14:45,609 --> 00:14:48,656 then you'd get multiple tabs appearing in this window. 237 00:14:48,858 --> 00:14:50,358 So you just end up with one window, 238 00:14:50,458 --> 00:14:53,150 you don't end up with lots of windows cluttering up your desktop, 239 00:14:53,352 --> 00:14:56,982 which is quite a useful feature. 240 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:00,614 There are also plug-ins available for Pidgin, 241 00:15:00,978 --> 00:15:03,581 for additional functions. 242 00:15:03,814 --> 00:15:07,263 My personal favorite is the one that gives you a premonition when someone is going to talk to you. 243 00:15:07,426 --> 00:15:09,648 It's good for scaring people. 244 00:15:09,850 --> 00:15:12,315 Another application that's installed by default, 245 00:15:12,415 --> 00:15:16,349 we have already seen briefly, is the Firefox web browser. 246 00:15:17,195 --> 00:15:20,994 I'll just go through a few neat features of Firefox. 247 00:15:21,197 --> 00:15:24,634 If we just navigate to the screencasts website, 248 00:15:24,734 --> 00:15:27,061 screencasts.ubuntu.com 249 00:15:27,207 --> 00:15:30,690 It works much the same as any other web browser, 250 00:15:31,158 --> 00:15:35,182 but of course Firefox has this concept of tabbed browsing. 251 00:15:35,282 --> 00:15:41,300 as a few other browser do like Opera, Mozilla and Safari do. 252 00:15:41,606 --> 00:15:44,957 So we can switch between these tabs and have multiple tabs open at once. 253 00:15:45,057 --> 00:15:46,551 which is a very useful feature. 254 00:15:46,651 --> 00:15:50,159 I find it's very difficult to go back to non-tabbed browser after this. 255 00:15:50,429 --> 00:15:53,586 We have a configurable search box in the top right-hand corner, 256 00:15:53,823 --> 00:15:56,974 which by default uses Google as the search engine of choice, 257 00:15:57,074 --> 00:16:00,490 but you can change that with the little drop down on the top right. 258 00:16:00,683 --> 00:16:03,346 And Firefox also has the concept of Add-ons. 259 00:16:03,446 --> 00:16:08,206 Now there's two options here in the very latest version of Ubuntu. 260 00:16:08,367 --> 00:16:11,588 You can choose to get extensions from the Mozilla website 261 00:16:11,709 --> 00:16:13,843 or get Ubuntu Add-ons 262 00:16:13,943 --> 00:16:17,312 What that means is it will use the Ubuntu package management system 263 00:16:17,482 --> 00:16:21,380 to install add add-ons, they're delivered by Ubuntu. 264 00:16:21,554 --> 00:16:26,737 The benefit of this is the extensions are available for anyone who uses this computer. 265 00:16:26,939 --> 00:16:29,966 So if I install the them once, any of these extensions, 266 00:16:30,066 --> 00:16:32,193 they're available for anyone else. 267 00:16:32,293 --> 00:16:36,510 So I get a list of extensions and you get a description down the bottom. 268 00:16:36,656 --> 00:16:39,707 there's a fair few there. 269 00:16:40,632 --> 00:16:43,562 All I've got to do if I want to install is just tick the box. 270 00:16:43,662 --> 00:16:47,271 Now it's going to ask me, when I hit Apply, for my password. 271 00:16:47,686 --> 00:16:50,640 The reason for this is I'm making a change to the system. 272 00:16:50,740 --> 00:16:54,430 I'm not making a personal change, I'm making a change to the whole computer. 273 00:16:54,622 --> 00:16:58,845 So therefore I have to have administrative rights to be able to do that. 274 00:16:59,006 --> 00:17:02,182 And asking me for my password is one way of confirming 275 00:17:02,282 --> 00:17:04,380 that I have the necessary privileges. 276 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,812 So it's now downloading and installing that extension. 277 00:17:06,912 --> 00:17:12,532 But as I say, this is one way to install add-ons or extensions to Firefox. 278 00:17:12,823 --> 00:17:15,441 The other way is to hit the Get Extensions button 279 00:17:15,902 --> 00:17:19,077 or just follow the link on a website to download extensions. 280 00:17:19,562 --> 00:17:22,080 You can see here we go to the Mozilla webpage, 281 00:17:22,180 --> 00:17:25,525 where there are many extensions that we could install. 282 00:17:25,625 --> 00:17:31,667 But if we install by this method, then they're only usable by me, my user ID. 283 00:17:31,852 --> 00:17:34,398 Each individual person using this computer 284 00:17:34,519 --> 00:17:38,089 would have to install there own extensions, if we decided to go that route. 285 00:17:38,324 --> 00:17:40,797 But there are of course many more extensions available 286 00:17:40,897 --> 00:17:45,093 via that route than there are through the official Ubuntu get extensions method. 287 00:17:45,330 --> 00:17:47,733 So now it's finished installing the extensions. 288 00:17:47,948 --> 00:17:52,352 So what I'll do is I'll close the browser 289 00:17:54,202 --> 00:17:58,126 and when I open the browser up we should see a slight difference 290 00:17:58,226 --> 00:18:01,211 in the bottom right hand corner, 291 00:18:01,862 --> 00:18:07,777 we should see a little link that says that adblock is enabled. 292 00:18:07,877 --> 00:18:11,437 So there we can see the adblock add-on or extension has been installed 293 00:18:11,537 --> 00:18:14,080 and we can confirm that by going to Tools, Add-ons 294 00:18:14,180 --> 00:18:17,594 and you can see there's the adblock add-on. 295 00:18:18,661 --> 00:18:23,702 We can also configure themes and language packs through this same interface. 296 00:18:25,158 --> 00:18:28,142 So that's a little bit about Firefox 297 00:18:28,721 --> 00:18:32,637 Let's take a look at the next application, Evolution Email. 298 00:18:32,836 --> 00:18:38,629 Evolution is an email client, but it's also able to manage your contacts, 299 00:18:38,832 --> 00:18:42,179 tasks, to do list, that kind of stuff. 300 00:18:42,805 --> 00:18:46,196 The first time you open Evolution it asks you for some details, 301 00:18:46,296 --> 00:18:49,277 so I am going to fill in my email address. 302 00:18:49,810 --> 00:18:54,084 This is just a temporary email address I'm using for this screencast. 303 00:18:54,414 --> 00:18:56,255 And it asks you what kind of mail server. 304 00:18:56,355 --> 00:18:59,698 Now this information would come from your Internet Service Provider, 305 00:18:59,798 --> 00:19:04,282 your administrator or from the people who provide your email. 306 00:19:04,791 --> 00:19:09,745 So I fill in all of the necessary details that access my email. 307 00:19:12,621 --> 00:19:17,538 And also fill in the details for being able to send email. 308 00:19:20,634 --> 00:19:22,653 And that's all done. 309 00:19:22,753 --> 00:19:28,403 Now I just tell it what time zone I live in, which is in London. 310 00:19:29,323 --> 00:19:34,087 And Evolution starts up and it wants to connect, to download my email. 311 00:19:34,437 --> 00:19:36,713 So I give it my password. 312 00:19:36,813 --> 00:19:39,452 And Over on the left hand side you can see a list of folders 313 00:19:39,552 --> 00:19:42,337 and there we can see I have received an email. 314 00:19:42,437 --> 00:19:47,088 You also get a flashing icon on the panel at the top of the screen 315 00:19:47,358 --> 00:19:49,706 Which is useful if you've got your email minimized, 316 00:19:49,806 --> 00:19:52,324 you might not notice so have that little icon flash, 317 00:19:52,424 --> 00:19:53,827 which goes away when you click it, 318 00:19:53,927 --> 00:19:56,252 gives you an indication that you have got some new mail. 319 00:19:56,374 --> 00:19:59,297 If I click the mail, oh it's a mail from me. 320 00:19:59,397 --> 00:20:02,239 I don't normally send myself emails like this, 321 00:20:02,339 --> 00:20:04,598 it's just for demo. 322 00:20:05,078 --> 00:20:09,635 So Evolution also has a contact system, calendar, memo and so on. 323 00:20:09,853 --> 00:20:12,835 So we could add this person to our address book, 324 00:20:12,935 --> 00:20:16,038 just by right-clicking and add to address book, simple as that. 325 00:20:16,147 --> 00:20:18,152 And if I go to my contacts, 326 00:20:18,252 --> 00:20:23,406 you can see that person now shows up in my contacts list. 327 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:26,697 If we go back to the email, we can reply to that, 328 00:20:26,797 --> 00:20:30,597 because it was sent on the seventh of September, this is a little bit out of date. 329 00:20:30,776 --> 00:20:33,179 So what we will do is reply, 330 00:20:34,045 --> 00:20:38,312 and reply to the person and say some appropriate reply. 331 00:20:38,506 --> 00:20:43,730 This text is quite small, I can make it larger if I hold down Ctrl, Shift and hit + a couple of times. 332 00:20:43,866 --> 00:20:48,461 It'll make the text larger and that's a standard in many applications, 333 00:20:48,641 --> 00:20:51,735 if you do that in Firefox it makes the text larger, Ctrl, Shift, + 334 00:20:51,959 --> 00:20:55,592 So now I've sent a reply, it goes to my outbox 335 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:58,913 and after a little while it should send 336 00:20:59,013 --> 00:21:01,913 and there we go, it's gone... hopefully. 337 00:21:03,994 --> 00:21:08,208 And there's also a calendar feature, so once they reply I can fill in a date, 338 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,422 when I'm going to go out with that person for a drink. 339 00:21:10,522 --> 00:21:13,606 And we can also have a memo system for making notes 340 00:21:13,824 --> 00:21:19,198 and a task system for noting tasks. 341 00:21:24,369 --> 00:21:27,666 That's a brief introduction to Evolution. 342 00:21:27,766 --> 00:21:29,766 Obviously it is a very comprehensive package 343 00:21:29,866 --> 00:21:32,996 and we don't really have time to give it justice right now. 344 00:21:33,096 --> 00:21:36,662 We'll have a separate screencast about that another time. 345 00:21:37,047 --> 00:21:41,105 The last application we'll look at under the Internet menu is Ekiga Softphone, 346 00:21:41,313 --> 00:21:46,013 used to be know as Gnome-meeting 347 00:21:46,113 --> 00:21:50,328 And it's a voice over IP type client. 348 00:21:50,428 --> 00:21:52,464 So I can call another person, 349 00:21:52,564 --> 00:21:56,993 I can call another person using a web cam, on-line. 350 00:21:57,312 --> 00:22:02,358 You can also configure Ekiga to connect through third party gateways. 351 00:22:02,572 --> 00:22:05,987 So I can set up an account with a third party 352 00:22:06,087 --> 00:22:09,025 and I'll just show you a company that I've used. 353 00:22:09,311 --> 00:22:13,214 Sipgate, which provide me with a land line phone number, 354 00:22:13,314 --> 00:22:15,808 so people can phone me on a particular phone number 355 00:22:16,123 --> 00:22:20,510 and my Ekiga will ring if someone phones me on that number. 356 00:22:20,610 --> 00:22:24,102 And I can talk to them through my computer with a headset, 357 00:22:24,292 --> 00:22:27,613 microphone and headphones. 358 00:22:27,904 --> 00:22:30,761 And you can dial numbers and use SIP, 359 00:22:30,861 --> 00:22:32,910 which is an open protocol as well. 360 00:22:33,043 --> 00:22:36,388 If I close Ekiga. we can see we get a little icon in the panel. 361 00:22:36,488 --> 00:22:41,007 So it sits there waiting for inbound calls. 362 00:22:41,770 --> 00:22:43,903 Let's move on to the Office menu 363 00:22:44,003 --> 00:22:47,505 and we have got the OpenOffice.org word processor, 364 00:22:47,781 --> 00:22:50,639 Again the version of software on here might be slightly different to you, 365 00:22:50,739 --> 00:22:53,138 because I'm using the very latest version of Ubuntu. 366 00:22:53,238 --> 00:22:55,704 7.10, which comes out in October. 367 00:22:55,878 --> 00:22:58,735 Now this looks very much like any other word processor, 368 00:22:58,835 --> 00:23:01,872 you may be familiar with, all of the standard buttons and menus 369 00:23:02,083 --> 00:23:06,517 and if we go and open a file, we can open a text document. 370 00:23:07,198 --> 00:23:10,031 Here's some example text documents here. 371 00:23:10,131 --> 00:23:13,574 Notice we support ODT open document format 372 00:23:13,674 --> 00:23:16,819 and Word documents as well. 373 00:23:16,919 --> 00:23:20,124 So this is a Word format document and we can open that up. 374 00:23:20,224 --> 00:23:22,285 Looks pretty good. 375 00:23:22,432 --> 00:23:24,818 Now again Open Office is a massive package and we don't have time 376 00:23:24,918 --> 00:23:27,483 to go into it in full detail here. 377 00:23:28,094 --> 00:23:31,976 But we can also open spreadsheets. 378 00:23:32,724 --> 00:23:36,342 So it has got a fully featured spreadsheet application. 379 00:23:36,820 --> 00:23:39,705 Just as you would expect in any office package. 380 00:23:39,923 --> 00:23:43,777 If we open a spreadsheet, you can see 381 00:23:43,877 --> 00:23:45,883 this supports spreadsheet files, 382 00:23:45,983 --> 00:23:48,780 which could be ODS open spreadsheet format. 383 00:23:48,916 --> 00:23:52,162 and also XLS, Excel spreadsheets. 384 00:23:52,310 --> 00:23:55,862 So you can open Excel spreadsheets in Open Office as well. 385 00:23:56,455 --> 00:23:59,238 That all looks pretty good. 386 00:24:01,667 --> 00:24:06,588 The third application in Open Office is Open Office Presentation, 387 00:24:06,688 --> 00:24:11,093 which is the equivalent of Microsoft PowerPoint in Microsoft Office. 388 00:24:11,266 --> 00:24:14,342 So we have a little wizard here, where we can create empty presentations, 389 00:24:14,518 --> 00:24:18,199 or use a template and there's a few templates supplied. 390 00:24:19,775 --> 00:24:22,078 or we can go off and open an existing presentation. 391 00:24:22,178 --> 00:24:26,120 Let's have a look again at the example content and look for presentations. 392 00:24:26,296 --> 00:24:30,560 Notice it also opens Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. 393 00:24:31,556 --> 00:24:34,926 If we open up this presentation you can see 394 00:24:35,410 --> 00:24:38,925 multiple slides, works much the same way as 395 00:24:39,025 --> 00:24:42,896 any other presentation software. 396 00:24:43,531 --> 00:24:47,998 Here is our slide sorter and if we run the slide show. 397 00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:51,721 There we go, we get our slides one after the other, 398 00:24:51,821 --> 00:24:55,207 Click the mouse and it moves on to the next slide. 399 00:24:56,572 --> 00:25:00,739 As I say, we'll have another screencast about Open Office, 400 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:03,126 because it's a very big application. 401 00:25:03,287 --> 00:25:08,382 The final Open Office application is a relatively new one in the history of Open Office. 402 00:25:08,575 --> 00:25:13,395 And It's kind of the equivalent of Microsoft Access in Microsoft Office. 403 00:25:13,759 --> 00:25:16,134 And here we can create a database 404 00:25:16,234 --> 00:25:20,786 and it should be fairly familiar for users of Microsoft Access. 405 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:24,879 We create our database using a little database wizard. 406 00:25:25,225 --> 00:25:29,003 And then we have the standard tables, queries, forms and reports 407 00:25:29,103 --> 00:25:31,888 and we have further wizards in here, where we can create 408 00:25:31,988 --> 00:25:37,006 our new database for storing whatever we need to store. 409 00:25:39,475 --> 00:25:41,480 Cool! 410 00:25:43,623 --> 00:25:45,951 The next menu under applications... 411 00:25:46,051 --> 00:25:48,856 Ooh! Actually, going back to the example content, 412 00:25:49,102 --> 00:25:51,523 if we have a look in our home directory, there's a folder, 413 00:25:51,623 --> 00:25:55,437 which is actually a link to folder elsewhere, called examples. 414 00:25:55,623 --> 00:25:58,613 In here is where you'll find all of that example content. 415 00:25:58,725 --> 00:26:02,310 If you just double-click the files, it should open with the relevant 416 00:26:02,410 --> 00:26:05,852 Open Office application. 417 00:26:07,016 --> 00:26:11,306 There we go, this is a document about the example content. 418 00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:14,842 Now you notice the documents in there are read only. 419 00:26:14,942 --> 00:26:18,160 because they actually reside in an area of the disk that you don't have rights to change. 420 00:26:18,339 --> 00:26:22,556 So if you want to change any of them, copy them to your home directory and then change them. 421 00:26:22,845 --> 00:26:25,342 The last menu is Sound & Video 422 00:26:25,487 --> 00:26:29,149 So let's take a look at Sound Juicer CD Extractor. 423 00:26:29,487 --> 00:26:32,347 Now I've just inserted a CD in my machine. 424 00:26:32,541 --> 00:26:34,674 A rather funky Kylie Minogue CD. 425 00:26:34,774 --> 00:26:38,017 and Sound Juicer picked up the names of the tracks on-line 426 00:26:38,117 --> 00:26:40,929 and I can just play the tracks now. 427 00:26:41,292 --> 00:26:43,810 Now you won't hear the audio because obviously I don't want to 428 00:26:43,910 --> 00:26:47,304 violate the copyright of Kylie Minogue or her record company, 429 00:26:47,595 --> 00:26:51,004 but it is playing right now. 430 00:26:51,401 --> 00:26:54,019 I can also extract to disk, 431 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,370 if it's allowed in my country. 432 00:26:56,855 --> 00:27:00,878 And I can extract using various formats. 433 00:27:01,218 --> 00:27:03,372 We can change these formats 434 00:27:03,472 --> 00:27:07,173 and add additional formats by hitting the Edit Profiles button. 435 00:27:07,521 --> 00:27:10,499 So if you want to rip the CD to MP3 436 00:27:10,650 --> 00:27:14,307 or whatever other format you want to, you can do. 437 00:27:15,041 --> 00:27:17,120 And all we do is hit the extract button 438 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:19,299 and it will extract those tracks. 439 00:27:19,399 --> 00:27:21,238 If any of the track names are wrong, 440 00:27:21,338 --> 00:27:24,098 you can just highlight them and change them. 441 00:27:24,230 --> 00:27:25,531 And once you change them, 442 00:27:25,631 --> 00:27:29,555 under the Disk menu there's an option to submit the track names back on-line 443 00:27:29,655 --> 00:27:31,889 to the on-line database. 444 00:27:32,937 --> 00:27:34,331 Simple as that. 445 00:27:34,431 --> 00:27:37,867 So you can use it as a music player or CD player 446 00:27:37,967 --> 00:27:40,318 or you can use it to extract the audio. 447 00:27:40,443 --> 00:27:42,860 Now once you have extracted the audio on to your hard disk, 448 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:46,036 you might then want to burn a duplicate CD. 449 00:27:46,136 --> 00:27:49,816 Again if you're legally allowed to do that. 450 00:27:51,251 --> 00:27:54,523 And Serpentine is a tool that can do that. 451 00:27:54,623 --> 00:27:56,623 So here we have a blank CD 452 00:27:56,723 --> 00:27:59,969 of whatever size our CD is. 453 00:28:00,559 --> 00:28:03,827 And to add tracks, we just hit the Add button 454 00:28:04,777 --> 00:28:07,347 and go and find some music. 455 00:28:07,589 --> 00:28:12,631 So, I downloaded this album from the Internet, The Bots. 456 00:28:12,825 --> 00:28:15,658 And if I want to burn it to a CD, I can just select all of the tracks, 457 00:28:15,758 --> 00:28:18,788 if I hold down Shift and click the last track it selects all of them. 458 00:28:19,031 --> 00:28:22,958 Then hit open and it adds them all into my CD. 459 00:28:23,612 --> 00:28:26,303 Once I've finished sorting them into the order I want 460 00:28:26,403 --> 00:28:29,815 and adding tracks and making my CD perfect. 461 00:28:29,915 --> 00:28:32,772 I just hit Write to Disk, chunk in a blank CD 462 00:28:32,896 --> 00:28:36,120 and it will burn those tracks as an audio CD. 463 00:28:36,484 --> 00:28:41,369 I can then clear that and create another audio CD very easily. 464 00:28:42,981 --> 00:28:46,638 So I said that you could play tracks using Sound Juicer, 465 00:28:46,738 --> 00:28:49,259 you can also play tracks using the Movie Player. 466 00:28:49,542 --> 00:28:51,801 This is Totem Movie Player, 467 00:28:51,901 --> 00:28:55,755 which normally you might use to play video, 468 00:28:56,289 --> 00:28:59,315 but let's go and find a video in the example content. 469 00:28:59,415 --> 00:29:01,550 there's a Nelson Mandela video, 470 00:29:01,650 --> 00:29:04,341 the infamous Nelson Mandela video. 471 00:29:05,306 --> 00:29:08,656 And we can also go and get some music from my music folder. 472 00:29:08,909 --> 00:29:13,112 again there's the tracks I downloaded from the Internet. 473 00:29:13,984 --> 00:29:16,942 And I just dragged that folder in to the play-list 474 00:29:17,042 --> 00:29:20,866 and after it's finished playing the video, it will move on to play the audio tracks. 475 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,135 So Totem is a very comprehensive video and audio playback tool. 476 00:29:25,256 --> 00:29:27,486 We'll talk more about that in a further screencast, 477 00:29:27,586 --> 00:29:30,444 because there's a lot to talk about with video playback. 478 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,359 The final application under Sound and Video is Rhythmbox. 479 00:29:37,546 --> 00:29:41,858 Rhythmbox is very similar to iTunes 480 00:29:41,958 --> 00:29:47,170 and other audio playback and audio management suites. 481 00:29:47,630 --> 00:29:50,176 We can import a folder of music. 482 00:29:50,276 --> 00:29:52,963 So let's go and find that music I downloaded. 483 00:29:53,981 --> 00:29:59,339 Now in fact the tags, meta data tags inside this audio 484 00:29:59,460 --> 00:30:03,360 is not done, so actually shows the artist as unknown. 485 00:30:03,460 --> 00:30:06,902 That's my fault, if I'd have tagged these files correctly then 486 00:30:07,096 --> 00:30:10,850 the artist, genre and album would be correct. 487 00:30:10,950 --> 00:30:14,513 and if you download music often, it really is correct anyway. 488 00:30:14,998 --> 00:30:17,568 Rhythmbox also supports podcasts 489 00:30:17,668 --> 00:30:20,477 So if you have a particular podcast that you listen to, 490 00:30:20,577 --> 00:30:23,019 then you can add that feed into Rhythmbox 491 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,149 and it will download the podcast to your local disk. 492 00:30:26,513 --> 00:30:30,537 So if we go on-line and find a podcast to download, 493 00:30:32,161 --> 00:30:37,272 LugRadio is a podcast I listen to, sometimes. 494 00:30:37,857 --> 00:30:42,051 And if we go to their website, many podcasts have a feed link. 495 00:30:42,151 --> 00:30:44,151 So if you copy that link, 496 00:30:44,863 --> 00:30:47,844 and click the New Podcast Feed 497 00:30:47,944 --> 00:30:50,774 and paste the feed in to Rhythmbox. 498 00:30:51,287 --> 00:30:56,078 You can see it shows the latest episodes and has started downloading them. 499 00:30:56,280 --> 00:31:00,291 When you want to tell it to download again, you hit the Update All Feeds button 500 00:31:00,498 --> 00:31:03,361 and it starts downloading the latest episodes. 501 00:31:03,770 --> 00:31:06,801 Rhythmbox can also play on-line radio stations, 502 00:31:06,901 --> 00:31:10,673 if you want to add radio stations, you click the New Internet Radio Stations button. 503 00:31:10,849 --> 00:31:15,267 And also supports a couple of on-line music systems. 504 00:31:15,367 --> 00:31:17,069 One is called Jamendo. 505 00:31:17,169 --> 00:31:22,315 Jamendo is a very neat website, where you can listen to music for free 506 00:31:22,727 --> 00:31:26,023 and then choose to download the albums. 507 00:31:26,532 --> 00:31:29,269 and it downloads using Bit Torrent, 508 00:31:29,369 --> 00:31:32,835 the common peer-to-peer file-sharing system, 509 00:31:33,150 --> 00:31:35,308 to download legal content. 510 00:31:35,623 --> 00:31:39,598 So the content that's in Jamendo is provided legally 511 00:31:39,698 --> 00:31:42,774 with the copyright owners consent. 512 00:31:43,234 --> 00:31:45,752 So you can see here, two and a half thousand artists, 513 00:31:45,852 --> 00:31:48,225 four and a half thousand albums there 514 00:31:48,325 --> 00:31:51,819 and you just find them based on genre or the artist. 515 00:31:51,919 --> 00:31:53,772 Highlight the album and just start playing it 516 00:31:53,872 --> 00:31:56,494 and you can listen to it on-line or you can download the album. 517 00:31:56,716 --> 00:31:58,924 Another option is Magnatune. 518 00:31:59,136 --> 00:32:02,457 Magnatune's similar in that you can search for music 519 00:32:02,603 --> 00:32:06,336 and play the music directly through Rhythmbox. 520 00:32:06,627 --> 00:32:10,163 But you can also buy the tracks. 521 00:32:10,263 --> 00:32:13,462 So for example I bought an album by The Bots, 522 00:32:13,899 --> 00:32:16,708 by simply listening to it, I liked the music so I then 523 00:32:16,808 --> 00:32:20,514 clicked the purchase album and bought the album. 524 00:32:20,614 --> 00:32:24,150 And you can choose how much you give the artist for the music, 525 00:32:24,250 --> 00:32:27,886 it's a very good service. 526 00:32:29,122 --> 00:32:31,276 You can also create play-lists in Rhythmbox, 527 00:32:31,376 --> 00:32:34,019 it's a pretty neat audio application. 528 00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:37,170 We'll talk more about that in a further screencast. 529 00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:39,955 Now under the Places menu and the System menu, 530 00:32:40,055 --> 00:32:43,469 there are many other applications installed, 531 00:32:43,569 --> 00:32:45,945 but I'm going to save that for another screencast. 532 00:32:47,482 --> 00:32:48,972 Thanks for watching. 533 00:32:49,072 --> 00:32:51,278 All of our screencasts are available from our website, 534 00:32:51,378 --> 00:32:55,060 which is screencasts.ubuntu.com
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