Category5 Technology TV - Enhancing the Linux Clipboard

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Robbie Ferguson and Eric Kidd present live from the Category5 studios in Barrie, Ontario.
Mmm, coffee.
Halloween costumes and Eric. http://cat5.tv/costumes
Viewer Comment: Eric looks like a banana.
Viewer Comment: No, no. Eric looks like a canary.
Viewer Question: Do you think Jodie Foster looks like Hillary Rumball?
Viewer Question: How do I get into the Category5 community chat room?
Using the Category5 TV chat room (powered by Freenode) via our web-based chat application, Empathy, and Pidgin.
Robbie and Eric share their experience with reCAPTCHA's audio version.
Adding an IRC service to Empathy or Pidgin for chatting in the Category5 TV community chat room.
Joining the Category5 TV community chat room using Empathy and Pidgin.
Installing Pidgin Instant Messenger on Linux using Synaptic Package Manager.
Viewer Question: I love your mobile web site. Do you have to know PHP in order to create something like that?
How Google sometimes messes up your search results by correcting your spelling.
Obtaining a framework for your mobile web site: looking at iWebKit and jQTouch.
Eric's Question: Does iWebKit and jQTouch only work on Apple i* devices?
The Category5 TV Mobile site works great on Apple i* devices, BlackBerry devices, Android devices, and more!
Top stories from the Category5.TV Newsroom.
Invinciblemutant received the Eco Alkalines batteries and a Category5 TV team poster.
Viewer Comment: I love Ubuntu 11.10 so far—it's working perfectly on both my computers. Here are some pictures from Sweden.
Viewer Question: You are so bald. You make good french fries. How do you make triangles in the GIMP?
Using the GNU Image Manipulation Program to create symetrical triangles.
Featured Software: Robbie obtains and demonstrates Glipper—a nice clipboard manager (ala Klipper?) for the Gnome desktop which provides an easy-to-use clipboard history.
Setting an application to auto-load at computer startup. (It appears Glipper automatically adds itself, so this step may not be necessary for some users).
Don't forget: Ubuntu 11.10 is being released this Thursday. How many will be downloading and installing it?
Viewer Question: Does anyone here use Nagios?
Viewer Question: I've not heard too much about Ubuntu 32-bit vs. 64-bit, but the download page recommends 32-bit. Do you know why this is, since it seems the 64-bit version should be the better option?
Viewer Comment: I'm watching from Israel where it's 2am.
The new Category5 TV photo gallery.
Viewer Question: How do I revert from Gnome to Unity on Ubuntu 11.04? (unfortunately not enough time to answer this; will hope to help the viewer on next week's show).