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Facebook in Ubuntu with Avant Window Navigator

Posted by Panji Nushantara | Sunday, January 29, 2012

My earlier post about Facebook and Ubuntu was written back in 2009. There are many changes since then, but stay connected with Facebook with Ubuntu is still easy as it was in earlier Ubuntu, only better.
One of the changes is prism no longer available in newer Ubuntu repository. 
This is a refresh post, but instead of listing all the methods in single post, I try to explain in one post at a time. 

Let's start with Avant Window Navigator (AWN).

There are a lot of things to like about AWN, especially if you don't like how Unity and Gnome Shell treats your shortcuts. 
If you are an avid Facebook user., you'll have more reason to love AWN.
The first step is obviously to install Avant Window Navigator, and then configure it to add a Web Applet.
add Web Applet

Then, click your new applet to choose which service you want to use, Facebook in this case.
choose your applet


After that, it will ask your Facebook login.
awn facebook login

and now you get little Facebook applet on your AWN, if the appearance looks familiar it because it logs into iphone.facebook.com. 
small but complete - awn facebook applet

Update your status now ...

How To Use Tor With Chrome | Ubuntu 11.10

Posted by Panji Nushantara | Saturday, January 28, 2012

Tor is a great tool to enhance and protect your online privacy, but you already knew that. You want to know how to combine it with Google Chrome without applying Tor in system wide proxy setting , don't you? Read on.
I installed Tor, Polipo and Vidalia in Ubuntu and successfully use it with Firefox + FoxyProxy, but have no luck with Chrome + Proxy Switchy (many articles suggest this extension, so I tried it first but it doesn't work). Then, I tried other proxy manager extension, and I found the one that works with Tor. it's Proxy Anywhere.

 

After installation, configure it to use :
  • Protocol : socks5
  • Host : 127.0.0.1
  • Port : 9050

You can configure it to start automatically and/or even in Incognito mode only.


Click the small button to activate Proxy Anywhere, if it haven't already and go to https://check.torproject.org to check are you using Tor or not.
Voila, Tor in Chrome!



Works for me, your mileage may vary.


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