Yesterday, while trying to run some updates through Ubuntu's Update Manager, I was informed that the Chrome repository could not be reached.

I have been playing around with Karmic Koala in Virtualbox for a couple of weeks now, and it appears that Canonical has dropped Pidgin from this update and replaced it with Empathy.

I was curious if Empathy was a superior IM client to Pidgin, so I installed it on my home PC and played around with it a bit. I've gotta say, I'm not impressed.

This is a screen cast I made a while back showing an easy way to install a video screen capture program for Ubuntu. I made this using a virtual installation of Ubuntu 8.04, but this will work for 8.10 and 9.04 as well.