Thanks to Igor for an interesting source.
Tzvee Teaneck wrote an article on how to add Hebrew dates, Parshas and Daf yomi to your Google calendar.
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A lot of great news in software world appeared last week.
One of the biggest – official port of Chrome to Linux.
Using Ubuntu for life, I was waiting for Chrome long time ago. At last it came.
But this post is not about Chrome on Linux. It is about HCalendar extension for Chrome.
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I am glad to announce that new and improved Zmanim widget is available for download and installation from Wordpress repository or via installation manager.

This version has new features and bug fixes, mentioned by KosherJava in comments to previous announcement.
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Searching for various windows/linux/mobile programs, I found a really interesting resource http://www.tichnut.de/jewish.

Unfortunately, most of programs are not updated for several years (some for more than 4-5 years). But still, User can find something interesting there.
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Previously, I wrote about Luach program (Linux version).
I found a Windows XP machine on work and downloaded Win32 version of Luach

The biggest plus is that this program doesn’t need to be installed. You download self-extractable archive and extract files to any location you like.
Then just execute Luach.exe file and here you are:

Actually, all that I said about Linux version is applicable to win32 one. So, have nothing to add here.

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Kosherdev.com advised me a program for Desktop to see zmanim time and calendar.
The program is called simply luach and can be obtained from here.

Using Ubuntu at home, I downloaded firstly deb package. On my Ubuntu 9.10 it got installed without any problems.
After installation, there appears a nice icon in menu:

clicking the program’s menu shows actually the program:

What I have to say about this program. There a some really good points and some which I don’t like.
I will start with critics:
1. Window can be resized only to minimum width 1050px. With my laptop maximum width 1024px – it cuts the edges.
2. Only Hebrew. There is no other localizations for this program. Hope it is only temporary problem, which will be solved in future.

Now, good points:
1. The best thing is such program exists.
2. Simplicity of usage. As for me One-Button-interface is the best thing you can design for User Interface. So, the developers of Luach did their best to make UI simple and light.
3. Wow-effect is not fully obtained, but still program is pretty and smart. All these clicking on dates – look nice.

Linux program version is lower that Win32 one. So, in other review I am going to install Win32 version.

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