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In iOS 4 there’s a cool feature which lets you print to a shared printer on your LAN. The only problem is that I don’t use MacOS or Windows, so can’t run the Airprint installer. bah.

Luckily some talented bods have figured out how to make linux play nicely with Airprint, and after a few minutes of light tweaking I can print a picture whilst sat on the toilet. Awesome.

First off, follow this guide up to step 6
Next, generate the XML using the script from this page
Now carry on with the first guide

I also had to add ServerAlias * to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf – anywhere in the file will do. Without that the phone would say it had printed but nothing came out.

Ubuntu 11.04 is out soon (28th April, fact fans), so I thought I’d jump in and install the beta. Being a beta means there are some glitches, namely the inability to add some items to the launcher, in my case the problem app is the stable release of Google Chrome.

Normally, you can right click a running app and click ‘keep in launcher’, but for whatever reason the option isn’t there for Google Chrome stable release (it is there for Chromium, at least the dev release).

To get around this you will need to use gconf-editor –

1. Alt+F2 and type in ‘gconf-editor’2.  Expand Desktop > Unity 2d > Launcher
3. Right click Favorites and click Edit Key
4. Add ‘google-chrome.desktop’ (without quotes)
5. OK everything
6. Relaunch the unity launcher – open a terminal and enter ‘killall unity-2d-launcher’ (without quotes)

Well this is spectacularly odd. Best viewed when very tired, drunk or in an otherwise altered state ;-)