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Intelligent Input Bus (IBus)   is an framework for multilingual input in Unix like software. This became the default input method for Ubuntu from the version Ubuntu 9.10.  (see wikipedia entry)  This is very easy to set up and use as an input method. There are several key board in different languages including phonetic keyboard. This was working very good till now. But I have just install new version of Ubuntu (11.04 64 bit) and there it stopped working. Thank fully I got the solution from one post in the  Linux user group of Delhi IIT.   To get it working you have to install ibus-m17n using this command. sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n Now go to language support from the System menu. Install the language you want to use. Dont forget to install input methods. (it will be install automatically if you do not uncheck any option while installing language.) and select IBus as input method in language support menu. Now go to IBus preference...

The people who are involve in doing research (like PhD student) have to study lots of paper. So they download lots of paper and save them in the computer. Now this is a headache for them to manage so large no paper and other document like book, thesis they have downloaded, so that they can be found easily. Again if you are using different computer in different place (suppose you have personal laptop and you have computer in lab) then it is very difficult keep track which paper we have downloaded in which computer and to sync them. The problem can be solved easily. Thanks to Mendeley, a research cataloging tool for desktop and web. You can use it to manage all your paper, book, thesis, ….. from same place. You can search them very easily. You can synchronize them with your other computer. You can import document from any folder or file from your computer. You can directly generate bibliography citation for your document from Mendeley. There is a web importer plugin, which you can use d...