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How To Install GNOME 3.12 In Fedora 20 Via Repository
If you're using Fedora 20, there's a repository maintained by Richard Hughes (the GNOME Power manager and PackageKit maintainer, among others) you can use to install the latest GNOME 3.12.I tested the...
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How to Switch Between The New Unity Lockscreen And LightDM In Ubuntu 14.04...
Quick tip for Ubuntu 14.04 users: Unity got its own lockscreen a while back and it's used by default but if for some reason you want to switch back to LightDM for screen locking, here's how to do it.To...
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Get Firefox And Phonon-GStreamer To Support H.264 In Ubuntu 14.04 [Updated]
The FFmpeg plugin for GStreamer 0.10 is not available in the official Ubuntu 14.04 repositories and because of this, Firefox doesn't support the H.264 codec.Furthermore, without the FFmpeg plugin for...
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Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr Final Beta Available For Download [Video, Screenshots]
Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS final beta is available for download, this being the first and only milestone for Trusty. Read on to find out what's new!Note: this is the first and only Ubuntu 14.04 beta,...
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Get Better Linux Desktop Performance With Ulatencyd
Ulatencyd is a daemon which constantly optimizes the Linux Kernel for best user experience. The default configuration tries to increase the responsiveness for a typical desktop system but you can use...
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SMPlayer 14.3.0 Released With Experimental Blue-Ray Discs Support
SMPlayer, the popular mplayer/mplayer2 GUI, has reached version 14.3.0, receiving improved fullscreen controls, experimental support for non-protected blu-ray discs and other changes.Changes in...
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Organize Your TV Shows And Movies With FileBot
FileBot is an open source, cross-platform batch file renaming and organization tool for your movies, TV shows and music which comes with some interesting features such as: automatic subtitles download,...
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Ubuntu One File Services Shutting Down, Code To Be Released As Open Source
Ubuntu One file services is shutting down. The news was just posted on the Canonical blog, which explains that among the reasons behind this decision is, as expected, the sustainability:"[...] the free...
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Transmageddon 1.0, Snappy Player 1.0 Available In PPA [Ubuntu 14.04]
Quick update for Ubuntu 14.04 users: Transmageddon 1.0 and Snappy 1.0, both released recently, are available in the main WebUpd8 PPA.Transmageddon 1.0 (video transcoder and now, DVD...
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Oracle Java Installer Conflicting With Apt Bug Fixed [Ubuntu 14.04]
Ubuntu 14.04: apt was updated recently and it broke the Oracle Java 6, 7 and 8 installers available in the WebUpd8 Java PPA. I updated the package this morning so the bug should be fixed.So if...
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Pipelight 0.2.6 Released With Experimental 64bit Support, 2 New Plugins
Pipelight is a wrapper for Windows NPAPI plugins such as Silverlight, Widevine or Flash (the Windows version) which allows you to use these plugins in native Linux web browsers and thus, use services...
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Evernote Linux Client `NixNote` 2 Beta Available For Download
Five months after the last alpha, NixNote 2 beta is finally available for download. NixNote, previously known as Nevernote, is an unofficial Evernote client for Linux which was initially written in...
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Prevent Your Laptop From Overheating With Thermald And Intel P-State [Updated]
Linux Thermal Daemon (thermald) is a tool developed by Intel's Open Source Technology Center which monitors and controls the CPU temperature, preventing it from overheating.Thermald tries to prevent...
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i7z: Monitor Intel i7, i5 And i3 Frequencies, Multipliers And More Under Linux
I needed a tool for monitoring the CPU frequencies while testing thermald + intel_pstate, and stumbled upon i7z, so I though I'd share it with you, in case you're not familiar with it.i7z is a tool...
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Todo Indicator: Ubuntu AppIndicator For todo.txt
Todo Indicator is a simple AppIndicator that lets you take advantage of the power and simplicity of todo.txt. The AppIndicator displays the list of tasks in the todo.txt file and lets you mark tasks as...
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Cinnamon 2.2 Released With System Settings Improvements, HiDPI support And More
Cinnamon 2.2 was released today, bringing various improvements to the System Settings, HiDPI/Retina Display support, client side decorations support along with other interesting refinements.With...
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Qt4 Music Player `YaRock` 0.9.66 Released With Internet Radio Stream Search,...
YaRock, a Qt4 music player, was updated recently with Internet radio stream search capability along with some other interesting improvements.YaRock lets you browse your local music collection based on...
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10 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr To Get A Near...
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) will be released tomorrow and since many of you will install it as soon as it's released (or maybe you're already using Ubuntu 14.04), here's a list of 10 useful things...
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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Released, See What`s New [Video, Screenshots]
Ubuntu 14.04 was released today, so let's take a look at the most important new features and changes in this LTS release.Ubuntu flavors:Xubuntu 14.04 Available For Download [Video, Screenshots]See...
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See What's New In The 14.04 Release Of Lubuntu, Kubuntu And Ubuntu GNOME
All the Ubuntu flavors reached version 14.04 (LTS) today. Below we'll take a quick look at what's new in Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME and Kubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr).For Xubuntu, see: Xubuntu 14.04 Available...
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