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Audacious 3.7 Beta 1 Available In PPA
Audacious 3.7 beta 1 was released recently and is available in the WebUpd8 Unrelease/Backports PPA. The new beta version brings various new features such as playlist shuffle by album, record Internet...
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Watch Twitch Without Flash On Your Desktop With GNOME Twitch
GNOME Twitch is a GNOME 3 application for watching Twitch.tv (a popular live streaming video platform that primarily focuses on video gaming) on your desktop, without Flash or a web browser.The...
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Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) Ready For Download
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) is available for download. Like the previous version, the changes in 15.10 are mostly bug fixes, various quality improvements and updated applications.The major changes in...
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Nemo With Unity Patches (And Without Cinnamon Dependencies) Available For...
Nemo 2.8.0 with Unity patches (and without Cinnamon dependencies) is available in the WebUpd8 Nemo PPA. With this update, the PPA now also supports the latest Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf).The latest...
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Workaround For /sbin/vboxconfig Not Working With VirtualBox 5.0.8 [Quick Tip]
In Ubuntu, the official Oracle VirtualBox packages (downloaded from the VirtualBox website/repository) often fail to recompile the host Kernel modules after a VirtualBox or Linux Kernel update, so the...
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Audacious 3.7 Released, Available In PPA
Firstly, I'd like to apologise for the lack of updates lately! I'll try to post as often before, as long as there are interesting things to write about. Because I still have some catching up to do with...
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`Albert` Quicklauncher PPA Packages Updated
`Albert`, a quick launcher for Linux, has received quite a few updates lately, fixing many of the bugs you may have encountered in the early versions, along with other changes.Albert allows you to...
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Configure Qt5 Application Style, Icons, Fonts And More With Qt5ct
Unlike Qt4, Qt5 doesn't come with a configuration tool to allow setting the icon theme, fonts or the style and instead, it tries to use the settings from the running desktop environment.This works well...
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Display Keystrokes In Your Screencasts With `Screenkey` (Fork)
Screenkey is a tool which displays your keystrokes on the screen, useful for screencasts (especially for how-to videos).The original Screenkey was abandoned but thanks to Yuri D'Elia, the application...
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Fix Large Black Borders Around Header Bar Apps With Some Themes In Ubuntu...
In Ubuntu 15.10 (which uses GTK 3.16), there's a bug which causes some themes, like Numix, to have large black borders. This bug only occurs for applications that use header bars (client-side...
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Schedule Tasks Based On Various Conditions With `When`
"When" (or "when-command") is a task scheduler which allows running unattended tasks when certain conditions are met.Using "When", you can set your desktop to perform various tasks depending on certain...
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Fix For Some Apps Starting Behind Focused Windows In Ubuntu (Compiz)
In Ubuntu (w/ Unity), some applications/windows open behind focused windows which can be annoying in some cases. Here are a few examples:clicking the "open containing folder" in the Firefox downloads...
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Install GIMP 2.8.16 In Ubuntu Or Linux Mint Via PPA
On GIMP's 20th birthday (Nov 22), a new version of the free and open source image editor was released: 2.8.16. This is a bugfix release from the 2.8 stable series and it includes the following...
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Evernote Linux Client `NixNote` 2 Beta 5 Available For Download
NixNote is an unofficial Evernote client for Linux which was initially called NeverNote. The application was written in Java until NixNote 2, which is a complete rewrite in C++ using the Qt framework,...
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Wirelessly Transfer Photos From Nikon/Sony/Canon Cameras To Your Computer...
Airnef is a relatively new open source tool which can be used to wirelessly transfer photos and videos from WiFi-equipped Nikon, Sony and Canon cameras to a computer, available for Linux, Windows and...
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Ancient Warfare Game 0 A.D. Alpha 19 `Syllepsis` Released
Wildfire Games has released 0 A.D. alpha 19 "Syllepsis" yesterday. This alpha release includes new gameplay features, graphics and user interface changes as well as various under the hood...
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`Take A Break` Helps You To Actually... Take A Break From Your Computer
`Take a Break` is a small application which can be used to (more or less) force users to take a break after a configurable work time, useful if something like a popup reminder is not effective for...
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How To Change The Mouse Scroll Wheel Speed In Linux Using imwheel [Quick Tip]
I've never actually needed to modify the mouse scroll wheel speed until recently, when I got a new mouse and I wanted to change the scroll wheel settings. That's when I noticed there's no such option...
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Dash Online Search To Be Disabled By Default In Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
With Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, the Dash online search feature will be disabled by default.The online search feature won't be removed and users will be able to re-enable it via System Settings > Security...
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Install MATE 1.12.1 In Ubuntu MATE 15.10 Or 16.04 Via PPA
The Ubuntu 15.10 and 16.04 MATE PPAs were updated recently with the latest MATE 1.12.1.According to Martin Wimpress, Project Lead for Ubuntu MATE, the PPAs use the same source packages that he's done...
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