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Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 Released With Support For Linux Mint 15 And Ubuntu 13.10...
Quick update: today I've released Y PPA Manager 0.9.9 with support for Linux Mint 15 Olivia as well as the latest Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander (currently under development).For those not familiar with...
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How To Automatically Mute Music When Receiving VoIP Calls [PulseAudio]
By default, in Ubuntu and probably other Linux distributions, if you're playing music in Rhythmbox, Audacious and so on while receiving a call in applications such as Skype, Ekiga Softphone, SFLphone...
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Better Font Rendering In Linux With Infinality
Many of you have probably already heard of Infinality, but I've decided to write a post about it anyway, for those who aren't familiar with it yet, because it greatly improves the font rendering on...
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Xfce Theme Manager: A Single GUI To Change Any Xfce Theme (With Previews)
Xfce uses multiple settings GUIs for setting the window border, controls, icons, mouse cursor theme and so on and it doesn't include any thumbnails. However, if you customize your Xfce desktop...
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Video Showing The Current Ubuntu Phone State
Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager, has posted a video today in which he shows the current state of Ubuntu Phone OS running on a Galaxy Nexus.In the video you can see some of the core...
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Unity Smart Scopes Feature Lands In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander [Video]
The Unity Smart Scopes (also known as "100 scopes") feature has landed in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander today. This feature tries to provide a smarter Dash search experience by returning results...
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Install OpenJDK Patched With Font Fixes [Ubuntu PPA]
While working on the Infinality article, I've noticed that "slow", who is behind the Infinality PPA for Ubuntu, maintains another PPA for OpenJDK7 which comes with a patch that improves the font...
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Install The Latest VLC In Ubuntu Via PPA [Quick Tip]
Quick tip: new VLC versions are released quite frequently and even though some don't introduce any new features, there are important bug fixes in each release (you can find the VLC changelogs HERE). If...
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SimpleScreenRecorder: Powerful Screen Recording Software For Linux
SimpleScreenRecorder is a Qt screen recorder for Linux which, despite its name, comes with more features than other similar tools. The application is very easy to use and the default settings should be...
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Ezame: A New Menu Editor For Unity
Ezame is a new menu editor especially created for Unity, though it should work with other desktop environments as well.The application lets you edit or create new menu items (application launchers),...
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Variety Wallpaper Changer 0.4.15 Released With Cinnamon 1.8 And MATE 1.6 Support
Variety is a wallpaper changer that automatically downloads wallpapers from sources such as Wallbase, Flickr, Wallpapers.net, Desktoppr, NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day as well as World Sunlight Map:...
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Lubuntu 13.10 Changes: Firefox, zRAM Added By Default, LightDM Used For The...
After an update today, Lubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, the LXDE Ubuntu flavour, has switched to Firefox as the default web browser, replacing Chromium, which is a bit of a surprise, considering that...
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Try The New LibreOffice Flat Icon Set
It looks like LibreOffice will get a new set of flat icons, based on Gnome's symbolic icons. The icon set isn't completed yet, but you can try it already - below you'll find instructions on how to...
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Conky Manager: A GUI For Managing Conky Configurations
Conky Manager is a GUI that allows you to easily manage Conky configurations. The latest version - 1.1 -, lets you choose from 7 such configurations / themes.Conky is a lightweight, highly customizable...
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Fedora 19 Available For Download
Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" has been released today, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.8, a new initial setup and other interesting changes.New initial setupThe latest Fedora 19 includes a new...
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Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)
Sublime Text is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.Initially, version 3 was only available to registered users (a license costs USD $70)...
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Whisker Menu: Fast Application Launcher Featuring Search Function For Xfce
Whisker Menu is an alternative to the Xfce application menu that tries to make finding and launching applications easier.The tool allows you to quickly search for the application you want to launch or,...
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Install Audacious 3.4 In Ubuntu Via PPA
Audacious 3.4 has been released recently and is now available in the main WebUpd8 PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. The new version doesn't come with major changes, but there are many small...
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QGifer Converts Video To GIF, Supports Cropping, Adding Text And More
QGifer is a Qt tool available for Linux and Windows, that can convert part of a video to an animated GIF file.QGifer isn't just a simple video to GIF converter. Thanks to its feature set, the...
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Command Line Video Download Tool `youtube-dl` Gets Support For 17 New Websites
Youtube-dl is a command line tool that allows downloading videos from YouTube and other similar websites. Recently, youtube-dl has received support for 17 new websites: hotnewhiphop.com, auengine.com,...
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