Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rhythmbox 3.0</b> was released more than a month ago, bringing an improved user interface, Python 3 support for the plugins and more. Unfortunately, the new version didn't make it into Ubuntu 13.10, but there's a PPA you can use to install it (also available for Ubuntu 13.04).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rhythmbox 3.0" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1__oPTe0v17pAeefbpcWx5dof0uCSfZ8dZ7lfOGGWr2Wmx0sXBqTbzNSgM-OQbihG_Rhciy4vJqDksioPeSYk9EuGaoWS2YJi8RdrfPVkJ12xBtX15Rt6q2vAUIK9oZxHgAn2VvrlcvM/s320/rhythmbox-3.0.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Rhythmox 3.0:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the plugins now use Python 3;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new task progress display below the track list (used for various things including track transfers and import jobs);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for composer tags;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">restyled playback controls;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">restyled source list using symbolic icons;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">better introspection of everything;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">separate CBR and VBR encoding styles with different sets of exposed properties;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">playlist settings (browser visibility etc.) saved in playlists.xml;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">better use of RTL icons where appropriate;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">fixed IM status and ReplayGain plugins;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">many other bug fixes.</li></ul><br />A complete Rhythmbox 3.0 changelog can be found <a href="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/3.0/rhythmbox-3.0.news">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Rhythmbox 3.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0_2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox 3.0 Ubuntu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhythmbox 3.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 (Unity)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Because Rhythmbox 3.0 uses Python3 for plugins instead of Python 2, <b>none of the plugins available in the Rhythmbox <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/rhythmbox-third-party-plugins-ubuntu-ppa.html" title="Rhythmbox third-party plugins PPA">third-party plugins PPA</a> will work</b>. You can get some of them to work by installing them manually (including the Equalizer plugin and the cool <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/rhythmbox-coverart-browser-plugin-gets.html">CoverArt browser</a>) - for more info, see <a href="http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/how-to-install-rhythmbox-3-0-in-saucy/">THIS</a> article.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rhythmbox 3.0 is available in an unofficial PPA maintained by Jacob Zimmermann, for Ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04 (and derivatives). <b>Add the PPA and install/upgrade Rhythmbox 3.0 using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/media<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install rhythmbox</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/10/installare-rhythmbox-30-in-ubuntu-1310.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

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Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">Cinnamon</a> 2.0 has been released today featuring many bug fixes as well as some new features.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the release <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/">announcement</a>, with version 2.0, Cinnamon is no longer a frontend ontop of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but "<i>an entire desktop environment</i>". Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK, but "<i>it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed</i>" because it now communicates with its own backend services, libraries and daemons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon 2.0" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93xPVz4y7CUU0nwUMF8H2rbyUEfXi_99oZKV0O9-0tAN5hpZBPqWpN21FAnc36LhsvCxfE1NcwhERFPcsbtUfL9jA9huCMz7fsMSutm9zTV0pPHDp6QQxGcmsH-iU8-TVCuq7-0GZm-0/s320/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Cinnamon 2.0:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">improved edge-tiling: </li><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tiled windows can be resized;</li><li>in addition to top, bottom, left and right, windows can now be tiled into the 4 corners of the screen;</li><li>a new feature called "HUD" was added: when dragging a window near a tiling zone, Cinnamon displays a hint so you know where the window will tile - see second screenshot below;</li></ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new edge-snapping feature has been added - it's similar to edge-tiling, but there's a difference: maximized windows do not cover snapped windows. To snap a window, drag a window with your mouse towards an edge while pressing the Control key;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">configurable individual sound effects: you can configure sounds for events such as Cinnamon startup, switching workspace, closing, minimizing or maximizing windows and so on.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">replaced GNOME "User Accounts" with new Cinnamon "Users and Groups". Users can access and modify their own info via the Account Details module;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added an User Applet which can be used to shutdown, restart or suspend the system, turn off the notifications, access the account details or System Settings. Furthermore, the applet supports MDM and LightDM user switching and LightDM guest user session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">cinnamon-bluetooth has replaced blueman;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">important performance improvements for full-screen apps.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with some of these changes:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New User Applet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new "HUD" tiling feature (see the hint at the top) / window snapping OSD</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Users and Groups</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Sound Effects</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Some minor new features include: <br /><ul><li>sound applet: added support for SMPlayer and Tomahawk;</li><li>added snap OSD;</li><li>expo: middle click on window thumbnail now closes the window;</li><li>window-list improvements;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 Nemo screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager (forked from Nautilus) has also received some interesting improvements:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">two new extensions were added - nemo-preview (for previewing files, fork of GNOME Sushi), and nemo-media-columns (adds various info to the Nautilus list view);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in list view, columns are now re-orderable by simple drag and drop method, without having to open a separate dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in the List View, you can now right-click a column heading to add or remove visible columns quickly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">also in the List View, Nemo will try to avoid having a horizontal scroll bar by truncating the name column when necessary;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to always start in split-pane mode;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to ignore folder-specific metadata regarding zoom level, view type, and column layouts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Move/Copy To context menus - they now include a "Browse…" entry to pick your target folder, as well as options to include bookmarks and places in the menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you can now turn file tooltips on or off in the different views;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is an additional menu item in the list-view column context menu, to temporarily disable auto-sorting of new or changed items. By enabling this, new files are simply added to the bottom of the file list, and renamed items stay put, regardless of alphabetical or other sort criteria;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Open With dialog - you can now add custom mime-type handlers on the fly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved handling of the file operation progress dialog. You can now close the dialog entirely and it will turn into a dynamic icon in the system tray, showing overall progress with a circular icon. From that icon you can get additional information via the tooltip, and you can click the icon to restore the full progress dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">middle-clicking a tab will now close it.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Getting Cinnamon 2.0</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 2.0 will be included by default in the upcoming Linux Mint 16 "Petra" </b>(which should be released at the end of November) and then it <b>will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10</b> (there are some packages that <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable/+packages">failed</a> to build for Ubuntu 12.04 so I suggest you wait until these are fixed!) users can install the latest stable Cinnamon by using the stable PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> in my test under Ubuntu 13.10, installing Cinnamon broke the Unity session (I was unable to log in to Unity until I removed Cinnamon; this didn't occur in Ubuntu 13.04) so use it at your own risk!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Add the PPA and install Cinnamon in Ubuntu using the following commands</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cinnamon</code></pre>Then, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen session menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">downloads page</a>.</div>

Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

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How To Disable Amazon / Shopping Suggestions And Other Unity Scopes In Ubuntu 13.10

<div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu 13.04, if you want to get online search results in Dash without shopping suggestions, you can simply remove the Unity Shopping lens. In Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) you can't remove the Shopping lens but there is another way to achieve the same thing and it seems this isn't obvious because I've seen quite a few users complaining about it. So here's how to disable the shopping scopes or any scope for that matter, in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, without disabling all the online search results.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-shopping-suggestions.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash sopping suggestions" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_ZN1dFan1SxeHi1TrujFUIm7jyXcguTvjJ6PfsOTiKiWdOx_Dz8UfEfI3e3nDXfyzS-lPqpUv4GFWV2p7XgPOCW8oLfCGCayoy9fYvnbbPSlzpqr1aopP9lxPsoeRWG47C1G0pEbGC0/s320/ubuntu13.10-shopping-suggestions.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unity Dash with shopping suggestion</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">First of all, don't try to remove the Unity Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 13.10 because it won't work. Here's what you'll get if you try that:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">$ sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping<br />Reading package lists... Done<br />Building dependency tree <br />Reading state information... Done<br />Note, selecting 'unity-scope-home' instead of 'unity-lens-shopping'<br />0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you remove <i>unity-scope-home</i>, which was selected instead of <i>unity-lens-shopping</i>, you won't get any results in Dash, not even for installed applications.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can't remove the Unity Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 13.10 because there's no Shopping lens. Ubuntu 13.10 comes with a feature called <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/unity-smart-scopes-feature-lands-in.html">Unity Smart Scopes</a> (or "100 scopes") which uses a huge list of scopes to display results in Dash and among these, there are some used for shopping. So if you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, you must disable these shopping scopes (see below).</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-no-shopping.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash no sopping suggestions" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-no-shopping_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unity Dash without shopping suggestions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>How to disable Unity Dash plugins (scopes) in Ubuntu 13.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To disable a Dash plugin (scope) in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, open <i>Dash</i>, go to the <i>Applications</i> lens (either do it manually using your mouse or use the Super + A keyboard shortcut), click "Filter results" on the right and under "Type", select "Search plugins". All the Dash search plugins (scopes) should be listed, like in the screenshot below:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-plugins.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash plugins" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-plugins_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash plugins (scopes)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />To disable a plugin, click on it and then click the "Disable" button:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-disable-amazon.png"><img alt="Unity Dash Amazon scope" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-disable-amazon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Later on you can enable them back in the same way.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Disable the Amazon / shopping suggestions Unity Dash scopes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, disable the following scopes (by using the instructions above): Amazon, Ebay, Music Store, Popular Tracks Online, Skimlinks, Ubuntu One Music Search and Ubuntu Shop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To disable all these shopping Dash plugins/scopes from the command line</b>, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']"</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>inspired by <a href="http://marcosbox.blogspot.com/2013/10/ubuntu-1310-la-ricerca-su-amazon-non-si.html">MarcosBox</a></i></div>

How To Disable Amazon / Shopping Suggestions And Other Unity Scopes In Ubuntu 13.10

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Sync And Collaboration Tool `SparkleShare` 1.2 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">SparkleShare</a> is an open source cloud collaboration/synchronization tool that uses Git under the hood and can be used with your own Git repository or with services such as BitBucket, GitHub, Gitorious and Plan.io.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwBTDJ0QTi_gCBIE_WWCm1WHrW_8K6XD4A1s896Fj7mroIqBZmw3U3C0Lqn_WpmWNgkvgMsKeFXgbsMxztPsCfC-EbIkAfsuvEXoC5mzlKPQH_0Bq-_mZ4DUcN-Zb1VPqhek-Xfb8MBA/s1600/sparkleshare.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sparkleshare" border="0" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwBTDJ0QTi_gCBIE_WWCm1WHrW_8K6XD4A1s896Fj7mroIqBZmw3U3C0Lqn_WpmWNgkvgMsKeFXgbsMxztPsCfC-EbIkAfsuvEXoC5mzlKPQH_0Bq-_mZ4DUcN-Zb1VPqhek-Xfb8MBA/s320/sparkleshare.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application features file synchronization, version control, client side encryption and more and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. According to its homepage, SparkleShare and is great for frequently changing project files like text, office documents and so on, but not for large music/photo collections, large binary files hat change often and so on (because it uses Git which doesn't handle binaries very well).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>new SparkleShare version</b> has been released recently: <b>1.2.0</b>, which includes mostly bug fixes, such as:</div><ul><li>Fixes to the invite feature, now works when SparkleShare isn't running yet;</li><li>Fix some interface logic in Add dialog;</li><li>Fix some inaccurate sync state messages in the status icon;</li><li>Fix conflict when running when TortoiseGit is installed;</li><li>Fix crash when user cancels initial project download;</li><li>Fix Continue button not enabling when entering encryption password;</li><li>Fix Planio plugin name showing up as Gitorious on Linux;</li><li>Show download speed on initial project add.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install SparkleShare in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">SparkleShare is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but it hasn't been updated in a while (for instance, the current version in Ubuntu Saucy is 0.9) so to install the latest version, you can use an unofficial PPA. You'll also have to add the Git-core PPA, on which the SparkleShare PPA depend on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the required PPAs and install the latest SparkleShare in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/sparkleshare+unofficial<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sparkleshare</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After SparkleShare has been installed successfully, start it and from the tray/appindicator select <i>SparkleShare > Add hosted project</i> and then select if you want to use your own server or BitBucket, GitHub, Gitorious or Planio:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzu36VdxI25ngp3yQM1qCPQRMUTM0rA70hQqFOZPdZfoaJZ_AsldllRzYkPzzJ7vN5r_w8yZJusWoXH8mrtgYXN7k-qwawxpWKgBSf8i2Rzr-rnGXkF4GSadGez21G1O2lt481aJlwA/s1600/sparkleshare_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sparkleshare" border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzu36VdxI25ngp3yQM1qCPQRMUTM0rA70hQqFOZPdZfoaJZ_AsldllRzYkPzzJ7vN5r_w8yZJusWoXH8mrtgYXN7k-qwawxpWKgBSf8i2Rzr-rnGXkF4GSadGez21G1O2lt481aJlwA/s320/sparkleshare_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows or Mac OS X, download SparkleShare from its <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">website</a>.</b></div>

Sync And Collaboration Tool `SparkleShare` 1.2 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

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Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">Xfwm4 4.11.0 has been uploaded recently to the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a> for (X)Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, <a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000283.html">bringing</a> Sync to VBlank support for the Xfwm4 (Xfce's window manager) compositor, which should prevent tearing when dragging/resizing windows, media players and flash applications, etc.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s1600/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="xfce sync to vblank" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s320/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Xfwm4 comes with an updated version of the patch we wrote about a while back but it seems the issues posted <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/xfce-sync-to-vblank-support-for-xfwm.html">HERE</a> still apply (I'm not sure exactly which), so the Vsync support is not perfect, but it should be a great improvement for many users.</div><br />Along with Xfwm4, some other components were also updated:<br /><ul><li>xfce4-settings 4.11.1 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000284.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>automatically re-enable Laptop-displays if all other displays get disconnected;</li><li>add option to automatically show minimal-display dialog when new display gets connected;</li><li>fix bugs with mnemonic accelerators;</li><li>make touchpad type delay configurable.</li></ul><li>xfdesktop 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000285.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>Custom folder icons;</li><li>Apply wallpaper to all workspaces option;</li><li>Add an unmount option and notifications when a device is removed.</li></ul><li>libxfce4ui 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000282.html">complete changelog</a>):</li><ul><li>GTK3 version of libxfce4ui for applications that use it.</li><li>improved keyboard shortcut handling code.</li></ul></ul><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade Xfwm4 in Xubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To upgrade Xfwm4 and the other Xfce components in (X)Ubuntu (13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04), you must add two PPAs: the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10">Xfce 4.10 PPA</a>, which will upgrade Xfce to version 4.10 for Xubuntu 12.04 and which also provides updated packages for all Xubuntu versions: Thunar, Xfce4 Terminal, Parole and so on, as well as the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a>.</div><br /><b>Before proceeding, please note that the packages in the Xfce 4.12 PPA are pre-releases, which may contain bugs! Use them at your own risk!</b><br /><br /><b>Add the PPAs and upgrade using the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!<br /><br /><b>Then log out and log back in.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The VSync to VBlank support option in Window Manager Tweaks doesn't work so to enable Sync to VBlank, use the following command:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p "/general/sync_to_vblank" -s true</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to downgrade the packages installed from these PPAs to the versions available in the official (X)Ubuntu repositories, use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10</code></pre>

Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

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How to Make Money Online with Shortened URLs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s1600/shorturl.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s200/shorturl.png" width="200" /></a>There are many website allows services to shrink URLs. <span style="font-family: inherit;">URL-shortening services allow you to make cash when you use them to shorten long URLs from various websites. you can post shortened URLs on your blog, website, Twitter, Facebook or any other social network when belong to. once your visitors click on the shortened URLs, you can generate income from every click-through. </span>Basically short URL works as a redirection service which is able to redirect the shorter URL to the supposed web page.<br /><a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>How Can you Earn Cash from this URL shortening providers ?</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sign up with desired universal resource locator shorterner provider (List Below).</li><li>Copy your links and make short URLs from your account.</li><li>Share your short URL anyplace with your friends, social media, websites, download links.</li><li>Whenever somebody click those shortened links,  they will go through some short 5 to 15 seconds advertisements(for e.g. below).</li><li>After this he will skip the ad and look at the link that was hidden behind that short link.</li><li>Thats it, whenever somebody go through this advertisement once clicking, you’re paid.</li></ul><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top best shorten URL website to earn money</h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=1116804" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADF.LY</a></span></h4></div><div>Adf.ly is a world largest web site that allows you to shrink your URL, it's not different from alternative such websites like goo.gl, bitly.com, tinyurl.com, however difference is that they can give you a fix part of cash against and they and that they have ad twist. They're going to offer you $5 against 10,000 visitors, mean to say that if 10,000 peoples visits your shrink URL then they will give you $5.<br />Payout = 5$<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <a href="http://cashfly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cashfly.com</span></a></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;">We're a free web link shortening service with a twist. Every time one of your links is shared with someone else on the Internet, you get paid! It's that easy, simply register for an account then start linking. Each time someone visits one of your links - YOU GET PAID.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">3. <a href="http://linkbucks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkBucks.com</a></b></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">LinkBucks allows you to make cash from the links your users post, from the links you place on your website, or from the posts you make in a forum. It is simple and easy to get started making money Today!</span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b><b>4. <a href="http://adlock.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adlock.in</a></b></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Adlock is a url shortening website . Shorten your long URL to adlock.in/xxxx and start earning</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">5. </b><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://bee4.biz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bee4.biz</a></u></span></h4></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bee4.biz is a free short URL redirection service with a twist. Get paid for every link you share on the Internet. You can place links on FaceBook, Twitter, forums, and anywhere you share links!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">All sites are good but i prefer adf.ly because this is more trusted and i get paid many time .</b></span></div></div></div>

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Ubuntu GNOME" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iQSp7PO-ogxg3SaVnegFpbRB08CM5G8zgWiBzfEHbVFpzQPqI8nJu2IahNxVSmDORzb6InkzwMOT2EI7iQ1BBXW_qV3RiyGxUSCBOqdHP4J1DuqMkMQ6Su40qCecENum5f2TgIcH3gg/s220/ubuntu_gnome_logo.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher, software engineer at Canonical, recently posted a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/004311.html">message</a> on the Ubuntu Desktop <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/thread.html">mailing list</a> in which he proposes that Ubuntu stays on GTK/GNOME 3.8 for the next cycle (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In his message, Sebastien states the following <b>reasons</b> for staying with GNOME 3.8 for another cycle:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><i>we (Ubuntu Desktop) are currently mostly happy with what we have;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>the focus for the Ubuntu Desktop team is likely to continue to be Ubuntu Touch/phone next cycle;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>due to the previous factor, we are going to be limited in resources to do desktop work;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it's a LTS cycle, we should focus on bugs fixing if possible;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>GTK 3.10 deprecates several options, it would be good to stay away from those controversies for the LTS (see <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1228886">this</a> as an example of what is going to happen once we deprecate those options);</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it seems like the next RedHat enterprise edition is going to be based on GNOME 3.8, if that's the case it would make sense for us to focus on ;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>bringing quality to the same version/share the maintenance work a bit.</i></li></ul></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For stability, this make sense since Ubuntu 14.04 is going to be a long term release and updating to GNOME <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html" title="See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]">3.10</a> or 13.12 will likely introduce many bugs that can't be fixed in time because the Ubuntu developers are focusing on Ubuntu Touch/phone, but it also means that Ubuntu 14.04 will lag two releases behind GNOME which will affect Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu users who are contributing to GNOME as well as some non-core GNOME applications that require the latest GNOME technologies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher's message is just a suggestion / invitation to discussion and not a final decision</b>, but considering that there's not enough man power (because of the Ubuntu Touch focus) to fix everything in time for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, it doesn't seem like there's an actual choice.</div><br /><b>What do you think?</b>

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Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="ubuntu saucy salamander" border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAEgf76_M-S8NNuKv0bdvOZQVkgL0tNu3xI3LMdDLQzd8ecbGJbrBPSbv6hw4_BX2Ctx3oF8cEA2hMGq2kg1PSAI0dDhtb0R6Xgl3rKOOqb4vS0Ia383HwuEJs1SChyphenhyphenXY2BP_KHVPLog/s320/Saucy_Salamander_Abstract_by_Jos%C3%A9_Vera_alcivar.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Canonical has decided not to switch to Xmir by default for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in June, it was <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/ubuntu-1310-saucy-salamander-switching.html">decided</a> to use Mir + Xmir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 (for open source drivers only) but that will no longer happen "<i>due to some outstanding technical difficulties</i>". A native Mir + Unity 8 will still be used for Ubuntu Touch so that's not affected by this decision.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">post</a> on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list, the issues are in XMir part of the stack which provides the compatibility layer between X server and Mir - more specifically, the XMir multi-monitor support which doesn't work "to the extend we’d like to see it for all of our users".</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We always planned to ship Mir + XMir on Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop but after months of furious XMir development we needed to make a judgement call about whether we could assure a quality overall Ubuntu Desktop experience with XMir across all supported configurations. While Mir is in good shape for this and XMir is close, we didn’t feel that the user experience around XMir's multimonitor feature was meeting the parity standard."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">- <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Mir Not Default Q&A</a></div></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Q&A</a> about this on the Ubuntu wiki mentions that the recent <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/a-bump-in-the-high-road-intel-drops-support-for-xmir-in-xorg-driver/">revert</a> from Intel (the Intel Xorg driver got XMir support but the change was later reverted) has nothing to do with this decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mir and XMir will be available in the repositories so users can use Xmir if they want, but will not be used by default.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">Ubuntu Fridge</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Ubuntu wiki</a></i></div>

Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default

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How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html">GNOME 3.10</a> has been released yesterday and I've received requests to write an article on how to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, so here goes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The instructions below are only for those who want to use GNOME Shell (Ubuntu GNOME users, Unity users who want to switch to GNOME Shell, etc.) because of some bugs with the GNOME 3.10 PPA packages and Unity.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s1600/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdA139p9eXWhLuqMON2TOn41E0YDjHjFM4rq9AldMq1-3Lp-ucH989xdqHaHsD5M25LumBeHnhsIvJ_jZldKmAo2B7GJQ_zQhY1HuDlp8qlFrkrJuE-j54v5G_9blGAZrnBfZapc-i5I/s320/gnome3.10-ubuntu-saucy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next">GNOME 3 Next PPA</a>, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/new-gnome-310-ppa-announced-for-ubuntu.html">announced</a> not so long ago, contains GNOME 3.10 packages that are considered stable. Unfortunately, the PPA currently only has a few packages: GNOME Shell (including the official extensions), GNOME Themes, GTK3, Mutter, Clutter, Network Manager, Vala, Wayland and WebkitGTK so basically, to get a GNOME 3.10 desktop which includes System Settings, the core apps, etc., you must also add the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">GNOME 3 Staging PPA</a> which contains packages that have known bugs and regressions, "sometimes of critical nature" mentions the PPA description.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test (I'm using GNOME 3.10 right now on my main computer) under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, I've added both the GNOME 3 Next PPA and the GNOME 3 Staging PPA and I've <span style="color: red;"><b>encountered the following issues:</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>LightDM doesn't work</b> so if you plan on using these PPAs, make sure you switch to GDM prior to upgrading;</li><li><b>using these PPAs pretty much breaks Unity</b>: the AppIndicators don't work, the applications don't show up in Dash, the mouse is invisible (update: this invisible mouse issue can be fixed by using the following command: "gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false"), the new CSD applications don't have shadows and there are probably other issues too but I've only used Unity for a few minutes. So only add these PPAs for now if you don't have Unity installed or you don't plan on using Unity;</li><li>some applications may not work properly or not work at all - in my test, Synapse stopped working while gThumb doesn't display the thumbnails properly.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>So only follow the instructions below if you know what you're doing and know how to use PPA-Purge to revert the changes in case something goes wrong!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What will be upgraded:</b> by using the instructions below, besides GNOME Shell (and the default extensions), GDM, GTK, GNOME Control Center, etc. and various libraries, the following applications will be upgraded to version 3.10.0: Cheese, Eye Of GNOME, Evince, Gedit, Boxes, Clocks, Contacts, Documents, Font Viewer, System Monitor, Terminal, Tweak Tool, Weather and Files (Nautilus). Web (Epiphany) won't be upgraded to version 3.10 for now, but to 3.9.91. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What won't be upgraded to version 3.10:</b> unfortunately, the other GNOME 3.10 applications are missing from these PPAs: Music, Notes (Bijben - version 3.8.4 is available in the official repositories), Maps, Photos and Software. Totem won't be upgraded for now either.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That said, let's proceed to upgrading GNOME to the latest 3.10 version in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade To GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander</h2><br /><b>1. Switch to GDM if you're not using it already.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I was telling you above, in my test LightDM didn't work after using the two GNOME3 PPAs, so install GDM if it's not already installed:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gdm</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And select GDM instead of LightDM when prompted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to switch between LightDM, GDM, etc. see <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. Add the GNOME3 Next and GNOME3 Staging PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before adding the GNOME 3 Staging PPA, make sure you read its <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-staging">description</a>.</b></div><br />Now let's add the PPAs and upgrade to GNOME 3.10:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, since GNOME 3.10 doesn't work properly with Unity, you must want to use GNOME Shell, so install it using the following command if you didn't install it already: </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-shell</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install all the GNOME apps (and the default GNOME Shell extensions) that aren't installed by default in Ubuntu, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gnome-documents gnome-contacts epiphany-browser gnome-boxes gnome-shell-extensions gnome-tweak-tool bijiben gnome-clocks</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tip: to avoid issues with black elements in various applications (and to get the default GNOME 3.10 scrollbars which now support fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb), remove the Ubuntu overlay scrollbars:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><br /><b>3. Restart the computer.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, restarting via the system menu didn't work so if that happens for you too, reboot via command line:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo reboot</code></pre><br />And in the login screen, select the "GNOME" session. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambiance doesn't work properly with applications that use client side decorations so if you were using it, change to Adwaita theme using GNOME Tweak Tool (the application should have been installed with the last command from step 2 above). Another theme that supports GNOME 3.10 and client side decorations is <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/new-ppa-for-numix-gtk-and-icon-themes.html">Numix</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If something doesn't work or you simply don't like GNOME 3.10 and want to revert the changes and go back to the default GNOME 3.8 available in the official Ubuntu 13.10 repositories, you need to purge the PPAs added using the instructions above, starting with the GNOME 3 Staging PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've removed the Overlay Scrollbars package, install it back using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install overlay-scrollbar</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you were using LightDM and want to switch back to it, follow <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/how-to-switch-between-gdm-lightdm-or.html" title="How To Switch Between GDM, LightDM, MDM Or KDM In Ubuntu">THESE</a> instructions.</div><br />And finally, reboot.

How To Install GNOME 3.10 In Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander

GNOME 3.10 has been released yesterday and I've received requests to write an article on how to upgrade to it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Sal...

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See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME 3.10 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">released</a> today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a new system menu for GNOME Shell which combines the previous system status menus and of course, updated core GNOME apps as well as some new applications.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s1600/gnome3.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgspVbin0A3-qS_vLyQF_dheRPnXRvk1uGU8UDQB2fLrY3JrQFLP2NjeTriMUgTtKqeRbgO1L_xMxZKNHtJ3Td15iLSOz57xDeWmiAvCpwrSGyZP0Ai3X09el9yM8MM8GCDcrSdpRT_0ic/s320/gnome3.10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Let's take a look at what's new!<br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video I've recorded earlier today with some of the changes in GNOME 3.10:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-MfbuJU6X9U" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MfbuJU6X9U">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / Settings changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Shell hasn't received many changes, but GNOME 3.10 introduces a pretty important change: <b>the old system status menus have been replaced with a new System Menu</b>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 system menu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-system-status-menu_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The System Menu is more compact and includes brightness and sound sliders, quick access to wireless networks, battery status as well as settings, lock screen and shutdown buttons. The language selector continues to use a separate menu as you can see in the screenshot above.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other changes in the latest GNOME Shell 3.10:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>improved login and lock screens: better layout, nicer transitions, prettier lock screen notifications, etc.;</li><li>various improved transitions;</li><li>pagination in the application picker. </li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-gs-pagination_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">App picker pagination<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen.jpg" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 pagination" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen_thumb.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME 3.10 lock screen</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another pretty major change in the latest GNOME 3.10 is the introduction of <b>"header bars" or "client side decorations"</b>. These decorations use the GTK+ toolkit and theme engine:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 client side decorations" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can see, the close button is now displayed inline with the toolbar which saves spaces but unfortunately it also creates an even bigger discrepancy between GNOME core apps and the other applications, because only the core GNOME apps use these client side decorations.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Client side decorations can also change state, here are two screenshots that showcase it:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_1_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 header bars" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-header-bars_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.10, there are also quite a few changes to Settings (Control Center):</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>the lock screen background can now be changed via the Background settings;</li><li>new date and time settings; there's also a new feature here: automatically change the computer's timezone based on the current location;</li><li>new display settings;</li><li>new universal access settings;</li><li>the background can be selected from your Flickr photos;</li><li>Telepathy integration and Google 2-factor authentication for Online Accounts.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with these Settings changes:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 background settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-lock-screen-background_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 time and date settings" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-time-date_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 displays" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-displays2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other changes include:</b><br /><ul><li>new zoom mode for the scrollbars which allow for fine scrolling - to use it, hold SHIFT while clicking on the scrollbar thumb;</li><li>smartcards are now supported as an alternate way to log in or unlock the screen;</li><li>password authentication can now be disabled, forcing just fingerprint or smartcard authentication;</li><li>initial Wayland support;</li><li>high resolution (HiDPI) support.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.10 core apps</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With GNOME 3.10, <b>three applications that were available as a preview in GNOME 3.8, are now fully integrated</b>: Bijiben, a note taking app, <b>GNOME Weather and GNOME photos</b>:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Bijiben</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 weather" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-weather_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 photos" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-photos_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Photos</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bijiben now supports collections and is integrated with OwnCloud. Also, now the notes can show up in the GNOME Shell search. An interesting feature in Bijiben which might be available in the future for other GNOME apps as well is the right click menu which looks like the one used on touch devices:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 bijiben notes right click" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-notes-right-click_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest GNOME Photos features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more. Weather hasn't received any important changes except for the new client side decorations.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also <b>3 new preview apps for GNOME 3.10: Music and Maps and Software</b>:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 music" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-music_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Music<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 maps" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-maps_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Maps</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 software" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome-software_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Software</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another new application is Photos, which features Flickr support, albums, share images to devices that support UPNP such as a TV, phone or another computer and more.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in the other core GNOME applications:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Web:</b> DuckDuck go is now the default search engine; Web now has a search provider for GNOME Shell which allows accessing your web history or searching the web from the GNOME Shell Activities</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Contacts:</b> UI enhancements, updated setup and accounts dialogs</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tweak Tool</b>: redesigned for GNOME 3.10 and includes new options, such as startup applications management, etc.</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Evince Document Viewer</b>: improved accessibility, new Caret Navigation mode, improved Djvu support and a new sidebar showing search results</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Clocks: Pretty new analog timer in stopwatch and timer views as well as geolocation support</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Boxes:</b> support for importing system images (QEMU, raw, vdi - Virtualbox 1.1 image format, vmdk - VMware 3 and 4, vpc and cloop) as well as many UI and other fixes</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 epiphany web" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-web_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Web (Epiphany)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 tweak tool" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-tweak-tool_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Tweak Tool</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME 3.10 clocks" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gnome3.10-clocks_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Clocks</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Up next: GNOME 3.12</b>, which should <a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointEleven/Features">introduce</a> a Sound Recorder preview release, full Wayland support, Systemd for the user session, colour tinting in GNOME Shell, videos application implementation, support for Facebook in GNOME photos, integrate Zimbra in GNOME, Git integration in the developer experience as well as ratings, screenshots and history support in GNOME Software.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><i>3 screenshots via <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/">gnome.org</a></i></div>

See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]

GNOME 3.10 has been released today with some important changes such as initial Wayland support, header bars (client side decorations), a ne...

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Steam Machines: Valve Announces New Living-Room Hardware That Runs SteamOS

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Valve has announced a new category of living-room hardware today, that will be running <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/valve-reveals-steamos-linux-based.html">Steam OS</a> and will be available in multiple configurations. Only 300 of these boxes will ship this year though, for testing purposes.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9XJORnu2CijeO4nhNK-U4mXHWPdD8cuJP9qgGiwK6MP0bllU0dp18zjDn7g3Xnz5GIgaaIcJNtiXeOYwteL2Gf84lidg_97NkHf_82vCXVY5t8TIja2EF-5EQsUPDEXZO1Z3yn8YgBo/s1600/steam-machines.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Steam machines" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9XJORnu2CijeO4nhNK-U4mXHWPdD8cuJP9qgGiwK6MP0bllU0dp18zjDn7g3Xnz5GIgaaIcJNtiXeOYwteL2Gf84lidg_97NkHf_82vCXVY5t8TIja2EF-5EQsUPDEXZO1Z3yn8YgBo/s320/steam-machines.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">While in testing, the new "Steam machines" will be free of charge for 300 lucky Steam users that are eligible to get one. For this, you must complete a quest before October 25: join the Steam Universe community group, agree to the Steam Hardware Beta Terms and Conditions, make 10 Steam friends, create a public Steam Community profile and play a game using a gamepad in Big Picture mode. Once you complete these steps, you'll be awarded a special badge and be among the pool of people that can be chosen to test the new hardware.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Valve, the new Steam machines will be "completely upgradable and open" and starting next year, there will be multiple machines to choose from, made by different manufacturers. There are no hardware specifications at this time.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more information, see the official <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamMachines/">announcement</a>.</b></div>

Steam Machines: Valve Announces New Living-Room Hardware That Runs SteamOS

Valve has announced a new category of living-room hardware today, that will be running Steam OS and will be available in multiple configura...

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Valve Reveals SteamOS, A Linux-Based Operating System

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Valve has <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/">announced</a> SteamOS today, a free, Linux-based operating system "designed for the TV and the living room".</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii89lIQe-103CHHXesxoeosayhVLLWVnF9LVquJGMWB0P4jlMfKgHP3OP6h7VGYldOyikVARI8LkDQwYFFZmFFltWyt1jTvF8faSGVdZth8nwNP_OvC45BNT6xWC2BtqRy8Ut5lmnblFg/s1600/steamos.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SteamOS" border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii89lIQe-103CHHXesxoeosayhVLLWVnF9LVquJGMWB0P4jlMfKgHP3OP6h7VGYldOyikVARI8LkDQwYFFZmFFltWyt1jTvF8faSGVdZth8nwNP_OvC45BNT6xWC2BtqRy8Ut5lmnblFg/s320/steamos.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the first of the 3 announcements Valve will make this week, all related to bringing Steam into living rooms, with the next one to follow in 48 hours, as <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/">THIS</a> page points out. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">SteamOS will feature:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>in-home streaming: the SteamOS machine can stream the games over your home network to your TV;</li><li>music, TV and movies;</li><li>family sharing: share the games you purchase with your friends and family - this allows you to take turns playing one another’s games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud;</li><li>family options: you'll be able to control what titles get seen and by whom.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<i>As we’ve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, we’ve come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.</i>" mentions the announcement. The Steam Box should be one of these "living room machines" so will Valve finally announce it in one of the two remaining announcements? We should find out later this week.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">SteamOS will be available soon (the exact date is not yet known) as a free download for users and "as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers".<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more information, see the <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/">SteamOS announcement</a>.</b></div>

Valve Reveals SteamOS, A Linux-Based Operating System

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How To Set Up Tunlr DNS Under Linux To Access Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, Pandora and More Outside The US

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-C9yb64jO_9JgGXXabRTOFqgz6yztOl-uGl7hyphenhyphenvQP4kBWWBHbv5y-5UQsDlrd9VoBhhfSRx5atW16ClYK0dXWpb1Iv45LmYAvTbhMEBr49VwHAemYoRNYyR2OBeY5lU5eDBG8KZQ5nY/s1600/tunlr-logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tunlr logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia-C9yb64jO_9JgGXXabRTOFqgz6yztOl-uGl7hyphenhyphenvQP4kBWWBHbv5y-5UQsDlrd9VoBhhfSRx5atW16ClYK0dXWpb1Iv45LmYAvTbhMEBr49VwHAemYoRNYyR2OBeY5lU5eDBG8KZQ5nY/s1600/tunlr-logo.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://tunlr.net/">Tunlr</a> is a free DNS service that lets you use U.S.-based on-demand Internet streaming providers, such as Netflix, Hulu, CBS, MTV, ABC, Pandora and more, if you're living outside the U.S. </b><br /><br />At the time I'm writing this article, Tunlr <a href="http://tunlr.net/channels/">reports</a> that the following streaming services are working:<br /><ul><li>US video streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, CBS, ABC, MTV, theWB, CW TV, Crackle, NBC, Fox, A&E TV, TV.com, Vevo, History, Logo TV, Crunchyroll, DramaFever, Discovery, Spike and VH1;</li><li>US audio streaming services: Pandora, Last.fm, IheartRadio, Rdio, MOG, Songza;</li><li>Non-US streaming services: BBC iPlayer (excluding live streams), iTV Player, NHL Gamecenter Live and TF1 Replay / WAT.tv (excluding "direct" stream).</li></ul><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, Tunlr has worked as advertised, but there's one issue: <b>using Tunlr DNS permanently is not a good idea</b>: for privacy/security reasons, speed and so on. Even the Tunlr <a href="http://tunlr.net/faq/">FAQ</a> page says you shouldn't use the Tunlr DNS for every day web surfing. On Windows, there are some tools you can use to quickly switch the Tunlr DNS on/off, but there's no such tool for Linux, so <b>here's how to properly use Tunlr under Linux</b>.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Configure Tunlr DNS under Linux</h2><br />Before proceeding, please note that <b>Tunlr recommends using Firefox</b> and also, <b>Google Chrome is not supported</b>! <br /><br /><b>Below you'll find two ways of setting up the Tunlr DNS under Linux. </b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The first one (A)</b> has an advantage over the one (script) below: the Tunlr DNS is only used for Netflix, Hulu, etc. while using the default DNS for other websites. There's a drawback too though: if Tunlr changes the DNS servers, you must edit the <i>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dnsmasq.conf</i> and manually add the <a href="http://tunlr.net/get-started/">new DNS</a>. Update: I've added a script at the bottom of method A for automatically retrieving and updating the Tunlr DNS (thanks to Jochen Blacha!).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The second (B)</b> method has the advantage of always setting the correct Tunlr DNS servers since it automatically retrieves them from the Tunlr website (the DNS servers have changed quite a few times already). The disadvantage is that when switching Tunlr on using this script, all the traffic passes through the Tunlr DNS and not only the websites that need it, like it's done using the first method. But you can do this: only browse the websites you wouldn't normally have access to when switching the Tunlr DNS on and when you want to visit some other websites, switch the Tunlr DNS off.</div><br />With these in mind, use the configuration method that suits you best.<br /><br /><br /><b>A. Configure Tunlr DNS using Dnsmasq / Network Manager</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu 12.04+, Network Manager uses dnsmasq by default so the instructions below are specific to Ubuntu users. For other Linux distributions, you can simply paste the code below (the two lines containing "server="...) in <i>/etc/dnsmasq.conf </i>and restart Dnsmasq. I only tested it in Ubuntu though.</div><br />Let's proceed. Firstly, create the <i>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d</i> folder (I believe it's not created by default in Ubuntu 12.04 for instance):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mkdir -p /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d</code></pre><br />Then, create (edit) a file called "dnsmasq.conf" under <i>/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/</i>. I'll use Gedit below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gksu gedit /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/dnsmasq.conf</code></pre><br />And in this file, paste this:<br /><pre class="source-code"><code>domain-needed<br />all-servers<br />cache-size=5000<br />strict-order<br /><br />server=/tunlr.net/netflix.com/hulu.com/pandora.com/cbs.com/bbc.co.uk/abc.go.com/mtv.com/go.com/abc.com/tv.com/pbs.com/vevo.com/fwmrm.net/thewb.com/cwtv.com/crackle.com/mog.com/iheart.com/mylifetime.com/doubleclick.net/rubiconproject.com/cpxinteractive.com/adnxs.com/brightcove.com/cpxadroit.com/atdmt.com/mtv.com/mtvnservices.com/imrworldwide.com/demdex.net/fox.com/foxfdm.com/eurovisionsports.tv/netflix.ne/nflximg.com/nflxext.com/chartbeat.com/nbc.com/history.com/discovery.com/vh1.com/itv.com/aetv.com/foxadhd.com/cbsstatic.com/cbsi.com/theplatform.com/akamaihd.net/pbs.org/sharethis.com/revsci.net/scrippsnetworks.com/scrippscontroller.com/imrworldwide.com/scorecardresearch.com/quantserve.com/liverail.com/elogua.com/inskinmedia.com/ip2location.com/rubiconproject.com/southparkstudios.com/conviva.com/liverail.com/local.yahooapis.com/msnbc.com/nbcuni.com/rdio.com/recaptcha.net/69.197.169.9<br />server=/tunlr.net/netflix.com/hulu.com/pandora.com/cbs.com/bbc.co.uk/abc.go.com/mtv.com/go.com/abc.com/tv.com/pbs.com/vevo.com/fwmrm.net/thewb.com/cwtv.com/crackle.com/mog.com/iheart.com/mylifetime.com/doubleclick.net/rubiconproject.com/cpxinteractive.com/adnxs.com/brightcove.com/cpxadroit.com/atdmt.com/mtv.com/mtvnservices.com/imrworldwide.com/demdex.net/fox.com/foxfdm.com/eurovisionsports.tv/netflix.ne/nflximg.com/nflxext.com/chartbeat.com/nbc.com/history.com/discovery.com/vh1.com/itv.com/aetv.com/foxadhd.com/cbsstatic.com/cbsi.com/theplatform.com/akamaihd.net/pbs.org/sharethis.com/revsci.net/scrippsnetworks.com/scrippscontroller.com/imrworldwide.com/scorecardresearch.com/quantserve.com/liverail.com/elogua.com/inskinmedia.com/ip2location.com/rubiconproject.com/southparkstudios.com/conviva.com/liverail.com/local.yahooapis.com/msnbc.com/nbcuni.com/rdio.com/recaptcha.net/192.95.16.109</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Some of the websites under the "server" lines above have been added to avoid the geofencing used by some websites. You can edit the "server" lines above to add more websites. You can find a list of Tunlr supported websites <a href="http://tunlr.net/channels/">HERE</a></b>. The IPs at the end of the "server=" lines are the Tunlr DNS servers. If accessing Hulu, Netflix, etc. stops working, make sure you <a href="http://tunlr.net/get-started/">check</a> the Tunlr website for updated DNS.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When you're done, save the file, then run the following command to restart Network Manager:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo restart network-manager</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, restart your browser and visit the Tunlr <a href="http://tunlr.net/status/">status page</a> - under "Tunlr activation check" it should say: "Tunlr DNS address is set. Tunlr is activated!" like in the screenshot below:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn5gNaTsALh2VKPTt0Gv_lfApjpAYAHj-uO3WyCFCIqBrddnfuUgjizKhZTtUz0NFgF4Sm0k3fD40lfNSMSFfZ7fFqy-tTw8MWZBGFcz91svjk3fchT5QmkCG-wGHuQjZi6_g7N-1HBE/s1600/tunlr-activated.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyn5gNaTsALh2VKPTt0Gv_lfApjpAYAHj-uO3WyCFCIqBrddnfuUgjizKhZTtUz0NFgF4Sm0k3fD40lfNSMSFfZ7fFqy-tTw8MWZBGFcz91svjk3fchT5QmkCG-wGHuQjZi6_g7N-1HBE/s500/tunlr-activated.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br />If it doesn't work, firstly try to restart your computer. If it still doesn't work (some users are reporting <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1003842">issues</a> with dnsmasq and private names), try editing<i> /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf</i> and commenting out (put "#" in front of the line) "dns=dnsmasq".<br /><br /><b>Update: to automatically retrieve and update the Tunlr DNS in case it changes</b> (it changes quite often), use <a href="https://github.com/JochenB/tunlrupdate/blob/master/tunlrupdate.sh">THIS</a> script.<br /><br /><br /><b>B. Quickly switch the Tunlr DNS on/off using a script</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Another way of easily switching the Tunlr DNS on/off is using a script included with the Tunlr <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tunlr/">AUR package</a> created by <i>edloaa</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using Arch Linux, install wget - Ubuntu users can install it using the following command (may already be installed):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install wget</code></pre><br />And then download and install the script using the following commands:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install wget<br />cd /tmp<br />wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tu/tunlr/tunlr.tar.gz<br />tar -xvf /tmp/tunlr.tar.gz<br />sudo install /tmp/tunlr/tunlr /usr/local/bin/</code></pre>Then, simply run the following command to use the Tunlr DNS:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo tunlr start</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, restart your browser and visit the Tunlr <a href="http://tunlr.net/status/">status page</a> - under "Tunlr activation check" it should say: "Tunlr DNS address is set. Tunlr is activated!".</div><br />To stop using the Tunlr DNS, use the command below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo tunlr stop</code></pre>And restart your browser.

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>PiCon is a <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi</a> configuration manager which lets you make changes to the <i>config.txt</i> file using a GUI</b>. The <i>config.txt</i> file is used to store various system parameters that you would normally set from the BIOS, but Raspberry Pi doesn't have a conventional BIOS and thus, it uses this file for such settings.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/picon.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="picon raspberry pi configuration manager" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj99oYofE5a4vY_q4sZ6cwplAC4at3LDB4sbvzRQyHEklJUCCibxSUI-ZILoHWPl1_SsXILlzgffGnUObHzppXk-ftH-hlOZGYkmwiYVNwzglKaBLU6RCkpQiF6gbTLdzU6FI483HgdMV0/s320/picon.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application is designed to run on a host system </b>(works on Windows, Linux and Mac since it's written in Java) <b>and not directly on the Raspberry Pi</b>. It is possible to run the app on Raspberry Pi, but the performance is pretty bad.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Raspberry Pi Configuration Manager (PiCon) can be used to change settings such as:</b><br /><ul><li><b>video output controls</b>: switch between NTSC and PAL, change the aspect ratio, rotate the screen, overscan configuration, enable fixed framebuffer, change the HDMI display modes, force or disable sound, force HDMI 3D support, HDMI boost, use HDMI safe mode and more;</li><li><b>overclock</b> the CPU, GPU and SDRam;</li><li><b>advanced overclocking</b>: overvoltage the GPU or SDRAM, force turbo, initial (temporary) turbo, change the GPU processor frequency, the hardware video block frequency, 3D block frequency, image sensors pipeline block frequency as well as setting a temperature limit (sets clock and voltages to to default when the temperature reaches a certain value);</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To use PiCon in Linux</b>, firstly <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=52441">download</a> and extract the archive in your home directory. Then, put the SD card into your computer, access the boot partition (normally, when you insert an SD card on your computer on which you've installed a Raspberry Pi Linux distribution, two partitions should be mounted: the smaller one - 73 MB for my RaspBMC -, is the boot partition) and copy the <i>config.txt</i> file from this partition into the PiCon folder:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/picon-configtxt.png"><img alt="raspberry pi boot partition" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/picon-configtxt_thumb.png" /></a> </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To launch PiCon, use the following command (obviously, make sure you've installed Java before this):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>java -jar ~/PiCon*/PiCon.jar</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Make the changes you want and click "Save Settings" - this will write the changes to the <i>config.txt</i> file which you must copy back to the SD card boot partition.</div><br /><b><a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=91&t=52441">Download PiCon</a>, the Raspberry Pi Configuration Manager</b>

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<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/projects/antimicro/">AntiMicro</a> is an application that can be used to map keyboard and mouse keys to gamepad buttons, useful for playing games with no gamepad support.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application, written in C++ using Qt for the graphical framework, has been created as a replacement for <a href="http://qjoypad.sourceforge.net/">QJoyPad</a> which unfortunately is no longer being maintained.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRiiPZ5hrEW7oIviuqa5i4I1Lhq8iCINu4UM4NGGCwFCLF_kwMVMx_YldywBdRP6UOCghom_C7ZZ2PiifVTUyc_3LZbdfGdOGNwxDv2U5ioG1JYasWnfAWztMs-tkioYuCu3AbM5xTq7U/s320/antimicro.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">AntiMicro features controller stick support, 8-way controls, virtual Dpad support, profiles that can be loaded via command line and more.</div>Compared to QJoyPad, the application comes with some extra features like assigning multiple keys to one controller button (for example Shift+Tab to bring up the Steam overlay interface in a game), macros for button presses which lets you add conditional actions, change button configurations on the fly and there's also a tray icon that works under Unity. Furthermore, AntiMicro has better mouse movement support.</div><br /><br /><h2>Basic usage</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To assign a keyboard or mouse key to gamepad buttons, press a button on your gamepad and the corresponding button in the AntiMicro user interface should be highlighted:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-highlight.png"><img alt="AntiMicro" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-highlight_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Then, click the highlighted button from the AntiMicro user interface and assign it to a keyboard or mouse key:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-keyboard.png"><img alt="AntiMicro" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-keyboard_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-mouse.png"><img alt="AntiMicro" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/antimicro-mouse_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also click the "Quick set" button at the bottom of the AntiMicro window, then press a button or move an axis on the joystick and a window will show up allowing you to assign it a key.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When assigning a key, you can select to use turbo or toggle modes:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>turbo: when the button is pressed on the joystick, the corresponding key acts as if the button was pressed multiple times. The delay/rate can be set under Advanced;</li><li>toggle: a simple press of the Joystick button leaves it virtually pressed. Pressing it again stops it.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch an AntiMicro demo with Left 4 Dead 2, recorded by its developer:</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0s59cL_Vvoo" width="480"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s59cL_Vvoo">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Download AntiMicro</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.ryochan7.com/projects/antimicro/">Download AntiMicro</a> - there are packages available for Ubuntu/Debian, Arch Linux and Gentoo as well as the source code.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://github.com/Ryochan7/antimicro">GitHub</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/">Reddit</a></i></div>

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