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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Nuvola Player 2.2.0 Released, Needs New Maintainer

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/">Nuvola Player</a> is a cloud music player that integrates music services such as Grooveshark, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, Rdio, Hype Machine or 8tracks, with your desktop.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/nuvola-player-2.2.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Nuvola Player 2.2.0" border="0" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_bBa486pvSa6mZaS8XtJs6RIwM__1eolIeKSECnp6zlr1jfkTbiG29OMK43xp2tq_zY0wd4IhT1thmsap313ufrXbVZEFcjWxreRXAbDb4qCiyumNVI2NnE6H5loWmdX14QJGhOWtrEg/s320/nuvola-player-2.2.0.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With Nuvola Player, you get notifications, Unity quicklists, multimedia keys support, Mpris v2 support (Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Media Player extension integration), lyrics fetching, last.fm scrobbling, proxy support and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nuvola Player 2.2.0</b> has been <a href="https://plus.google.com/110794636546911932554/posts/BjXGLNRKoTr">released</a> recently, bringing new features such as support for <a href="http://bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> (an online music store and platform for artist promotion that caters mainly to independent artists) as well as bug fixes.</div><br /><b>Changes in Nuvola Player 2.2.0:</b><br /><ul><li>new service supported: Bancamp;</li><li>Nuvola Player now supports scrobbling to libre.fm, a last.fm alternative;</li><li>Last.fm love and ban actions are now available from the main menu, tray ion and Unity quicklist;</li><li>some services allow downloading songs - Nuvola player now features a simple download manager to allow downloading songs from these services;</li><li>bug fixes, including Google Play playback status detection, enable links to song downloading for Google Play, fixed metadata and playback status parsing for Deezer;</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/nuvola-player-2.2.0-plugins.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player plugins" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/nuvola-player-2.2.0-plugins_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player plugins<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sadly, the same day Nuvola Player 2.2.0 was released, a <a href="https://plus.google.com/110794636546911932554/posts/bc5fp7TgJgL">message</a> was posted on its Google Plus page, mentioning that <b>Nuvola Player needs a new maintainer</b> because the main developer, <a href="https://plus.google.com/111485183888722402983">Jiří Janoušek</a>, doesn't have enough time to continue the development. If you can adopt the project, contact Jiří at the Nuvola Player Development <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-devel">mailing list</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest stable Nuvola Player by using its official PPA. Add the PPA and install Nuvola Player using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />There are also PPAs for <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/beta">beta</a> and <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/unstable">unstable</a> builds.<br /><br /><b>Debian: </b>Nuvola Player is avialable in a <a href="http://ppa.fenryxo.cz/nuvola-player/README.html">repository</a>.<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Nuvola Player via AUR: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58166">stable</a> | <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nuvola-bzr/">unstable</a> (bzr).<br /><br />For <b>other Linux distributions</b>, see the Nuvola Player <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/download.html">downloads</a> page.

Nuvola Player 2.2.0 Released, Needs New Maintainer

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Dropbox Uploader 0.12 Released [Bash Script To Access Dropbox Via Command Line]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">Dropbox Uploader</a> is a bash script that allows you to perform various actions on your <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> (upload, download, delete, share, etc.) without installing the Dropbox client. This is useful for servers, automatic backups or accessing Dropbox from ARM devices, like Raspberry Pi.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The script was updated recently, getting a copy function, a "-s" option to skip existing files when uploading/downloading (files are overwritten by default), along with other changes. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are the <b>changes in the latest Dropbox Uploader 0.12:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>added copy function;</li><li>added <i>-s</i> option to skip existing files when upload/download;</li><li>fixed problem uploading twice the same directory;</li><li>add checking for not allowed file names;</li><li>handling connection/resolving host errors;</li><li>better error handling;</li><li>converted if condition to BASH native syntax;</li><li>added normalize_path function, to canonicalize paths;</li><li>removed check for free quota on every file upload to improve performance;</li><li>added checks for file permissions before writing/reading files on the local fs;</li><li>fixed unicode problem in file listing;</li><li>many other minor changes and improvements.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last article about Dropbox Uploader</b>, the script has received numerous improvements, including <b>support for downloading and uploading directories</b>, move/rename function and more.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Dropbox Uploader 0.12 supports the following commands: upload, download, delete, move, copy, mkdir, list, share, info and unlink. There are also some optional parameters, like the newly added "-s" to skip already existing files when uploading or downloading, "-p" to show curl progress meter and more.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download and install Dropbox Uploader</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Dropbox Uploader depends on Bash and Curl. In Ubuntu, Bash is already installed and to install Curl, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install curl</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, download and install Dropbox Uploader using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>curl "https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh" -o /tmp/dropbox_uploader.sh<br />sudo install /tmp/dropbox_uploader.sh /usr/local/bin/dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also grab the latest Dropbox Uploader with Git:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install git<br />git clone https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Authorize Dropbox Uploader with your Dropbox account</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The first time you run Dropbox Uploader, you'll need to authorize it with your Dropbox account. To do this, run Dropbox Uploader:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT43EDvj7aWB5tkvanzQfKtW1dSYk3lrDlzXRq3Ypk801n3g6FQZozzOEIuBxc9VmCmeYR2vDbZsN3Vwbcd0TdbU1IvIHLeENPWr2rmwfr0E05t5SwEUUlJTygb5hZ2zHzEysyZ7Ay6mA/s320/dropbox-uploader_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Then visit <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps">https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps</a>, click "Create app", select "Dropbox API app" and: <br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>for the type of data select "Files and datastores";</li><li>then choose if the app should be limited to a single folder or if it can access files already in your Dropbox;</li><li>if you didn't limit the app to is own private folder, you can also select the file types it can access ;</li><li>enter the app name provided by Dropbox Uploader.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_2.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Click "Create app" at the bottom and on the next page you should see your app key and secret which you need to enter in the terminal where you ran <i>dropbox_uploader</i>:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_22.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_22_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now back to the terminal: select the access level you have chosen when creating the app and Dropbox Uploader will display a link you need to enter in your browser - visit the link, click "Allow" and finally, back to the terminal, press ENTER and you're done:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_3.png"><img alt="Dropbox Uploader" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/dropbox-uploader_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />To see all the available commands, simply run:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>dropbox_uploader</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For more information, bug reports, etc., see the Dropbox Uploader <a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">GitHub page</a>.</b></div>

Dropbox Uploader 0.12 Released [Bash Script To Access Dropbox Via Command Line]

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Mount Google Drive In Linux With google-drive-ocamlfuse

<div style="text-align: justify;">More than a year after Google has announced its file storage and synchronization service called <i><a href="http://drive.google.com/">Drive</a></i>, there's still no official Linux client. There are some unofficial clients, but they're not perfect: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/google-drive-client-insync-for-linux.html">Insync</a> is not free, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/grive-open-source-google-drive-client.html">Grive</a> is command line only and its development seems to have stopped and so on.<br /><br />So here's another alternative for easily managing your Google Drive files under Linux: google-drive-ocamlfuse.<br /><br /><b><a href="https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse">google-drive-ocamlfuse</a> is a FUSE filesystem backend for Google Drive which you can use to mount your Google Drive under Linux.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/gdrive-ocamlfuse.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR3K-WJSPEXi7M30W167O81SITJ7adGbTkKeaoKtnCIQyiYARw6SQYMVeQjviHjPiHW7bL6Sw-qwDuDZx3xwFGUvLMVIOceICE6QTPtlCBFnvNMnBFzuja4yrWmhVKV_y04jqSRoglCyQ/s320/gdrive-ocamlfuse.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Among its features are full read/write support for regular files and folders, multiple account support, duplicate file handling as well as access to the Google Drive trash directory. google-drive-ocamlfuse also provides read-only access to Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, which its converts to ODT, ODS of PDF (this can be configured).</div><br />google-drive-ocamlfuse is still under testing so while it works pretty well, you may encounter bugs. For instance, in my test, some Google documents weren't converted for some reason.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's also worth mentioning that <b>the changes don't show up instantly</b> - when you edit or upload a new file, it can take 60 seconds (this is configurable) until the changes show up in the mounted filesystem. If newly added files don't show up in your file manager, enter the folder again or refresh it (Ctrl + F).</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install google-drive-ocamlfuse in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: Google-drive-ocamlfuse is now available in a PPA, for Ubuntu Raring, Quantal and Precise. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alessandro-strada/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install google-drive-ocamlfuse</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Usage</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstly, you need to authorize google-drive-ocamlfuse with Google. To do this, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>google-drive-ocamlfuse</code></pre>This should open a tab in your default web browser, asking to allow google-drive-ocamlfuse to access your Google Drive. Click "Allow", wait a few seconds for google-drive-ocamlfuse to retrieve the authorization code and you're done.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now let's mount Google Drive. Create a folder in your home directory, let's call it "gdrive":</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkdir ~/gdrive</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And mount Goole Drive using the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>google-drive-ocamlfuse ~/gdrive</code></pre><br />That's it. If you want to configure the interval between queries to detect server-side changes, the export format used for Google documents and so on, see the configuration file: <i>~/.gdfuse/default/config<br /></i><br /><br />To mount Google Drive on startup, add "google-drive-ocamlfuse /path/to/gdrive" (replacing "/path/to/ with the exact path to the folder where you want to mount Google Drive) to Startup Applications.<br /><br /><b>For more info, including using multiple accounts, see the <a href="https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse/wiki">google-drive-ocamlfuse wiki</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/08/gdfuse-montare-google-drive-come-una.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

Mount Google Drive In Linux With google-drive-ocamlfuse

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Nuvola Player 2.1 Beta 1 Released [Cloud Music Player With Desktop Integration]

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s1600/nuvola-player_1.png"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdQOe3Tv0G_zqIwcgAgETofsotDb9Proz6SXTM0Bb3qMG2a6Z8iMwUURDxA-DG0Zo9F-dX1H6JcB5XciJu435CZOrx7SixCj6Nm9B8Z3Wquwn7eCa-s9_qFcReZ0JzA9H3VblxlGZJx8/s320/nuvola-player_1.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/">Nuvola Player</a> is a cloud music player that supports services such as Grooveshark, Google Play Music, Amazon Cloud Player, Pandora, Rdio, Hype Machine or 8tracks.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The application integrates tightly with the desktop, providing notifications, multimedia keys support, Unity quicklists, Mpris v2 (Ubuntu Sound Menu / GNOME Shell Media Player extension integration) support and more. Other features include last.fm scrobbling, proxy support, Dock Manager integration (integrates with Docky, AWN or DockBarX) and lyrics fetching.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s1600/nuvola-player_2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Kkz8Lg_xmXyZFTC-F1nYyEk4ZdJ54NwKNdbOIacLca9Pl5zkj0n59Up2gMHAPgZXdMfnQovWbpyk58tv8n614GGEiNKq4fHwFowdb0BnKHHbzYpVM64JOTSTNbnthEjJqQFMEIJavUI/s320/nuvola-player_2.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player plugins - it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to last.fm<u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 has been <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110794636546911932554/posts/4eFtmzJZ93E">released</a> today, featuring the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new supported service: Deezer;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">format support information: when a plugin is missing, Nuvola Player now displays a warning;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">persistent notifications with actions (so you can skip to the next track, pause or go to the previous track from the notifications) - these are supported by GNOME Shell (including the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/gnome-shell-how-to-enable-notifications.html">lock screen</a>) and Xfce;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">it's now possible to specify which service will scrobble your music to Last.fm;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added a few keyboard shortcuts: Go back <shift><alt>Left and go forward <shift><alt>Right<br />"show only toolbar" and "show both toolbar and menubar" have been removed and the main menu has been reorganized. A context menu (right mouse click) provides quick access to go back/forward, go home and reload actions; </alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>it is possible to set preference of a dark GTK+ theme (so for instance, if you're using Adwaita, selecting this will make the application use Adwaita dark);</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><shift><alt><shift><alt>service selector is opened in a separate window and uses native GTK+ widgets instead of web view;</alt></shift></alt></shift></li><li><shift><alt><shift><alt>main view respects text size set in Accesibility preferences;</alt></shift></alt></shift> </li><li>many <a href="http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/releases/2.1/bug_fixes.html">bug fixes</a> and more.</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s1600/nuvola-player_3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Nuvola Player notification gnome shell" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoCp-so5n0tio3M5Lubc6gFh6ZVsMiTPW7V8KbVOULLJ4ACgRSNg9OrmpVkr-pXQAt8Dj-EQbX8Lo-bOChgwnhaqnG54GC30IA1JrB3HoVtCrVNQ4Ihz1Nz_PhkIaqgaZVYKK1ivNworw/s320/nuvola-player_3.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuvola Player persistent GNOME Shell notification with actions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Nuvola Player in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 users can install the latest Nuvola Player 2.1 beta 1 by using its official beta PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nuvola-player-builders/beta<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install nuvolaplayer</code></pre><br />Alternatively, you can also use the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/stable">stable</a> or <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nuvola-player-builders/+archive/unstable">unstable</a> PPAs.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can download the source or report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://launchpad.net/nuvola-player">Launchpad</a>.</b></div>

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Google Drive Client `Insync` For Linux Out Of Beta, Gets Selective Sync Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://www.insynchq.com/">Insync</a> is an unofficial Google Drive client that "extends Drive's web functionality to your desktop by integrating tightly with Windows, Mac and Linux so you can get work done".</i></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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRKt5ql7FVhIQz7oUscxU02J4c2xLSkWDsFtqwfA93PeiGNzbMAU767-vZrxosecClTUYLoK00YQtNTlt3l8CEZFx1A36Pv8RJuIcXjB4DO-EtxZag6Kui60r_ES8bEUeq41jkXTQl8I/s1600/insync-linux-stable.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRKt5ql7FVhIQz7oUscxU02J4c2xLSkWDsFtqwfA93PeiGNzbMAU767-vZrxosecClTUYLoK00YQtNTlt3l8CEZFx1A36Pv8RJuIcXjB4DO-EtxZag6Kui60r_ES8bEUeq41jkXTQl8I/s320/insync-linux-stable.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insync for Linux: Nautilus integration / Ubuntu appindicator</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Insync for Linux is out of beta</b> and it now offers the same features available for the Windows and Mac clients: </div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>multiple account support</li><li>selective sync (all files and folders)</li><li>offline access to Google Docs</li><li>symlink support</li><li>built-in sharing (without using a web browser)</li><li>file manager integration</li><li>recent changes </li><li>more</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Linux version also comes with a feature that allows you to add any folder on your system to Insync via the file manager context menu (using a symbolic link).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Insync was free to use while in beta only so to use the latest stable release you must pay a<b> one-time fee of $9.99 per Google account</b> (which includes unlimited installs across all desktops). <b>You can try the stable release for free for 15 days</b>. The trial period can be extended by 15 days if you <a href="https://www.insynchq.com/referrals">refer a friend</a> (both you and your friend get an extra 15 days).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tool supports Ubuntu, Debian, Linu Mint, PCLinuxOS, MEPIS and Fedora with the following desktop environments: Unity, Cinnamon, GNOME Shell, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, MATE and Openbox + fbpanel and 5 file managers: Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, Dolphin and Thunar.</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://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1g84mfR-eHEo5jG9W3lDU53FyRzTQ-xtUcLKN7o9Fbb_pv_P2Up7oT8wak1wvpD8ReCdpMcYXOk0FvuRiNGbQB-dIc_ml7RCM2OYwbdTNNmgQKUOjvAqDCFBeYjMR6rv84v7w5EDE-cw/s1600/insync-linux-stable_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1g84mfR-eHEo5jG9W3lDU53FyRzTQ-xtUcLKN7o9Fbb_pv_P2Up7oT8wak1wvpD8ReCdpMcYXOk0FvuRiNGbQB-dIc_ml7RCM2OYwbdTNNmgQKUOjvAqDCFBeYjMR6rv84v7w5EDE-cw/s320/insync-linux-stable_2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insync for Linux: account settings</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.insynchq.com/">Download Insync</a></b> *</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">* The installer will try to detect your desktop environment and install the package required for file manager integration. If you change the desktop environment or use a different file manager, you'll have to install the file manager integration package from the repositories (the Insync repository is added automatically): simply search for Insync in Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic, etc. and install the package for your file manager, like insync-thunar, insync-nemo, insync-nautilus and so on.</div>

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BitTorrent Sync Beta Adds File Versioning, Android App [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html">BitTorrent Sync</a>, a secure peer-to-peer file synchronization tool available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and NAS devices, has entered beta status. </b></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/AVvXsEhC44QK8_luRiylWNmnr23SMM599YB-20Z-6y4eUE-XanOmKfoC8ii_hSzfSRD63f8LysiiMS4IoLD4DjtpOGdsKJGggxr9FJljYGnUGVwnl8E7JZQOgsD_pbVbGVTixrnvUSwLKiQShik/s1600/btsync_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync WebUI" border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC44QK8_luRiylWNmnr23SMM599YB-20Z-6y4eUE-XanOmKfoC8ii_hSzfSRD63f8LysiiMS4IoLD4DjtpOGdsKJGggxr9FJljYGnUGVwnl8E7JZQOgsD_pbVbGVTixrnvUSwLKiQShik/s320/btsync_1.png" title="BitTorrent Sync WebUI" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The beta release includes various enhancements, including a new file versioning feature called SyncArchive as well as a new Android app. An iOS application is expected to be released soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The BitTorrent Sync Android app supports syncing files (either on demand or automatic sync), backup a folder from your Android device to your desktop or send and receive files from one mobile device to another:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUOs3jleYsLYrgmNCM579aQFO_0DBBv2cgOASs83WKx2q0g02IzIMNO3Gh8SwELjHnXpWWuteDPyz139KAQMQ-VDCCYTXEJjAjk6TCW_3Sw5zBkDjVwl-Oncau6sai7_ZUToE5otPrMQ/s1600/btsync-android.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync Android" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUOs3jleYsLYrgmNCM579aQFO_0DBBv2cgOASs83WKx2q0g02IzIMNO3Gh8SwELjHnXpWWuteDPyz139KAQMQ-VDCCYTXEJjAjk6TCW_3Sw5zBkDjVwl-Oncau6sai7_ZUToE5otPrMQ/s320/btsync-android.png" title="BitTorrent Sync Android" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3QFomI3nLHqi2jcpmJe7uh80dgLMwikQMqJ8ypr2eM_KgK_ASldczgGrtf6tYYI4kkapRQ1XT3KVitOdTf3W53xqYpWoLGxDw_HTEdE8Gg_xK5_aj_5yIEKxIG9hrK2VO_UIGvbByzNA/s1600/btsync-android_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync Android" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3QFomI3nLHqi2jcpmJe7uh80dgLMwikQMqJ8ypr2eM_KgK_ASldczgGrtf6tYYI4kkapRQ1XT3KVitOdTf3W53xqYpWoLGxDw_HTEdE8Gg_xK5_aj_5yIEKxIG9hrK2VO_UIGvbByzNA/s320/btsync-android_1.png" title="BitTorrent Sync Android" width="192" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new SyncArchive feature allows BitTorrent Sync to keep old versions of your files stored in a folder in case you need to access previous versions of your files. For now, BtSync only keeps one past version for each document but this is likely to change soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, there's still no GUI for Linux but you can access BitTorrent Sync by using its WebUI.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since we <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/bittorrent-sync-secure-file-sync.html">last wrote</a> about BitTorrent Sync, the tool has received various improvements, including:</b></div><ul><li>One-way synchronization;</li><li>One-time Secrets;</li><li>Option to exclude specific files/directories;</li><li>Advanced preferences configuration;</li><li>Support for additional types of NAS devices;</li><li>Improved Linux WebUI;</li><li>Many bug fixes and other improvements.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfY7wYHLOftv5JJhNRYLYZWabDcbvj0ak_9Be1o83ayJMdpf4G5mLfnZUSt_X-mqbkVioDdCkMg7RANBeXkm49P8YxmZ5_cbqm2z-VhFqI_IPIN50vrbtDQBocc3LovkVuS5KnQAjAUg/s1600/btsync_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync WebUI" border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinfY7wYHLOftv5JJhNRYLYZWabDcbvj0ak_9Be1o83ayJMdpf4G5mLfnZUSt_X-mqbkVioDdCkMg7RANBeXkm49P8YxmZ5_cbqm2z-VhFqI_IPIN50vrbtDQBocc3LovkVuS5KnQAjAUg/s320/btsync_3.png" title="BitTorrent Sync WebUI" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">BitTorrent Sync synchronizes your files using a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol so the files are transferred directly between the users instead of using a cloud server like services such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Ubuntu One. The traffic between devices is encrypted using an AES cipher and a 256-bit key, created on the base of your Secret, a random 20 byte or more string. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application is free to use but not open source, although the developers have recently <a href="http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/21048-defensive-open-source/#entry55710">commented</a> that they "<i>still consider this option</i>".</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install BitTorrent Sync in Ubuntu or Debian</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu and Debian users can install the latest BitTorrent Sync by using an unofficial PPA / repository. To add it, use the following commands:</b></div><br /><b>- Ubuntu:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tuxpoldo/btsync<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br /><b>- Debian:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 6BF18B15<br />gpg --armor --export 6BF18B15 | sudo apt-key add -<br />echo "deb http://debian.yeasoft.net/btsync $(lsb_release -cs) main contrib non-free" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/btsync.list<br />echo "deb-src http://debian.yeasoft.net/btsync $(lsb_release -cs) main contrib non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/btsync.list<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, for both Ubuntu and Debian, install the server package using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install btsync</code></pre>Or, to install the desktop package, use the command below:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install btsync-user</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Next, log out and log back in and finally, launch BitTorrent Sync from the menu / Dash.</div><br />By default, BtSync can be accessed using the following URLs:<br /><ul><li>desktop package: <i>http://localhost:9999</i></li><li>server package: <i>http://SERVER_IP:8888</i></li><i> </i></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>More information about the Ubuntu / Debian packages can be found here: <a href="http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/19560-debian-and-ubuntu-desktop-packages-for-bittorrent-sync/">desktop</a> | <a href="http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/18974-debian-and-ubuntu-server-packages-for-bittorrent-sync/">server</a>.</b></div><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install BitTorrent Sync via <b><a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bittorrent-sync/">AUR</a></b>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, Windows, Mac OS X and Android or if you don't want to use the packages above, you can download the BitTorrent Sync packages available on its website:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html">Download BitTorrent Sync</a></b></div><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentSyncUserGuide.pdf">BitTorrent Sync User Guide (PDF)</a></i>

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File Sync App `SparkleShare` 1.1.0 Released, Install It In Ubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">SparkleShare</a>, an open source file synchronization and collaboration tool similar to Dropbox, has been updated to version 1.1.0 recently, receiving many bug fixes and tweaks.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0AUyqqn3EM0/Ua3TacVGwiI/AAAAAAAAPZA/6hVM5Xn5t7I/s1600/sparkleshare1.1.0-setup.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SparkleShare" border="0" height="208" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0AUyqqn3EM0/Ua3TacVGwiI/AAAAAAAAPZA/6hVM5Xn5t7I/s320/sparkleshare1.1.0-setup.png" title="SparkleShare" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">SparkleShare is <b>available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX</b> and it uses GIT version control under the hood so setting up a host is pretty easy. Besides using it on your own server, Sparkleshare supports some code hosting services out of the box, such as GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitorious. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with a recent changes window which displays what changed along with options to restore files to their previous versions or restore deleted files, it supports client-side encryption, conflict handling, notifications and it comes with an Ubuntu AppIndicator.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SparkleShare 1.1.0, released recently, includes the following bug fixes and tweaks:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>new plugin for plan.io, a project management platform;</li><li>SparkleShare now works with host keys other than just RSA;</li><li>stricter permissions on the SparkleShare folder on Unix systems;</li><li>use large message tray icon on GNOME 3 (though due to packaging probably, the PPA builds don't have this yet);</li><li>don't show notifications for changes that you made yourself;</li><li>"%20" and "_" in project names become spaces in folder names;</li><li>open folders in the event log by clicking project names;</li><li>allow spaces in passwords;</li><li>change invite scheme to sparkleshare://addProject/$URL;</li><li>fixed retina Mac support;</li><li>don't sync files with names that are problematic on Windows;</li><li>show Client ID (link code) in the status icon menu;</li><li>many other bug fixes and tweaks;</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install SparkleShare in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LkRfEQp1QyM/Ua3XIwKGmOI/AAAAAAAAPZQ/xww0aCI7nC8/s1600/sparkleshare1.1.0-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="SparkleShare Ubuntu" border="0" height="136" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-LkRfEQp1QyM/Ua3XIwKGmOI/AAAAAAAAPZQ/xww0aCI7nC8/s320/sparkleshare1.1.0-ubuntu.png" title="SparkleShare Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest SparkleShare by using a (unofficial) PPA</b>. To install Sparkleshare in Ubuntu, firstly you must add the GIT PPA (the SparkleShare PPA depends on it):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa</code></pre>Then you can proceed to installing SparkleShare:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/sparkleshare+unofficial<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sparkleshare libmono-posix4.0-cil</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, you can add a hosted project by selecting "Add hosted project" from the tray / appindicator menu, then select the service: Bitbucket, Github, Gitorious or Plan.io (plan.io is the last one in the list and shows up as Gitorious for some reason).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For how to use SparkleShare with your own server and more, see the application <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">homepage</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">Download SparkleShare</a> for Linux (source), Windows and Mac OS X.</b></div>

File Sync App `SparkleShare` 1.1.0 Released, Install It In Ubuntu

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Gnome Encfs Manager: Cryptkeeper Alternative With Ubuntu AppIndicator Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.libertyzero.com/GEncfsM/">Gnome Encfs Manager</a> (GencfsM) is a tool to manage EncFS filesystems</b>. The tool is a great alternative to Cryptkeeper (but with some extra features), which can't be used in Ubuntu 13.04 unless you install a patched Unity to support the old <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/how-to-get-systray-whitelist-back-in.html" rel="How To Get The Systray Whitelist Back In Ubuntu 13.04">systray whitelist</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-thQmP8IN7To/UZoyp1QmjPI/AAAAAAAAPUE/89B2gBidM0k/s1600/gnome-encfs-manager.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome encfs manager" border="0" height="241" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-thQmP8IN7To/UZoyp1QmjPI/AAAAAAAAPUE/89B2gBidM0k/s320/gnome-encfs-manager.jpg" title="gnome encfs manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space and the files are encrypted using a volume key stored encrypted in the source directory. This can be used, for instance, to encrypt a folder with confidential data in your Dropbox (because for instance, Dropbox doesn't encrypt the data on your computer) - more about this, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/encrypt-your-private-dropbox-data-with.html" title="Encrypt Your Private Dropbox Data With EncFS">HERE</a>.</i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Gnome Encfs Manager can be used to create, mount and unmount EncFS folders and comes with GNOME Keyring and Ubuntu AppIndicator support</b>. Also, the applications can mount EncFs folders at startup, useful if you use EncFS with cloud sync / storage services such as Dropbox or Ubuntu One.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LevHJ0N4XEM/UZoy01YfO9I/AAAAAAAAPUM/30dLInRsK9k/s1600/gnome-encfs-manager-config.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome encfs manager" border="0" height="183" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LevHJ0N4XEM/UZoy01YfO9I/AAAAAAAAPUM/30dLInRsK9k/s320/gnome-encfs-manager-config.jpg" title="gnome encfs manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Other Gnome Encfs Manager features include: allow other users to access the stash, unmount after a certain number of idle minutes, as well as some advanced options like post mount or pre mount commands, set the encfs config file and more.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install GNOME Encfs Manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the official GNOME Encfs Manager PPA and install the application in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gencfsm/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gnome-encfs-manager</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To download the source code, report bugs and so on, see the Gnome Encfs Manager <a href="https://launchpad.net/gencfsm">Launchpad page</a>.</div>

Gnome Encfs Manager: Cryptkeeper Alternative With Ubuntu AppIndicator Support

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Cloud Sync Tool `Seafile` 1.6.0 Gets Improved Collaboration Features

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://seafile.com/">Seafile</a>, an open source cloud synchronization and collaboration tool</b>, somewhat similar to Dropbox, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/owncloud-5-released-with-new-design.html">ownCloud</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/install-sparkleshare-10-in-ubuntu.html">SparkleShare</a>, that you can install on your own server, <b>has been updated to version 1.6.0 recently, getting some interesting new features such as a Wiki module</b> and more.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile cloud sync and collaboration tool"><img alt="Seafile cloud sync tool" border="0" height="234" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a2Gi7lqCxF0/UXE_jOqoB8I/AAAAAAAAPBI/APo9IXgmAng/s320/seafile-1.6.0.png" title="Seafile cloud sync tool" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b><i>For more about Seafile (features, etc.), see our initial <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/seafile-robust-file-synchronization-and.html" title="Seafile: Robust File Synchronization And Collaboration Tool That You Can Run On Your Linux Server">article</a>.</i></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Seafile developers, the synchronization feature is quite stable so they've focused on improving the collaboration features for <b>version 1.6.0</b>, which comes with changes such as:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><b>new personal and group Wiki module</b> - the wiki uses the Markdown syntax and it's integrated with the file synchronization and version control. Also, you can easily add pictures and attachements to the wiki pages. Furthermore, a group / wiki can be made public so you can have the wiki available for everybody, and not just your Seafile users;</li><li><b>redesigned group discussion module</b>: the module has been moved to a separate tab, it has a new UI and it's better integrated with the online file viewing;</li><li><b>online rich document editor and improved markdown editor</b>.</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://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-wiki_1.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Seafile wiki"><img alt="Seafile wiki" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-wiki_1_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seafile wiki</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://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-wiki_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Seafile wiki - markdown editor"><img alt="Seafile wiki markdown editor" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-wiki_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seafile wiki - markdown editor</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://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-editor_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Seafile online rich document editor"><img alt="Seafile online rich document editor" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-1.6.0-editor_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seafile online rich document editor</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The <b>Seafile desktop client</b> has received various bug fixes as well as support for symbolic links. There were also changes made to the <b>Android client</b> (called "Seafile+", is open source but costs $1) which has received an improved UI as well as support for editing and uploading files. And finally, the <b>iOS client</b> has received some bug fixes.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile developers have also launched a new AWS-based public cloud service: <a href="http://seacloud.cc/">http://seacloud.cc</a> which comes with 1GB of free storage space with 3 groups, or you can get:</div><ul><li>20GB of storage space, 8 groups and up to 16 members for $10/month</li><li>100GB of storage space with no group or member limit for $50/month.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Download Seafile</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Seafile (server) runs on Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Centos and Raspberry Pi), Windows and Mac OS X while the Seafile client is available for Linux, Windows, Mac OSX, Android and iOS.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a href="http://seafile.com/en/download/">Download Seafile</a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><i>See the Seafile wiki page for how to <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Download-and-setup-seafile-server">install Seafile Server</a> | <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Upgrading-Seafile-Server">upgrade Seafile Server</a>.</i><br /><br /><br />

Cloud Sync Tool `Seafile` 1.6.0 Gets Improved Collaboration Features

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Unofficial Google Drive Client `Insync` Pricing Revealed, Out Of Beta For Windows And Mac

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eVToFKrLopQ/UVIa6sENSpI/AAAAAAAAOro/FtfRmToFYCs/s1600/insync-ubuntu-appindicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="insync ubuntu appindicator" border="0" height="174" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eVToFKrLopQ/UVIa6sENSpI/AAAAAAAAOro/FtfRmToFYCs/s320/insync-ubuntu-appindicator.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.insynchq.com/">Insync</a>, an unofficial, cross-platform <a href="https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive">Google Drive</a> client is <a href="http://blog.insynchq.com/say-hello-to-insync-10">out of beta</a> for Windows and Mac OSX and with this, the pricing has been revealed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since Google hasn't yet released a Google Drive client for Linux and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/grive-open-source-google-drive-client.html" title="Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux">Grive</a> seems to have been abandoned, many Linux users are using Insync. However, the Insync developers have stated that their tool will only be free while in beta, and the price hasn't been known until today.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The Insync Pro edition is available for $9.99 (introductory pricing; one time payment) after a 15 day free trial and there's also going to be a business edition which includes an admin dashboard as well as centralized billing with priority email support.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Insync for Linux is still in beta, so its users can continue to take advantage of this application for free until it's out of the beta. The application supports (comes with separate applets) most Linux desktop environments: Unity, Cinnamon, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXDE, KDE and even MATE and it's available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, openSUSE, Debian, Arch Linux, MEPIS and PCLinuxOS.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The price isn't much considering the effort put in by the Insync team to support most Linux desktop environments, but I can also agree with those who aren't willing to pay since Google Drive is a free service after all (unless you've upgraded). <b>What do you think?</b></div><br />For how to install Insync (beta) in Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint, see our previous post: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/insync-repository-available-for-ubuntu.html">Insync Repository Available For Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Debian Users</a><br /><br />For other Linux distributions, see the Insync for <a href="https://www.insynchq.com/linux">Linux page</a>.

Unofficial Google Drive Client `Insync` Pricing Revealed, Out Of Beta For Windows And Mac

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ownCloud 5 Released With New Design, Other Important Improvements (Personal, Open Source Cloud Server Tool)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5SIwrmlGxD0/UUHeLDk2LAI/AAAAAAAAOjs/LGkrUovOmGQ/s1600/owncloud-5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="136" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5SIwrmlGxD0/UUHeLDk2LAI/AAAAAAAAOjs/LGkrUovOmGQ/s320/owncloud-5.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://owncloud.org/">ownCloud</a> is a free software alternative to proprietary web services such a Dropbox, Google Calendar and more. You can install it on your computer or web server and access (and share) your files from any OS, since ownCloud comes with desktop clients for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux as well as mobile clients for Android and iOS.</div><br /><blockquote><i>"Unlike Dropbox and other commercial sync and share apps, which store data in the cloud in remote, third-party data centers, ownCloud is deployed on-premise, seamlessly integrating with existing security, storage, monitoring and reporting tools. With more than 750,000 users worldwide, ownCloud offers the ease-of-use, flexibility, sophistication and security not available from basic syncing apps and third-party storage."</i></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Today, a new ownCloud version has been released - 5 -, which comes with many new features and improvements as well as a new interface.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>New features and improvements in ownCloud 5:</b><br /><ul><li>new design;</li><li>option to restore deleted files;</li><li>new search engine which includes a new Lucene-based full text search engine app;</li><li>ownCloud now uses Clam antivirus to prevent distributing infected files;</li><li>rewritten photo gallery;</li><li>improved contacts, calendar, bookmarks, app management, versioning and file cache (up to 500% faster);</li><li>faster sync for the desktop client;</li><li>better security;</li><li>enhanced external storage app; </li><li><a href="http://doc.owncloud.com/">new documentation</a>;</li><li>many other changes.</li></ul><br /><b>For a complete list of changes, see <a href="https://owncloud.com/blog/latest-owncloud-community-edition-brings-greater-usability-performance-and-integration-to-file-sync-and-share">THIS</a> page.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, in an update that should be available in April, ownCloud will get a newly designed server-side encryption application.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few more screenshots with the latest ownCloud 5:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W0icVvexf80/UUHeRN-a0mI/AAAAAAAAOj0/fNVh16DHm1E/s1600/owncloud5-restore-deleted-files.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5 - restore deleted files"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="82" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W0icVvexf80/UUHeRN-a0mI/AAAAAAAAOj0/fNVh16DHm1E/s320/owncloud5-restore-deleted-files.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--wqON5ihUns/UUHeRCjy78I/AAAAAAAAOj4/auN2XSb8M7A/s1600/owncloud5-calendar.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5 - Calendar"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="237" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--wqON5ihUns/UUHeRCjy78I/AAAAAAAAOj4/auN2XSb8M7A/s320/owncloud5-calendar.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fNgzTbCrq_w/UUHeRH9IR9I/AAAAAAAAOj8/V6SA8TtIhU0/s1600/owncloud5-pictures.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5 - Pictures"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="237" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fNgzTbCrq_w/UUHeRH9IR9I/AAAAAAAAOj8/V6SA8TtIhU0/s320/owncloud5-pictures.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1aIZYdlXU4/UUHhlhUu3bI/AAAAAAAAOkc/TnEo2ZJFo5Y/s1600/owncloud5-apps.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5 - apps"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="233" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_1aIZYdlXU4/UUHhlhUu3bI/AAAAAAAAOkc/TnEo2ZJFo5Y/s320/owncloud5-apps.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />And here's the Linux desktop client:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xvCba5uAp2s/UUHfGLQH5wI/AAAAAAAAOkU/HV41enkZ8LU/s1600/owncloud5-linux-desktop-client.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud Linux desktop client"><img alt="owncloud desktop sync client" border="0" height="155" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xvCba5uAp2s/UUHfGLQH5wI/AAAAAAAAOkU/HV41enkZ8LU/s320/owncloud5-linux-desktop-client.png" title="owncloud desktop sync client" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With this version, I was finally able to connect my Dropbox account to ownCloud (it has never worked for me in the previous releases for some reason):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-INOq9P871gY/UUHeaMezdGI/AAAAAAAAOkM/F9QVH5W_Z6I/s1600/owncloud5-dropbox.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="ownCloud 5 - External storage"><img alt="owncloud 5" border="0" height="151" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-INOq9P871gY/UUHeaMezdGI/AAAAAAAAOkM/F9QVH5W_Z6I/s320/owncloud5-dropbox.png" title="owncloud 5" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, after doing this, ownCloud became very slow and it still is when trying to access the Dropbox folder. So this feature still needs a bit of work. By the way, besides Dropbox, ownCloud also supports other external storages such as Amazon S3, Google Drive, FTP, OpenStack Swift, SMB / CIFS, WebDavv and SFTP.</div><br /><br /><b><a href="https://owncloud.org/support/install/">Download ownCloud</a> or try the <a href="http://demo.owncloud.org/">demo</a>.</b>

ownCloud 5 Released With New Design, Other Important Improvements (Personal, Open Source Cloud Server Tool)

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Dropbox-Like Cloud Sync And Collaboration Tool Seafile Gets Command Line Support, More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://seafile.com/">Seafile</a> is an open source cloud sync and collaboration tool, similar to Dropbox, OwnCloud or Sparkleshare that you can install on your own server </b>or you can sign up for an account and get 5 GB of free space. We've talked about it a while back so for more information about Seafile, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/seafile-robust-file-synchronization-and.html" title="Seafile: Robust File Synchronization And Collaboration Tool That You Can Run On Your Linux Server">previous post</a>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vPC8qHWysfc/UTceyFR-OLI/AAAAAAAAOZE/QkK8KU61WJ0/s1600/seafile-1.5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile web interface"><img alt="Seafile" border="0" height="184" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vPC8qHWysfc/UTceyFR-OLI/AAAAAAAAOZE/QkK8KU61WJ0/s320/seafile-1.5.png" title="Seafile" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Both the Seafile server and client have been updated recently</b>, getting new features and bug fixes. <b>Seafile Server 1.5 comes with two major new features: command line client support and LDAP</b>, as well as some other features and improvements, such as:</div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>audio / video playback support;</li><li>improved public info page;</li><li>support selection of file encoding when viewing online;</li><li>edit library title / description;</li><li>bug fixes for using httpserver under https.</li></ul><br />Here is the new audio / video playback feature in action:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-video.png" rel="image_group" title="Seafile web interface: Video playback"><img alt="Seafile web interface: Video playback" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-video_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-music.png" rel="image_group" title="Seafile web interface: Audio playback"><img alt="Seafile web interface: Audio playback" src="http://img.netupd8.com/seafile-music_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, there is now a <b>separate Seafile server for Raspberry Pi</b>, however, it hasn't been updated to the latest 1.5 version yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile client was also updated, and there's now a command line client so you can use it on a headless server. Other improvements include displaying detailed syncing message and bug fixes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The next Seafile release should come with a redesigned collaboration feature</b>, bringing Seafile a lot more closer to its team collaboration platform goal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For <b>how to use the new Seafile command line client</b> on Debian / Ubuntu, see <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Seafile-CLI-client">THIS</a> page.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Seafile</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile server for Linux runs on Debian, Ubuntu (11.10, 12.04), Centos 5.8, 6.0+ and Raspberry Pi and is very easy to set up thanks to a script that does everything for you. For the server installation instructions, see the <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Download-and-setup-seafile-server">Seafile wiki</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For upgrading the Seafile server, see the instructions from <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Upgrading-Seafile-Server">HERE</a>. I've tested the upgrade instructions and everything worked as expected, even though the upgrade script has displayed a message saying that my Seafile server has been upgraded from 1.3 to 1.4, when in fact it was upgraded to 1.5.</div><br /><a href="http://seafile.com/en/download/">Download Seafile server / clients</a> (clients available for Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile: Android and iOS).

Dropbox-Like Cloud Sync And Collaboration Tool Seafile Gets Command Line Support, More

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Seafile: Robust File Synchronization And Collaboration Tool That You Can Run On Your Linux Server

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://seafile.com/">Seafile</a> is an open source cloud file synchronization and collaboration tool, similar to <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a>,</b><b> <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/owncloud-4-released-with-file.html">OwnCloud</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/install-sparkleshare-10-in-ubuntu.html">SparkleShare</a>, that you can use on your Linux server or you can sign up for a Seafile account and get 5GB of free space on their servers.</b></div><br /><br /><b>Seafile features:</b><br /><ul><li>Seafile uses file libraries which can be synchronized separately;</li><li>Users can create and join groups;</li><li>File revisions;</li><li>File preview, comments, event notifications;</li><li>Library encryption;</li><li>Share files; </li><li><b>Clients available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS.</b></li></ul><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>Why Seafile?</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">So why use Seafile and not Dropbox, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/owncloud-4-released-with-file.html">OwnCloud</a> or <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/install-sparkleshare-10-in-ubuntu.html">SparkleShare</a>? According to the Seafile developers, their tool is more mature than ownCloud or SparkleShare, ready for production (both the server and client) and has an online collaboration feature useful for teamwork, which isn't available in Dropbox.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, Seafile does have less features some similar services: for instance, the calendar feature available in ownCloud is not available for Seafile. But Seafile is still very powerful: <b>it doesn't depend on GIT but it does uses a version control model similar to GIT, which is simplified and has some advantages</b> such as: automatic syncing, no history stored on the client side meaning that the data is not stored twice (GIT is not efficient for large files), more user-friendly file conflicts, handles cases such as when the user modifies files when auto-sync is running, file transfer can be resumed and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile Linux client consists of an <b>AppIndicator / tray icon</b> that displays the sync status and lets you open the client (in the browser), disable autosync or restart Seafile, displays sync notifications, and a pretty basic web interface:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXbE366Vtsk/UQvbsUSGwJI/AAAAAAAANJE/vNQFwnbrImA/s1600/seafile-client.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile Linux client"><img alt="Seafile Linux client" border="0" height="214" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gXbE366Vtsk/UQvbsUSGwJI/AAAAAAAANJE/vNQFwnbrImA/s320/seafile-client.png" title="Seafile Linux client" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately, there's no file manager integration so you can't share files, access previous revisions or see the file sync status from the file manager, but like I was saying above, you can see the global sync status thanks to the tray icon. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most of the features are accessible from the server web interface (which is either installed on your own Linux server or via Seafile's website): there, you can create new private or public libraries, see all the changes / revisions and files, download, upload or create new files and folders, share files, create or join groups, add contacts, post messages to grups, set up group notifications and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When you click on library, you'll notice that the interface looks a lot like GitHub:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IikSiB1wMU/UQvb89ofivI/AAAAAAAANJM/5tRVrRSXNNU/s1600/seafile-server-workspace-library.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile library example"><img alt="Seafile library example" border="0" height="182" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3IikSiB1wMU/UQvb89ofivI/AAAAAAAANJM/5tRVrRSXNNU/s320/seafile-server-workspace-library.png" title="Seafile library example" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here, you can see all the files available in that library, access the library history and so on. Below you can see a few more Seafile screenshots (with Seafile running on my Ubuntu 12.04 server):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mJnX7QhPJhg/UQvcWk24qTI/AAAAAAAANJU/Um6QUHtJHtk/s1600/seafile-server-file-details.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="File modification details"><img alt="File modification details" border="0" height="172" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mJnX7QhPJhg/UQvcWk24qTI/AAAAAAAANJU/Um6QUHtJHtk/s320/seafile-server-file-details.png" title="File modification details" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-23v-P_r7dwI/UQvcWV0bFdI/AAAAAAAANJY/rsrp7xBgnl4/s1600/seafile-server-file.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Markdown support"><img alt="Seafile markdown support" border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-23v-P_r7dwI/UQvcWV0bFdI/AAAAAAAANJY/rsrp7xBgnl4/s320/seafile-server-file.png" title="Markdown support" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XXXDPDXfTjM/UQvcWiV8pXI/AAAAAAAANJc/EwZVdMfHQqE/s1600/seafile-server-groups.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile group with a group notification on top"><img alt="Seafile group with a group notification on top" border="0" height="168" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XXXDPDXfTjM/UQvcWiV8pXI/AAAAAAAANJc/EwZVdMfHQqE/s320/seafile-server-groups.png" title="Seafile group with a group notification on top" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2d9XugRcWM/UQvcXOGJj5I/AAAAAAAANJg/M3AHYfLEoN0/s1600/seafile-server-history.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Seafile modification history"><img alt="Seafile modification history" border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R2d9XugRcWM/UQvcXOGJj5I/AAAAAAAANJg/M3AHYfLEoN0/s320/seafile-server-history.png" title="Seafile modification history" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Try / download Seafile</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To try Seafile without creating an account on their website or installing it on your own server, you can try the Seafile demo @ <a href="http://cloud.seafile.com/demo/">http://cloud.seafile.com/demo/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Seafile server for Linux runs on Debian, Ubuntu (11.10, 12.04), Centos 5.8, 6.0+ and is very easy to set up thanks to a script that does everything for you. For the server installation instructions, see the <a href="https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/wiki/Download-and-setup-seafile-server">Seafile wiki</a>.</div><br /><a href="http://seafile.com/en/download/">Download Seafile server / clients</a>

Seafile: Robust File Synchronization And Collaboration Tool That You Can Run On Your Linux Server

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Dropbox Uploader Bash Script: Useful For Servers, Raspberry Pi And More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">Dropbox Uploader</a> is a bash script you can use to access your <a href="http://www.dropbox.com/">Dropbox</a> files from the command line, without having to install the Dropbox client. The script can upload, download, delete, share or list the files available in your Dropbox account.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The script is useful in many situations, including: automatic backups, access Dropbox from an ARM server / <b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/raspberry-pi-computer-goes-on-sale.html">Raspberry Pi</a></b>, etc. (since Dropbox isn't available for ARM). That's because its only requirement is cURL, so you don't have to install the Dropbox client to quickly upload or download some files from Dropbox.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Dropbox Uploader isn't just for Linux and it should work on Mac OSX, FreeBSD or Windows/Cygwin too. Also, since it uses the official Dropbox API for the authentication process, you don't have to enter your username and password and you can easily revoke its access to your account from the Dropbox website.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first time your run the script, you must create a Dropbox app and allow the script to access your Dropbox account. Simply run <i>./dropbox_uploader.sh</i> and follow the steps: create a Dropbox App, enter the application key and secret, select if you want to give the script full Dropbox access or just for the app folder and in the end, you'll have to access a link in your web browser to authorize Dropbox Uploader.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everything is explained by the Dropbox Uploader script, as you can see in the screenshots below:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KPg95mzf-5U/UQq4MDFE9NI/AAAAAAAANGQ/H5q1HW2UXTU/s1600/dropbox-uploader1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dropbox uploader" border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KPg95mzf-5U/UQq4MDFE9NI/AAAAAAAANGQ/H5q1HW2UXTU/s320/dropbox-uploader1.png" title="Dropbox uploader" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xRd33OrWmUU/UQq4L5HZOwI/AAAAAAAANGM/x67d8g6G9us/s1600/dropbox-uploader2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xRd33OrWmUU/UQq4L5HZOwI/AAAAAAAANGM/x67d8g6G9us/s320/dropbox-uploader2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />To see all the available options, simply run the script:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>./dropbox_uploader.sh</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Supported Dropbox commands at the time I'm writing this post: upload, download, delete, mkdir, list, share, info and unlink:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQX4BhxFCXA/UQq4ke5CieI/AAAAAAAANGc/Rw9tFhGQv8A/s1600/dropbox-uploader3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dropbox uploader" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQX4BhxFCXA/UQq4ke5CieI/AAAAAAAANGc/Rw9tFhGQv8A/s320/dropbox-uploader3.png" title="Dropbox uploader" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Dropbox Uploader</h2><br /><b>You can download Dropbox Uploader from <a href="https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader">GitHub</a> - here's a <a href="https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh">direct link</a> to the script.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To make it easier, you can copy/paste the following commands to download Dropbox Uploader in your home folder, install curl and make the script executable (the first command will install curl in Debian-based Linux distributions, required for using Dropbox Uploader and since we're installing it, we'll use it to download the script too):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install curl<br />cd && curl -O https://raw.github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader/master/dropbox_uploader.sh<br />chmod +x dropbox_uploader.sh</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Adam for the tip!</i></div>

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Download Ambiance Theme For Spotify

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Michael Tunnell has created a nice Ambiance theme for <a href="http://www.spotify.com/">Spotify</a> which makes the Spotify Linux client integrate better with the Ubuntu desktop.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><i>For those not familiar with Spotify, this is a music streaming service with comes with desktop applications for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X as well as iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone. The service is available in a limited number of countries. More @ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify">Wikipedia</a>.</i><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ambiance Spotify theme comes with Ambiance-like toolbar and colors, a better Spotify tray icon especially designed to look like the Ubuntu Mono Dark icon set (the default icons used in Ubuntu), along with other tweaks that try to give Spotify a more native feel.</div><br />Here's a screenshot in which I'm using the Ambiance Spotify theme in Ubuntu:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ambiance.png" rel="image_group" title="Ubuntu Ambiance theme for Spotify"><img alt="Spotify Ambiance theme Ubuntu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ambiance_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a>And below you can see the original Spotify for Linux theme:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ubuntu-default.png" rel="image_group" title="Default Spotify for Linux theme"><img alt="Spotify default Linux theme" src="http://img.netupd8.com/spotify-ubuntu-default_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to install Ambiance theme for Spotify</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To use the Ambiance Spotify theme, firstly make sure you've <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/how-to-install-native-spotify-linux.html" title="How To Install Spotify In Ubuntu (With Fixes)">installed the native Spotify Linux client</a>. Then, <b>download Ambiance for Spotify from <a href="http://michaeltunnell.com/blog/16-linux/22-ubuntu-ambiance-theme-for-spotify-plus-radiance-icon">HERE</a></b> (see the bottom of the post for a download button) and <b>place the downloaded archive in your home folder.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2. </b>Then, close Spotify and <b>run the following commands to install the Ambiance Spotify theme:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>tar -xvf ubuntu-ambiance-spotify-theme*.tar.gz<br />sudo cp resources.zip /opt/spotify/spotify-client/Data/</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After this, you can remove the downloaded archive as well as the "resources.zip" file from your home directory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to revert the changes and go back to the default Spotify for Linux look, close Spotify and then simply reinstall it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install --reinstall spotify-client</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to / via <a href="https://plus.google.com/b/101912980608854649615/110583156332879711581/posts/MXaMsqQsE7x?cfem=1">+Michael Tunnell</a></i></div>

Download Ambiance Theme For Spotify

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Linux Google Drive Client Insync Gets Xfce And Mate Desktop Integration

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/insync-google-drive-client-for-linux.html">Insync</a>, an unofficial Google Drive Linux client that's available for a wide range of desktop environments has been updated today, getting support for MATE Desktop (Caja) and Xfce (Thunar).</b></div><br /><b>Here's the Insync or Linux Beta 11 changelog:</b><br /><ul><li>Fixed symlink to symlink (chain of symlinks);</li><li>Mate desktop support - Caja emblems and context menu;</li><li>Xfce - Thunar 1.5 emblems and context menu.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've only tested the new Xfce (Thunar) support and it works, but there are some minor glitches. However, this is the first Insync for Xfce release, so hopefully all the issues will be fixed soon. </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-insync.png"><img alt="Thunar 1.6 Insync xfce" src="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-insync_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For instance, Insync for Xfce requires "thunarx-python" (version 0.3) which isn't available in the official Ubuntu repositories - you can however, install it from our PPA, see below. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, the official release notes mention that it should work with Thunar 1.5; since both Xubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 ship with Thunar 1.4 and the Xfce 4.12 PPA has Thunar 1.6, I've tested it with these two versions and: with Thunar 1.4, the context menu items work, but there are no file emblems and with Thunar 1.6, the context menu items work and the file emblems don't work for most files which I've already had in my Google Drive.<br /><br />Anyway, the important thing is that it is usable and I'm sure it will improve in future versions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By the way, I recommend <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/install-thunar-with-tabs-support-in.html" title="Install Thunar 1.6.0 With Tabs Support In Xubuntu 12.10 Or 12.04 [Xfce]">installing Thunar 1.6</a> (which now has tabs support, among other new features) if you're using Xubuntu 12.04 or 12.10.</div><br /><br /><b>Download Insync for Linux, available for Mate Desktop, Xfce, Unity - AppIndicator, KDE, GNOME Shell or Cinnamon, from <a href="https://forums.insynchq.com/discussion/1616/insync-for-linux-beta-11-0-9-28">HERE</a>.</b><br /><br /><b>To install thunarx-python in Xubuntu 12.10 or 12.04, required by Insync for Xfce, use the commands below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install thunarx-python</code></pre>You can also manually <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+packages?field.name_filter=thunar&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=">download</a> the thunarx-python deb files from our PPA.<br /><br />Or, to us the official Insync repository in Ubuntu, Linux Mint or Debian, see our previous post (updated with instructions for the Xfce and Mate builds): <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/insync-repository-available-for-ubuntu.html">Insync Repository Available For Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Debian Users</a>

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Install SparkleShare 1.0 In Ubuntu (Dropbox-Like File Synchronization Tool)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">SparkleShare</a> is an open source file synchronization and collaboration tool </b>somewhat similar to Dropbox, <b>available for Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">SparkleShare uses GIT version control system and can be used with code hosting services like GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitorious as well as your own server.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-appindicator.png" rel="image_group" title="SparkleShare Ubuntu AppIndicator"><img alt="SparkleShare appindicator" src="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-appindicator_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>SparkleShare features:</b><br /><ul><li>presets for projects hosted on GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitorious</li><li>a recent changes window shows who changed what</li><li>restore deleted files or revert to previous versions</li><li>conflict handling</li><li>notifications</li><li>client side encryption</li><li>optional Ubuntu AppIndicator</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In previous versions there used to be Nautilus integration but unfortunately this has been removed about 2 months ago, however, everything you need is integrated into the "Recent Changes dialog":</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-recent-changes.png" rel="image_group" title="SparkleShare Recent Changes dialog"><img alt="SparkleShare recent changes dialog" src="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-recent-changes_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">E.g.: to restore a previous file version, from the main "Recent Changes" dialog view, click on the timestamp next to a file:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-restore-file_thumb.png" rel="image_group" title="SparkleShare - Recent Changes - restore previous file version"><img alt="SparkleShare restore file" src="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-restore-file_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install SparkleShare 1.0 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The SparkleShare version available in the official repositories is a bit old - 0.9.0, but if you don't want to add a PPA, you can use that. Some of the changes included in SparkleShare since version 0.9.0 are: new status icons, project folders can be renamed, new GNOME 3 symbolic icon, restore previous revisions of files from the event log and other changes as well as many many bug fixes - changelog <a href="http://mac.softpedia.com/progChangelog/SparkleShare-Changelog-93731.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">SparkleShare 1.0 will most probably be available in the official Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail repositories, but it can easily be installed on older Ubuntu versions by using an unofficial PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install SparkleShare 1.0 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, firstly add the Git stable releases PPA (the Sparkleshare PPA below depends on this PPA):</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Then, add the unofficial SparkleShare PPA and install the latest SparkleShare 1.0 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10 using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/sparkleshare+unofficial<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sparkleshare libwebkit1.1-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil</code></pre>(some dependencies are missing, that's why there's more than one package in the install command above)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important: the Ubuntu appindicator icon won't show up unless you're using the "ubuntu-mono-dark" (the default Ubuntu icon theme) or "ubuntu-mono-light) icon theme! </b>This is a <a href="https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/issues/1033">known bug</a>.<b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, launch SparkleShare and follow the initial setup dialog steps. To add a project, select <i>SparkleShare > Add Hosted Project</i> from the appindicator menu.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Adding a project hosted on GitHub, etc. is very easy: SparkleShare will create a text file with a ssh key in the SparkleShare folder which you need to add to GitHub under https://github.com/settings/ssh . If you've already added your own ssh key to GitHub, SparkleShare can use that instead, without any extra setup so just enter the remote path and you're ready:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-add-github.png" rel="image_group"><img add="add" alt="SparkleShare" project="project" src="http://img.netupd8.com/sparkleshare-add-github_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to set up your own host, there's a script you can use which configures everything for you - see the SparkleShare <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">homepage</a> for more info on this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OSX, download SparkleShare from its <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">homepage</a>.</b></div>

Install SparkleShare 1.0 In Ubuntu (Dropbox-Like File Synchronization Tool)

SparkleShare is an open source file synchronization and collaboration tool somewhat similar to Dropbox, available for Linux, Mac OSX and Wi...

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