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>

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

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How To Create A Bootable Windows PE ISO Under Linux

<div style="text-align: justify;">Windows PE (Windows Preinstallation Environment, also known as WinPE) is a lightweight Windows version that runs from memory and can be booted from the network, used to deploy workstations and servers or for system maintenance.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCLFRE92jr7z05TdKjDGyqWOp2LBnPa_CEsIxUT1Y78goBrAx5aIlaXpdxkAFj4LvbL9LF3yz5G-I-psAoLekF-4qyhB1UPoChOfSI-qDLk7EmfLXciKU7xL8y1Ept5AKAL6n9RTu4Xg/s1600/windowspe-virtualbox.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Windows PE" border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJCLFRE92jr7z05TdKjDGyqWOp2LBnPa_CEsIxUT1Y78goBrAx5aIlaXpdxkAFj4LvbL9LF3yz5G-I-psAoLekF-4qyhB1UPoChOfSI-qDLk7EmfLXciKU7xL8y1Ept5AKAL6n9RTu4Xg/s320/windowspe-virtualbox.png" title="Windows PE" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Windows PE can may be needed for various reasons, like installing Windows from the network, booting Windows PE from the network or simply running some Windows application without installing Windows or using WINE. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I needed a live Windows PE ISO to be able to update my Dell BIOS, because all the other methods of updating the BIOS on my Dell XPS L702x from Linux I found had failed (and I don't have Windows installed on my laptop). Whatever reason you have to build a customized bootable Windows PE image, here's how to create it from Linux.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>Create a bootable Windows PE ISO in Linux</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To create a bootable Windows PE image in Linux (no Windows machine is necessary), you need a Windows 7 or 8 DVD or you can download the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) ISO from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753">Microsoft's website</a> (for free).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5753">Download the ISO</a> (KB3AIK_EN.iso) in your home folder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test, I've used the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) ISO and not a Windows 7 / 8 DVD.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> The live Windows PE ISO will be created using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/wimlib-imagex-dism-alternative-to.html">Wimlib</a> so you need to install this tool. In Ubuntu, you can install the latest Wimlib by using the main WebUpd8 PPA:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install wimtools</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're not using Ubuntu, search for Wimlib / wimtools in your Linux distribution repositories or, alternatively, download the source from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wimlib/files/">SourceForge</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3. Only if you've you've downloaded the Windows AIK (KB3AIK_EN.iso) ISO from Microsoft's website:</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firstly, you need to create a folder where we'll mount the downloaded WAIK (KB3AIK_EN.iso) ISO:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd<br />mkdir waik</code></pre>Then, mount KB3AIK_EN.iso using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mount KB3AIK_EN.iso $HOME/waik</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> Now let's create the customized live Windows PE ISO. For this, we'll use the "mkwinpeimg" tool included in Wimlib:</div><br /><b>a)</b> If you've used a Windows 7 or 8 DVD:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkwinpeimg --iso <b>--windows-dir=/mnt/windows</b> winpe.iso</code></pre><br /><b>b)</b> If you've used the WAIK (KB3AIK_EN.iso) ISO:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkwinpeimg --iso <b>--waik-dir=$HOME/waik</b> winpe.iso</code></pre>you can now unmount the WAIK ISO:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo umount $HOME/waik</code></pre><br />Here's what the "mkwinpeimg" options above do:<br /><ul><li>"<i>--iso</i>" - it specifies the tool to make an ISO image instead of a disk image</li><li>"-<i>-windows-dir=/mnt/windows</i>" - if using the Windows 7 or 8 DVD only: this is the Windows mount path, usually /mnt/Windows or /mnt/Windows7 but check the path to make sure</li><li>"<i>--waik-dir=$HOME/waik</i>" - if using the WAIK ISO only: this specifies the path to where the WAIK ISO was mounted, <i>$HOME/waik</i> in our case.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you want to add some files to the bootable Windows PE image, you can use "--overlay=<i>/path/to/some/folder</i>"</b> (replace<i> /path/to/some/folder</i> with the path to a folder that contains the files you want included on the custom Windows PE image) - this will included all the files under<i> /path/to/some/folder</i> on the Windows PE image, in the root directory (under X:).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Run "<i>man mkwinpeimg</i>" in a terminal for more info on mkwinpeimg and all the available options.</div><br /><br />

How To Create A Bootable Windows PE ISO Under Linux

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PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/index.html">PuddleTag</a>, a Linux audio tag editor similar to the popular Windows tool <i>Mp3Tag</i>, has been updated recently with new features and bug fixes.</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/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s1600/puddletag.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="PuddleTag" border="0" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3dnq_xOfBa407H53gveGAjQwN-8E6zXWxRAdAid_0tQfal4c5-OMSchwXIvzJYOdvvqdI4LDFzMarE2sWP0WiJCEklimk43X4LnRRzCkoMzsZNmRCY7s19-C41ErQ-CSUg3dyuEXCkSQ/s320/puddletag.png" title="PuddleTag" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag comes with a highly customizable interface and a spreadsheet-like layout, making it easy to edit all the tags you want. Using it, you can easily batch edit your music files tags, rename files based on tag information, supports adding album covers to your files, can import tags from Amazon, Discogs, FreeDB, AcoustID and MusicBrainz and more. It even supports Mp3Tag tag sources.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application supports the following formats: ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey’s Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest PuddleTag 1.0.2 RC1, released yesterday, features the following changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Added dropdown in Extended Tags that works like Tag Panel. Useful for editing multiple valued fields;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Support for MusicBrainz cover art;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Search by ID for MusicBrainz tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art can be dragged from browser. If link can be resolved, image will be loaded;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">You can now submit your tags containing MusicBrainz IDs to AcoustID;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">__total can be edited in Tag Panel and other places;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added disambiguation to album title for MusiBrainz so that album titles would be "Somaro (Deluxe Edition)" instead of just "Somaro";</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Multiple-valued fields can be added using '\\' in extended tags;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a confirmation dialog if copying large amounts of data;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added canto field to Discogs tag source;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Column settings now take ordering made by user (by dragging, etc) into account;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Directory modified date is force-changed if files are modified;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: MP4 tagging not working at all;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: directory renaming not stripping invalid chars;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: $validate scripting function failing when '/' in arguments;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: unable to delete fields if __total populated;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: checked Actions being overwritten by check Quick Actions selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Fixed: Discogs didn't return all album info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">PuddleTag 1.0.2 may not be considered a stable release yet, but its developer says he has been "<i>using this release since forever and consider it to work pretty well</i>" and if no issues are reported, he will release this as the stable 1.0.2 version.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install PuddleTag in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest PuddleTag by using the WebUpd8 PuddleTag PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install puddletag</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Or, if you don't want to add our PPA or you're not using Ubuntu, you can download the latest PuddleTag deb or source files from its downloads page:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/download.html#development-builds">Download PuddleTag</a></b></div>

PuddleTag (Linux Audio Tag Editor) 1.0.2 RC1 Released

PuddleTag , a Linux audio tag editor similar to the popular Windows tool Mp3Tag , has been updated recently with new features and bug fixes....

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Conky Manager Gets New Options, 4 New Themes

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/conky-manager-gui-for-managing-conky.html">Conky Manager</a>, a graphical font-end for managing Conky configuration files, has been <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.ro/2013/07/conky-manager-v12.html">updated</a> to version 1.2 yesterday, getting 4 new Conky configurations / themes, as well as some new options.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRGLyNSj7kw6Uq30BIvPlzcecx7YLqs5sVsej072OBrQui1QpHsGUbscVFftMX1KBMEV05y3IkPeYMqbEIwXY24JgQZS-5YjEz3kZb5V8-JypfiAQXrmZX43PB1VHtZMqLeGqxSiNg4k/s1600/conky-manager-1.2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuRGLyNSj7kw6Uq30BIvPlzcecx7YLqs5sVsej072OBrQui1QpHsGUbscVFftMX1KBMEV05y3IkPeYMqbEIwXY24JgQZS-5YjEz3kZb5V8-JypfiAQXrmZX43PB1VHtZMqLeGqxSiNg4k/s320/conky-manager-1.2.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in Conky Manager 1.2:</b><br /><ul><li>new option to change the time format (12hr/24hr);</li><li>new option to change the network interface (WiFi/LAN);</li><li>new application icon;</li><li>a "Show Desktop" button has been added to minimize other windows, to make it easier to see the changes you make to the selected Conky configuration;</li><li>added option to import  Conky theme pack.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1_4Ou9TMlm34gd4LjAOGjpYyT2y6Bvyp6qkzS7r5TmI6dE2cxj7Q3tYMz2CtNaSO1D2CyZr4_OaQC_VybsJ280MV-NdahQ0RGhMLJ1Vrwlt_um8GXZLw8hmv5SB1NsnoVSzlIzjSC7w/s1600/conky-manager-1.2-network.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Conky Manager" border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie1_4Ou9TMlm34gd4LjAOGjpYyT2y6Bvyp6qkzS7r5TmI6dE2cxj7Q3tYMz2CtNaSO1D2CyZr4_OaQC_VybsJ280MV-NdahQ0RGhMLJ1Vrwlt_um8GXZLw8hmv5SB1NsnoVSzlIzjSC7w/s320/conky-manager-1.2-network.png" title="Conky Manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can see the new Conky configurations / themes added in the latest Conky Manager 1.2:</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/AVvXsEg_toQsOfEiqPCbngcqJlCty527Ba1uGbVSoufBm7kTh-9KBTUkE3FujdMn6SnS3GJCA0JxQY4fhy4DLqR9ZVDwXkNLSi2CcUB7JzEMImlRmwHT8PhOQdErDYYVHcpzgwZI6uF6dS81UTM/s1600/conky-lsd.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_toQsOfEiqPCbngcqJlCty527Ba1uGbVSoufBm7kTh-9KBTUkE3FujdMn6SnS3GJCA0JxQY4fhy4DLqR9ZVDwXkNLSi2CcUB7JzEMImlRmwHT8PhOQdErDYYVHcpzgwZI6uF6dS81UTM/s320/conky-lsd.png" title="Conky Configuration" width="242" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky LSD<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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_N25qlyjmq81R_GfFMPikFqyW0-HzIyI_zAyEvi89MddkxL6ttf2ebXp56lmqWaWohb-DOZ1d-u9MCCwcJsuvkbAhCaVsi6n9DtiLqGE6an4MJqAovLNWsZaLhpO-6sOcc1OqBFHKWqM/s1600/conky-miui.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_N25qlyjmq81R_GfFMPikFqyW0-HzIyI_zAyEvi89MddkxL6ttf2ebXp56lmqWaWohb-DOZ1d-u9MCCwcJsuvkbAhCaVsi6n9DtiLqGE6an4MJqAovLNWsZaLhpO-6sOcc1OqBFHKWqM/s1600/conky-miui.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky MIUI</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZ9C-l-Vm7BBVF31i6lPwkUbqaHhyphenhyphen-wPRAITZZB1MN3Zu_EIT06KwpnurLtk5nnFre2WmfvHs45KU1zkI-Zh43kY7SLhyphenhyphenoAGKBnMPJpCEAqtniyVI-YfkxjIwLvHd_09iAl1AfRpQBM4/s1600/conky-seamod.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfZ9C-l-Vm7BBVF31i6lPwkUbqaHhyphenhyphen-wPRAITZZB1MN3Zu_EIT06KwpnurLtk5nnFre2WmfvHs45KU1zkI-Zh43kY7SLhyphenhyphenoAGKBnMPJpCEAqtniyVI-YfkxjIwLvHd_09iAl1AfRpQBM4/s320/conky-seamod.png" title="Conky Configuration" width="127" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Seamod</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuNnPblwsI2Qo-1JJj__f9gcxcACp1XOSIRLx5IiKUWDwPOw8DaJ8sxu3BHhnfNjOFJHtEREMe2QuuOZgeCCYIxhS1LYwURag3EuIEnaySg3cnARbtPkeYbQkVlep47Fr9uNwWwO8iq8/s1600/conky-venti-color.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWuNnPblwsI2Qo-1JJj__f9gcxcACp1XOSIRLx5IiKUWDwPOw8DaJ8sxu3BHhnfNjOFJHtEREMe2QuuOZgeCCYIxhS1LYwURag3EuIEnaySg3cnARbtPkeYbQkVlep47Fr9uNwWwO8iq8/s1600/conky-venti-color.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Venti-Color (8 Core with Clock widget)</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlTl7c5TdrqCLWDfGVDmjK9ZE37LNAh8Iwtd7kS7JazzT2bk66dvKv7z4MU-KoVdN1uMG17Rgyq5dXTDJudq3um5JOejXSGm-wOwMtWD4HIwsQgT71m-WyEtKItjVmFIiVrXrZNTcQu0/s1600/conky-venti-color_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Conky Configuration" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNlTl7c5TdrqCLWDfGVDmjK9ZE37LNAh8Iwtd7kS7JazzT2bk66dvKv7z4MU-KoVdN1uMG17Rgyq5dXTDJudq3um5JOejXSGm-wOwMtWD4HIwsQgT71m-WyEtKItjVmFIiVrXrZNTcQu0/s1600/conky-venti-color_2.png" title="Conky Configuration" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Conky Venti-Color (Clock stats + Wifi widget)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Even more Conky configurations</h2><br />For more Conky configurations you can download the <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/download/5yb5ambg6h4jack/Deluxe_Conky_Theme_Pack.cmtp.7z">Deluxe Conky Pack by Jesse Avalos</a> - to add the pack to Conky Manager (make sure you have installed the latest version), on the Options tab, select "Import Conky Manager Theme Pack" and select the downloaded "<i>Deluxe_Conky_Theme_Pack.cmtp.7z</i>".<br /><br />You can see a quick demo of the Conky configurations / themes included in the <i>Deluxe Conky Pack</i> by watching the video below:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/GnaSVbw6ONk" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnaSVbw6ONk">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Install Conky Manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the Conky Manager PPA and install the application in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install conky-manager</code></pre><br />If you're not using Ubuntu, you can download the code from <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/~teejee2008/conky-manager/trunk">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><b>For more info, see the Conky Manager page @ <a href="http://teejeetech.blogspot.ro/p/conky-manager.html">Teejeetech</a>.</b><br /><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/conky-manager/+filebug">Launchpad</a>. <b><br /></b>

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Pair Logitech Unifying Receiver Devices In Linux With Solaar

<div style="text-align: justify;">The Logitech Unifying receiver supports connecting up to six compatible wireless mice and keyboards however, only the device that comes with the receiver is already paired (and thus, only that device will work out of the box with the receiver).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Logitech provides a tool for pairing additional devices to the Unifying receiver but it's only <a href="http://www.logitech.com/en-us/support/unifying?section=downloads&crid=583">available</a> for Windows and Mac OSX so if you want to pair new devices or if you want to use a new receiver (in case you lose the old one for instance) and you're using Linux, you can use a third-party tool such as <i>Solaar</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/AVvXsEh7bi5iaKjlWEkihT0wMX7mZsQrj8UnR4dWPuS83mBd0YhzzC7f2MW7jb_W8-tXItjZxfhns3P3ixF43jMOJKLhBridO35hs2CnTQCyRtctcVeK0SkPWMQScWZCJclkeKr6z6O6802St00/s1600/solaar-logitech_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Solaar Logitech" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7bi5iaKjlWEkihT0wMX7mZsQrj8UnR4dWPuS83mBd0YhzzC7f2MW7jb_W8-tXItjZxfhns3P3ixF43jMOJKLhBridO35hs2CnTQCyRtctcVeK0SkPWMQScWZCJclkeKr6z6O6802St00/s320/solaar-logitech_2.png" title="Solaar Logitech" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/index.html">Solaar</a> is a Linux tool that allows you to manage <i>Logitech Unifying Receiver</i> mice and keyboards, that comes with both a GUI and command line interface.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The application can be used to pair / unpair Logitech devices to the Unifying receiver,</b> it can <b>display the battery status for most devices</b> and, for some peripherals, it supports some extra settings that aren't available through the standard Linux system configuration:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><i>K750 Solar Keyboard</i>: display the current lighting value (Lux);</li><li><i>K360, MK700, K750 </i>and <i>K800 </i>keyboards: toggle the FN key state;</li><li><i>Performance MX Mouse</i>: change the DPI;</li><li><i>M705 Marathon Mouse</i> and <i>M510 Wireless Mouse</i>: toggle smooth scrolling.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPaFYBCBqTOjiQxNphoDZ7tIPnO2_uhW3Sn_BtSBumeMJQwSKy7313H-EqEf0TnwAL0NkWXKmKYrlZrYfJI0RH4JkyL3kb8SFBQYKEIQdCCqBzqZj42jmhAhMSto2yBGFzsr3arfIRy4/s1600/solaar-logitech.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Solaar Logitech" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuPaFYBCBqTOjiQxNphoDZ7tIPnO2_uhW3Sn_BtSBumeMJQwSKy7313H-EqEf0TnwAL0NkWXKmKYrlZrYfJI0RH4JkyL3kb8SFBQYKEIQdCCqBzqZj42jmhAhMSto2yBGFzsr3arfIRy4/s320/solaar-logitech.png" title="Solaar Logitech" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Solaar</b> currently <b>supports all Logitech Unifying Receiver devices but only some newer Nano Receivers</b> are supported (USB ID: 046d:c52f, you can check that bu running "lsusb -d 046d:")</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Solaar in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Solaar can be install in Ubuntu through its official PPA. To add the PPA and install Solaar, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel.pavel/solaar<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install solaar</code></pre>Once installed, open Solaar from the Dash / menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important note</b>: the first time I ran the application (GUI), it couldn't read the battery status for my Logitech M525 Wireless Mouse and I got a missing icon on the top panel. I've had to restart the application twice to get the panel (indicator) icon to show up and to get Solaar to display the battery status. So if you encounter this issue, try restarting the application.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu, all the Solaar files are installed under <i>/opt</i> so if you want to use the command line tool, run the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/solaar/bin/solaar-cli --help</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The command above should display all the available solaar-cli (the Solaar command line interface) options.</div><br /><b>Solaar is also available for <a href="http://pwr.github.io/Solaar/debian.html">Debian 7 or higher</a>, <a href="http://code.r3pek.org/gentoo-overlay/src">Gentoo</a>, <a href="http://software.opensuse.org/package/Solaar">OpenSUSE</a> and <a href="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/solaar">Arch Linux</a>. The source code is available on <a href="https://github.com/pwr/Solaar">GitHub</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2013/07/12/pairing-the-logitech-performance-mx-and-others-to-the-unifying-receiver-in-gnulinux">Fabián Rodríguez</a></i></div>

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How To Download And Install The Windows 8.1 Fonts In Ubuntu

<b>If for whatever reason you need to use the latest Microsoft Windows 8.1 (or 8) fonts in Ubuntu and you don't have a Windows partition to copy the fonts, here's how to download and install them.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFIaSd2NOQuWGnab4VKmtFi55i3JFnmNcpSLR0bFlUNUOm5lLMueFeUxIKc3QWevU6p5LEN5oEISzAT_seFxbmcLvHrW9SF9ftiQDyTNVPuyhK5_BHFJ8JFoSrQjgHHg_AYGmJyhuESs/s1600/ms-windows-fonts-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MS Windows 8.1 fonts Ubuntu" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFIaSd2NOQuWGnab4VKmtFi55i3JFnmNcpSLR0bFlUNUOm5lLMueFeUxIKc3QWevU6p5LEN5oEISzAT_seFxbmcLvHrW9SF9ftiQDyTNVPuyhK5_BHFJ8JFoSrQjgHHg_AYGmJyhuESs/s320/ms-windows-fonts-ubuntu.png" title="MS Windows 8.1 fonts Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Installing the Windows 8.1 fonts in Ubuntu means you'll get any new fonts that Microsoft included in the latest Windows Preview (like Segoe UI Black, Segoe UI Emoji and a few others) as well as the latest version of popular fonts like Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Segoe UI, Verdana, Times New Roman and so on. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you'll find instructions for downloading the Windows 8.1 Preview ISO from Microsoft, extracting the fonts from the ISO (<b>because the fonts can't be redistributed</b>) using 7zip and Wimlib and installing the fonts in Ubuntu, either system-wide or for your user only. The instructions are based on / adapted from the <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-ms-win8/">tt-ms-win8</a> AUR package (thanks to <i>reflexing</i>!).</div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><h2>How to download and install the Windows 8.1 fonts in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>1. Download Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview ISO.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the fonts can't be redistributed, you must extract them from a Windows 8.1 ISO. You can <b>download Windows 8.1 Preview from <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview-download">Microsoft</a></b> - save the ISO file in your home folder. I recommend downloading the 32bit ISO since it's 1 GB smaller than the 64bit ISO.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Optionally, you can also download the Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise evaluation ISO from <b><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx">HERE</a></b>.<br /><br />Both Microsoft Windows 8.1 Preview and Windows 8 Enterprise evaluation are available to download for free.</i></div><br /><br /><b>2. Install the tools required to extract the fonts from the Windows 8.1 ISO.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We'll need p7zip-full and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/wimlib-imagex-dism-alternative-to.html" title="Wimlib: ImageX / DISM Alternative To Manipulate WIM Files In Linux [Ubuntu PPA]">Wimlib</a> (which is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA) - install them in Ubuntu using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install wimtools p7zip-full</code></pre><br /><b>3. Extract the Windows 8.1 fonts from the ISO</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To extract the Microsoft Windows 8.1 fonts from the ISO file, use the following commands (the commands below assume you've downloaded the ISO in your home folder): </div><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd<br />7z x <b>WindowsBlue-ClientwithApps-32bit-English-X1899604.iso</b> sources/install.wim<br />cd sources/<br />mkdir tmp fonts<br />imagex mount install.wim 1 tmp<br />cp tmp/Windows/Fonts/{*.ttf,cambria.ttc} fonts<br />imagex unmount tmp</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The ISO file name in the first command above may change</b> or you may have downloaded a different ISO so make sure you check the filename of your downloaded ISO and use that instead of "<i>WindowsBlue-ClientwithApps-32bit-English-X1899604.iso</i>" if the command doesn't work.</div><br /><br /><b>4. Optional: convert the Cambria font from TTC to TTF</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you need the Cambria (regular) font, you'll need to convert it to TTF because the font is available as a TrueType Collection (TTC) and unless you convert it, you won't be able to use it in LibreOffice for instance. To convert it to TTF, you need to install FontForge:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install fontforge</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And then, open a terminal and run the following command (the commands below assume you've followed our exact instructions and extracted the fonts under <i>~/sources/fonts</i>):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd ~/sources/fonts/<br />fontforge -lang=ff -c 'Open("cambria.ttc(Cambria)"); Generate("cambria.ttf"); Close(); Open("cambria.ttc(Cambria Math)"); Generate("cambria-math.ttf"); Close();'</code></pre><br /><b>5. Install the Windows 8.1 fonts in Ubuntu</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Before proceeding, delete any fonts that you don't need from the sources/fonts folder. </div><br />To install the Microsoft Windows 8.1 fonts system-wide, use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win8.1<br />sudo cp ~/sources/fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/win8.1/<br />sudo fc-cache -f -v</code></pre><br />Or, to install the Windows 8.1 fonts for your user only, use the following commands instead:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>mkdir -p ~/.fonts/win8.1<br />cp ~/sources/fonts/*.ttf ~/.fonts/win8.1/<br />sudo fc-cache -f -v</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you can delete the "sources" folder from your home directory as well as the downloaded Windows 8.1 ISO file.</div><br />

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Dota 2 Test Available For Linux [Steam]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxumscoJAjQTuhJKJ5-tqHF3C1d62JOxNWg6wqbOYfxkCi0v0I_mszh06efnmHnvQwGMaDIpQp_LAiqD2e0QA8B8Cp5JXAzPowKcnESq31FGjSD5ac-m4pCEE2GCsvRRDCPefs7kK_fbQ/s1600/dota2-test-linux.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dota 2 Linux" border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxumscoJAjQTuhJKJ5-tqHF3C1d62JOxNWg6wqbOYfxkCi0v0I_mszh06efnmHnvQwGMaDIpQp_LAiqD2e0QA8B8Cp5JXAzPowKcnESq31FGjSD5ac-m4pCEE2GCsvRRDCPefs7kK_fbQ/s320/dota2-test-linux.png" title="Dota 2 Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/">Dota 2</a> has been officially <a href="http://www.dota2.com/thebetaisover/">released</a> for Windows a couple of days ago and today, Valve has released "Dota 2 Test" for Linux:</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>"Please note that Dota 2 Linux is still in <a href="http://dev.dota2.com/showthread.php?t=96878">testing</a> and only available on Dota 2 Test. We're looking for early testing and feedback from users before we ship Linux support on the main Dota 2 release client. Your feedback and bug reports will directly help us improve Dota 2 on Linux."</i></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Dota 2 is multiplayer online battle arena game developed by Valve, which uses the Source engine. The game is free to play and has the following system requirements:</div><ul><li>Ubuntu 12.04;</li><li>Dual core from Intel or AMD at 2.8 GHz;</li><li>4GB RAM;</li><li>4GB Hard Drive Space;</li><li>nVidia GeForce 8600/9600GT, ATI/AMD Radeaon HD2600/3600 (Graphic Drivers: nVidia 310, AMD 12.11), OpenGL 2.1;</li><li>OpenAL Compatible Sound Card.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Note:</b> "Dota 2 Test" and "Dota 2" use different servers so you won't be able to play with regular Dota 2 users yet.</div><br /><b>To get DOTA 2 Test on Linux</b>, visit the Dota 2 Steam page (<a href="http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/">web</a> | <a href="steam://install/570">Steam link</a>) and click "Get Dota 2". When you get access to Dota 2, you should get a "Dota 2 Test" entry in your Steam games list. According to the Steam product page, "there may be a short wait for you to download the game".<br /><br />Below you can watch the official Dota 2 trailer:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/-cSFPIwMEq4" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cSFPIwMEq4">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In my test using Intel graphics, the game doesn't work too well as you can see in <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiodrwjodZ2-d2jfueZ5qe93bdT9N5XbhVsZ55sUOv7MVtwk9HxCzNpVIFPcy4LItT_7eHyHdJLTK0NEWiI7tnFTHmXuQwXNilOYweF8gl_D7Py5LnW9shRlDqMJmQ5aMmKbNy-492whJI/s1600/dota2-linux-bug.png">this</a> screenshot. However, many <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1i0sfl/dota_2_test_avaiable_on_linux/">Reddit</a> users have reported that the game works pretty well with other graphics cards.</div><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues">GitHub</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1i0sfl/dota_2_test_avaiable_on_linux/">Reddit</a></i></div>

Dota 2 Test Available For Linux [Steam]

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Genymotion: Fast, Easy To Use Android (x86) Emulator With OpenGL Hardware Acceleration Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://genymotion.com/">Genymotion</a> is a fast Android emulator</b> which comes with pre-configured Android <b>(x86 with </b><b>OpenGL hardware acceleration)</b> images, <b>great for application testing</b>. The project has evolved from the old AndroidVM and compared to it, Genymotion comes with a new player design, installer and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ceHHYRYTirqCrRKkOFfdISyoQSRepMxpTBib54SNMQWq2NhnotnxrarPe8_5tQyfU6kaloPdbw32T9xC9qxYJfPT9aP-Ehbtu12ngR-saB8Dc9_q2Ij5VL-V_SdSRBUEYCZknh7unZc/s1600/genymotion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ceHHYRYTirqCrRKkOFfdISyoQSRepMxpTBib54SNMQWq2NhnotnxrarPe8_5tQyfU6kaloPdbw32T9xC9qxYJfPT9aP-Ehbtu12ngR-saB8Dc9_q2Ij5VL-V_SdSRBUEYCZknh7unZc/s320/genymotion.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to its developers, "<i>the product is aimed at replacing the Android Emulator from Google not only for Android developers but also for people making Android apps demonstrations</i>".</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Genymotion (currently in <b>beta</b>) is <b>available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and requires VirtualBox</b>. The virtual images code is open source (available <a href="https://github.com/androvm">HERE</a>) however, the software that runs on the host (the "player") is not, but it is free to use. In the future, Genymotion will continue to have a free to use version with many advanced features but there will also be paid versions, "<i>mainly for large companies needing collaboration on Genymotion</i>".</div><br /><b>Genymotion features:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Easily download and run pre-configured virtual images: <b>Android 4.1.1 and 4.2.2 (with x86 support)</b>: Nexus 7, Nexus S, Nexus One Jelly Bean, 10.1'', WXGA Tablet, 7.0'' and WSVGA Tablet, all with or without Google Apps (Play Store, etc.);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Networking: Ethernet (emulates WiFi connection);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GPS (with configurable coordinates) and battery (with configurable battery levels) emulation widgets;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Display: OpenGL hardware acceleration, multiscreen, full screen display;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Genymotion shell which allows you to interact with your VM using a command line;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">ADB support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Eclipse and Android Studio plugins;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Supports Linux, Windows and Mac.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">More sensors are expected in future releases: gyroscope, light, temperature, rotation vector and so on.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Please note that since this is beta software, you might find bugs or incomplete features. In my test, things have worked pretty well: the Internet connection has worked out of the box and I was able to play games like Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja without any lag (but this obviously depends on your hardware):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3W8FDUn1LJs2sEYSvW1W3XhVDOKZFTpk4peMHpWM8c4B5D-CECU5b1GRZkCmufmbVaTr9U3nhmYjqcgLsNoM8w3WRDFSbfq9gOoUuQEqnqEerl83j4_lQcfKxdpPw9Kt3PjDjxNsagzs/s1600/genymotion_vm_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3W8FDUn1LJs2sEYSvW1W3XhVDOKZFTpk4peMHpWM8c4B5D-CECU5b1GRZkCmufmbVaTr9U3nhmYjqcgLsNoM8w3WRDFSbfq9gOoUuQEqnqEerl83j4_lQcfKxdpPw9Kt3PjDjxNsagzs/s320/genymotion_vm_5.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />Here are a few more screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAZlUmrh4PrtnuVwmB3mSioSdON_mGbTcygjRPZaHvL6pNPokDdSkpBqSMnmRdMa7_34-0rcSVpaJbm9wdtcgYnPnyVpWivtYJF9z3svSruSJfLwZhYOCOqqb_WhmCBO1wKVfxRh_yy8/s1600/genymotion.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAZlUmrh4PrtnuVwmB3mSioSdON_mGbTcygjRPZaHvL6pNPokDdSkpBqSMnmRdMa7_34-0rcSVpaJbm9wdtcgYnPnyVpWivtYJF9z3svSruSJfLwZhYOCOqqb_WhmCBO1wKVfxRh_yy8/s320/genymotion.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxxg7fM8uh7YvjwGj02VBksn7MIwOTooMOZbEdRhKi3BoBv9j0FDiQ4bijzYFlwmwKvHKfzFzOBJbRav6auX_K0Xyb3LRko77LM2-UNxmwOlmXPy4nj_tdhaLUHZx-HKXG0G4CmN-L28/s1600/genymotion_vm_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdxxg7fM8uh7YvjwGj02VBksn7MIwOTooMOZbEdRhKi3BoBv9j0FDiQ4bijzYFlwmwKvHKfzFzOBJbRav6auX_K0Xyb3LRko77LM2-UNxmwOlmXPy4nj_tdhaLUHZx-HKXG0G4CmN-L28/s320/genymotion_vm_2.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oLAq3ELlUs6P35YCAzzsO8c8tIBkom9tV1A628h5SBNpoxmsS0gIEF6QgPbqDNJ9Jfl1kZvQXc9Djot-Tc5aJYAwwfD5Hgo94yM46fuqaT0DFC2xSlN6jQt-45eDbYdrKqQyWYa40WM/s1600/genymotion_vm_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oLAq3ELlUs6P35YCAzzsO8c8tIBkom9tV1A628h5SBNpoxmsS0gIEF6QgPbqDNJ9Jfl1kZvQXc9Djot-Tc5aJYAwwfD5Hgo94yM46fuqaT0DFC2xSlN6jQt-45eDbYdrKqQyWYa40WM/s320/genymotion_vm_3.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2-DpU4Ranl7YFLh32y5G2CrV_jU_oKnsRxNvKSQXEStc57yeDRKu3XczmzOCOZsfUtzNA3tAhpFrvz5vyXfD5SQGNXJn44xrcAulNoZ95toF34FeEI4QiMgS2QAatnSmZqb68xCaixE/s1600/genymotion_vm_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Genymotion Android x86" border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2-DpU4Ranl7YFLh32y5G2CrV_jU_oKnsRxNvKSQXEStc57yeDRKu3XczmzOCOZsfUtzNA3tAhpFrvz5vyXfD5SQGNXJn44xrcAulNoZ95toF34FeEI4QiMgS2QAatnSmZqb68xCaixE/s320/genymotion_vm_4.png" title="Genymotion Android x86" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Genymotion download / usage</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Before proceeding, please note that your computer must support <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/how-to-find-out-if-your-cpu-supports.html">hardware virtualization</a> (VTx / AMD-v) to be able to run Genymotion images. <b>Update:</b> this may no longer be required with the latest Genymotion 1.2.1, but I can't test it since my computer supports hardware virtualization.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To use Genymotion, you need to install Oracle VirtualBox (<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/virtualbox-420-released-with-support.html">Ubuntu installation instructions</a>) - I've tested it with Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.16 and apparently, there are some issues with older versions so you should upgrade to the latest stable release.</div><br /><b>2. </b>The next step is to download Genymotion. To be able to download it, you need to sign up for an account (free) @ <a href="https://cloud.genymotion.com/">https://cloud.genymotion.com</a> . After you create an account, download Genymotion in your home directory.<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Genymotion via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/genymotion/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> Now let's install Genymotion. For this, we'll need to mark the downloaded bin file as executable and run it (the commands below assume you've downloaded Genymotion in your home folder):</div><br /><b>32bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd<br />chmod +x genymotion-1.2.1_x86.bin<br />./genymotion-1.2.1_x86.bin</code></pre><b>64bit:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd<br />chmod +x genymotion-1.2.1_x64.bin<br />./genymotion-1.2.1_x64.bin</code></pre><br />The installer will then ask you if you want to proceed - enter "y" (without the quotes), press ENTER and that's it, Genymotion should now be installed on your system.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> If you've followed our instructions above, Genymotion should be installed under <i>~/genymotion</i> so to run it, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>~/genymotion/genymotion</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Genymotion should now start. To add a new virtual device, click "Add", log in with your Genymotion username and password (created under step 2) and you should see a list of available devices:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuO4MYGQM9_xwlY-yvufvO0AYev498wqYQS8glPnGXeXvvigf3L-pISJ076uwMcg162u4cPLaimyt4XNfPKHxma59a77Qdw8Je081SNcVaeQdldGSDiv1yJi0ARGALYo_wH82DhndRx8/s1600/genymotion_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbuO4MYGQM9_xwlY-yvufvO0AYev498wqYQS8glPnGXeXvvigf3L-pISJ076uwMcg162u4cPLaimyt4XNfPKHxma59a77Qdw8Je081SNcVaeQdldGSDiv1yJi0ARGALYo_wH82DhndRx8/s320/genymotion_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Select the virtual device you want to download from the list and click "Add" (to be able to install applications via Google Play Store, make sure the machine name mentions "Google Apps"):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocqe0BFTq76jxWLgkMTaZs6jpKf5xEkZoEOxjLQ3eOPoqzCsDoYWW8nBdGzkFciIN7-G7AJSRUrJEYG8FyxKdqETaJpri4cU7GlZVxlN5xiFCagsFdGiD5NfH7dlzJQuUd4_340Xxx8g/s1600/genymotion_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiocqe0BFTq76jxWLgkMTaZs6jpKf5xEkZoEOxjLQ3eOPoqzCsDoYWW8nBdGzkFciIN7-G7AJSRUrJEYG8FyxKdqETaJpri4cU7GlZVxlN5xiFCagsFdGiD5NfH7dlzJQuUd4_340Xxx8g/s320/genymotion_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you click "Next", the download should begin. Click "Next" when the download completes, enter a name for your new virtual device and click the "Create" button, then "Finish". The device should then show up in the main Genymotion window. Using the buttons on the right (or right clicking the device), you can change the screen size or delete the device:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMCY7XcluMmfQGQvlcQXt3htbNd2Ygnc-d55oz_-Bdyg7Pbf0rPKIDcSGNj3jKi_vLgALmbGrLyroRSiVEYzpEUaO3mkknSbprf08YqXBEHcorcdum38npAHwa3mX8N34RLGcvJli3bI/s1600/genymotion_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXMCY7XcluMmfQGQvlcQXt3htbNd2Ygnc-d55oz_-Bdyg7Pbf0rPKIDcSGNj3jKi_vLgALmbGrLyroRSiVEYzpEUaO3mkknSbprf08YqXBEHcorcdum38npAHwa3mX8N34RLGcvJli3bI/s320/genymotion_3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To start a device, select it and click the "Play" button. In the same way, you can create and run more devices.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From the Genymotion menu you can set the ADB path or enter a proxy to use with Genymotion. In my test, Genymotion displayed an "Unable to find ADB in this path" message even though my ADB path was correct - hopefully this bug will be fixed soon. Once you start a virtual machine, you can connect via ADB by using the default VM IP: <i>192.168.56.101</i> (this can be configured from the virtual machine, via Genymotion Configuration, available in the Android VM apps list).</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/07/genymotion-avviare-ed-utilizzare.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

Genymotion: Fast, Easy To Use Android (x86) Emulator With OpenGL Hardware Acceleration Support

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Command Line Video Download Tool `youtube-dl` Gets Support For 17 New Websites

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/">Youtube-dl</a> is a command line tool that allows downloading videos from YouTube and other similar websites. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Recently, youtube-dl has received support for 17 new websites</b>: hotnewhiphop.com, auengine.com, gamespot.com, RingTV, wat.tv, traileraddict.com, tu.tv, instagram.com, Statigr.am, break.com, tudou.com, Jukebox, Wimp.com, CSpan, 3sat, brightcove.com and archive.org.</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/AVvXsEhfwlIE9KK2Kfc8aa1dZTbM0baYxGE2ITailnzykIdIyq_Yy9Fxz4xVZGVdXgp1bH0ab7aLzj2QT7RNqUePt3mKf7j7FYJgzUqC8rMCvE23wFlUDyDF9YSiC1H0LDpj5cZ8qUoXuhreX5k/s1600/youtube-dl.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfwlIE9KK2Kfc8aa1dZTbM0baYxGE2ITailnzykIdIyq_Yy9Fxz4xVZGVdXgp1bH0ab7aLzj2QT7RNqUePt3mKf7j7FYJgzUqC8rMCvE23wFlUDyDF9YSiC1H0LDpj5cZ8qUoXuhreX5k/s320/youtube-dl.png" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Compared to the version available in the Ubuntu repositories (13.04, 12.10 or 12.04), there are many other changes in the latest youtube-dl (version 2013.07.08.1), including:</div><ul><li>Improved support for encrypted signatures in Youtube;</li><li>Improved support for videos from ArteTv;</li><li>Vimeo: allow to download password protected videos;</li><li>Youtube: A lot of work for downloading VEVO videos;</li><li>Fixed downloading from Google+ videos;</li><li>Added support for downloading automatic transcribed subtitles;</li><li>Added support for downloading subtitles in WebVTT (vtt) format;</li><li>Improved support for Youtube's crypto signing fields;</li><li>YouTube subscription feed download support;</li><li>Dailymotion: fixed the download of the video in the max quality;</li><li>Fixed bash completion.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides the newly added websites, youtube-dl also supports: <b>YouTube (besides single videos it also supports playlists, searches and user videos)</b>, metacafe.com, Google Video (including searches), Pinsthotobucket, Dailymotion, DepositFiles, blip.tv, Vimeo, myvideo.de, The Daily Show / Colbert Nation, The Escapist, CollegeHumor, arte.tv, Soundcloud, xvideos, infoq, mixcloud, Stanford Open Content, Youku, MTV, Xnxx, Google Plus and there's also a generic downloader that works with some other sites.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with many useful features, including <b>options to specify the video quality/format</b>, add the original title to the downloaded video filename, proxy support, <b>automatically extract audio from downloaded videos</b> and more.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install youtube-dl in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest youtube-dl from the main WebUpd8 PPA</b> (note: the PPA contains some other packages so check out the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">package list</a> before adding it):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install youtube-dl</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">You can manually <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8/+packages?field.name_filter=youtube-dl&field.status_filter=published&field.series_filter=">download</a> and install the deb if you don't want to add the PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">youtube-dl can update itself if installed manually however, to make sure you have the all the required dependencies, proper bash completion, etc., it's better to use the PPA / deb above.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Other Linux distributions:</b> search for youtube-dl in the repositories or download it from <a href="http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html">HERE</a>. You can update it to the latest version using the following command: "<i>youtube-dl -U</i>". </div><br />To download a video, simply use the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>youtube-dl http://VIDEO_URL</code></pre>where "<i>VIDEO_URL</i>" is the url of the video you want to download. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To see all the available options, type the following commands in a terminal: "<i>man youtube-dl</i>" or "<i>youtube-dl -h</i>".</div>

Command Line Video Download Tool `youtube-dl` Gets Support For 17 New Websites

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QGifer Converts Video To GIF, Supports Cropping, Adding Text And More

<b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer">QGifer</a> is a Qt tool available for Linux and Windows, that can convert part of a video to an animated GIF file.</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjRGlPQ-nRMGPYc-ZcZuB2CpUGUfCMexfxFcqPR_nBLJzZiT7ScnsPOGkqTmvUJdCGWN_-ekQ-iY7lmoBq92JvQcwi0Huofz6JvqP7EvIHqvnSawXhLYLRQxor6lUqL-Mm6Ez2_pnr3o/s1172/qgifer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="QGifer Ubuntu" border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpjRGlPQ-nRMGPYc-ZcZuB2CpUGUfCMexfxFcqPR_nBLJzZiT7ScnsPOGkqTmvUJdCGWN_-ekQ-iY7lmoBq92JvQcwi0Huofz6JvqP7EvIHqvnSawXhLYLRQxor6lUqL-Mm6Ez2_pnr3o/s320/qgifer.png" title="QGifer Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">QGifer isn't just a simple video to GIF converter. Thanks to its feature set, the application feels almost like a video editor, except it doesn't produce videos but animated GIF files: you can easily set which part of the video should be used in your GIF, <b>crop the video</b>, <b>add text or images</b>, <b>apply filters</b> and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, the application comes with a <b>GIF optimizer which you can use to reduce the file size of any GIF</b>, not just those created using QGifer.</div><br /><b>QGifer features:</b><br /><ul><li>GIF extraction from a video file;</li><li>Color palette editor;</li><li>Variable color palette support;</li><li>Dithering;</li><li>Insert text and graphics - they can be displayed in all the frames or only certain frames;</li><li>Object interpolation;</li><li>Cropping;</li><li>Filtering;</li><li>Looping by appending reversed copy;</li><li>GIF optimization through ImageMagick;</li><li>Project management.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">QGifer is great but there is one downside: it doesn't support video files that come with more than 1800 frames and don't use the motion JPEG or YUV4 codecs. To be able to use these videos, you must either re-encode them using a codec like motion JPEG (the application comes with a MJPEG converter which you can access from the menu: <i>Program > MJPEG Converter</i> - however, in my test, this tool wasn't able to convert some videos I've downloaded from YouTube) or YUV4 or alternatively, cut the videos before importing them in QGifer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To cut a video to be able to use it in QGifer, you can use a video editor such as OpenShot or you can do this via command line, using <i>mencoder</i>, <i>ffmpeg</i> (or "libav" - using the command line "avconv" tool), melt and so on. For instance, to cut the first 30 seconds from a video called "in.avi" using <i>avconv</i>, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>avconv -i in.avi -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:00:30 -c copy out.avi</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The resulting "out.avi" video should only contain the first 30 seconds from the "in.avi" video.</div><br /><i>Click <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDh5ae5SlGw2TFYAVLLEedlc5ycAFYVilvFz03UY52DAdrMx2jwnc2K3MAbukqP9jwiqB0RXdmfDHDgKCPYjayjeMNhqgKNzzwsBrCyV6mtpVw537YzvWw0DyUEHqokdWQULuibvTaiu8/s1600/qgifer-test.gif">HERE</a> to see a GIF I've created using QGifer.</i><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to create an animated GIF from video using QGifer</h2><div style="text-align: justify;">Creating animated GIF images from videos using QGifer isn't as easy as using the other <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/easily-create-animated-gif-images-from.html">video to GIF tool</a> we wrote about, but it isn't very complicated either. Below you can watch a quick video tutorial in which the QGifer developer explains how to use the application (GIF extraction, GIF optimization and color management):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SNTf5eNdL4Q" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNTf5eNdL4Q">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><h2>Download QGifer</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/qgifer/files/">Download QGifer</a> - there are Windows, Ubuntu/Debian (32bit only), generic Linux binary (32bit only) and source files available.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For both Ubuntu 32bit and 64bit you can use Sam Rog's PPA to <b>install the latest QGifer in Ubuntu:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samrog131/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install qgifer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>app seen on <a href="http://www.instantfundas.com/2013/07/qgifer-is-fantastic-video-to-gif.html">Instantfundas</a></i></div>

QGifer Converts Video To GIF, Supports Cropping, Adding Text And More

QGifer is a Qt tool available for Linux and Windows, that can convert part of a video to an animated GIF file. QGifer isn't just a simp...

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Install Audacious 3.4 In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhVA1Sg2-NfHPszqN4yeNovywlN81wekuo-2LFhh82A7CO8n5wyhMSE_PyE3l_27giem1RefNeU7Z4iweuqH-EqkzwWPgxcPkHV635kTQkUpH5GmJXajeK-mfLWgnRarFPipA-d_djrs/s915/audacious-3-4-screenshot_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player GTK" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhVA1Sg2-NfHPszqN4yeNovywlN81wekuo-2LFhh82A7CO8n5wyhMSE_PyE3l_27giem1RefNeU7Z4iweuqH-EqkzwWPgxcPkHV635kTQkUpH5GmJXajeK-mfLWgnRarFPipA-d_djrs/s320/audacious-3-4-screenshot_1.png" title="Audacious Media Player GTK" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audacious 3.4</b> has been released recently and is now available in the main WebUpd8 PPA for Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. The new version doesn't come with major changes, but there are many small new features and tweaks.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> is an open source audio player for Linux and Windows, that ships with numerous plugins and can use either a GTK or a Winamp2-like interface, supporting Winamp Classic skins.</i></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Audacious 3.4 since 3.3:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new scrobbler plugin which uses the Last.fm Scrobbling API 2.0;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new 3D frequency spectrum visualizer, ported from XMMS;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Album art fetching is now done in the background so that it will not make the UI unresponsive;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added a new command-line option (--quit-after-play) has been added to allow the player to exit automatically when finished playing;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">A global hotkey can be configured to enable/disable the "stop after current song" option;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">The ModPlug plugin has a new preferences window;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">An alternative sample rate converter plugin, using libsoxr, has been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">When search terms are too generic, the search tool now shows the first 100 results instead of showing no results as in previous versions.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GTK interface changes in Audacious 3.4:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Playlist columns can now be resized, however, according to the changelog, this requires GTK 3.8 to work properly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to automatically remove duplicate entries from a playlist;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to repeat only a portion of a song ("A-to-B repeat");</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to show remaining instead of elapsed time;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Playlist entries can now be sorted by song length;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New option to sort, randomize, and reverse the order of selected playlist entries only.</li></ul><br />Here are a few more Audacious screenshots:<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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKcaYB8OvE3lO2TXvmuplMkAifW5w9kN_e_Dh6vItfP-Nmcl2MPh2EoF8yeL6T9K9ULAFC0ughW8ysQ68RSHDGxIBUdhSxJWQC_IcR80pXFHUc4o5VxcvJONXrzf6Llonf2vbu78fp0w/s563/audacious-3.4-screenshot_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player Winamp2 interface" border="0" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKcaYB8OvE3lO2TXvmuplMkAifW5w9kN_e_Dh6vItfP-Nmcl2MPh2EoF8yeL6T9K9ULAFC0ughW8ysQ68RSHDGxIBUdhSxJWQC_IcR80pXFHUc4o5VxcvJONXrzf6Llonf2vbu78fp0w/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_2.png" title="Audacious Media Player Winamp2 interface" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious Winamp2 interface</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK7WD06tgPlH6oxOLpgfxd-cyeo3jN6J-qdfe7jZdAQzK6nD0qOaKVv6faUnGYBSJG6xV6z9fnLy6rgEmpNdwdNFzt3DeKA62jGzDzgXFQGpPTgAovkcxalQGdjxvDgitAuQ1wdwpbLE/s639/audacious-3.4-screenshot_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdK7WD06tgPlH6oxOLpgfxd-cyeo3jN6J-qdfe7jZdAQzK6nD0qOaKVv6faUnGYBSJG6xV6z9fnLy6rgEmpNdwdNFzt3DeKA62jGzDzgXFQGpPTgAovkcxalQGdjxvDgitAuQ1wdwpbLE/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_3.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious Winamp2 interface</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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgXB2oezsa_JzfN4eD5PKr7vsuWbvBeUEwQm1IStLa6yaFerZgyWVQJOFIgIg697hgtRNC5B0TRjbWjOdM8q9HIKGu-J5aL5G78yXWR4ER5tCqKNvpp8rnWB_DmWZ1vs8eFWajGoLHkM/s1019/audacious-3.4-screenshot_4.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Audacious Media Player GTK" border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXgXB2oezsa_JzfN4eD5PKr7vsuWbvBeUEwQm1IStLa6yaFerZgyWVQJOFIgIg697hgtRNC5B0TRjbWjOdM8q9HIKGu-J5aL5G78yXWR4ER5tCqKNvpp8rnWB_DmWZ1vs8eFWajGoLHkM/s320/audacious-3.4-screenshot_4.png" title="Audacious Media Player GTK" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious GTK interface with docked plugins - see how to dock plugins <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfe5WAFmgZg">HERE</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.4 in Ubuntu</h2><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA</b> (note: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/webupd8">the PPA</a> has multiple packages so take a look at the package list before using it) <b>and install Audacious in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions and Windows, see the Audacious <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">downloads page</a>.

Install Audacious 3.4 In Ubuntu Via PPA

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Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is a popular text editor somewhat similar to TextMate, available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s916/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDQ6KpeVvzQ7ZmKlMLwkOjWfv3cvMwr2Slbney-Fm0s98voR43P_DW5EluLtkHeFdOcHd8QKY6oDAgK6TbMyrooVj3UnUS9LY9S8B4iR5qrze7CdIqYftuUkkdmWGqb2w58zcKr8bSB8/s320/sublime-text-3.png" title="Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Initially, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/01/sublime-text-3-beta-available-for.html">version 3</a> was only available to registered users (a license costs USD $70) however, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds are now <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-public-beta">available to all</a> and like Sublime Text 2, it can be evaluated for an unlimited period of time.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Recently I've received quite a few requests to create a PPA for Sublime Text 3 because, even though there are deb packages available for download, users must manually install each update. So I've created a PPA you can use to easily install and stay up to date with the latest Sublime Text 3 (currently in beta) builds in Ubuntu and derivates. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The package in the PPA is just an installer and works like our Oracle Java Installer package: it downloads the Sublime Text 3 archive from its website and installs it on the system. The PPA does not host any Sublime Text 3 files.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Sublime Text 3 in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, if you've already installed Sublime Text, make sure the application is not running</b> or else there might be some visual glitches (that's because the package in our PPA will replace any already existing Sublime Text deb packages). This only occurs when switching from the Sublime Text 3 debs downloaded from its website to the packages in our PPA.<br /><br />Also, using the instructions below, the old Sublime Text 2 package (if you've used our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/03/sublime-text-2-ubuntu-ppa.html">Sublime Text 2 PPA</a>) will be replaced with the new Sublime Text 3.</div><br /><b>To add the WebUpd8 Sublime Text 3 (beta) PPA and install the application in Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and derivatives), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/sublime-text-3<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sublime-text-installer</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want to use our PPA or don't use Ubuntu, <b>download Sublime Text 3 </b>from <b><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">HERE</a></b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tip: </b>to disable new version notifications, add the following to your User Preferences file (<i>Preferences > Settings - User</i>):</div><pre class="source-code"><code>"update_check": false</code></pre><br /><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Easily Discover And Install Plugins In Sublime Text 2 or 3 With Sublime Package Control</a></i>

Sublime Text 3 Ubuntu PPA (Now Available To Non-Registered Users)

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Fedora 19 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s1023/fedora19.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOPnC7dpEBVys5mykPko3v29siSA6OCKRFwcbwIdVhfYFZAjkFdNlYBnUruQ5Mtzqc2qa8gR4uvk3gFBP84qwi7jKIU0RfRkDaSQQ85xH1nmkc2Hd6fJs7mVcURQGgO58ve5pJOkwplwk/s320/fedora19.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora </a>19 "Schrödinger's Cat" has been released today, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.8, a new initial setup and other interesting <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">changes</a>.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>New initial setup</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Fedora 19 includes a new initial setup (which was supposed to be introduced with Fedora 18, but was delayed) which allows users to perform some basic actions the first time they boot into Fedora. Users can select the language, keyboard layout, add cloud services and, if no user has been created during the installation process, a new user can easily be created from this initial setup: </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdOezFMKGg2G6TaxviFTfRea8X8SeZsJuaPSEiw7oJE5MSuDOmvtm7lRor_-GPd1_Dr5XQo2lRJRHDSd8lMWk-j9h83oORsJvOXcyZx25GQfgPSaXRMKjnTpU7sAUcqLX1g73cDsF-E9I/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiggWx9-p4YF7s8_FA0W4TvhPjhPtBjDElpR9hxSvJc9clIUjhjLUp5QeYHHoBOodN-DXa7QcSWjIDCxPhKkrTw08XMIXMaywKuqs2PpRO4kzkRTMf8q_uHdMg5EKwvP-9dkbxvyXN9-Ow/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s1022/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigatKWkHyoGLULv-y9lo_4dC3McbbozqX-EB_hh4kvl-d2yOwtf2tvWs47RF_zyOB1cKZ693QR-rSxP5rRFGCWEPBR3dbIlpvbHpM-iSyjmRaUlxYNyJPCkU_7WbRgYbSJ2kSoC8brMZs/s320/fedora19-initial-setup_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After the initial setup completes, an animation displaying some GNOME Shell basic usage is displayed in full-screen (I didn't create a video because the animation was very slow in VirtualBox):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s1022/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMOBbvFDrlfnfMFbWwZv_1yXFE4g1jeKE7QMaCWBpasBSYmT8X2JFShfcnjqycBC7Is7rYdPAeSlgOhA2u4lXjxASnJKRw1INlZLzN-pYyu8eJ0n4oLLvEHU0DQv9Zqj1zAwiNdZfJlWo/s320/fedora19-getting-started.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8</h2><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fedora 19 ships with GNOME 3.8, which comes with numerous changes and new features, including:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Activities Overview applications view;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">overhauled search which can now include results from applications;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Privacy, Notifications and Search GNOME Settings panels;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">a new Classic mode is available for GNOME 3.8, replacing the old GNOME fallback mode. This offers a GNOME2-like layout by using some extensions on top of GNOME Shell. To install it, see below;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Clocks and Weather, two new application added with GNOME 3.8, are available by default in Fedora 19;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">GNOME Documents has received an embedded edit mode for Google Docs, presentation mode and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Web (Epiphany) has switched to WebKit2 and now includes an incognito mode, new search UI and supports GTK+2 plugins, including Adobe Flash. Web is not included by default in Fedora 19 though.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are some Fedora 19 screenshots in which you can see some of these new GNOME 3.8 features:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s1023/fedora19-gs.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcLKOcUO84IpQgoRSD809LdJUJHbX0pmwNcI6YD5hMa2YVMUqTJFJDdDHZz8n4p5SWv6XmkOelJ0AKOxwrHuva6ttd94zD9PEARSMtLbIJIlbyM-H5rDLfkq4NiaEYJFqu3oEm83TM2o/s320/fedora19-gs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98vXPF8Krsty5d_WWpj9agU136OkCzyzyebnJlg9KD2dBTC6-lpSQwvhS0ZCjDqSMK4hkfL3EO0gP8M95-daZaM9qRNkx4exRSVszY1qvVv686_ubnnDkGbZ2xcRzOWOoWWehsnPj0Cc/s1023/fedora19-gs_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi98vXPF8Krsty5d_WWpj9agU136OkCzyzyebnJlg9KD2dBTC6-lpSQwvhS0ZCjDqSMK4hkfL3EO0gP8M95-daZaM9qRNkx4exRSVszY1qvVv686_ubnnDkGbZ2xcRzOWOoWWehsnPj0Cc/s320/fedora19-gs_2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LkjZzTvlZ7HM5kVAZxktRcveLjREsJBm5fJ-SR9sa-bt6suz6gqWFmlidb6w6q1EgrmtGPRbhHN6OoqI8m4VRz3ceggM73Ll-1iF5QObkvN0slRxMQwgVXyZIIbvO2ISDvJA7wr0kAQ/s1023/fedora19-gs_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LkjZzTvlZ7HM5kVAZxktRcveLjREsJBm5fJ-SR9sa-bt6suz6gqWFmlidb6w6q1EgrmtGPRbhHN6OoqI8m4VRz3ceggM73Ll-1iF5QObkvN0slRxMQwgVXyZIIbvO2ISDvJA7wr0kAQ/s320/fedora19-gs_3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTNMFQ0KJd3UoS3qHYbQ3MKU4FMtVpuKgKTmtuQhqbQXBVoyJpwmvSEygobOJBqoqXIhr4meGkgLUhH9vMiHqyTsfBEmWlmbCnpYuCpkt-eNIS0lFf8gI7vLLLRfvpfStFPkHj8NSwPo/s320/fedora19-weather_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>For more info, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-released-see-whats-new-video.html">GNOME 3.8</a> article.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Other changes</h2><br /><b>Other changes in Fedora 19 include:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">File Roller can extract RAR archive after installing the "unar" package, a free and open source command line tool that's part of The Unarchiver project;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">MariaDB is now the default MySQL option in Fedora;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/3D_Printing">3D modeling and printing</a> tools are available in the repositories</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Updated ModemManager with better support for multi-mode devices like Qualcomm Gobi WWAN cards and other devices that support the CDMA/EVDO/LTE standards, the GSM/UMTS/LTE standards, or devices that can support either;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">firewalld (the default Fedora firewall) improvements;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Users who can't get used to the GNOME Shell layout can use the new GNOME 3.8 Classic mode, which I've already mentioned, but this is not installed by default so to install it, run the following command as root:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install gnome-classic-session</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">Once installed, you need to restart the system for the new login session to show up:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjeazb9kdp-1WVCdg6ax8RPpk5UvY-HP2TCd7pByzLxcYtS_YgXz-LAC3HwHaKkIkKls2bQqG7y16aaftSPXD3yL4BXa7AJFlxMM-xz62eqVgVo4v6AN94-AzLqk94NNMU7yaxkOP9-4/s1022/fedora19-gnome-classic-login.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvjeazb9kdp-1WVCdg6ax8RPpk5UvY-HP2TCd7pByzLxcYtS_YgXz-LAC3HwHaKkIkKls2bQqG7y16aaftSPXD3yL4BXa7AJFlxMM-xz62eqVgVo4v6AN94-AzLqk94NNMU7yaxkOP9-4/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic-login.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBT4S9RcGW58YXxLipVpyG-ytLSpr4AeRnl9p1ZgTHYr5JF445Jsw0QyFclvuaw78qWuE60SaXLw_oiWlm5_PeFRUhKzvpYATrkA2Gx3PAafYOwO_jPBpFZN0bQrOrnqw0GBDI9lMQfUY/s1024/fedora19-gnome-classic.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBT4S9RcGW58YXxLipVpyG-ytLSpr4AeRnl9p1ZgTHYr5JF445Jsw0QyFclvuaw78qWuE60SaXLw_oiWlm5_PeFRUhKzvpYATrkA2Gx3PAafYOwO_jPBpFZN0bQrOrnqw0GBDI9lMQfUY/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s1024/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Fedora 19 screenshots" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ZU-BLUN67uPI4v2ZXwBvgCXVL_ENdOS-SaDoXv-qcSOGJfmj99JBsd0_X8Gw4lDsgR8QEPsEb3YKP95ELMCVojxAPEWaYPtHe8Jl87FAlx_sh3RQRh5W1OzrmxGj9TdUFurM0NiUU7M/s320/fedora19-gnome-classic_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And that's not all: <b>the latest Cinnamon (1.9.1) and MATE (1.6.1) desktops are available to install from the Fedora 19 repositories</b>. Like the Fedora 19 release notes <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Welcome_to_Fedora_.html">mention</a>, search for all the available desktop environments using:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum grouplist -v hidden | grep desktop</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">And then install a complete desktop environment by entering its name. For instance, to install Cinnamon, use (as root):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum groupinstall "Cinnamon Desktop"</code></pre>Or, use the short group name to install:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>yum install @cinnamon-desktop-environment</code></pre><br /><b>For the complete Fedora 19 release notes, see <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/19/html/Release_Notes/index.html">THIS</a> page.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Default applications in Fedora 19</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Fedora 19 ships with Nautilus 3.8.2, Gedit 3.8.2, Totem 3.8.2, GNOME Documents 3.8.3, GNOME Contacts 3.8.2, GNOME Boxes 3.8.3, Evolution 3.8.3, Cheese 3.8.2, Empathy 3.8.3, GNOME Clocks 3.8.2, GNOME Weather 3.8.2, LibreOffice 4.1 beta 2, Firefox 21, Transmission 2.77, Rhythmbox 2.99.1 and Shotwell 0.14.1, on top of GNOME Shell 3.8.3, GTK 3.8.2, Linux Kernel 3.9.5 (though an update to 3.9.8 is already available), Mesa 9.2 and Xorg server 1.14.1.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Fedora 19</h2><br />Before downloading Fedora 19, make sure you check out the <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F19_bugs">common bugs</a> list.<br /><br /><b>Download Fedora 19:</b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-options" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT5NjQ1wHmRIs_CVACvUBVv-pF9vPWFSJ3i8ikLl7nWzahSuy_55tqFik562cZbrLUh-pfOCbkZcZP4bbGHq50lCRZ6t8POPCsmx1ftXj0NLO6755cSRaN54IdabaUWzN_5zCV3cmq7wg/s275/download-fedora19.png" /></a></div><br />Tip: for installing codecs, Java and various tweaks, check out <a href="http://satya164.github.io/fedorautils/">Fedora Utils</a>.<br />

Fedora 19 Available For Download

Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" has been released today, featuring the latest stable GNOME 3.8, a new initial setup and other in...

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