BitTorrent Sync: Secure File Sync Between Computers Using P2P Technology [Public Alpha]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html">BitTorrent Sync</a>, a free to use (but not open source) tool that can be used to automatically synchronize files between computers using the BitTorrent protocol, is now available for all as public alpha. The application runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and NAS.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/btsync.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync Web Interface Linux" border="0" height="215" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dbMnQEiXvQU/UXbxCzz7hQI/AAAAAAAAPC4/SCnDdroxqQI/s320/btsync.png" title="BitTorrent Sync Web Interface Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The tool, which has been in closed alpha for the past four months, is advertised as "<i>a simple tool that applies p2p protocol for direct live folder sync with maximum security, network speed and storage capacity</i>".<br /><br />And indeed, BitTorrent Sync is a great way of syncing and sharing files between computers, even files that you usually wouldn't trust with cloud sync tools such as Dropbox: besides the files being transferred directly between the users (so your files don't end up on some cloud server), the connection is encrypted with a AES cypher and a 256-bit key created on the base of your Secret, a random 20 byte or more string. For increased security, there's also an option to generate a Secret that expires after a day. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Basically, this peer-to-peer (p2p) sync tool can be compared with cloud sync services such as Dropbox or Ubuntu One, but no server is involved which also means that the sync can be faster than such services and there are no space restrictions (except your HDD). This also means the computers need to be online for the sync to work, obviously.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to use BitTorrent Sync on Linux</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: BitTorrent Sync beta is out and there's now an Ubuntu PPA you can use to easily install it. See: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/07/bittorrent-sync-beta-adds-file.html">BitTorrent Sync Beta Adds File Versioning, Android App [PPA]</a></b><br /><br /><b><i>Arch Linux </i></b><i>users can install BitTorrent Sync via</i><b><i> <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bittorrent-sync">AUR</a>. </i></b><br /><br /><b>To use BitTorrent Sync (or "BtSync") on Linux, <a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html">download</a></b> and extract the binary for your architecture (Ubuntu users: use the "Linux i386" or "Linux x64" links on the left; don't download the "glib 2.3" binaries), extract it and to run it, simply type the following in a terminal (assuming you've extracted the "btsync" binary in your home folder):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>cd<br />./btsync</code></pre><br />To see a list of available options, type:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>./btsync --help</code></pre><br />And if you want to stop BitTorrent Sync, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>killall btsync</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>BitTorrent Sync doesn't come with a GUI for Linux, but it can be configured through a web interface</b> so once you've started BtSync like we've explained above, open a web browser and enter the following URL: <b>http://localhost:8888/gui/</b></div><br /><b>Now let's add a folder to sync</b>. To do this, click "Add folder", then browse for a folder you want to sync and also click "Generate" to generate a Secret for this folder. Then click "Add" to add the folder:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/btsync-add-folder.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="BitTorrent Sync Web Interface Linux" border="0" height="209" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PNkYu4qaACE/UXbxMLNlxpI/AAAAAAAAPDA/TmsCV6a-25w/s320/btsync-add-folder.png" title="BitTorrent Sync Web Interface Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you want to connect to other devices / synchronize a folder from a remote computer on your machine,</b> follow the same steps as above, but instead of clicking "Generate" for the Secret, paste the Secret generated for the folder from the remote computer.</div><br />On Linux, most of the settings aren't available in the web interface. Instead, you can run:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>./btsync --dump-sample-config > sync.conf</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Which will create a new "sync.conf" file with a sample configuration file. Modify the settings in this file to suit your needs and then run BtSync using the following command (which will make BtSync use the newly created configuration file):</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>./btsync --config sync.conf</code></pre><br /><b>For more on how to use BitTorrent Sync on Linux but also on Windows and Mac OS X, see the <a href="http://btsync.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/BitTorrentSyncUserGuide.pdf">User Guide PDF</a> file.</b><br /><br /><b><a href="http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html">Download BitTorrent Sync</a> for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and NAS.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrents-secure-dropbox-alternative-goes-public-130423">TorrentFreak</a></i></div>

BitTorrent Sync: Secure File Sync Between Computers Using P2P Technology [Public Alpha]

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XnRetro: Add Instagram-Like Effects To Your Images With This Desktop App

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.xnview.com/en/xnretro/">XnRetro</a> is a free to use (but not open source) tool available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X (as well as iOS and Android) that allows you to easily apply various vintage effects, borders and more to your images.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="XnRetro Linux" border="0" height="236" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-enuYFRKOfHg/UXV3-8q8URI/AAAAAAAAPBw/ZMO69SYV93g/s320/xnretro_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many applications you can use to apply effects to your photos but XnRetro is one of the easiest to use, comparable to Instagram I'd say: you simply select an image and the effect you want to apply (you can use multiple effects if you want) and you immediately get a preview. You can then save the image or share it on websites such as Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Imgur and so on:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_2.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="XnRetro Linux" src="http://img.netupd8.com/xnretro_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application also allows you to tweak the effects by adjusting various settings such as the brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, noise, rotate the picture and so on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please note that in my test under Ubuntu 13.04, XnRetro failed to upload images to some websites, such as Imgur or Imageshack, so this feature is a bit buggy for now, at least on Linux.</div><br /><br /><b>XnRetro features:</b><br /><ul><li>20 color effects;</li><li>15 light effects;</li><li>5 Vignette effects;</li><li>28 frame borders;</li><li>adjustable contrast, gamma, saturation and so on;</li><li>share the resulted image on Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Imgur, Tumblr, ImageShack, YFrog, GlowFoto or TwitPic.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Download XnRetro</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Download XnRetro for Linux, Windows, MacOS X from <a href="http://www.xnview.com/en/xnretro/">HERE</a>. Or get the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/xnretro/id592583459">iOS</a> or <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.xnview.XnRetro">Android</a> app.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Note for Linux users:</b> there's only a 32bit binary but it should work on 64bit (I've tested it under Ubuntu 13.04 64bit). To run it, extract the downloaded archive and double click "xnretro.sh", then select "Run". You can also run it by double clicking "XnRetro" but that might not work on all Linux distributions.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to <a href="https://plus.google.com/114564489020097923600">Satya</a> for the tip!</i></div>

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Cloud Sync Tool `Seafile` 1.6.0 Gets Improved Collaboration Features

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

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Firefox 20 Lands In Ubuntu, Brings Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> 20, released a couple of days ago, has just landed in all supported Ubuntu versions. The new Firefox version brings a few long-awaited features such as per-window private browsing and a new download manager.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Firefox 20 introduces <b>per-window private browsing</b>: accessing <i><b>File > New Private Window</b></i>, you'll get a window for private browsing that doesn't affect the other Firefox windows. In previous Firefox versions you couldn't have both a regular Firefox window and a private window open in the same time.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-private-browsing.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Firefox 20 private browsing Ubuntu" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FlsaT5T0Yeo/UV2hOxV6WtI/AAAAAAAAO24/zRUutbT3nO4/s320/firefox-20-private-browsing.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Private browsing lets you browse the web without saving information about the sites you visit, meaning the pages won't show up in the Firefox history, the passwords won't be saved, no downloads will be listed in the new Downloads Manager and also, no cookies of cached web content are saved. However, the website can still track you so you're not completely anonymous when using this feature.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-downloads.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Firefox 20 new download manager Ubuntu" src="http://img.netupd8.com/firefox-20-downloads_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With Firefox 20, there's also a <b>new download manager</b>. The downloads are no longer displayed in a separate window and instead, Firefox now uses a download button on the toolbar, which displays the remaining download time and when clicked, it lists the most recent downloads and lets you open the files.</div><br /><br /><b>Other changes in Firefox 20:</b><br /><ul><li>ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging;</li><li>continued performance improvements for page loads, downloads, shutdown, etc.;</li><li>new JavaScript Profiler tool;</li><li><canvas> now supports blend modes;</li><li>various <audio> and <video> improvements;</li><li><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/20.0/releasenotes/">more</a>.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Firefox 20 has been uploaded to the official Ubuntu repositories today so if you're using Ubuntu, you should get an update in a few minutes / hours.</div><br /><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Download Firefox</a>

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Open Source Real Time Strategy Game `0 A.D.` Alpha 13 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="0 a.d." border="0" height="180" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-us3b3Yk7dHc/UVv5PJzrorI/AAAAAAAAOzg/YZ1O3HGwd6I/s320/0ad-mauryan-buildings.jpg" title="0 a.d." width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The thirteenth alpha version of <a href="http://play0ad.com/">0 A.D.</a> has been <a href="http://play0ad.com/alpha-13-magadha/">released</a> yesterday, bringing a new civilization: Mauryan Indian, new songs, AI improvements and more</b>. 0 A.D. is an open source, historical real-time strategy game developed by Wildfire Games, that can be played on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Changes in 0 A.D. Alpha 13 "Magadha":</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">new Mauryan Indian civilization which includes new units and buildings which reflect the culture's original architectural style;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Aegis bot (the default AI) has been greatly improved in all areas: defending, attacking or building a strong economy;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">attack/move command: when using Ctrl + right click to move units to a location, they will go to that location and stop to attack enemies they meet on the way;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the building preview now always shows the precise final variation that will be built;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">when buildings can't be placed somewhere, helpful messages are displayed now;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">6 new songs have been added;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new and improved animal sounds for lions, tigers and bears;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">user mod support - see the <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/Modding_Guide">modding guide</a> for more info;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new Javascript debugger.</li></ul><br />Below you can watch a video with the new features in 0 A.D. alpha 13:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Y-0l7Ej3cM8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-0l7Ej3cM8">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">0 A.D. uses Pyrogenesis game engine which is mostly written in C++ and uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine for scripting and it features excellent graphics and sound. The game allows users to control about 11 ancient civilizations, including Gauls, Spartans, Persians, Romans, Carthaginians and so on and one of its biggest downsides is that there's no matchmaking service yet, although it does have multiplayer support (as well as single player), but only peer-to-peer is currently supported.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you can contribute to 0 A.D. (programming, art, sound, documentation and more), see the programmers <a href="http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers">getting started</a> page and join #0ad-dev on QuakeNet on IRC.</b></div><br /><br /><h2>Install 0 A.D. game in Ubuntu</h2><br />Ubuntu users can install the latest 0 A.D. by using its official PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install 0ad</code></pre><br /><br /><b>Download 0 A.D. for other <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/linux/">Linux</a> distributions, <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/win">Windows</a> or <a class="external" href="http://play0ad.com/download/mac">Mac OSX</a>.</b>

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Open Source FPS Game `Red Eclipse` 1.4 Brings Graphical And Gameplay Enhancements

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e0lvVac19VQ/UVGhIZChgTI/AAAAAAAAOq4/c0GHwupTkzU/s1600/red-eclipse_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e0lvVac19VQ/UVGhIZChgTI/AAAAAAAAOq4/c0GHwupTkzU/s320/red-eclipse_1.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.redeclipse.net/">Red Eclipse</a> is a cross-platform, open source first-person shooter game that supports both single (against bots) and multi-player modes. The game runs on the Cube Engine 2 and it's very flexible, allowing players to extend the existing game modes (Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, etc.) with "mutators", changing how the game is played.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WdIN-iRz5uY/UVGhQgaisXI/AAAAAAAAOrA/LK94zM0dhag/s1600/red-eclipse_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WdIN-iRz5uY/UVGhQgaisXI/AAAAAAAAOrA/LK94zM0dhag/s320/red-eclipse_3.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Red Eclipse 1.4 "Elara Edition"</b> has been released a few days ago and comes with improvements to the gameplay, weapons and more:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Vanity items and improved colours: dress up and frag with style;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Visible legs in first person: know where you are kicking and parkouring;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Enabled multi-coop (one human team and multiple bot teams);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added gauntlet mode (one team tries to run to the other side of a map, other team tries to hinder, switches at half-time);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Heads fly off when doing a headshot;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New and revamped maps: bringing you even more variety;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Better viewing: level flythroughs, improved third and first person cameras;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Better menus and other HUD elements: easier to see and read at a glance;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New weapon: Mines add a new dimension to the existing gameplay;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New mode: attack and defend in Gauntlet, competing for the most laps;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Automatic demo recording: for those times you just have to watch it again;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">User Accounts: donate or contribute, and wear the in-game supporter badge;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved weapon balance and gameplay rules, bugs fixed, and much more;</li></ul><br />See <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BF5yfpVj">THIS</a> page for a complete changelog.<br /><br /><br />Below you can watch a video demoing an older Red Eclipse version:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mjHVb3z72tM" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mjHVb3z72tM">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a37edF76ZG4/UVGhXqwEemI/AAAAAAAAOrI/oQ3wOiG8maI/s1600/red-eclipse_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-a37edF76ZG4/UVGhXqwEemI/AAAAAAAAOrI/oQ3wOiG8maI/s320/red-eclipse_2.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to its "mutators", map editor and of course, its gameplay, Red Eclipse is very fun to play with your friends or with the growing online community.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download Red Eclipse</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Red Eclipse is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and it can be downloaded via <a href="http://www.desura.com/games/red-eclipse">Desura</a> or from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/redeclipse/files/redeclipse_1.4/">SourceForge</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arch Linux users can install Red Eclipse from <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47449">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've downloaded the tar.bz2 archive in Linux, extract it then run "redeclipse.sh".</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Jonathan De Nil for the tip!</i></div>

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How To Flash Ubuntu Touch From Windows

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfKdtCihZAA/USeqrBr_35I/AAAAAAAAOEs/RtcZMSL0L2Q/s1600/ubuntu-touch.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ubuntu touch" border="0" height="231" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfKdtCihZAA/USeqrBr_35I/AAAAAAAAOEs/RtcZMSL0L2Q/s320/ubuntu-touch.png" title="ubuntu touch" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The official <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/ubuntu-touch-developer-preview-and.html">Ubuntu Touch</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install">installation</a> instructions are only for Ubuntu, so if you're running Windows, the instructions won't work for you. So here's how to install Ubuntu Touch if you're using Windows.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Firstly, download the images for your device from <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/">HERE</a>:</b><br /><ul><li>You'll need to download the files specific for your device as well as "quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip".</li><li>The files which have "maguro" in the filename are for Galaxy Nexus, "mako" for Nexus 4, "grouper" for Nexus 7 and "manta" for Nexus 10.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Now you can get started. Please note that I didn't test these instructions as I don't own a Nexus device (and I'm not using Windows either) - <b>the instructions are thanks to Omer Akram</b>, via Ubuntu-phone <a href="https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg00222.html">mailing list</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, remember that the Ubuntu Touch interface is currently only available as a preview, for developers</b> and you shouldn't install it for every day usage! Some things have <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/ubuntu-touch-developer-preview-and.html">not been implemented yet</a> and there are many bugs!</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> Unlock the device using <a href="http://www.android.gs/how-to-unlock-galaxy-nexus-bootloader/">THESE</a> instructions which should work with Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, 7 and 10, even though the article mentions only Galaxy Nexus. The article also mentions how to install fastboot which you'll need later on.</div><br /><b>2.</b> (If you already have Clockworkmod Recovery installed, you can skip this step)<br /><br />While in the <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6124522">boatloader mode</a>, only flash the recovery file (<i>quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+DEVICE_CODENAME.img</i>) which you've previously downloaded, by using the following command in the command prompt window:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fastboot flash recovery quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+DEVICE_CODENAME.img</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the command above, replace "DEVICE_CODENAME" with the codename for your device as it's explained above.</div><br /><b>3.</b> Reboot and copy the following files to the phone / tablet: <br /><ul><li>quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip</li><li>quantal-preinstalled-armel+DEVICE_CODENAME.zip</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> Power off the Nexus device, start the bootloader mode, navigate to "Recovery" and press the power button to select it. This will start the Clockworkmod Recovery.</div><br />Here, select "install zip from sdcard", then select "Choose zip from sdcard" and firstly select "quantal-preinstalled-armel+DEVICE_CODENAME.zip" and flash it, then flash "quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip"<br /><br /><b>5.</b> Reboot the device and you're done.

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Try TextAdept, A Fast, Cross-Platform Text Editor That Comes With GTK And Ncurses Interfaces

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s1600/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="textadept" border="0" height="189" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FcK0NEMby9g/USDvmLF1usI/AAAAAAAANvo/IlnA8j1RaRY/s320/textadept-splitview-snapopen.png" title="textadept" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">TextAdept</a> is a fast, minimalistic text editor that can be extended through Lua. The application is free, open source and runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept features unlimited split views, support for over 80 programming languages, powerful snippets and key commands, code autocompletition and API lookup and is entirely keyboard driven.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since our last TextAdept <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/05/textadept-is-lightweight-cross-platform.html">article</a></b>, the application has improved a lot, getting many new features and other changes, including:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">menu mnemonics for indentation size;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for indicator and hotspot events;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added native folding for more than 60% of existing lexers. The rest still use folding by indentation by default;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added language-specific context menu support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new dark and light themes and on-the-fly theme switching;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">autocomplete supports multiple selections;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more! </li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s1600/textadept-ncurses.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="textadept-ncurses" border="0" height="207" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CBoGfZQlg1M/USDvbzTXHgI/AAAAAAAANvg/AG0nsk_7aBQ/s320/textadept-ncurses.png" title="textadept-ncurses" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">textadept-ncurses</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>There's also a ncurses version now</b>, so you can run TextAdept in the terminal. The ncurses-based TextAdept is very user-friendly and easy to use - it follows the GNOME HID (Human Interface Design) key-bindings standard for many actions so you can use: Ctrl + s to save the file, Ctrl + o to open a file, Ctrl + q to quit and so on.</div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s1600/textadept-buffers.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-U-8kkI9MoSg/USDvvs7ripI/AAAAAAAANvw/ZqrTnaMybWY/s320/textadept-buffers.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TextAdept buffers</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept doesn't uses tabs like most text editors and instead it uses the buffer browser - press Ctrl + b to open the buffers (files) switching dialog or use Ctrl + Tab to switch to the next buffer or Ctrl + Shift + Tab to switch to the previous one. Alternatively, you can also bring up the recent files dialog using Ctrl + Alt + o. And there is yet another way to quickly open files: snapopen, which behaves like the buffer browser, but displays a list of files to open which includes files in subdirectories - you can snapopen the current directory files using Ctrl + Alt + Shift + o.<br /><br />You can find the list of key bindings for both the GTK and terminal version <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/api/_M.textadept.keys.html#Key.Bindings">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For extra TextAdept language modules, including LaTeX, Python, Markdown, CoffeeScript and so on, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">TextAdept wiki</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download TextAdept</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/download">Download TextAdept</a></b> - there are binaries available for Linux (as tar.gz, so there are no deb or rpm files but you can simply extract the archive and run it), Windows and Mac OS X as well as source files.</div><br />Arch Linux users can install the latest stable TextAdept version via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/textadept-latest-stable/">AUR</a>.<br /><br />Ubuntu users can install TextAdept using using the main WebUpd8 PPA:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install textadept</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">TextAdept should then show up in the menu / Dash. To use the ncurses-based version, type "textadept-curses" in a terminal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to make textadept-ncurses the default command line editor in Ubuntu, also install the following package:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install textadept-default-cli</code></pre><br />For how to use TextAdept, see the <a href="http://foicica.com/textadept/">manual</a> and its <a href="http://foicica.com/wiki/textadept">wiki</a> as well as the doc/ folder available in the TextAdept archive (available under <i>/opt/textadept/doc</i> for Ubuntu users who are using our PPA).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Bruce Ingalls!</i></div>

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Popular Remote Desktop Tool TeamViewer 8 For Linux (Stable) Released

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TeamViewer is a popular application for remote control, desktop sharing, file transfer, online meetings and more</b>, that's available for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/teamviewer6-stable-for-android-released.html">Android</a> and iPhone.<b> The application is free (freeware) for personal use only!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Linux version uses Wine which comes bundled with it (it doesn't require the user to install Wine, like the old Picasa for Linux package), so it's not a native Linux application.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x8OIIiuO6UY/URvQCCEQfzI/AAAAAAAANoE/wiWGmX6D0qU/s1600/teamviewer.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="TeamViewer8 for Linux"><img alt="TeamViewer8 for Linux" border="0" height="253" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x8OIIiuO6UY/URvQCCEQfzI/AAAAAAAANoE/wiWGmX6D0qU/s320/teamviewer.png" title="TeamViewer8 for Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest TeamViewer 8 (stable) for Windows was released back in December and today, the stable version is also available for Linux</b>. While in beta, <b>there were two bugs that affected for many users</b> (myself included) until recently, which resulted either an "TeamViewer Daemon is not running. Please start teamviewerd and then restart TeamViewer" error message or a ghost window showing up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But <b>these issues seem fixed</b> and TeamViewer 8 for Linux has worked properly in my tests under Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. I'm not sure if these issues were present in other Linux distributions and if they were fixed or not.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Upgrading to the latest TeamViewer 8 is required if you want to establish a remote connection to a computer running TeamViewer 8, however, this is not neccesary if you want to connect to a computer running TeamViewer 4, 5, 6 or 7 if you're using TeamViewer 7.</div><br /><br /><h2>What's new in TeamViewer 8 for Linux</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdWY7mQ7CMo/URuo2mKiKTI/AAAAAAAANlU/r2HW2yI0jgw/s1600/teamviewer8-linux-login-screen.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="TeamVIewer8 for Linux - connect on the login screen"><img alt="TeamVIewer8 for Linux - connect on the login screen" border="0" height="230" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NdWY7mQ7CMo/URuo2mKiKTI/AAAAAAAANlU/r2HW2yI0jgw/s320/teamviewer8-linux-login-screen.png" title="TeamVIewer8 for Linux - connect on the login screen" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>most important change in the latest TeamViewer 8 for Linux </b>is probably the addition of a <b>daemon</b>, which <b>makes it possible to connect to a Linux computer on the login screen</b> (so no user has to be logged in to be able to share that computer's desktop with TeamViewer). However, this feature didn't work most of the time in my tests running TeamViewer 8 in Ubuntu and trying to connect to other Ubuntu systems using TeamViewer 8 but it might have something to do with VirtualBox because connecting from my Android device to my Ubuntu  13.04 computer has worked pretty well.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N78DvzoqV_o/URus4kEYyYI/AAAAAAAANmo/_Pvc34Jcl2Q/s1600/teamviewer8-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="TeamViewer 8 for Linux: remote connection to Ubuntu"><img alt="TeamViewer 8 for Linux: remote connection to Ubuntu" border="0" height="218" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N78DvzoqV_o/URus4kEYyYI/AAAAAAAANmo/_Pvc34Jcl2Q/s320/teamviewer8-ubuntu.png" title="TeamViewer 8 for Linux: remote connection to Ubuntu" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Other new features available in remote desktop application Teamviewer 8 for Linux:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">Session recording (both video and sound, however, only the sound from Windows computers is recorded) and playback now works under Linux. This works with both online meetings and remote control sessions. However, converting the TeamViewer video files to other formats like avi, etc., is not available on Linux for now;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Session handover from one expert to another;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Share selected groups with other TeamViewer accounts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Remote account logout (from the TeamViewer Management Console);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">A new TeamViewer Management Console (login <a href="http://login.teamviewer.com/">here</a>) which includes web-based administration of your entire support team, integrated TeamViewer Web Connector and expanded TeamViewer Manager features. The user management feature is not free, but you can try it without buying a TeamViewer license for a limited period of time;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Enabled Basic Authentication for proxies;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Webcams are now supported for video-streaming during meetings;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Instead of four different RPM-packages, there's now one single package for all RPM-based distributions (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, SUSE); </li><li style="text-align: justify;">TeamViewer can now be installed on Multiarch systems (Debian 7, 64-bit)<br />Many bug fixes and improvements </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To use the new feature that allows you to connect to a Linux computer on the login screen</b> (meaning there are no logged in users on the remote computer and only the login screen has loaded), you'll need to set up a password for unattended access.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To do this, open TeamViewer 8 on the remote computer, and click the "Personal Password" field on the main interface, then follow the instructions. Then copy the computer ID and you can log out the remote computer. Now, to connect to the remote computer in which no user is currently logged it, you can launch TeamViewer 8 for Linux on your system, enter the remote (Partner) ID - you'll then be prompted to enter the password you've set up above and you're ready to go.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download TeamViewer 8 for Linux</h2><br /><b><a href="http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux.aspx">Download TeamViewer8 for Linux</a> (also available for Windows, Mac and mobile)</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install it via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer8">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: if you've previously installed TeamViewer 8 for Linux and it doesn't start, purge it ("sudo apt-get purge teamviewer"), then download and install the latest version.</div>

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LibreOffice 4.0 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RyPTp0ZvclA/URPHRe4HGZI/AAAAAAAANbc/IALpd7pgdW4/s1600/libreoffice.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="LibreOffice"><img alt="LibreOffice" border="0" height="225" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RyPTp0ZvclA/URPHRe4HGZI/AAAAAAAANbc/IALpd7pgdW4/s320/libreoffice.png" title="LibreOffice" width="320" /></a></div><b><br /></b> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Document Foundation has released <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a> 4.0 today,</b> which, according to the official announcement, is the "<i>first release that reflects the objectives set by the community at the time of the announcement, in September 2010: a cleaner and leaner code base, an improved set of features, better interoperability, and a more diverse and inclusive ecosystem</i>".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The new version brings Unity appmenu support, option to use Firefox Personas,  better interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents and many other changes.</b></div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>The most important changes in LibreOffice 4.0 include:</b><br /><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Better interoperability with DOCX and RTF documents;</li><li>Possibility to import Microsoft Publisher documents;</li><li>Integration with several content and document management systems – including Alfresco, IBM FileNet P8, Microsoft Sharepoint 2010, Nuxeo, OpenText and others;</li><li>Writer: allow different header and footer on the first page without using a separate page style;</li><li>Introduction of the widget layout technique for dialog windows, which makes it easier to translate, resize and hide UI elements, reduces code complexity, and lays a foundation for a much improved user interface</li><li>Linux: GStreamer 1.0 support, and refactor existing Gstreamer code;</li><li>New templates manager;</li><li>PDF Import, the Presenter Console, and the Python Scripting Provider are no longer bundled extensions but core features;</li><li>Significant performance improvements when loading and saving many types of documents.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-template-manager.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="LibreOffice 4.0 Template Manager"><img alt="LibreOffice 4.0 Template Manager" src="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-template-manager_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New templates manager</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The new version also features <b>Unity integration out of the box</b>, meaning you won't be needing to install a separate package to get <b>appmenu</b> support (global menu):</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-appmenu.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="LibreOffice 4.0 Ubuntu Unity appmenu integration"><img alt="LibreOffice 4.0 Ubuntu Unity appmenu integration" src="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-appmenu_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Appmenu integration</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, <b>the appmenu integration by default didn't work in my test under Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10</b> (with LibreOffice debs downloaded from its website). This does work with the LibreOffice 4.0 beta 2 version available in the LibreOffice <a href="https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-prereleases">Pre-Releases PPA</a> for Ubuntu 13.04.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And there's also <b>support for Firefox Themes (Personas)</b> which you can use to give LibreOffice a personalized look:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-persona.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="LibreOffice 4.0 Personas"><img alt="LibreOffice 4.0 Personas" src="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-persona_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Personas in LibreOffice</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-persona_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="LibreOffice 4.0 Personas"><img alt="LibreOffice 4.0 Personas" src="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-persona_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Personas in LibreOffice</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To set a Persona, from the LibreOffice menu select <i>Tools > Options > Personalization > Select Persona</i>.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With LibreOffice 4.0, there's also the first release of the <b>Impress Remote Control App for Android</b> which for now only supports a limited number of Linux distributions but in the second release which will be coming soon, all platforms should be supported: Windows, Mac OS X and all Linux distributions:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-impress-android.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="LibreOffice 4.0: Android app - Impress Remote Control"><img alt="LibreOffice 4.0: Android app - Impress Remote Control" src="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-impress-android_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Impress Remote Control App for Android</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>You can download the LibreOffice Impress Remote Android App from the <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.libreoffice.impressremote">Google Play Store</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><b>Other minor but still interesting changes:</b><br /><ul><li>Improved performance of ODS document import;</li><li>Calc: Enhanced chart visualization - better quality rendering / print and PDF export of charts;</li><li>Impress: much accelerated multimedia previews, and previews of embedded video on Linux;</li><li>Base: On all non-Windows platforms a new mork driver implementation is used to access Thunderbird address book. This means that Debian/Ubuntu users can finally integrate LO with their Thunderbird address book;</li><li>The bundled Python was upgraded from Python 2.6 to Python 3.3;</li><li>Integration of <a href="http://img.netupd8.com/libreoffice-Sessioninstaller.png">session installer</a> to add missing parts of LibreOffice on the fly.</li></ul><br /><b>For a complete list of changes in LibreOffice 4.0, see <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes">THIS</a> page.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download LibreOffice 4.0</h2><br /><b>Update:</b> the <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/install-libreoffice-40-in-ubuntu-1204.html">main LibreOffice PPA has been updated with LibreOffice 4.0 for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu:</b> Ubuntu 13.04 users can use the LibreOffice <a href="https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-prereleases">Pre-Releases PPA</a> to install LibreOffice 4.0 beta 2. There's also LibreOffice 4.0 alpha 1 in the same PPA for Ubuntu 12.10, but I don't recommend installing it. It's easier to simply download LibreOffice 4.0 deb files from the LibreOffice <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/">downloads page</a>.<br /><br />It's better to wait for the stable LibreOffice PPA to be updated, but if you can't wait, to install it in Ubuntu, firstly you'll have to remove the current LibreOffice installation:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get purge libreoffice*</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, download the LibreOffice deb archive from its website, extract it, and inside the folder where the deb files are extracted you'll find a folder called "desktop-integration" with a deb inside - copy this deb into the folder where all the other deb files are located and run the following command from a terminal to install LibreOffice 4.0:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo dpkg -i <i>/path/to/libreoffice/DEBS/</i>*.deb</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/">Download LibreOffice 4.0</a></b><br /><br />(available for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (dep and rpm) as well as source files) <b><br /></b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>info and Android app screenshot via <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/download/4-0-new-features-and-fixes">LibreOffice.org</a></i></div>

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GIMP 2.8.4 Released, Install It In Ubuntu

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uFLkav7MFBk/URLRETjHzkI/AAAAAAAANaI/VOARS8FHBHQ/s1600/gimp-2.8.4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gimp 2.8.4" border="0" height="224" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uFLkav7MFBk/URLRETjHzkI/AAAAAAAANaI/VOARS8FHBHQ/s320/gimp-2.8.4.png" title="gimp 2.8.4" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GIMP 2.8.4</b> has been released yesterday, bringing some important bug fixes. This is the stable GIMP branch and no new features will be added in the 2.8.x releases, only bug fixes.</div><br /><b>Here are the most important changes in GIMP 2.8.4:</b><br /><a name='more'></a><ul><li>Better names for the default filters in save and export</li><li>Make tool drawing (esp. the brush outline) much more responsive</li><li>Remember the "maximized" state across sessions</li><li>Simplify the splash image code a lot, makes it appear immediately again</li><li>Allow the text tool to start on an image without layers</li><li>Various fixes for text style attribute handling</li><li>Set unconfigured input devices to eraser if GTK+ says they are erasers</li><li>Make libgimp drawable combo boxes aware of layer groups</li><li>Fix item width in GimpPageSelector (used e.g. in PDF import)</li><li>Better default values in the Drop Shadow script</li><li>Fixed bugs in the BMP plug-in</li><li>Lots of bug fixes and translation updates</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The next major GIMP release - 2.10 -, should get high bit depths, support for layer masks on layer groups, complete the port to GEGL and more, while with version 3.0, GIMP should finally be ported to GTK3. There's no planned release date for either GIMP 2.10 or 3.0 yet. </div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install GIMP 2.8.4 in Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 users can install the latest GIMP 2.8.4 by using Otto's PPA - add the PPA and install / upgrade GIMP using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install gimp</code></pre><br />From the same PPA you can also install <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/new-gimp-plugin-registry-version-brings.html">GIMP Plugin Registry</a> which is a collection of hundreds of GIMP plugins:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-registry</code></pre><br /><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/gmic-more-than-190-image-filters-and.html">G'MIC</a> is also available in this PPA. It's a tool that comes with a huge list of filters and effects - install it using the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install gimp-gmic</code></pre><br />For source files, Windows or Mac OS X binaries, see the GIMP <a href="http://www.gimp.org/downloads/">downloads page</a>.

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Jailbreak iOS 6.0 And 6.1 Devices Under Linux Using evasi0n

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>iOS jailbreak tool "evasi0n" allows you to jailbreak any iPhone (including iPhone 5), iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini models running iOS 6.0.x and 6.1, from Windows, Mac and of course, Linux. </b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_8x8F6aQ9j0/URAisD8TLcI/AAAAAAAANQ0/Y_dxrs8Dh64/s1600/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6.0-6.1-linux.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="evasi0n ios jailbreak tool Linux" border="0" height="226" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_8x8F6aQ9j0/URAisD8TLcI/AAAAAAAANQ0/Y_dxrs8Dh64/s320/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6.0-6.1-linux.png" title="evasi0n ios jailbreak tool Linux" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jailbreaking iOS devices may not be as popular as it used to be, but it's still nice to know you can do this from Linux.<br /><br />The evasi0n source code isn't available, but there are binaries available for Linux - according to the readme, all you need is Linux Kernel 2.6.24+ and GTK2 2.24.13+. However, that would mean evasi0n wouldn't work in Ubuntu 12.04 which uses an older GTK2 version (2.24.10), but I've tried the application in Ubuntu 12.04 and I was able to run it so it seems it doesn't strictly require GTK2 2.24.13+. Besides Ubuntu 12.04, the application should work with Ubuntu 12.10, Fedora 17 and 18, etc.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because I don't own any Apple products (so no device running iOS), unfortunately I couldn't test the actual iOS jailbreaking process so you're on your own here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">To use it under Linux, extract the downloaded the archive and double click the "evasi0n" script which should run the binary for your architecture, or directly double click the "evasi0n.x86" binary for 32bit or "evasi0n.x86_64" for 64bit, connect your iOS 6.0.x or 6.1 device to the computer with an USB cable, click "Jailbreak" and follow the instructions.<br /><br />According to <a href="http://evasi0n.com/">evasi0n.com</a>, you should disable the iOS lock passcode before starting the jailbreak and avoid using any iOS or iTunes related tasks until evasi0n is complete. Before you start, you should also back up all your data!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://evasi0n.com/">Download evasi0n</a> for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X (make sure to also read the notes on the evasi0n homepage!)</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5981470/ios-61-jailbreak-is-now-available">LifeHacker</a>, <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/02/evasi0n-jailbreak-ios-6x-rilasciato.html">lffl.org</a> and <a href="http://www.chimerarevo.com/disponibile-il-jailbreak-untetherered-per-ios-6-1-evasion-tool-guida/">ChimeraRevo.com</a></i></div>

Jailbreak iOS 6.0 And 6.1 Devices Under Linux Using evasi0n

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Minitube 2.0 And Musique 1.2.1 Released, Available In Our Ubuntu PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ROMGBxXAyCk/UQ--PH3KSII/AAAAAAAANMM/UXQVjdFOAhE/s1600/minitube.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Minitube 2.0"><img alt="Minitube 2.0" border="0" height="188" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ROMGBxXAyCk/UQ--PH3KSII/AAAAAAAANMM/UXQVjdFOAhE/s320/minitube.png" title="Minitube 2.0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Minitube, a native Youtube client for Linux</b>, Windows and Mac OS X which you can use to play (and download) YouTube videos without Flash, has been updated today and the new version is available in the main WebUpd8 PPA for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest <b>Minitube 2.0</b> <b>adds YouTube categories and "standard feeds": "Most Popular", "Featured", etc.</b>, country selection for YouTube categories and feeds, <b>related videos, bigger and nicer 16:9 thumbnails</b> as well as some other changes such as:</div><a name='more'></a><ul><li>"Show 10 More" with a single click</li><li>Play video in the playlist with a single click on its thumbnail </li><li>Disk cache for video thumbnails</li><li>Ubuntu Ambiance theme integration</li><li>Fixes for: some youtube links not working, playlisy drag'n'drop, launguage detection, looping video with Phono VLC backend on Linux, more</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lyU1n6D2uEY/UQ--Y1LVyiI/AAAAAAAANMU/S9_cbrI7bEY/s1600/minitube-categories.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Minitube 2.0: YouTube categories"><img alt="Minitube 2.0" border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lyU1n6D2uEY/UQ--Y1LVyiI/AAAAAAAANMU/S9_cbrI7bEY/s320/minitube-categories.png" title="Minitube 2.0" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minitube: YouTube categories</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><b>To install the latest Minitube 2.0 in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install minitube</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important: if the playback doesn't work in Minitube,</b> you've probably encountered the MP4 Gstreamer bug affecting Minitube, Totem and other players - <b>you'll find a fix <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/fix-mp4-playback-in-ubuntu-1204.html" title="Fix MP4 Playback In Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 Gstreamer Bug Affecting Totem, Minitube, Etc.">HERE</a>.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X, you can download Minitube from its <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube">homepage</a> </b>(note: for Linux, there are only 32bit binaries available for download)<b>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e5Gybgp8meQ/UQ--gpxbxlI/AAAAAAAANMc/aAeBqEGdz60/s1600/musique.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Musique"><img alt="Musique" border="0" height="188" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e5Gybgp8meQ/UQ--gpxbxlI/AAAAAAAANMc/aAeBqEGdz60/s320/musique.png" title="Musique" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Musique (previously known as Minitunes) is a Qt music player created by the Minitube developer</b>, Flavio Tordini, which doesn't come with many options but offers an interesting interface which lets you browse your music by album covers or folders, displays Last.fm information and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Musique 1.2.1</b> has been released today, the new version bringing faster scrolling and a speed up in the way the artist photos and album covers are painted on the screen. There's also Ambiance integration for Ubuntu (the toolbar should look better when using the Ambiance theme) and a fix for system language settings detection.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Musique in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install musique</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OS X, you can download Musique from its <a href="http://flavio.tordini.org/musique">homepage</a></b> (note: for Linux, there are only 32bit binaries available for download, just like for Minitube).</div>

Minitube 2.0 And Musique 1.2.1 Released, Available In Our Ubuntu PPA

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XBMC 12.0 `Frodo` Stable Released. Use It On Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Android And More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>XBMC Media Center 12.0 "Frodo" has been <a href="http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2013/01/29/xbmc-12-0-frodo/">released</a> today with HD audio, Live TV and PVR support and many other enhancements. Also, the application is now available for Android and Raspberry Pi </b>(although there are no official Raspberry Pi builds provided by XBMC).</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12.0.png" title="XBMC 12.0"><img alt="Xbmc 12.0 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12.0_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Here are the new features and improvements in the latest XBMC 12.0 "Frodo":</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Support for Raspberry Pi, but no official builds are provided: you can use OpenELEC, Raspbmc, Xbian or Raspbian. Downloads <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ">here</a>;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Android support - official builds are now available for download, but only from xbmc.org (XBMC isn't available in the Google Play Store yet);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Live TV and <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend">PVR</a> support. This allows users with a TV tuner to watch live TV, listen to radio, view an EPG, schedule recordings, etc. Supported backends include: DVBViewer, MythTV, Tvheadend, VDR, Argus TV / ForTheRecord, NextPVR, Njoy Digital, MediaPortal and more;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New unified "AudioEngine" audio abstraction framework with an API and platform sinks;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved AirPlay support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved controller support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Video library tags and advanced library filtering;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Advanced UPnP sharing;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added support for direct playback of ISO image files for Blu-ray Disc media;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added Bluray HDMV menu support (but not BD-J / BD-Live menus);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved Bluray playback support of unencrypted bdmv and mpls files without menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added option to set a default preference for subtitles and audio tracks based on language;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) and M3U8 (Extended M3U) playlist support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Linux: improved VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) and VDPAU (Nvidia) support;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Linux: added dedicated AMLPlayer and OMXPlayer video players for hardware accelerated video decoding on AMLogic devices and OpenMAX IL API;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">more </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can see a few screenshots featuring the latest XBMC 12.0, running in Ubuntu:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-playing-video.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - playing an YouTube video"><img alt="Xbmc 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-playing-video_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-video-addons.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - video addons"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-video-addons_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-youtube-videos.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - Youtube videos"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-youtube-videos_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-Hi10P.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - playing a h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video"><img alt="XBMC 12" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc12-Hi10P_thumb.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr.png" title="XBMC 12.0 - PVR"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 PVR" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The default Android skin isn't optimized for touch devices but you can change to a touch-optimized skin from the XBMC for Android settings (set the skin to "Touched"). Here are some screenshots with the default Android skin:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-coGYkXW9Nr8/UQgWzChGCcI/AAAAAAAANEc/GxlGZjErbMQ/s1600/xbmc-android-default-skin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - default skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - default skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-coGYkXW9Nr8/UQgWzChGCcI/AAAAAAAANEc/GxlGZjErbMQ/s320/xbmc-android-default-skin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWI-zWnRBL4/UQgWzNle__I/AAAAAAAANEg/Ag6ZWohZSKs/s1600/xbmc-android-default-skin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - default skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - default skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IWI-zWnRBL4/UQgWzNle__I/AAAAAAAANEg/Ag6ZWohZSKs/s320/xbmc-android-default-skin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />And with the "Touched" skin (using XBMC under Android):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yySKjpdasY/UQgW4eqns6I/AAAAAAAANEs/d9ZGZUF0HUk/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5yySKjpdasY/UQgW4eqns6I/AAAAAAAANEs/d9ZGZUF0HUk/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LMn0tR0LOp4/UQgW4g8xwrI/AAAAAAAANEw/i78HnDHP5U4/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LMn0tR0LOp4/UQgW4g8xwrI/AAAAAAAANEw/i78HnDHP5U4/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oA_cRFOIVmc/UQgW4uo4iqI/AAAAAAAANE0/_nisLlSTMsk/s1600/xbmc-android-touched-skin3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="XBMC for Android - Touched skin"><img alt="XBMC for Android - Touched skin" border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oA_cRFOIVmc/UQgW4uo4iqI/AAAAAAAANE0/_nisLlSTMsk/s320/xbmc-android-touched-skin3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One note about XBMC for Android though: it looks like the official XBMC addons aren't available in the application, even though the XBMC wiki mentions that the addons should work as long as they aren't platform-specific. But maybe this has something to do with today's release and their servers being slow (although the addons are displayed on my computer). <b>Update:</b> it seems it was indeed a server issue because the addons show up just fine now in XBMC for Android now.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install XBMC 12.0 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the XBMC stable PPA and install XBMC 12.0 in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xbmc</code></pre><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows, Mac OS X, ATV/2, iOS and the newly added Android and Raspberry Pi, see the <a href="http://xbmc.org/download/">XBMC downloads page</a>.</b>

XBMC 12.0 `Frodo` Stable Released. Use It On Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi, Android And More

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Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime Text</a> is probably among the best text/code editors available for Linux, and it's cross-platform so it works on Windows and Mac OS X too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sublime Text 2 stable was released about 7 months ago and since then, its developer has been working on a new version: <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">Sublime Text 3</a>. Even though Sublime Text is not free, up until now, users could evaluate it for an unlimited period of time which basically meant you didn't really had to buy it unless you wanted to support the developer. However, the latest Sublime Text 3 beta can only be used if you've purchased a license (USD $70, pretty expensive I'd say), but the old evaluation model might be used later on.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-DG-r-jX6Y/UQfyPgnbF2I/AAAAAAAANDQ/Zx8sDFIpftA/s1600/sublime-text-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-DG-r-jX6Y/UQfyPgnbF2I/AAAAAAAANDQ/Zx8sDFIpftA/s320/sublime-text-3.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Starting with the latest Sublime Text 3 beta builds, the application now uses <b>Python 3.3</b> for the plugins and also, it runs them out of process so they can't crash the main Sublime Text process anymore. Also, the new version comes with new features such as Goto Definition and Goto Symbol, speed improvements, improved pane management, symbol indexing and many other changes about which you can read <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-beta">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But this is not all, since Sublime Text 3 is currently in beta, it should improve quite a lot until the final release - if you've used the alpha and beta Sublime Text 2 builds, you're probably aware of how fast new builds are released.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I maintain a Sublime Text 2 PPA but I won't be uploading any Sublime Text 3 builds yet, given that it can't be evaluated for an unlimited period of time (for free) any more. However, the there are now official deb packages available for download so you can easily install the latest Sublime Text 3 beta in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based Linux distributions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you haven't tried Sublime Text before, I suggest you give version 2 a try, you'll find it <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/2">HERE</a> (and in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/sublime-text-20-stable-released-ppa.html">our Sublime Text PPA</a>).</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/3">Download Sublime Text 3 beta</a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/easily-discover-and-install-plugins-in.html">Sublime Package Control</a> - a tool to easily install plugins; it's like apt, but for Sublime Text.</i></div>

Sublime Text 3 Beta Available For Download

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uGet Download Manager 1.10.3 Gets New Icon, Mirrors Support

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k2CWoh_n4ZI/UQEUzGoZBOI/AAAAAAAAM7I/YpTeq1qkkNk/s1600/uget-download-manager.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="uget download manager" border="0" height="178" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k2CWoh_n4ZI/UQEUzGoZBOI/AAAAAAAAM7I/YpTeq1qkkNk/s320/uget-download-manager.png" title="uget download manager" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://uget.visuex.com/">uGet</a> 1.10.3 has been released today with a new application icon, support for mirrors and more.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">uGet is a GTK3 download manager that can make use of <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2009/10/aria2-cross-platform-command-line-tool.html">aria2</a> (a command line download accelerator also used by <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/speed-up-apt-get-downloads-with-apt.html">apt-fast</a>) to accelerate downloads, and comes with features such as: clipboard monitoring, scheduler, resume downloads, batch downloads, supports multiple protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent or Metalink - these last 2 require the aria2 plugin), HTML and TXT file importing, proxy support, cookie and user agent control and much more. </div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">For a complete list of features, see the uGet <a href="http://uget.visuex.com/features">features page</a>.</div><br /><br /><b>Changes in the latest uGet 1.10.3:</b><br /><ul><li>added new download option - "mirrors";</li><li>changed hotkey, Shift+Delete to delete data, Ctrl+Delete to delete file and data;</li><li>changed logo and icons;</li><li>rearranged menu items;</li><li>added & updated translation files.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lCSMpoK1Kes/UQEU45R1iFI/AAAAAAAAM7Q/5YiY-g9W9Ps/s1600/uget-mirros.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="uget mirrors" border="0" height="230" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lCSMpoK1Kes/UQEU45R1iFI/AAAAAAAAM7Q/5YiY-g9W9Ps/s320/uget-mirros.png" title="uget mirrors" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><h2>Install uGet download manager in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Compared to the version available in the Ubuntu repositories (1.8.x), the version available in the uGet PPA has many extra features and bug fixes as well as GTK3  and appindicator support, so I highly recommend using the official uGet stable PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the uGet stable PPA and install uGet and aria2 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and 12.10 Quantal Quetzal (there are no Ubuntu 13.04 packages yet), use the following commands in a terminal:</b></div><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install uget aria2</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To enable the aria2 plugin, select <i>Edit > Settings</i> from the uGet menu and on the "Plug-in" tab, check the box for "Enable aria2 plugin". Then, when adding a new download, you'll be able to set uGet to use multiple connections per server from the "New download" dialog box.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tip: like I was saying above, if you install uGet from its official PPA, you'll notice that it uses an Ubuntu AppIndicator by default but if you don't want this - for instance if you're using GNOME Shell -, you can disable it so uGet uses a tray icon, by using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sed -i "s/AppIndicator value='1'/AppIndicator value='0'/g" ~/.config/uGet/Setting.xml</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions (source files and RPM available) and Windows, see the uGet <a href="http://uget.visuex.com/downloads">downloads page</a>.</b></div>

uGet Download Manager 1.10.3 Gets New Icon, Mirrors Support

uGet 1.10.3 has been released today with a new application icon, support for mirrors and more. uGet is a GTK3 download manager that can mak...

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Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2013 `Collect Edition` FPS Game Update Brings New Maps And Game Modes

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ater two years and a half, a new <a href="http://sauerbraten.org/">Cube 2 Sauerbraten</a> version has been released: 2013-01-04 "Collect Edition", which brings new maps, new game modes: "collect", "insta collect", and "efficiency collect" and other interesting changes.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cube2_2.png"><img alt="Cube 2 Sauerbraten 2013-01-04" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cube2_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Cube 2: Sauerbraten is a first-person shooter that runs on Linux, Windows and mac OSX which features both single-player and multi-player game modes (LAN, local, online play).</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>New features / changes in the latest Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2013-01-04 "Collect Edition":</b><br /><ul><li>added "collect", "insta collect", and "efficiency collect" game modes;</li><li>many new maps;</li><li>new weapon sounds;</li><li>added support for directional sunlight for lightmaps;</li><li>added support for up to 4 types of water, lava, and glass materials;</li><li>now uses GLSL as the default rendering path when available;</li><li>added auto-update and auto-sort options to the server browser;</li><li>added snow particles;</li><li>many other changes.</li></ul>A complete list of changes in the latest Cube 2: Sauerbraten can be found <a href="http://sauerbraten.org/docs/history.html#_2013_01_04_collect_edition">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><b>Below you can watch the latest Cube 2: Sauerbraten </b><b><b>"Collect Edition"</b> in action:</b><br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Beqwtxbrsps" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Beqwtxbrsps">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://cubeengine.com/files.php4">Download Cube 2: Sauerbraten</a> (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX).</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/cube2_3.png"><img alt="Cube 2 Sauerbraten 2013-01-04 screenshot" src="http://img.netupd8.com/cube2_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Note for Ubuntu users</b>: to be able to run the game, install the following dependencies:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-image1.2</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, download and extract the game and simply run the "sauerbraten_unix" executable script inside the game folder (I've tested it on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit).</div><br /><br />

Cube 2: Sauerbraten 2013 `Collect Edition` FPS Game Update Brings New Maps And Game Modes

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MyPaint 1.1.0 Released With New Color Dialog And Geometry Tools, More

<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mypaint-1.1.0.png" rel="image_group" title="MyPaint 1.1.0"><img alt="MyPaint 1.1.0" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mypaint-1.1.0_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MyPaint, an open source application for digital painters</b>, has reached version <b>1.1.0</b>, the new version bringing <b>new blending models, new geometry tools like sequence of lines, curved lines and ellipses, a new color dialog and other interesting changes.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">MyPaint is especially designed to create images from scratch and it's not intended to be an image manipulation application (like GIMP), although you can still do many such operations using it. The application features a simple interface, unlimited canvas, extensive brush creation, basic layer support and more and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mypaint-1.1.0_2.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="MyPaint 1.1.0 - some of the new features: new color dialog, geometry tools"><img alt="MyPaint 1.1.0" src="http://img.netupd8.com/mypaint-1.1.0_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MyPaint 1.1.0 - some of the new features: new color dialog, geometry tools</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b>New features / changes in MyPaint 1.1.0:</b><br /><ul><li>geometry tools: sequence of lines, curved lines, ellipses;</li><li>new brush and layer blending modes; different layer merging;</li><li>new color dialog: palette and gamut mapping;</li><li>improved document frame, can be resized on canvas;</li><li>symmetric drawing mode;</li><li>old color changer ("washed") from 0.6 is available again;</li><li>toolbar improvements, e.g. move layer mode, pan/zoom;</li><li>revised cursor and on-canvas color picker;</li><li>better separation of mypaint's brush library; json brush file format;</li><li>translations, performance improvements, bugfixes, and more.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install MyPaint in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest MyPaint 1.1.0 stable isn't available in any PPA, but you can use the MyPaint Testing PPA, which even though it uses fresh GIT builds, it should be "fairly stable and tested". <b>Add the PPA and install MyPaint in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mypaint mypaint-data-hires</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are no MyPaint 1.1.0 binaries for other Linux distributions, Windows or Mac OSX yet, but you can grab the 1.1.0 source or older binaries from the MyPaint <a href="http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=6">downloads</a> page.</div><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest MyPaint from GIT via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27110">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/mypaint-1.1.0-released">libregraphicsworld.org</a></i></div>

MyPaint 1.1.0 Released With New Color Dialog And Geometry Tools, More

MyPaint, an open source application for digital painters , has reached version 1.1.0 , the new version bringing new blending models, new geo...

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