Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4R1XyNBmoM-FSQ_6YSEIWfjiow98Tl2aFlhRciGw0XKTN6aBZCAg0wFURGRACy2nfXj78b_fK9DFjykAQVSNTI_qoJCNInwSICC9UHGW6P7Gf_a3exa_uk6Wh5MnJyyTxnomorN65vaT/s1600/drawers-apps_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawers"><img alt="drawers stacks unity" border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4R1XyNBmoM-FSQ_6YSEIWfjiow98Tl2aFlhRciGw0XKTN6aBZCAg0wFURGRACy2nfXj78b_fK9DFjykAQVSNTI_qoJCNInwSICC9UHGW6P7Gf_a3exa_uk6Wh5MnJyyTxnomorN65vaT/s320/drawers-apps_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Drawers, an application that lets you create drawers ("stacks") on the Unity Launcher for quick access (or just to unclutter / better organize the Unity Launcher) to various app shortcuts, files, links and so on, has been updated today with a much requested feature: <b>AppMenu Drawers</b>.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>AppMenu Drawers is a new type of drawer which tries to imitate the old GNOME2-style menu</b>, displaying applications grouped by category. These types of drawers can be created for any level of menu hierarchy and the subcategories can easily be accessed via quicklists:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZUAGTgID2Pdmet1uhm77gPz6Y1ZDgjujm6gwyiGZi8EygaHtF_ty917MTFgShXWsV_WI49xK-BdQixPsihtiLUDA0wqEbED2_lx_MY7An6coiv0sNl1Ex7Xs1pIVZuAlMOXXO3W5LNQm/s1600/drawers-apps-quicklists.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawer quicklists"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqZUAGTgID2Pdmet1uhm77gPz6Y1ZDgjujm6gwyiGZi8EygaHtF_ty917MTFgShXWsV_WI49xK-BdQixPsihtiLUDA0wqEbED2_lx_MY7An6coiv0sNl1Ex7Xs1pIVZuAlMOXXO3W5LNQm/s320/drawers-apps-quicklists.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br />Other changes in the latest Drawers 13.3.1 include:<br /><ul><li>icons can now be up to 128px;</li><li>drawer color updates with wallpaper changes.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Drawers comes with many useful features, allowing you to add any kind of file types, links and so on to a drawer and it also supports "<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/unity-stacks-application-drawers.html">active drawers</a>" in which the content of a folder is added to a drawer and is constantly monitored for changes so when you add files to that folder, the drawer is updated automatically.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Drawers</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxhqgidodx3QxlCBbt_O2csq7LRedDM4AgFeELXR3pdfIxEn98tlVV1lW2-C6yful5x9a7KsbcDzT3g2hp3bWldsS8JVvAgLn3V0skZDOHha9pyL-B91wUU-o9KuHkh7MVKz69hVf1Hru/s1600/drawers-apps_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="AppMenu Drawer category"><img alt="drawers stacks unity" border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxhqgidodx3QxlCBbt_O2csq7LRedDM4AgFeELXR3pdfIxEn98tlVV1lW2-C6yful5x9a7KsbcDzT3g2hp3bWldsS8JVvAgLn3V0skZDOHha9pyL-B91wUU-o9KuHkh7MVKz69hVf1Hru/s320/drawers-apps_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Drawers is currently available for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04 and it can be installed from its official PPA, by using the following commands in a terminal:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ian-berke/ppa-drawers<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install drawers</code></pre><br />If you encounter bugs, report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/drawers">Launchpad</a>.

Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

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

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mnY2l-pmrX6NW3pNV24zW2jkfPI8guB8yCYYYtFFqPox3OMScDsgZHIPdKVKMdcDGEI46Wq8XkUbArVhNKJ3m9TBq7mV3YtJDZ6NRtjBlSlt8QZtKgozsjtbr-9qHvKcNJXwkX22foAu/s1600/insync-ubuntu-appindicator.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="insync ubuntu appindicator" border="0" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6mnY2l-pmrX6NW3pNV24zW2jkfPI8guB8yCYYYtFFqPox3OMScDsgZHIPdKVKMdcDGEI46Wq8XkUbArVhNKJ3m9TBq7mV3YtJDZ6NRtjBlSlt8QZtKgozsjtbr-9qHvKcNJXwkX22foAu/s320/insync-ubuntu-appindicator.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.insynchq.com/">Insync</a>, an unofficial, cross-platform <a href="https://tools.google.com/dlpage/drive">Google Drive</a> client is <a href="http://blog.insynchq.com/say-hello-to-insync-10">out of beta</a> for Windows and Mac OSX and with this, the pricing has been revealed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since Google hasn't yet released a Google Drive client for Linux and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/grive-open-source-google-drive-client.html" title="Grive: Open Source Google Drive Client For Linux">Grive</a> seems to have been abandoned, many Linux users are using Insync. However, the Insync developers have stated that their tool will only be free while in beta, and the price hasn't been known until today.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The Insync Pro edition is available for $9.99 (introductory pricing; one time payment) after a 15 day free trial and there's also going to be a business edition which includes an admin dashboard as well as centralized billing with priority email support.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Insync for Linux is still in beta, so its users can continue to take advantage of this application for free until it's out of the beta. The application supports (comes with separate applets) most Linux desktop environments: Unity, Cinnamon, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXDE, KDE and even MATE and it's available for Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, openSUSE, Debian, Arch Linux, MEPIS and PCLinuxOS.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The price isn't much considering the effort put in by the Insync team to support most Linux desktop environments, but I can also agree with those who aren't willing to pay since Google Drive is a free service after all (unless you've upgraded). <b>What do you think?</b></div><br />For how to install Insync (beta) in Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint, see our previous post: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/insync-repository-available-for-ubuntu.html">Insync Repository Available For Ubuntu, Linux Mint And Debian Users</a><br /><br />For other Linux distributions, see the Insync for <a href="https://www.insynchq.com/linux">Linux page</a>.

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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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXqc4l04DjXq2bdle6y2XsQqekOzO1IEAJGiyRFBfNnIoc4rGa_YeWA-x2SpyPrcmGSx9n8zTR4Nf9twnbm-a6hA-mwXyTTN22B4L3rIYz7ehkdlTbavkA9LJ1QBuGOIaZsc_MqAg_uxS/s1600/red-eclipse_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXqc4l04DjXq2bdle6y2XsQqekOzO1IEAJGiyRFBfNnIoc4rGa_YeWA-x2SpyPrcmGSx9n8zTR4Nf9twnbm-a6hA-mwXyTTN22B4L3rIYz7ehkdlTbavkA9LJ1QBuGOIaZsc_MqAg_uxS/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8slT3gtPJ86pIm7kg4QaIpQuEv9fJf7ioS-A0b7dYbNJpSyj71gM6YEgIJzcTerzyDGQmaSnCUZvh-MKDEPx6v0JQJJ4HrPeGWrMUdDThUzDTBOUYKS9GqbiZc0MX42rA8inVwk4LdRXS/s1600/red-eclipse_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8slT3gtPJ86pIm7kg4QaIpQuEv9fJf7ioS-A0b7dYbNJpSyj71gM6YEgIJzcTerzyDGQmaSnCUZvh-MKDEPx6v0JQJJ4HrPeGWrMUdDThUzDTBOUYKS9GqbiZc0MX42rA8inVwk4LdRXS/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="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzvd8_2YwtEGIZ0CGsk1ogUX6RDUjiMD0RsBGEKKNWEbEt7IQKEJM4vNI5ss4ZToI15XWu2fXC4ctXicwKJW2zn9I_0C7Iah4iJDPIEIjfDOeJqa70YeisI-OtE9PBHYSFPV3M4yBauxo/s1600/red-eclipse_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzvd8_2YwtEGIZ0CGsk1ogUX6RDUjiMD0RsBGEKKNWEbEt7IQKEJM4vNI5ss4ZToI15XWu2fXC4ctXicwKJW2zn9I_0C7Iah4iJDPIEIjfDOeJqa70YeisI-OtE9PBHYSFPV3M4yBauxo/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>

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

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Cairo Dock 3.2 Released With Improved Multi-Screen And GNOME Shell Support, More

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://Cairo Dock">Cairo Dock</a> (Glx Dock) is a launcher / task manager that comes with a huge list of applets and configuration options. </b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZN15WFJuQXJqo9SlLjQ7tX34HQmBs7iVhdY9GvJMEODPNtDVU04e_VIKrPMT1eqI12GkJh0HWoaFcNaika-gAwf4ekxY3wJYkHR8Txm-OSTHyKirJkE3vvEQj562EGZQFfKY_v1GP8XL/s1600/cairo-dock.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cairo dock" border="0" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSZN15WFJuQXJqo9SlLjQ7tX34HQmBs7iVhdY9GvJMEODPNtDVU04e_VIKrPMT1eqI12GkJh0HWoaFcNaika-gAwf4ekxY3wJYkHR8Txm-OSTHyKirJkE3vvEQj562EGZQFfKY_v1GP8XL/s320/cairo-dock.png" title="cairo dock" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />It can be used with any desktop environment / shell, so it works with GNOME Shell, Unity, Xfce, KDE and so on. There's also a stand-alone Cairo Dock session - select "Cairo Dock" from the login menu to use it.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Among the applets included by default with Cairo Dock are: applications menu, appindicators, keyboard indicator, Ubuntu Messaging Menu, session control, mail, quick file browser, notification area, screen luminosity, screenshot, sound control, stacks, system monitor, desktop switcher, terminal, weather, weblets and more. </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/AVvXsEgKlB8utDmeWhMYEEsXV6ukyhce3DvX3r5Tj4SLJQuRAKAK8kIXGOZ851io8XK8KpIQRWZW8beZIMHett4GkzwXFM1WOqyn_NvMDY3Svw1vbCMkmVywWf-VszY3GOIPelkvyxi0rTuZG9h7/s1600/cairo-dock-gnome-shell.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="cairo dock" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKlB8utDmeWhMYEEsXV6ukyhce3DvX3r5Tj4SLJQuRAKAK8kIXGOZ851io8XK8KpIQRWZW8beZIMHett4GkzwXFM1WOqyn_NvMDY3Svw1vbCMkmVywWf-VszY3GOIPelkvyxi0rTuZG9h7/s320/cairo-dock-gnome-shell.png" title="cairo dock" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Multiple Cairo Dock instances (left, bottom) in GNOME Shell</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cairo Dock 3.2 has been released recently and it includes many changes:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>improved multi-screen support: you can now choose the screen for each dock (or all screens), support for desktop names, more;</li><li>new applets: Screenshot and Indicator-Generic (a plugin to display all the available Ubuntu indicators into the dock; you can define a blacklist if you don't want some indicators to show up);</li><li>new Sound Effects plugin which adds sounds to some actions on the icons;</li><li>better GNOME Shell support (for instance, all windows with the same class are displayed);</li><li>GDM user switching support;</li><li>the note taking applet can now work without Tomboy or Gnote;</li><li>Systemd support (Arch Linux, Fedora, etc.) for session management;</li><li>icons and overlays should be less blurry;</li><li>improved most plugins/applets: Application Menu, Clock, Gvfs integration (you can now mount encrypted volumes that require a password, various fixes), Keyboard Indicator, etc.;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br />For the official release notes, see <a href="http://glx-dock.org/bg_topic.php?t=6792">THIS</a> page.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to see Cairo Dock in action before installing it, here's a video with version 3.1 (so it's not the latest Cairo Dock 3.2, but you should still get an idea on most of its features):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2isiqVEcaio" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2isiqVEcaio">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Cairo Dock</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can install the latest stable Cairo Dock using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cairo-dock cairo-dock-plug-ins</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Debian</b> users can install the latest Cairo Dock from the official Cairo Dock Debian repository - installation instructions <a href="http://glx-dock.org/ww_page.php?p=From%20the%20repository&lang=en#3-Debian">HERE</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Arch Linux, Cairo Dock can be installed via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cairo-dock/">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions you can grab the Cairo Dock source from <a href="https://launchpad.net/cairo-dock-core">Launchpad</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>seen on <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/03/cairo-dock-32-migliora-il-supporto-per.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

Cairo Dock 3.2 Released With Improved Multi-Screen And GNOME Shell Support, More

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elementary OS Gets Its Own AppCenter

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The elementary OS team has released the first version of <a href="https://launchpad.net/appcenter">AppCenter</a>, a tool used to install and remove software, designed to be beautiful, fast and lightweight.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHfm2oXKawb4eiJJHI5EvLv1b6YeRlSP6ghnKBbVLoDduE1T9JGST5Cht-PDTnjTbB422Lqpdw-GeuyI167YDoWl88umhGffR4d2MDLvyAIawzXji5rz1ZqHUafmsGXZ93YGKRSp_6WgS1/s1600/elementary-appcenter.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="elementary appcenter" border="0" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHfm2oXKawb4eiJJHI5EvLv1b6YeRlSP6ghnKBbVLoDduE1T9JGST5Cht-PDTnjTbB422Lqpdw-GeuyI167YDoWl88umhGffR4d2MDLvyAIawzXji5rz1ZqHUafmsGXZ93YGKRSp_6WgS1/s320/elementary-appcenter.png" title="elementary appcenter" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;">AppCenter uses the same backend as the Lubuntu Software Center (libappstore) and Packagekit and <b>since this is the first public release, there are missing features</b> such as ratings, reviews and featured apps, but these features should be available in a future release. <b>The plan is to allow AppCenter to also handle application updates</b>, but for now this isn't available. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The basic features are, of course, already available: installing/removing applications, displaying screenshots and so on.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKEJ6ts06AfYt1q-PTuqZdlS46-zuCQsBVMiMbo38_L5ZnIoLXPV-LZJS5btr9Pc1Qz8y8u43R_-bDwvVGr4XN4Me3xbb7-_hFtGrfoFasWPG9KLyCzeGqV2TT2MTSR2g379mqmv-buVr/s1600/elementary-appcenter_0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="elementary os appcenter" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKEJ6ts06AfYt1q-PTuqZdlS46-zuCQsBVMiMbo38_L5ZnIoLXPV-LZJS5btr9Pc1Qz8y8u43R_-bDwvVGr4XN4Me3xbb7-_hFtGrfoFasWPG9KLyCzeGqV2TT2MTSR2g379mqmv-buVr/s320/elementary-appcenter_0.png" title="elementary os appcenter" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>AppCenter won't be included in elementary OS Luna by default, but it should be available in the following release. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The elementary OS team is also working on an <b>application review process </b>for both new and updated apps and based on some automated and hand testing, the applications will receive a score and if they pass a threshold, they will be published in the AppCenter. This will assure users that the applications will work well on their systems and it should also be fast enough so developers don't have to wait a lot until their app is published to the AppStore.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuD183SQcV42BVjGUjFnwvuOVNMZb8fC0remw7sO-ZcEdvo7wYTRlCrMPcDig5hUtCoE8jSjA8uc3TwrTLTDDWdBt0n2Qj17U2Y-C1qU6uh4Uuqh8sKJB97sEdar_0cs9TPGd0vCFtUiA/s1600/appcenter-app.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="elementary os appcenter" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUuD183SQcV42BVjGUjFnwvuOVNMZb8fC0remw7sO-ZcEdvo7wYTRlCrMPcDig5hUtCoE8jSjA8uc3TwrTLTDDWdBt0n2Qj17U2Y-C1qU6uh4Uuqh8sKJB97sEdar_0cs9TPGd0vCFtUiA/s320/appcenter-app.png" title="elementary os appcenter" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><br /><h2>Install AppCenter</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you're using elementary OS (by the way, see our <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/elementary-os-luna-beta-1-available-for.html">elementary OS Luna beta 1 review</a> if you haven't already), install AppCenter by using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install appcenter</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>If after launching AppCenter, the categories are empty, run "appcenter -r" in a terminal, wait for the command to finish, then launch AppCenter and it should work (thanks to Richard B for the tip!). </i></div><br /><br />You can also grab the source from <a href="https://launchpad.net/appcenter/+download">HERE</a>.<br /><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/appcenter">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br />For more information about AppCenter, see the official <a href="http://elementaryos.org/journal/introducing-appcenter">release announcement</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Cassidy James for the tip!</i></div>

elementary OS Gets Its Own AppCenter

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SopCast Application TV-Maxe Adds Recording Feature, More

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wTBdYHT3SKHA2J7DTbMBXBFItf5RgNr4MzCpK6e9I1sF2BSlsMuIuSjBmJ0o9TWioAbIE53UNsZsuO6Cgbt3B9Amoq5ZQsW8Wbk2T8OoN6PpZoBZQcRgjBaYFpi4GjDBKyKuwwRIcIty/s1600/tv-maxe-0.09.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tv-maxe 0.09" border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8wTBdYHT3SKHA2J7DTbMBXBFItf5RgNr4MzCpK6e9I1sF2BSlsMuIuSjBmJ0o9TWioAbIE53UNsZsuO6Cgbt3B9Amoq5ZQsW8Wbk2T8OoN6PpZoBZQcRgjBaYFpi4GjDBKyKuwwRIcIty/s320/tv-maxe-0.09.png" title="tv-maxe 0.09" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TV-Maxe, an application to watch TV stations online using various streams, such as SopCast, has reached version 0.09.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The application comes with thow TV channel lists by default: an international and a Romanian one, but more unofficial lists are available on its <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tv-maxe/wiki/ChannelLists">wiki</a> and of course, you can manually add more channels. TV-Maxe features HTTP remote control, Gstreamer, VLC and Mplayer backends and more.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The latest TV Maxe 0.09</b> brings theming support, a much requested feature that allows <b>stream recording</b> (this feature is still in alpha so it might be a bit buggy), <b>scheduling support</b>, auto turn off, better support for m3u8 files, an improved user interface and other fixes and minor changes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new recording feature can be tweaked from the TV-Maxe settings: you can set the recording quality as well as the audio/video codecs and file format.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install TV-Maxe</h2><br /><b>To install add the new TV-Maxe PPA (if you have the old PPA, remove it) and install it in Ubuntu, use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:venerix/pkg<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tv-maxe</code></pre><br /><br />To be able to play some of the streams, you must also install these packages:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libmp3lame0 libavcodec-extra-53</code></pre><br />For now, there are no packages for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail but you can manually change the PPA source in <i>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/</i> and use "quantal" instead of "raring" for now and TV-Maxe should work.<br /><br /><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install TV-Maxe from <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tv-maxe/">AUR</a>. <br /><br />For other Linux distributions, download the TV-Maxe source from <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tv-maxe/downloads/list">Google Code</a>.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via TV-Maxe Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tvmaxe">page</a></i></div>

SopCast Application TV-Maxe Adds Recording Feature, More

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Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1X2zSsNcNhysErjlmWqXrAcTKrhziDFne6I54cHAbixQm_VQrOPvszBhET-3RfA2nEBfnMzDJYZ4leyo7dKjCHxXBHud2KxmJMc4f70kNL1N6Yj3EATRCJ5f7UCdDrOx2jPcyqPSk5Zk/s1600/google_webmastertools.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1X2zSsNcNhysErjlmWqXrAcTKrhziDFne6I54cHAbixQm_VQrOPvszBhET-3RfA2nEBfnMzDJYZ4leyo7dKjCHxXBHud2KxmJMc4f70kNL1N6Yj3EATRCJ5f7UCdDrOx2jPcyqPSk5Zk/s1600/google_webmastertools.png" /></a></div><b>How to Add Blogger Blog and Website to Google Webmasters Tools</b><br /><br />Submit Website Sitemap to Google Webmaster <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Tools" target="_blank">tools</a> is a must for anyone that want to be successful. Once you get verified your site to webmaster tools, then automatically get indexed your site to <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank">Google search engine.</a> When your site come to <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Search%20Engines" target="_blank">search engine</a> then you will get a lot of traffic.<br /><a name="more"></a><br /><b>Follow the easy steps to add Website to Webmaster Tools.</b><br /><br />If you create blogs using <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/02/how-to-create-free-blog-on-bloggercom.html" target="_blank">Blogger</a>, you can automatically add and verify sites by enabling Webmaster Tools directly from the Blogger dashboard.<br /><br /><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Log in to <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/</a> with your Google account.</li><li>Click "Add a site...", enter the base URL of your Google Site in the box that pops up, then click "Continue.".</li><li>You will be given with many verification methods. select the Alternate methods tab.</li><li>Select the option: Add a meta tag to your site's home page</li><li>Copy the meta tag (for example, <meta name="google-site-verification" content="z7mJLjVGtEe2qzCzfE1pamxI4H72u18n4XdxEzgl2AJ" />) from the Instructions box.</li><li>Leave the verification page open and go to your site dashboard (in a new tab/window).</li><li>Paste the meta tag that you copied on the Google Webmasters Tools after <head> tag in your website. ( "Blogger" go to site Deshbord click Templates > Edit HTML > Ctrl + F and find <head> tag after past  meta tag that you copied on the Google Webmasters Tools.</li><li>Click on Save Changes.</li><li>Go back to the verification page and click Verify.</li></ol><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">Submit Blogger Blog Sitemap To Webmasters Tools</h4></div><div><br />An XML sitemap is a fairly simple XML file that contains info about one or additional URLs on your web site. it's updated whenever you post an article and used by Search engines to crawl blog information. Not only Google but also use by different search engines like Yahoo, Bing,etc. if you can create blog on blogger.com then you do not need to create site map and if you can use hosting & other site or manuly create site map use sitemap create tools, I'm using this tool <a href="http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.xml-sitemaps.com</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Follow the easy steps  to submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.</b></div><div><br /></div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Sign in to you Google Webmaster Tools account.</li><li>Click on the blog.</li><li>Navigate to Traffic > Optimization > Sitemaps and click ADD/TEST SITEMAP button and add the following code inside the box :</li></ol><blockquote class="tr_bq">atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=<span style="background-color: yellow;">100</span></blockquote>If you have more than 200 posts then replace value <span style="background-color: yellow;">100</span> by something bigger number like <b style="background-color: yellow;">500</b>.<br /><br />You have successfully added Blogspot blog sitemap to Google Webmasters Tools.<br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank">Submit your Websites to Search Engines for Free</a></div></div>

Submit Website Sitemap To Webmaster Tools

How to Add Blogger Blog and Website to Google Webmasters Tools Submit Website Sitemap to Google Webmaster tools is a must for anyone that w...

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