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Flowblade Video Editor 0.10 Released With New Audio Mixer, Other New Features

Flowblade Video Editor 0.10 Released With New Audio Mixer, Other New Features

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

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

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

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

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Oracle Java 7 Update 40 (7u40) Released, Ubuntu PPA Updated

Oracle Java 7 Update 40 (7u40) Released, Ubuntu PPA Updated

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Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

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

Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

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Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

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

Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

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

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

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

In Ubuntu 13.04, if you want to get online search results in Dash without shopping suggestions, you can simply remove the Unity Shopping len...

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