LibreOffice 3.6 Available For Download

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0QFvIO1k0BU/UCJq5ymz8aI/AAAAAAAAJeE/ZlkB2u6-OYg/s1600/libreoffice-3.6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0QFvIO1k0BU/UCJq5ymz8aI/AAAAAAAAJeE/ZlkB2u6-OYg/s320/libreoffice-3.6.png" title="libreoffice 3.6" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a> 3.6 has been released today with some interesting new features and improvements, such as a new CorelDRAW importer, improved auto-format function for tables in text documents, SmartArt import support, improved CVS import, PDF export with watermarking and more.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Improvements in LibreOffice 3.6:</b><br /><ul><li>Support for importing Office SmartArt </li><li>PDF Export with Watermark option </li><li>Added Word Count to status bar</li><li>10 new Impress master pages </li><li>Support for color scales and data bars. Import from .xlsx and import/export from/to .ods in ODF 1.2 (extended)</li><li>Import Filter for Corel Draw documents </li><li>Writer: Support for contextual spacing</li><li>Writer: Format paintbrush can now differentiate character automatic formating applied to paragraphs from those applied to text portion inside the paragraph</li><li>Writer: VML import now handles lines, rotations and flips</li><li>Writer: RTF/DOCX import/export handles document zoom settings</li><li>Calc: New option to specify a custom sheet name prefix in new documents</li><li>Calc: Merge cells option added to right-click menu. </li><li>Calc: "Ctrl+D" fills down in more familiar ways, filling with contents of the cell above if no cell is selected, and, filling down multiple cells with larger selections</li><li>Calc: Export conditional formatting to .xlsx</li><li>Calc: Improved CVS file import</li><li>Calc: Added support for field items in cells</li><li>Calc: Sorting of data from the autofilter menu</li><li>Calc: Support for pasting only text, value, or formula from the context menu</li><li>Impress: Added widescreen format for Impress slideshows</li><li>Impress: Impress now correctly detects the external display and puts the presenter console on the local display</li><li>GUI: New Splash Screen and About dialog</li><li>GUI: Rulers are now much cleaner and more light-weight</li><li>GUI: New artwork for the Start Office</li><li>GUI: GTK themes are now able to render background gradient and have a way for tab prelight rendering. </li><li>Performance improvements and many bug fixes</li><li><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-6-new-features-and-fixes/">More</a> </li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install LibreOffice 3.6 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pS8YMNyG7W4/UCJrUdK8yJI/AAAAAAAAJeM/VdyhX515tdw/s1600/libreoffice-3.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="libreoffice 3.6" border="0" height="212" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pS8YMNyG7W4/UCJrUdK8yJI/AAAAAAAAJeM/VdyhX515tdw/s320/libreoffice-3.6_2.png" title="libreoffice 3.6" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">LibreOffice 3.6 final isn't yet available in the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa/">LibreOffice PPA</a>, but if you can't wait, you can use the LibreOffice Prereleases PPA, which currently provides LibreOffice 3.6.0 RC1 (RC4 which is identical to the final release should be available soon) for Ubuntu 12.04. Add the PPA and upgrade to LibreOffice 3.6 RC1 using the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre>For experimental GTK3 support, also install the following package (if LibreOffice doesn't work after installing it, simply remove the package):<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk3</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">The packaging bugs I was telling you about <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/libreoffice-360-beta-1-released-ubuntu.html">back</a> when LibreOffice 3.6.0 beta 1 was released have been fixed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu users can also download LibreOffice 3.6 .deb files from the <a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download/">LibreOffice download page</a>. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the release notes, if you're updating from an older LibreOffice version, the spellchecking might be broken. Fix it using:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>rm -r ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/extensions</code></pre><br /><br /><a href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download">Download LibreOffice 3.6 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X</a>

LibreOffice 3.6 Available For Download

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Install SolusOS Patched Nautilus In Ubuntu 12.04

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAamciEM-Yg/UCAUtKYS0yI/AAAAAAAAJdw/t7EgbCKOFj0/s1600/solusos-nautilus.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="solusos nautilus" border="0" height="237" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FAamciEM-Yg/UCAUtKYS0yI/AAAAAAAAJdw/t7EgbCKOFj0/s320/solusos-nautilus.png" title="solusos nautilus" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/nemo-linux-mint-team-forks-nautilus.html">Speaking of Nautilus</a>, Linux Mint isn't the only distribution that wants to use its own custom Nautilus; <a href="http://solusos.com/">SolusOS</a> 2, a Debian-based Linux distribution currently in alpha that uses the GNOME fallback session as default, uses a customized Nautilus too.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's not a fork but it comes with some cool patches that bring an unified, customizable toolbar with the back/forward buttons on the left, as well as some smaller patches like for instance a patch to restore the ability to create a .desktop launcher from the Nautilus context menu.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xo3rqYE85CU/UCAMf0bx2gI/AAAAAAAAJdM/Vpl9SonTu7k/s1600/solusos-nautilus-ubuntu_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="solusos patched nautilus" border="0" height="209" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xo3rqYE85CU/UCAMf0bx2gI/AAAAAAAAJdM/Vpl9SonTu7k/s320/solusos-nautilus-ubuntu_2.png" title="solusos patched nautilus" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In SolusOS' Nautilus, the toolbar spreads across the whole window width and is sensitive to the active pane, so only one toolbar is used wen using the extra pane (F3) feature. Also, from the preferences (<i>Edit > Preferences > Toolbar</i> tab), you can select which icons to display/hide: up, refresh, home, computer, search icons and also, the old location bar / path bar toggle button which was removed from Nautilus a while back.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install SolusOS patched Nautilus in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o09fq6KduSY/UCAMle0nsPI/AAAAAAAAJdc/_nwQroqQtE4/s1600/solusos-nautilus-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="solusos patched nautilus" border="0" height="237" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o09fq6KduSY/UCAMle0nsPI/AAAAAAAAJdc/_nwQroqQtE4/s320/solusos-nautilus-ubuntu.png" title="solusos patched nautilus" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To make it easy to install for Ubuntu 12.04 users, I've uploaded SolusOS patched Nautilus in a PPA. Add the PPA and install the patched Nautilus (it includes SolusOS patches as well as the patches used by Nautilus in Ubuntu 12.04) using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/experiments<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<br />nautilus -q</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to revert the changes and go back to Nautilus from the official Ubuntu repositories, use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:webupd8team/experiments</code></pre>

Install SolusOS Patched Nautilus In Ubuntu 12.04

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Rhythmbox Third-Party Plugins Ubuntu PPA

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--FzeWysd2f8/UB_c45sH7jI/AAAAAAAAJcw/y4LOXKaRV-w/s1600/rhythmbox-ubuntu.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="rhythmbox equalizer" border="0" height="207" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--FzeWysd2f8/UB_c45sH7jI/AAAAAAAAJcw/y4LOXKaRV-w/s320/rhythmbox-ubuntu.png" title="rhythmbox equalizer" width="320" /></a></div><br />Now that Rhythmbox is once again the default music player in Ubuntu, AskUbuntu moderator fossfreedom has created a PPA for various Rhythmbox plugins that many Ubuntu users might find useful. Among the plugins included are: Equalizer, Jump-to-Playing, Tray Icon, Microblogger, Tablature plugin, JumpToWindow and more.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Currently, there are 22 plugins available in this PPA and they have been tested on Rhythmbox 2.96 which is available in the official Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.</div><br /><b>To add the PPA (for Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04 or 13.10), use the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/rhythmbox-plugins<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre><br /><b>Then, to install all the available plugins, use the command below:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-complete</code></pre><br /><b>You can also install the plugins individually:</b><br /><br />- <a href="https://github.com/luqmana/rhythmbox-plugins/tree/master/equalizer">Equalizer</a>: add a 10-band equalizer to Rhythmbox.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mQKie6ArF-s/T_I-CkvAIWI/AAAAAAAAJOY/DOWSsmdOCuw/s1600/rhythmbox-equalizer.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mQKie6ArF-s/T_I-CkvAIWI/AAAAAAAAJOY/DOWSsmdOCuw/s320/rhythmbox-equalizer.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-equalizer</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/asermax/lastfm_extension">Last.fm</a>: adds love/ban last.fm buttons and synchronizes playcount (it can only retrieve the playcount) and loved tracks(adds 5 stars to the track if it's marked as loved). The sync occurs only when playing a song and it needs to be enabled from the plugin preferences.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wxVC1REuhKM/T_I-IQs5P-I/AAAAAAAAJOg/GHMKk8hcmf0/s1600/rhythmbox-lastfm.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="86" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wxVC1REuhKM/T_I-IQs5P-I/AAAAAAAAJOg/GHMKk8hcmf0/s320/rhythmbox-lastfm.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-lastfm-extension</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="http://github.com/aliva/rhythmbox-microblogger">Microblogger</a>: sends a notice about the currently playing track to identi.ca or Twitter.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-microblogger</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/luqmana/rhythmbox-plugins/tree/master/AlbumArtSearch">AlbumArt Search</a>: searches album art using Google Image search and allows the user to select one of the results (so it's not automated) </div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-albumartsearch</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/dmo60/JumpToPlaying">Jump-to-Playing</a>: adds a context menu and a toolbar button to jump to (highlught) the currently playing song.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-jumptoplaying</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="https://github.com/owais/remember-the-rhythm">Remember-the-Rhythm</a>: a plugin to remember the last playing song, source (radio station, playlist), browser values (genre, album, artist).<br /><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-remembertherhythm</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="http://mendhak.github.com/rhythmbox-tray-icon/">Tray Icon</a>: control Rhythmbox via a notification icon (like in previous Rhythmbox versions), useful for desktop environments that don't have a media player menu / Ubuntu indicator support. If you want to use this in Unity, you'll have to whitelist the systray.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-tray-icon</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/bkueng/JumpToWindow">JumpToWindow</a>: a Rhythmbox plugin that adds a feature similar to Winamp's "Jump to file", which includes the ability to enqueue a song.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GABvrldzHp8/T_I-QV1n_lI/AAAAAAAAJOo/UJdPD-JOQ2A/s1600/rhythmbox-jumptowindow.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GABvrldzHp8/T_I-QV1n_lI/AAAAAAAAJOo/UJdPD-JOQ2A/s320/rhythmbox-jumptowindow.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-jumptowindow</code></pre><br />The plugin interface doesn't come with a GUI to configure the keyboard shortcut used to trigger JumpToWindow, so to set a keyboard shortcut, go to <i>System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts</i> and add the following command under "Custom Shortcuts" (and there, also set the shortcut, like CTRL + J for instance):<br />/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/JumpToWindow/src/activate.py<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the JumpToWindow, you can use the space bar to start playing a song, ALT + Enter to enqueue, Enter to play and hide the window and escape to hide the window.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tab-rhythmbox-plugin/">Tabulature</a>: Find and display the guitar tablature of the current playing song from tab websites. </div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-tabguitar</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/dmo60/lLyrics">lLyrics</a>: an alternative lyrics plugin, useful if the default lyrics plugin doesn't work for you.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-llyric</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/countdown-playlist">Countdown Playlist</a>: a plugin to create playlists based on some keywords you set, for the duration you define:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tpHU1TFNXBE/UBvUf4dwHnI/AAAAAAAAJYw/qWNz7rXwETY/s1600/countdownplaylist-plugin.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tpHU1TFNXBE/UBvUf4dwHnI/AAAAAAAAJYw/qWNz7rXwETY/s320/countdownplaylist-plugin.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-countdown-playlist</code></pre><br />- <a href="https://github.com/javonharper/Rhythmbox-Random-Album-Player">Random Album Player</a>: a simple plugin to play random albums. <br /><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-randomalbumplayer</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/coverart-browser-rhythmbox-plugin.html">CoverArt Browser</a> is a Rhythmbox plugin that lets you browse and play your music via an album art view similar to the one available in Banshee:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jYAlrS3q1Hc/UFcv7i2DMrI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/v7aENsAHMjk/s1600/rhythmbox-coverart.png"><img alt="Rhythmbox cover art" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jYAlrS3q1Hc/UFcv7i2DMrI/AAAAAAAAKJ0/v7aENsAHMjk/s320/rhythmbox-coverart.png" /></a></div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-coverart-browser</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>- LastFM-Queue</b> automatically enqueues tracks from your library based on last.fm suggestions for the currently playing track. This plugin only works on 64bit!</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-lastfm-queue</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="https://gitorious.org/open-containing-folder-plugin-for-rhythmbox">Open Containing Folder</a> adds an option to open the folder containing the selected track(s) to the right click context menu. Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-opencontainingfolder</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/radio-browser">Radio-Browser</a> Rhythmbox plugin lets you find, play and rip tracks from internet radio stations. Installation:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-radio-browser</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="https://launchpad.net/repeat-one-song">Repeat One Song</a> - just like its name says, it lets you repeat one song. Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-repeat-one-song</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/asermax/send_first">Send-First</a> Rhythmbox plugin lets you enqueue tracks at the beginning of the queue playlist instead of the default behaviour which is at the end. Installation:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-send-first</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/fossfreedom/smallwindow">Small-Window</a> shrinks the Rhythmbox user interface to a small window which only has the basic controls: play/pause, previous/next track. Installation:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-smallwindow</code></pre><br /><br />- <a href="https://github.com/srijan/StopAfterCurrentTrack-Plugin-for-Rhythmbox">Stop After Current Track</a>: stops playback after the current track. Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-stopafter</code></pre><br /><br />- <b>Suspend PC</b> lets you suspend the computer when the playlist of the queue finishes. Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-suspend</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/afrancoto/WebMenu">Web Menu</a> can be used to quickly search the playing/selected song on YouTube, search for its album on Wikipedia, AllMusic, RateYourMusic, AllAboutJazz, DiscoGS, Last.fm, Grooveshark, Facebook, Amazon. Search its artist on Wikipedia, AllMusic, RateYourMusic, DiscoGS, Last.fm, Facebook, Myspace, Torrentz. It even lets you open the artist official website.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-webmenu</code></pre><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <a href="https://github.com/benjaoming/rhythmbox-fullscreen">Fullscreen</a>: a plugin that gives you a nice full-screen window you can use at parties which includes album art, a pulsating hover effect, play pause and skip controls, animated progress bar, queued tracks managed. The window can be either full screen or maximized - this can be changed from the plugin preferences. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Installation:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-fullscreen</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">- <b>Rating filters</b>: The plugin adds rating filters to the library browser, allowing you to filter favourite or unrated tracks. You can set the favourites threshold in the plugin preferences.</div><br />Installation:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install rhythmbox-plugin-rating-filter</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><b>After installing any of the above Rhythmbox plugins, enable them from the menu: Edit > Plugins.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>More info about the plugins available in this PPA can be found at <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/147942/how-do-i-install-third-party-rhythmbox-plugins">AskUbuntu</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to fossfreedom for the tip!</i></div>

Rhythmbox Third-Party Plugins Ubuntu PPA

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Nemo: The Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gE6z_-paU0c/UBu3PYztq6I/AAAAAAAAJXs/RkDoJUinmck/s1600/About+Nemo_024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nemo file manager linux mint" border="0" height="169" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gE6z_-paU0c/UBu3PYztq6I/AAAAAAAAJXs/RkDoJUinmck/s320/About+Nemo_024.png" title="nemo file manager linux mint" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/cinnamon-14-released-with-new-hot.html">Cinnamon</a>, Muffin and <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/05/install-mint-display-manager-mdm-in.html">MDM</a>, the Linux Mint team works on yet another fork: <a href="https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo">Nemo</a>, a file manager forked from Nautilus 3.4.x. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Nautilus 3.5.x, which will become Nautilus 3.6 stable and will be a part of GNOME 3.6, has got a <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/07/nautilus-new-toolbar-menu-ubuntu-quantal.html" title="Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal: Nautilus Gets New Toolbar And Menu, Other Important Changes">new toolbar and menubar</a>, but there were also some features that were removed, like the dual pane feature, sidebar tree view and others. And this, it seems, wasn't what the Linux Mint developers want for their users, so they've decided to fork Nautilus 3.4.x, which still has these features.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTljTXWqMX4/UBu51K881tI/AAAAAAAAJYE/Nr1Np9uZkSY/s1600/nemo-file-manager.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="nemo file manager linux mint" border="0" height="215" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WTljTXWqMX4/UBu51K881tI/AAAAAAAAJYE/Nr1Np9uZkSY/s320/nemo-file-manager.png" title="nemo file manager linux mint" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For now, there are only a couple of visible changes between Nautilus 3.4.2 and Nemo:</div><ul><li>the location entry is visible by default, but it doesn't replace the breadcrumbs - it's displayed under the breadcrumb, and the user can easily show/hide it from the View menu or by using the CTRL + L keyboard shortcut.</li><li>some minor changes have been made to the look and feel - for instance, the sidebar uses a white background</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">On the Nemo todo list are various fixes, make it easier for the user to define mime actions, improved look and feel and it's also possible for the view buttons to be re-added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since it seems the Mint team wants to make Nautilus more usable and prettier, I wonder why they haven't tried to port some, if not all the Nautilus elementary patches to Nautilus 3.4.x, since the goals are basically the same. But since the work on Nemo has started only two weeks ago, there's still a lot of work to be done so we'll see if the Nautilus elementary concepts will be integrated or if the Linux Mint team wants to go its own way.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Nemo file manager source can be downloaded via <a href="https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo">GitHub</a>. </div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Brian Bentsen for the tip!</i></div>

Nemo: The Linux Mint Team Forks Nautilus

After Cinnamon , Muffin and MDM , the Linux Mint team works on yet another fork: Nemo , a file manager forked from Nautilus 3.4.x. Nautilus ...

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Download VirtualBox 4.2 Beta 1

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8NU6cEhb3CM/UBwFYgPsRRI/AAAAAAAAJZs/dmAtWxZ4rD0/s1600/virtualbox-4.2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="virtualbox 4.2" border="0" height="249" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8NU6cEhb3CM/UBwFYgPsRRI/AAAAAAAAJZs/dmAtWxZ4rD0/s320/virtualbox-4.2.png" title="virtualbox 4.2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Oracle has <a href="https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=50763">released</a> VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 today, which includes some major improvements, like improved Windows 8 support, an expert mode for wizards, experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests and more.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1:</b><br /><ul><li>Improved Windows 8 support, in particular many 3D-related fixes</li><li>GUI: VM groups</li><li>GUI: expert mode for wizards</li><li>GUI: allow to alter some settings during runtime</li><li>Support for up to 36 network cards, in combination with an ICH9 chipset configuration</li><li>Resource control: added support for limiting network IO bandwidth</li><li>Added possibility to start VMs during system boot on Linux, OS X and Solaris</li><li>Added experimental support for Drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests. Support for more guests and for guest-to-host is planned. </li><li>Support recent VIA CPUs</li><li>Allow taking screenshots of the current VM window content</li><li>Allow automatically sorting of the VM list</li><li>Allow starting of headless VMs from the GUI</li><li>GUI: network operations manager</li><li>Improved VM context switch performance for Intel CPUs using nested paging</li><li>Added support for FlushByASID features of AMD CPUs (Bulldozer and newer)</li><li>Added readonly support for VHDX images, QED images and for QCOW (full support for v1 and readonly support for v2) images</li><li>Bug fixes</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since VirtualBox 4.2 is in beta, you will find bugs so don't use this on a production machine! If you encounter bugs, report them on the <a href="https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=15">VirtualBox Beta Feedback forum</a>. For instance, in my test using Linux (Ubuntu) for both the guest and host machine, the new experimental drag'n'drop feature didn't work for some reason - if you figure out how to get it to work, let us know in the comments!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For how to use some of the new features, like limiting network I/O bandwidth or staring a VM on system boot, see the VirtualBox manual, available via the download link below.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0_BETA1/">Download VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1</a></b> for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X</div><br /><b>Update: VirtualBox 4.2.0 RC1 is now available for download @ <a href="http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0_RC1/">http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0_RC1/</a></b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: to be able to install VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 in Ubuntu, you must firstly remove any installed VirtualBox version. For instance, if you have installed the latest stable <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/virtualbox-41-released-with-gui-option.html" title="Install VirtualBox 4.1 in Ubuntu / Debian via repository">VirtualBox 4.1</a>, remove it using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-4.1</code></pre>And then simply install the VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 downloaded deb file.

Download VirtualBox 4.2 Beta 1

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Install Audacious 3.3 In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10 [PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/">Audacious</a> is an audio player that focuses on high audio quality and low resource usage which comes with a pretty large plugin list as well as two interfaces: a GTK interface and a Winamp 2.x like interface.</i><br /><br />With a bit of a delay, <b>Audacious 3.3 stable is now available in the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and 12.10 Quantal Quetzal</b>. The new version brings GTK interface improvements, partially re-written core output which now supports to vary the playback speed without restarting playback (there's a new plugin that takes advantage of this), a more intelligent search that lets you search by artist, album and song title in the same time and more.</div><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><b>Changes in Audacious 3.3:</b><br /><ul><li>the playback toolbar has been styled as a "primary toolbar" to make it look better in GNOME 3 and indeed, Audacious 3.3 looks a lot better with Ambiance / Adwaita themes</li><li>a new genre column</li><li>Audacious now saves the current position within a song when you start playing a different playlist</li><li>more intelligent search - it now searches for the artist, album and song title simultaneously and more information is displayed</li><li>partially re-written core output which now supports to vary the playback speed without restarting playback</li><li>the LIRC plugin, which was up till now missing in the Audacious 3.x series, has been made to support GTK+ 3.x and is back</li><li>the GIO transport plugin is now enabled by default, supporting ftp://, sftp://, and smb:// URI protocols</li><li>the MPRIS2 plugin (used by GNOME Shell's Media Player indicator) now supports seeking and getting/setting the volume</li><li>changed/improved various parts of the preferences UI</li><li>the FLAC plugin now supports higher quality files (24-bit and surround)</li><li>over-amplified audio can be made to sound better by the use of a new “soft clipping” option</li><li><a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/news/16-audacious-3-3-released">more</a></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://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNs54o4WIgY/UBu-twmqePI/AAAAAAAAJYU/pMMOR60YqCs/s1600/audacious-3-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="audacious media player 3.3" border="0" height="249" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNs54o4WIgY/UBu-twmqePI/AAAAAAAAJYU/pMMOR60YqCs/s320/audacious-3-3.png" title="audacious media player 3.3" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious 3.3 - GTK interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fgdN8LYC5CM/UBu-u8VGipI/AAAAAAAAJYY/GlalDf6WSoE/s1600/audacious-3.3_winamp.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="audacious media player 3.3" border="0" height="285" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fgdN8LYC5CM/UBu-u8VGipI/AAAAAAAAJYY/GlalDf6WSoE/s320/audacious-3.3_winamp.png" title="audacious media player 3.3" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Audacious 3.3 Winamp interface</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>Install Audacious 3.3 in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10</h2><br /><b>To add the main WebUpd8 PPA and install Audacious 3.3 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, 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 audacious</code></pre><br />For other Linux distributions and Windows, get Audacious from its <a href="http://audacious-media-player.org/download">download page</a>.

Install Audacious 3.3 In Ubuntu 12.04 Or 12.10 [PPA]

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Lubuntu 12.10 Gets A New Icon Theme Called "Box"

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z0WL4HxZ6T4/UBviOkyS4CI/AAAAAAAAJZE/LetFQqTSiRw/s1600/lubuntu-icon-theme-box.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="lubuntu icon theme box" border="0" height="255" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z0WL4HxZ6T4/UBviOkyS4CI/AAAAAAAAJZE/LetFQqTSiRw/s320/lubuntu-icon-theme-box.png" title="lubuntu icon theme box" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>A new icon theme called Box has landed in <a href="http://lubuntu.net/">Lubuntu</a> 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. </b><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The theme is inspired by elementary icon theme, which it "inherits" (meaning that some elementary icons are used by Box) and the Faenza "box" style.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yfa-O3ublQQ/UBvrj4299RI/AAAAAAAAJZY/cxy_JdwQqvE/s1600/lubuntu12.10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="lubuntu icon theme box" border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yfa-O3ublQQ/UBvrj4299RI/AAAAAAAAJZY/cxy_JdwQqvE/s320/lubuntu12.10.png" title="lubuntu icon theme box" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />The theme is not 100% finished, but is already available for Lubuntu 12.10 users. Box icon theme can also be used on older Lubuntu releases, and not just Lubuntu, it should work with GNOME / Unity too, though it's not optimized for them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/lubuntu-icon-theme_0.30_all.deb">Download Box icon theme</a> (.deb) - also requires the elementary icon theme</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/2012/08/box-icon-theme.html">Lubuntu blog</a></i></div>

Lubuntu 12.10 Gets A New Icon Theme Called "Box"

A new icon theme called Box has landed in Lubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. The theme is inspired by elementary icon theme, which it "inh...

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