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>

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

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MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop_1.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-16EVaTKloTA/UVx2VL-AQ7I/AAAAAAAAO14/RPVnKEMpG_U/s320/mate-desktop_1.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After 8 months of development, <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/">MATE</a> 1.6 has been <a href="http://mate-desktop.org/2013/04/02/mate-1-6-released/">released</a></b> yesterday and its Ubuntu and Debian repositories have been updated a few hours ago with the latest MATE desktop. <b>The new version comes with</b><b> many changes such as Systemd-logind support, Caja (file manager) improvements and more.</b><br /><br /><b>MATE 1.6</b> is "<b>a giant step forward from the 1.4 release</b>" according to the MATE developers and with this release, many deprecated packages and libraries have been replaced with new technologies available in GLib. <b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For those not familiar with MATE, this is a <b>GNOME2 fork</b> which lets you use the old GNOME 2 desktop interface and applications but it also allows you to use new applications so for instance, you can use Nautilus 3 with it and so on. Also, MATE can be installed in parallel with GNOME 3, something that wasn't possible with the vanilla GNOME 2. </div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><h2>Changes in MATE 1.6</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Caja</b>, the default MATE file manager has received some interesting improvements, including support for new thumbnailers specifications and a new thumbnails frame, a new connect server dialog backported from Nautilus 3, the sidebar has been improved and there were many bug fixes:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--5KkRiSm6r4/UVx3Z3FLwDI/AAAAAAAAO2Q/xjPWcO7lxdM/s320/mate-desktop-1.6.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>MATE panel</b> Window List now supports middle clicking to close a window and the workspace switcher now has an option to wrap around between workspaces with the mouse wheel.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zXpAC5Mh0vY/UVxGLpB2vJI/AAAAAAAAO0o/xNrZ7YLdwss/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_5.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATE Control Center</b> has received some improvements too, including an <b>option to enable Marco compositing manager</b> and fast alt-tab window preferences and others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another interesting change has been made to the <b>Notification Daemon</b> which now has an <b>option which allows users to specify on which screen the notifications should be displayed</b> on and there's also support for notifications that "never expire".</div><br /><br /><b>Other improvements in MATE 1.6:</b><br /><ul><li>added support for systemd-logind in mate-session-manager, mate-screensaver and mate-power-manager (now you can reboot/shutdown without ConsoleKit);</li><li>MPRIS V2 support to send media keys to media players;</li><li>Caja now supports opening remote terminal;</li><li>other changes and bug fixes.</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/mate-desktop_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0vlnl5VrFZU/UVx2r73JWnI/AAAAAAAAO2I/pQPEMfl2N3k/s320/mate-desktop_3.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BlackMATE theme</td></tr></tbody></table><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/mate-desktop_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9GgB3En4rY/UVx2f3LMyII/AAAAAAAAO2A/2aqch2uNqCQ/s320/mate-desktop_2.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GreenLaguna theme</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, <b>MATE 1.6 ships with new GTK2/3 themes</b>: Menta (seen throughout most of the screenshot of this article), BlackMATE, GreenLaguna and Traditional Green and there's a <b>new icon theme</b> as well: Menta. Also, GTK3 support has been added to some of the existing themes: TraditionalOk, TraditionalOkTest and ContrastHigh. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With version 1.6, MATE has transitioned to some new packages: GSettings has replaced MateConf, DBus has replaced MateCorba/MateComponent, GIO/GVFS has replaced MateVFS and libnotify has replaced libmatenotify.</div><br /><br />Here are a few more MATE 1.6 Desktop screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ibG6RZYQbno/UVxGDy4xPTI/AAAAAAAAO0g/wTVBa7tRzW4/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_2.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ri7sPSbRONk/UVxGeldicjI/AAAAAAAAO1A/gj0jV2aOfwc/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_3.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zTQ1GLnSAq0/UVxG1X2sMAI/AAAAAAAAO1I/h_jm4bGzDeI/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_6.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="210" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bjV9RrEDaHc/UVxG1v4rPTI/AAAAAAAAO1M/aY4ZRmyxUMs/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_7.png" title="MATE 1.6 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" border="0" height="210" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J45f6FzjUn4/UVx3tHhRXeI/AAAAAAAAO2Y/KHekf7pdPdk/s320/mate-desktop-1.6_14.png" title="mate desktop 1.6 screenshots" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install MATE Desktop in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>MATE is not currently available in the official Ubuntu / Debian repositories but it seems it will make it soon because it's currently on Debian ftp-master <a href="http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html">new queue</a>.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and 11.10 users can install MATE Desktop by using its official repositories. To add the repositories and install MATE, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-archive-keyring<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mate-core mate-desktop-environment</code></pre>Then, log out and select MATE from the login screen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Note: for some reason, in my test, the MATE Notification Daemon wasn't installed by default so if that's the case for you too, use the following command to install it:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mate-notification-daemon</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've also seen some Raring packages in the MATE repositories so it seems Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be supported soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, see the MATE installation <a href="http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download">wiki page</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Removing MATE</h2><br />If you've installed MATE in Ubuntu using the commands above and you want to remove it, use the command below in a terminal:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get remove mate-archive-keyring mate-notification-daemon atril atril-common caja caja-common engrampa engrampa-common eom eom-common gir1.2-mate-panel libatril libcaja-extension libmarco libmatedesktop libmatekbd libmatekeyring libmatemenu libmatepanelapplet libmatepolkit libmateweather libmateweather-common libmatewnck libmatewnck-common marco marco-common mate-applets mate-applets-common mate-backgrounds mate-calc mate-control-center mate-core mate-desktop mate-desktop-common mate-desktop-environment mate-dialogs mate-icon-theme mate-media mate-media-common mate-media-gstreamer mate-menus mate-panel mate-panel-common mate-polkit mate-power-manager mate-power-manager-common mate-screensaver mate-screensaver-common mate-session-manager mate-settings-daemon mate-settings-daemon-common mate-settings-daemon-gstreamer mate-system-monitor mate-terminal mate-terminal-common mate-themes mate-utils mate-utils-common pluma pluma-common</code></pre><br />And to remove the MATE repositories, use:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://packages.mate-desktop.org/repo/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://repo.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo add-apt-repository -r "deb http://mirror1.mate-desktop.org/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"<br />sudo apt-get update</code></pre>

MATE 1.6 Released, Install It In Ubuntu [GNOME 2 Fork]

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Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0RFxVPs3P8M/UVwkchBi4FI/AAAAAAAAOzw/ypn2Uvvb5As/s320/terminology.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> is a relatively new terminal emulator written for the Enlightenment desktop, but it can be used in other desktop environments. The application comes with many cool features, some of which do not exist in any other terminal emulator.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Besides features that are already available in other terminal emulators such as split views support, Terminology can do a lot of things you wouldn't expect from a terminal emulator, like displaying <b>thumbnails</b> for images, videos and documents and furthermore, it also allows you to <b>preview</b> those <b>files</b> directly from Terminology.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>That's not all Terminology can do. Other features included in the latest 0.3 release:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tabs support (although these aren't like the tabs you've seen in other applications - they look like a desktop switcher / expose); the tab switcher has live thumbnail content;</li><li>custom background support and transparency (and each tab or slip can have its own background; supported backgrounds: bitmap, scalable/vector, animated gif, videos);</li><li>text / links drag and drop;</li><li>themes for the layout and design;</li><li>URL, file path and email address detection and link-handling;</li><li>inline display of link content;</li><li>works in X11 and Wayland;</li><li>can be touch controlled;</li><li>scan scale by UI scaling factors;</li><li>can render using OpenGL or OpenGL-ES2;</li><li>block text selection;</li><li>cool visual bell that can be themed;</li><li>comes with a few built-in color schemes, including the popular Solarized light / dark;</li><li>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 href="http://img.netupd8.com/terminology-tabs.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="203" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GHF9QNkTDp0/UVwklGTs_eI/AAAAAAAAOz8/Lh8e1OaLe60/s320/terminology-tabs.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Terminology "tabs"</td></tr></tbody></table><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/terminology-preview.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="204" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HzsiReQYebY/UVwklEgL-wI/AAAAAAAAOz4/OmwSLFa5sps/s320/terminology-preview.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Previewing a video file</td></tr></tbody></table><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/terminology-preview-tycat.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Terminology terminal emulator" border="0" height="228" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iPLLHNUNne0/UVwklsocpEI/AAAAAAAAO0I/DNDyYcnLE3U/s320/terminology-preview-tycat.png" title="Terminology terminal emulator" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"tycat" command allows previewing files</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video recorded by the Terminology developer, demoing the application (unfortunately, the resolution isn't great but it should be enough to get an idea on what Terminology can do):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ibPziLRGvkg" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPziLRGvkg">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>Using Terminology</h2><br />Here are a few Terminology usage tips:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>1.</b> To set a background image use "<i>tybg image.jpg</i>" (where "image.jpg" is the image you want to use). The background can be a jpg, png and you can even use animated backgrounds, such as videos for instance. To reset the background, use: tybg ""</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>2.</b> To get a list of files with thumbnails, use "<i>tyls -m</i>". Please note that in my test under Ubuntu, the thumbnails only showed up for some image files, probably because of some missing dependency. Clicking on the thumbnail opens the Terminology external file previewer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>3.</b> To preview a file, besides clicking on the thumbnail as stated above, you can also use "<i>find /path/to/some/folder</i>", etc., for example "<i>find ~/Videos</i>", and then click on the file - the full path is required so this won't work for "ls" for instance. You can also use "typop file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also preview a file in the terminal by using "tycat file".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> To switch between tabs, use Ctrl + PageUp / PageDown. These keyboard shortcuts are hardcoded for now so you can't change them.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Terminology in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Terminology is included by default in <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/minimalistic-e17-linux-distribution.html">Bodhi Linux</a> (which is based on Ubuntu) so if you're running Bodhi, it should already be installed.<b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install the latest Terminology in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, you can use the PPA below</b> which provides daily builds for E17, EFL and some apps:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hannes-janetzek/enlightenment-svn<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install terminology</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You can also use the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries <a href="https://launchpad.net/~efl/+archive/trunk">stable PPA</a>, but currently this PPA provides Terminology 0.2 (the latest being 0.3).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Arch Linux</b> users can install Terminology via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/terminology/">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, get Terminology from <a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">HERE</a>.</b></div>

Terminology: More Than A Terminal Emulator (Ubuntu Installation Instructions)

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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>

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

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Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX9DR4CLt0/UVmYquWLVsI/AAAAAAAAOy4/_SN372Z7psM/s1600/audience-media-player.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="audience media player" border="0" height="221" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1UX9DR4CLt0/UVmYquWLVsI/AAAAAAAAOy4/_SN372Z7psM/s320/audience-media-player.png" title="audience media player" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://launchpad.net/audience">Audience</a> is a minimalistic, Gstreamer-based media player written in Vala. The second Audience release is getting close and its developers have invited users to help test it</b>. There aren't any major new features since the previous release, but a large amount of bugs have been fixed recently. So if you can help test it or just want to give it a try, read on.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Audience comes with a beautiful, minimalistic clutter-based interface and very few configuration options and is designed to play videos without getting in your way. The progress bar (which comes with previews support) along with a play/pause button, a sidebar (from where you can access the playlist and language / subtitles) toggle button and an add to playlist button are displayed at the bottom and are set to autohide by default. A few more settings can be tweaked by using Dconf editor (<i>org > pantheon > audience</i>). </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a rel="image_group" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R1ilMPynAfg/UVmYyqmy2UI/AAAAAAAAOzA/LuyXAct8A3Y/s1600/audience_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="217" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R1ilMPynAfg/UVmYyqmy2UI/AAAAAAAAOzA/LuyXAct8A3Y/s320/audience_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As you can notice from the Dconf path above, Audience is designed for the elementary OS desktop (Pantheon) and it will probably become the default media player in the future. But of course, you can use it in any desktop environment.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install Audience</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Before proceeding, please note that this PPA has quite a few elementary packages that are unstable so read the PPA description before adding it. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Audience can be installed in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04 (and obviously, elementary OS and other Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, etc.) by using the elementary Daily PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install audience</code></pre><b><br />Arch Linux</b> users can install the latest Audience via <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audience-bzr/">AUR</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And a note from Cody Garver, the main Audience developer, on how to report bugs for Audience: </div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">We only ask that users test videos that do not play/produce errors in Totem before submitting a bug to make sure it's Audience-specific.</blockquote><br /><b>Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/audience">Launchpad</a>.</b><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Cody Garver for  the tip!<b> </b></i></div>

Audience Media Player Getting Close To A New Release, Help Test It!

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Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Bodhi Linux, a minimalistic Linux distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the Enlightenment Desktop (<a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/?p=about/e17">E17</a>) by default, has reached version 2.3.0.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a title="Bodhi Linux" rel="image_group" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UyoIAF2ip3o/UVlmWK7ZGMI/AAAAAAAAOyA/NJMSsv1G6dw/s1600/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UyoIAF2ip3o/UVlmWK7ZGMI/AAAAAAAAOyA/NJMSsv1G6dw/s320/bodhi-linux-eccess.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>The Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 release brings:</b><br /><ul><li>Linux Kernel 3.8;</li><li>Enlightenment 0.17.1;</li><li>Midori 0.4.9;</li><li><a href="http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology">Terminology</a> 0.3.0 (a really nice terminal emulator for E17);</li><li>eCcess system tool (a tool that lets you change the time and date and manage users / groups) - see screenshot above;</li><li>Ubiquity 2.12;</li><li>Repository updates: Firefox 19.0.2, Chromium 25, Nvidia 210 drivers and LibreOffice 4.0.1;</li><li>5 new themes available by default.</li></ul><br />Here are a few more screenshots:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a title="Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default file manager" rel="image_group" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uaUKrpsFNWU/UVlm3vdzRmI/AAAAAAAAOyI/-stJZyK6JRY/s1600/bodhi-linux_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uaUKrpsFNWU/UVlm3vdzRmI/AAAAAAAAOyI/-stJZyK6JRY/s320/bodhi-linux_3.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bodhi Linux with the default theme, Tiling profile; on the left and bottom right: Terminology; on the top right: the default file manager</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 title="New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)" rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2e-X-2OvanQ/UVlm3s1Q1xI/AAAAAAAAOyM/LX-Qbatxaew/s1600/bodhi-linux_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2e-X-2OvanQ/UVlm3s1Q1xI/AAAAAAAAOyM/LX-Qbatxaew/s320/bodhi-linux_2.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Bodhi Forum theme (Desktop profile)</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 title="New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)" rel="image_group" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--0lFmeAJH5I/UVln7xgm6tI/AAAAAAAAOyk/R7wdbnw1tfk/s1600/bodhi-linux_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--0lFmeAJH5I/UVln7xgm6tI/AAAAAAAAOyk/R7wdbnw1tfk/s320/bodhi-linux_5.png" title="Bodhi Linux e17 desktop screenshot" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Angelic theme (Compositing profile)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This lightweight Linux distribution uses a "semi-rolling" release model: they follow the Ubuntu LTS release cycle for the core of the distribution but there's also backported software so users can stay up to date with applications such as Firefox, LibreOffice and other packages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><h2>Download Bodhi Linux</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bodhi Linux is available for 32 bit (both PAE and non-PAE ISO files are available), 64 bit and ARMHF (Samsung Chromebook, MK802, Nexus 7, Raspbery Pi and Genesi Smartbook). <b>Download the latest Bodhi Linux 2.3.0 from its <a href="http://www.bodhilinux.com/">homepage</a>.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2013/03/bodhi-linux-230-released.html">Jeff Hoogland</a></i></div>

Minimalistic E17 Linux Distribution `Bodhi Linux` 2.3.0 Available For Download

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How to Display Author image in Google Search Results

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><b>Display your Profile image in Google Search Results</b><br /><b><br /></b><b>Verify Google Authorship To show Your Profile image On Google Search Results</b><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now a days all the <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Blogger" target="_blank">bloggers</a> have an interest to make their profile image in </span><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank">Google</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/submit-your-websites-to-search-engines.html" target="_blank"> search</a> results. because it will increase the traffic to their blogs and </span>websites<span style="font-family: inherit;">, and build the readers or visitors to search out the blog simply.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIcWBLjw3L57G-fkh8vjp32MpJIfUaFJargb_PdAzkyunN0Ycp5lSIh-6viaUxDg9KIjXWPCT914X_OYbaAzGWLtFJNkrLtD-hGzmlkIk7DIaAdgGUBtMvkw7ZNR5kzEhO_xuq_WF-A4/s1600/results.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google Web Search result snippet showing authorship information" border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtIcWBLjw3L57G-fkh8vjp32MpJIfUaFJargb_PdAzkyunN0Ycp5lSIh-6viaUxDg9KIjXWPCT914X_OYbaAzGWLtFJNkrLtD-hGzmlkIk7DIaAdgGUBtMvkw7ZNR5kzEhO_xuq_WF-A4/s640/results.JPG" title="Google Web Search result snippet showing authorship information" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span> It is very easy method to make your image appear on Google search results. Follow the steps below:<br /><br />1. Create Google plus profile (if you haven’t already) <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-create-google-plus-fan-page-for.html" target="_blank">Click Here</a> for create Google Plus Page<br /><br />2. First add your Google plus Profile link anyplace on your blog sidebar using the following code:<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="Google Plus profile Link" rel="author" target="_blank"> Join me on Google+</a></blockquote>Replace Google Plus profile Link with your profile link  and Change join me on Google+ with your link or images<br />This is how it looks on the blog:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFP6Ooh9owT20Xk8gDx7CKxHL0Hup5TxoHr5c-Wa0C68P3ORtJEGMROoNWJeYC5PWhI4YW7P5Keu4lSOWighgz-yRfvBxDk_j379ccTvm7d-q8oCYuqHk5_gPHZlGn-XJplenITFS1fJ8/s1600/google+plus+in+sidebar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="google plus link in sidebar" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFP6Ooh9owT20Xk8gDx7CKxHL0Hup5TxoHr5c-Wa0C68P3ORtJEGMROoNWJeYC5PWhI4YW7P5Keu4lSOWighgz-yRfvBxDk_j379ccTvm7d-q8oCYuqHk5_gPHZlGn-XJplenITFS1fJ8/s1600/google+plus+in+sidebar.jpg" title="google plus link in sidebar" /></a></div><br /><br />3. Create "About me" or "author page" on your site (if you haven’t already).here is my <b><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">A</a><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" target="_blank">bout page</a></b> that i used, and link the about page to your Google Profile page using the rel=”me” tag. and upload a image into about page.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="https://profiles.google.com/YOURID" rel="me">My Google+ Profile</a></blockquote><b><br /></b><b>Note:</b> you need to place your Google Id in place of ”YOURID” . to get your id click profile on left menu on your google+ page. now look at the url.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yFAtqVyPEe8HNJpRXMLwNIYibuHvYtiFnxyxf-eJn4jYgsNqEoKYRC0-jErUEkbojN1QoTnTfxPUovh4xbq5NokHwJKrMOX4NcZNH3J86y3JOOcymH0odW2nfeSQyl_cYgv1Q43lNJU/s1600/Google+profile+id+finder.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="profile id" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9yFAtqVyPEe8HNJpRXMLwNIYibuHvYtiFnxyxf-eJn4jYgsNqEoKYRC0-jErUEkbojN1QoTnTfxPUovh4xbq5NokHwJKrMOX4NcZNH3J86y3JOOcymH0odW2nfeSQyl_cYgv1Q43lNJU/s1600/Google+profile+id+finder.JPG" title="profile id" /></a></div><br />You’ll also want to place a link back to your bio page in your blog, with a rel tag that says “author”.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html" rel="author">About Me</a></blockquote><b>Note:</b> you need to place your about page in place of ”http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/p/about.html”.<br /><br />This is how it looks on the blog:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz8pMqlIfoQRjN_BemnMSM7cEYXsOjS9IGyA6mGPOx7hQIR1BM8GwZ9SD7tnPFzujRj91zsbfM7VN0Fd_C9VDyRHX0YmMuvSU3gDDYY6BEcaOmmoQ73-j7bi5TTx7BrkFHVrzf3Zd2GE/s1600/about+me+page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="about link in footer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZz8pMqlIfoQRjN_BemnMSM7cEYXsOjS9IGyA6mGPOx7hQIR1BM8GwZ9SD7tnPFzujRj91zsbfM7VN0Fd_C9VDyRHX0YmMuvSU3gDDYY6BEcaOmmoQ73-j7bi5TTx7BrkFHVrzf3Zd2GE/s1600/about+me+page.JPG" title="about link in footer" /></a></div><br />4. Now go to your G+ profile and click the About page scroll down here you will see Links click Edit and<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGlCLs64ee-EowVzmbTBXSw6v9fGdxh72MI7nK_J5eHmQVd9n7aIfXq3sGdnw_pSfjXMZURH6ThOP1ECZFbnAf5871BjBmWsORVjWsfkcLKRJNju_ZfXSwuAei2smovbA3ejhi6Ct900/s1600/Add+Links+to+Google+Plus+About+Page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cross-Links via Google Plus Profile" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGlCLs64ee-EowVzmbTBXSw6v9fGdxh72MI7nK_J5eHmQVd9n7aIfXq3sGdnw_pSfjXMZURH6ThOP1ECZFbnAf5871BjBmWsORVjWsfkcLKRJNju_ZfXSwuAei2smovbA3ejhi6Ct900/s320/Add+Links+to+Google+Plus+About+Page.JPG" title="Cross-Links via Google Plus Profile" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Add your blog homepage url and additionally the url of your about us page. you can also add your Facebook and twitter links if you want.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Now go to <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool.</a> and submit your homepage link in the search box and hit preview as shown below,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZocE3oc_HL4PC3gDZ833Ajo1DKhAAAm0dCMzCg6FjQEadLtjoQ1592Xc1oBkxxbhFMy29HGmD-MAPoJOw1PXXD__62vLEPuWlP0Jk5d4DUJrP2ab23OeWc8YBVJ8GKcTkNiQ504XIOLk/s1600/rich+snippets+tool.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Google rich snippets tool results" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZocE3oc_HL4PC3gDZ833Ajo1DKhAAAm0dCMzCg6FjQEadLtjoQ1592Xc1oBkxxbhFMy29HGmD-MAPoJOw1PXXD__62vLEPuWlP0Jk5d4DUJrP2ab23OeWc8YBVJ8GKcTkNiQ504XIOLk/s1600/rich+snippets+tool.JPG" title="Google rich snippets tool results" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">You will notice Verified: Authorship markup is verified for this page and that shows you have successfully implemented this feature for your blog.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Note:: It wil take some 48 hours for this options to work, so please wait.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Please use comments box to ask anything if not cleared and share your valuable thoughts.</div></div></div>

How to Display Author image in Google Search Results

Display your Profile image in Google Search Results Verify Google Authorship To show Your Profile image On Google Search Results Now a days ...

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