GNOME 3.8 Released - See What's New [Video, Screenshots]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsXgqrNq226XfvsDTcNrkXNXTMc7nmQVFLTcKG9DxzGHTUrnuIN16zefZQWmpMhqPIIW64QmI17g_jF7Ut86PpwiS-c7XL1NgOXNaysmx_b5U-FmAjQTB1MJXFOW90huk0gsQmNZn7ijB/s1600/gnome.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="gnome logo" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNsXgqrNq226XfvsDTcNrkXNXTMc7nmQVFLTcKG9DxzGHTUrnuIN16zefZQWmpMhqPIIW64QmI17g_jF7Ut86PpwiS-c7XL1NgOXNaysmx_b5U-FmAjQTB1MJXFOW90huk0gsQmNZn7ijB/s1600/gnome.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</a> 3.8 has been <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/">released</a> today, the new version bringing many new features and enhancements, including a new application view and overhauled window layout for GNOME Shell, new setting panels for privacy, search and notifications and of course, many updates to the core GNOME apps like Web (Epiphany), Boxes, Documents and more.<br /><br />Let's take a look at what's new!</div><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><h2>GNOME 3.8 video</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Below you can watch a video with some of the changes / new features in GNOME 3.8 (with GNOME Shell):</div><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ete5Us0-IpY" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ete5Us0-IpY">direct video link</a>; for more videos, subscribe to our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Shell / GNOME Settings 3.8 changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>With GNOME 3.8, the Activities Overview has got many changes:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new applications view with frequently used and all apps and a new feature called AppFolders that has replaced the old categories</li><li style="text-align: justify;">an overhauled window layout with bigger thumbnails; window thumbnails are also scaled to reflect the size of the actual windows;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the Message Tray now lets you clear all notifications by right clicking on the tray and choosing "Clear Notifications"</li><li style="text-align: justify;">the search view has been overhauled and it can include results from any application and is configurable via GNOME Settings. For instance Files, Contacts, Boxes and Documents can provide their own search results;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new input methods OSD switcher.</li></ul><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-apps.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell 3.8 applications view" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWdCQIiTwwfPrXw_6ALyWWtkHMDGUikEFXBLvzmup9ZGOzLT4pS88mHpaKUQFCVmXyOL4Ctz9pvfBQvGnWoVPdK0ErkJbuiyLBJ4NUl4PxmKqXAzFxvtBzwk2tpMKg90ub3EkoTOxasf34/s320/gnome3.8-apps.png" title="GNOME Shell 3.8 applications view" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New applications view</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-apps_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell 3.8 AppFolders" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4BpciRI3z1oyDz4MBSE5O9BPP85FNvDyGg5ZXfc7WtBiUSIbyAjzcNWJhyNfVnGTWaDK1qk3ZxR5H0pllSmM7eTARpnMzRm8wM-co6MemfRs8Sjhj_1mX_BLCHH0h1QTDh4w1j8wcraQi/s320/gnome3.8-apps_2.png" title="GNOME Shell 3.8 AppFolders" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AppFolders</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notifications-clear.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Clear all notifications from the Message Tray" border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglz2mBSe11V6xiIn3gm-W3O-rFdP_B-1yr0O9ui0hdrLQJcjJDqLXPLTisazYfvt-No73EeCLhwb6EUMBf-mqn5QkLasEkJBezBau3RwnKEUKdoBcgSfJ4JAUsE9BHIJzzCHlEUh1tqDQU/s320/gnome3.8-notifications-clear.png" title="Clear all notifications from the Message Tray" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clear all notifications from the Message Tray</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-files-results.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="gnome shell 3.8 new search" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihWrFTnqQmGwOf4lRq0vU6gd77zrjZ0xsh7mbeGXWeaIvnjz1_oH-P0DGEwfb0M8hP625EJOxYsEYZdki0BBcyWf1unOC6-nmzjd_tySzbcXR9eVvYnsld-iOE-UXBkeY6oT_wZSEpeFdl/s320/gnome3.8-search-files-results.png" title="gnome shell 3.8 new search" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New search view with results from applications</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-window-layout.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgADCftIPvvhjo0mCj2m_7tvJWR7cLWC0aIcJja-eYNWr4N6qgZt9fC5T9cKEEy0RI_l5SEqwDyW2TBlECHDQO_-oCRCM0SzkrFPhs4ottzZuYCGEemcvuCBzisk8xqjpbmnYHZ4jEYAw-f/s320/gnome3.8-window-layout.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New window layout with bigger thumbnails</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3-language-input.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Shell language switcher OSD" border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUeGzoSe50f_ezrSEMbcLaRdadNpDldSH60VuqpZ7zQ_yxJ_mMxc_JglTCi_hZJ7mUQfkPPJjxCF_m3VOpLYq3iF9bGWjZwj-kWMXqNjPcIlxOrWYsN0SWy3zf9gkrPupigDibR7POQ-6t/s320/gnome3-language-input.png" title="GNOME Shell language switcher OSD" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New input methods OSD switcher and Region & Language settings panel</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 ships with a brand<b> new Privacy GNOME Settings (previously "System Settings) panel</b> that lets you purge recent history and control various privacy settings:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-privacy-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 privacy settings" border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0CMkHorMEZ026kNT_JqZALOD6cZAJMf1wXWrCXFHvzZyE5cTPKhs8kf_xzyG9Y4fYUQWar3KucI9fSMb1L3yp0bV9VzHa8IhSShm4JaMDwKMSeIsw4lxe7iwkEKONnMdLIdzUnAg93EIM/s320/gnome3.8-privacy-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 privacy settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>new Search GNOME Settings panel</b> which lets you control which search results are displayed in the Activities Overview. Here, you can enable/disable various applications from showing up as well as individual search settings for each application:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 search settings" border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2CDoEC3cXfRWNRaw2VatessighBwIC_slvxBj54LSzArwLPB-re7nbn1e9c51LCA5n8DZRBqe5SSZ7Yu0uRiZ8FMLC_rkxduZo-kyPfwC5pVlKx2L48Ijf7jieJj6XtyazF9vtKMQTlsc/s320/gnome3.8-search-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 search settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-search-settings_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 search settings" border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhez5oKyc1-Npz9bdOmgklHFSJmg5rd0841_0z4vCsT7Jp8Wx93EDFX_JGYTWTNgDKfgiaZmmH5e_7S3hDe6VpVj1LgBOGY5tGakkhBsYsyWN_bupFw8zZpLxUfu-ECJ-TZ1p8TNnDQftbw/s320/gnome3.8-search-settings_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 search settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's also a<b> new Notifications GNOME Settings panel</b> that, just like the new search settings, lets you control what notifications are displayed and you can enable/disable per application notifications or set which app notifications should be displayed for each application:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notification-settings_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5np177e_G0k3v21ZXHRSA05nY5Fa3ydJ2M4JrOi390KvmhswH-1n63GFKP4IM-FHL5bQ-ay4W1PvtCf0I4xf4PpRYQuUeVkaWomThzuHKK9Q56H0Rxitza_oKoL8IreZCMZVvlvOBwSVJ/s320/gnome3.8-notification-settings_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-notification-settings.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl5pCLHfwOtHNZBnF28TidMqz90v0_00xMeBX5pQKqMZYcCg1_wfDq3HmmG4c-trxF1PgIxCiujKazjL2bQuhCL0kLGXiPIZlE034sXsdUd6iSOA06958pfy9b3Tcl4mxLOgaBK7tMSzkp/s320/gnome3.8-notification-settings.png" title="GNOME 3.8 notification settings" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>These are just the most important GNOME Shell 3.8 / GNOME Settings 3.8 changes, there are many more tweaks and enhancements, like:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the Network, Power, Region & Language and Printer settings panels have received various updates</li><li style="text-align: justify;">access the background settings by right clicking on the desktop, a feature that was missing in the previous GNOME 3.* releases;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">smooth scrolling in the overview and menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">easier access to the Message Tray;</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/owncloud-5-released-with-new-design.html">ownCloud</a> has been integrated into Online Accounts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">much more! </li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">And of course, like we were telling you <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-to-ship-with-reworked-folder.html">a while back</a>, there are also <b>updated GNOME Icon Theme folder icons</b>:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-nautilus-new-folder-icons-color.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 new folder icons" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitw8F8GDYOxnGmCKbC3AWWv_p6zDJFkw6eCm_efJP1hQ16QCzKDir_uDFDtQzRt36Z0w74YqInEbCy7cOfACHJchANWjo21usZE4YFFGxcthCasGFMFNYgdkW3CVQZuDaJJsz1Lfbjzz9s/s320/gnome3.8-nautilus-new-folder-icons-color.png" title="GNOME 3.8 new folder icons" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><br /><h2>GNOME Classic</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like we were telling you a while back, <b>the old GNOME fallback mode has been removed and in its place, there's a new classic mode</b> that tries to provide a GNOME2-like layout. The new Classic mode uses some GNOME Shell extensions to achieve this so even though on a first look the layout is similar to GNOME 2, you're still using GNOME Shell and you can access the Activities Overview and other GNOME Shell features.</div><br />Here are a few GNOME Classic mode screenshots:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classi.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTlNx0WocM9BUgp7P6pihFTbeavhKYZ-0JEbV01RvhjE1qmP7DNV7dDqsXTcxrpRX6jFNaJF18O8DaUHYDtwKIdpEuCRvUOVJ6Gh2ehhC-AwKacSrOsOSN39dlaXQnf_CV1hcrt8Wfg2r/s320/gnome3.8-classi.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_3.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBYhVUmdSYbwc8bg1FzqheBNyfVB7RkBmYPrYWiUo-uRFyj8IEhRqHzz-xuuf-xiUYoB7uFAHVzA8XmZNWWEwvcX-Bu8eYmsOcoefHnNj_nb8h_e2rHqPIx-kk-aDbVMRUT0PEyScoNf-3/s320/gnome3.8-classic_3.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj54dprPZ68ziOygVZo0jsbwGrB3_QDrnMu-C0uYuJ_kaCVIeCZ17TMBBEGAHhJAGXkAvqcIrbLzVPzT1nP5pQHxaTRTrW-jGS9Cf3fdezkIPNmL28JAXOvmt1rARI3xzOwCUmgJKWN5Y7O/s320/gnome3.8-classic_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-classic_4.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghuaF36nkVGZX9ezomeRXoGa4TopEqrigFPmf4QJTaOd_niUVy6yTpPIS4WYC3Wp5X9Wde6ZKBPBGJUSpiJ_f7enEb1bhyMmLLsgHzwduH4XJUuUP7dVs5z3lQwckOijvFVn_zFn3tqjVz/s320/gnome3.8-classic_4.png" title="GNOME 3.8 classic mode" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />More about the new GNOME classic mode in our previous post: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/02/a-quick-look-at-new-gnome-classic.html">A Quick Look At The New GNOME Classic Session</a><br /><br /><br /><h2>GNOME applications</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The core GNOME applications have received many enhancements and there's also a new application: <b>GNOME Clocks</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-clocks_2.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 clocks" border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFTknBlmiqWnlAqhv2W4Qh5cYa4TautAW11RqCfM5nGctH2BW8js2pTxk3pVrQdAPoBWbKkHRIXILVJz6WBYkPIEokYG3MG-kPnR5863PKRqHANxoDA48qXbQ-VflLLU3FFdVB8Xhd-6MU/s320/gnome-clocks_2.png" title="GNOME 3.8 clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-clocks.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 clocks" border="0" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9mkRnJJR7X2l5Vh5UGCqb_UNyHHtMi2cdbt_QnwfVyXo1P0KpiX3q6YjCWW1SHbOph_3h2uWA82atgg0pbHFC_zB8rk5h07VL7vNd9y0JwUDpWYkQOu_a-4jDq8lHdJNzSO4m9DqgBc3r/s320/gnome-clocks.png" title="GNOME 3.8 clocks" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 is the first GNOME release to include Clocks by default. This is an application that lets you see the time in various places around the world (that you add), set up alarms, stopwatch and a timer.</div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-document-editing.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 Documents" border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLssegv9OlBuuvbXUKjjiSA4-LgPpkI-hgGD9lfq5g0KBcBXb3wfb1HJGRo2vCRLIVpRYKPLRbaS0YBjHcNAywbSprX45nA5xPw6mZxOgQIRPtO5zp6mjGs_VodDE2rUYc5KOitgp7y_Q/s320/gnome3.8-document-editing.png" title="GNOME 3.8 Documents" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-document-scrolling.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 Documents" border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLvXCZl0uV1EQmcVVkSOI6umKeoJ-SkPRezwuXVXXYLRNV7qHJbBDscSGvp93sq-n9f0yJvOvyg6kRbCpQy0JWyeejTBf-NmxeNDPdBEPmqFqG6RwEELqbNvm3DDFb2cBkIX7etArP33S5/s320/gnome3.8-document-scrolling.png" title="GNOME 3.8 Documents" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GNOME Documents</b> has received some new features, including an embedded edit mode for Google Docs so you can edit documents directly from the application, a presentation mode and more:</div><ul><li>new preview scrub bar and page controls; </li><li>better document preview reading width and dual page mode;</li><li>bookmarks and Table of Content dialogs;</li><li>support PDF files from Google Drive;</li><li>sharing dialog for Google Docs.</li></ul><div style="text-align: right;"><i>GNOME Documents screenshots via <a href="https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/">mclasen</a> because I couldn't get the app to work. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Nautilus</b> (Files) has got its treeview back and also, it is now integrated with the Recent Files feature in Privacy Settings.</div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-web-incognito.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuICP6GxQ_k14iNYUlySCc0KqUiG6aYanDwdTU8AUEkz3won_UMQz1AKEel1sFNJc1YtDxRx3QbeZIJ7jjXvrN-P4elzP83TQELqTC3_XnKSmAySqHUOzNO1bR0tx2HdXRphNEInj_RSxH/s320/gnome3.8-web-incognito.png" title="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome3.8-web.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsZe4wwFDaCFLPBM_PB0V-GmshxS-L1uaTHC1QjxN3LZ1OsFcj0YzS0yETzFEoGO5DUOzmQozjuzowApIbSKjOYBJrKRhiG1Y25kdMGgUJJSr5MbGlDhwNTum9-UmZcB6XfKFIcdar0aGO/s320/gnome3.8-web.png" title="GNOME 3.8 web epiphany" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Epiphany (Web)</b> has switched to WebKit2 with the 3.8 release and it now includes an incognito mode, a new search UI and it now supports GTK+2 plugins, including Adobe Flash plugin. Other Web changes:</div><ul><li>pages can now crash without bringing down the entire browser;</li><li>revamped UI for HTML5 media content;</li><li>undo closed tab;</li><li>new tab button in the toolbar;</li><li>async session save and restore;</li><li>delayed tab restore on startup.</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/gnome-boxes.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GNOME Boxes" border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgksi6sdog-ZZpy-NdYfB461WDHvmdPseGeOtgb-jeFEHbFXcd9kmPdoeYFxUGdPepHzRjrJlT9oqpgBWl5Uov5UcFuQMrMEiRPPwk16fDE7yDh16orQeldGzgk8Dbley8-6zdUA6PU1ST/s320/gnome-boxes.png" title="GNOME Boxes" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There have also been many changes to GNOME Boxes, Contacts, Gedit has got an appmenu like the other core GNOME applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally,<b> GTK+ 3.8</b> includes support for Wayland 1.0 and there have been various improvements to text handle theming, various GTKWidget improvements and <a href="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.announce/10933">more</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For more info about GNOME 3.8, check out the official <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/">release notes</a>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>What's next?</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The GNOME 3.8 release notes mention two new applications that are available as preview in GNOME 3.8 and which will be integrated by default with GNOME 3.10: <b>Weather and Bijiben</b>:<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://img.netupd8.com/bijiben-note.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Bijiben note-taking app" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuUUNbzbjah9SZiacmqOZwOy2tD7uI2A0QJ2gE054GpBph6aGYNXz5fbHg0c9Sk2Br7cNKofvlzrKhdT654_4hRbZsovDumkk6bKMvJZCOv-p-vBRNdw2HmEusXttLIUfH006W9yfoDWA/s320/bijiben-note.png" title="GNOME Bijiben note-taking app" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bijiben note-taking app</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/weather-zurich.png" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="GNOME Weather app" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_3Ej0FqnI0D4krxrgSNtVd0qm7NMJ-zJcyD0CHzd58ruvjhhTOyas4NnjSAG613yFv73Rqu7CnlHi14kRRS5-TAbk3IJiAIhA8o9I062rfr4wrVUmieaaiR6vT0EsCpIM9QBUeZmS38Yp/s320/weather-zurich.png" title="GNOME Weather app" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">GNOME Weather</td></tr></tbody></table><br /> The next stable GNOME release - 3.10 -, is also supposed to <a href="https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointNine/Features">bring</a> automatic extension updates, Git integration in the developer experience, a new Maps application, Colour Tinting in GNOME Shell, Videos application implementation and Focus-caret tracking in GNOME Shell. 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You can already install most GNOME 3.8 development builds in Ubuntu 13.04 - see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/03/gnome-38-beta-available-in-ppa-for.html">GNOME 3.8 Beta Available In PPA For Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">GNOME 3.8 will be available in distros that ship with GNOME, such as Fedora (19), etc. and there should also be some ISO files available for testing on the <a href="http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/">GNOME.org</a> website (they aren't available yet).<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Note: the screenshots / video were made using GNOME 3.8 RC2 so there might be some slight differences between what you see here and what's in the final GNOME 3.8 release. But only minor changes (if any)! </i></div></div>

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How to Create Facebook Page for Website/Blog and Business

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8cmus7TjZ55-qv6eB0yr-kc_wPz96D0pJUuqwX3RBzLbsusH84HPsE-ik2lHEyWp2KlEw1wTF3mFHbeo2-OuhQnz9W4qi52cDCiCYwP6cpLb7xIZ2GA7HzmHlNIlnD6AVqemoJP0XCY/s1600/facebook_fan_page_how_create_id353768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Facebook Fan Page" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ8cmus7TjZ55-qv6eB0yr-kc_wPz96D0pJUuqwX3RBzLbsusH84HPsE-ik2lHEyWp2KlEw1wTF3mFHbeo2-OuhQnz9W4qi52cDCiCYwP6cpLb7xIZ2GA7HzmHlNIlnD6AVqemoJP0XCY/s200/facebook_fan_page_how_create_id353768.jpg" title="Facebook Fan Page" width="149" /></a><b>Facebook</b> is the world's second largest website after <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/google" target="_blank">Google</a> and no one social media website. Nowadays the all internet users use Facebook. Every business since everyone is special and a common man uses Facebook.A <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/2013/03/how-to-create-facebook-page-for.html" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> is a perfect way to connect with your customers on Facebook,<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">How do I create a Facebook page for website/blog and my business?</h4><div><b><br /></b><b>1</b>.Log in to your Facebook account. Your new page will be linked to this account, and any changes you make to your account will need to be done after you log in.<br /><br /></div><div><b>2</b>. go to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/create/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/pages/create</a><br /><br /><b>3. Here you can select any category according to your business.</b><br /><br />Pick a category from the following list:<br /><br /><ul><li>Local Business or Place</li><li>Company, Organization or Institution</li><li>Brand or Product</li><li>Artist, Band or Public Figure</li><li>Entertainment</li><li>Cause or Community</li></ul><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibUbDjC0mk7u3V1O9e04Of3JiORTYWdD6gjZ-wFPPBbD1UvOxcxFZdUyRXS3nG0S7CYr3csScoq3g2pvtMd8xNN-I8leXhc4CjqV_8WX4dwOCMAQ8eT1_h7yo43N6k1beRATqvgnTb2Q/s1600/How+to+Create+Facebook+Page.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="How to Create Facebook Page" border="0" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibUbDjC0mk7u3V1O9e04Of3JiORTYWdD6gjZ-wFPPBbD1UvOxcxFZdUyRXS3nG0S7CYr3csScoq3g2pvtMd8xNN-I8leXhc4CjqV_8WX4dwOCMAQ8eT1_h7yo43N6k1beRATqvgnTb2Q/s640/How+to+Create+Facebook+Page.JPG" title="How to Create Facebook Page" width="640" /></a></div><br />For example, to create a page for your blog or website<br />4. The first step is to choose what style of page you may produce. select “Brand, Product, or Organisation”, and select the ‘Website’ profile within the in the menu.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-I01xT9hJ1_ufDWVaHZKifQ3TTlSBBxGroDP5KwpyBHkZS7i0_i8KBoPzXrNBRXCp3zmiiQDtnxUka5QSf5ufFFquIwHmS4bHMo1lfEJKJSOODmHRWViyIlfWRa3ELWc1FrHQMWRLlQ/s1600/Select+Brand+or+Product+for+website.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Select Brand or Product for website" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY-I01xT9hJ1_ufDWVaHZKifQ3TTlSBBxGroDP5KwpyBHkZS7i0_i8KBoPzXrNBRXCp3zmiiQDtnxUka5QSf5ufFFquIwHmS4bHMo1lfEJKJSOODmHRWViyIlfWRa3ELWc1FrHQMWRLlQ/s1600/Select+Brand+or+Product+for+website.JPG" title="Select Brand or Product for website" /></a></div><br />5. Give your page a name, and agree to the Facebook pages terms and click Get Started<br />6 .On the Next Page, Upload an Image for your Fan Page and other setting, it is exactly the same for your Facebook profile.<br />7. You'r page is now ready and how do you change the page usernames & page web address<br />First page webaddress link of your page like this https://www.facebook.com/pages/Name/(ID)108248082539363<br /><b>How do we can change?</b><br />For that we should need 25 like for page<br />1. Enter you page account<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwvKN3TjE1QC_rimVSuXRu8QKhGOLe98cmB4XrdHq6XYtqcdTvXPN3BKUEzcQbTX73fZOb7Ep-C9Yd8NOzikN4radYLoZDTOOeqEf0awmd3DKMuSR5Rlc2tFA5JKgeZioUdxUKsfNR2U/s1600/Change+page+name.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Enter your account" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRwvKN3TjE1QC_rimVSuXRu8QKhGOLe98cmB4XrdHq6XYtqcdTvXPN3BKUEzcQbTX73fZOb7Ep-C9Yd8NOzikN4radYLoZDTOOeqEf0awmd3DKMuSR5Rlc2tFA5JKgeZioUdxUKsfNR2U/s1600/Change+page+name.JPG" title="Enter your account" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2. go to Edit Page > Update Info > Basic Information here you can view user name <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">You can now direct people to</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">click Change username and enter your page name like <b>"bloggerknown"</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now you can update your <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Blogging" target="_blank">blog</a> status of the page.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thank you all if any doubts please leave comments. for more detail please <a href="http://ichibikarin.blogspot.com/search/label/Facebook" target="_blank">click here</a></div></div></div>

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Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

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

Get A Classic Style Menu In Unity With The Latest Drawers

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

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

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

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXqc4l04DjXq2bdle6y2XsQqekOzO1IEAJGiyRFBfNnIoc4rGa_YeWA-x2SpyPrcmGSx9n8zTR4Nf9twnbm-a6hA-mwXyTTN22B4L3rIYz7ehkdlTbavkA9LJ1QBuGOIaZsc_MqAg_uxS/s1600/red-eclipse_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAXqc4l04DjXq2bdle6y2XsQqekOzO1IEAJGiyRFBfNnIoc4rGa_YeWA-x2SpyPrcmGSx9n8zTR4Nf9twnbm-a6hA-mwXyTTN22B4L3rIYz7ehkdlTbavkA9LJ1QBuGOIaZsc_MqAg_uxS/s320/red-eclipse_1.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.redeclipse.net/">Red Eclipse</a> is a cross-platform, open source first-person shooter game that supports both single (against bots) and multi-player modes. The game runs on the Cube Engine 2 and it's very flexible, allowing players to extend the existing game modes (Deathmatch, Capture the Flag, etc.) with "mutators", changing how the game is played.</div><br /><a name="more"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8slT3gtPJ86pIm7kg4QaIpQuEv9fJf7ioS-A0b7dYbNJpSyj71gM6YEgIJzcTerzyDGQmaSnCUZvh-MKDEPx6v0JQJJ4HrPeGWrMUdDThUzDTBOUYKS9GqbiZc0MX42rA8inVwk4LdRXS/s1600/red-eclipse_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8slT3gtPJ86pIm7kg4QaIpQuEv9fJf7ioS-A0b7dYbNJpSyj71gM6YEgIJzcTerzyDGQmaSnCUZvh-MKDEPx6v0JQJJ4HrPeGWrMUdDThUzDTBOUYKS9GqbiZc0MX42rA8inVwk4LdRXS/s320/red-eclipse_3.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Red Eclipse 1.4 "Elara Edition"</b> has been released a few days ago and comes with improvements to the gameplay, weapons and more:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">Vanity items and improved colours: dress up and frag with style;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Visible legs in first person: know where you are kicking and parkouring;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Enabled multi-coop (one human team and multiple bot teams);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Added gauntlet mode (one team tries to run to the other side of a map, other team tries to hinder, switches at half-time);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Heads fly off when doing a headshot;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New and revamped maps: bringing you even more variety;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Better viewing: level flythroughs, improved third and first person cameras;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Better menus and other HUD elements: easier to see and read at a glance;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New weapon: Mines add a new dimension to the existing gameplay;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">New mode: attack and defend in Gauntlet, competing for the most laps;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Automatic demo recording: for those times you just have to watch it again;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">User Accounts: donate or contribute, and wear the in-game supporter badge;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">Improved weapon balance and gameplay rules, bugs fixed, and much more;</li></ul><br />See <a href="http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=BF5yfpVj">THIS</a> page for a complete changelog.<br /><br /><br />Below you can watch a video demoing an older Red Eclipse version:<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/mjHVb3z72tM" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=mjHVb3z72tM">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzvd8_2YwtEGIZ0CGsk1ogUX6RDUjiMD0RsBGEKKNWEbEt7IQKEJM4vNI5ss4ZToI15XWu2fXC4ctXicwKJW2zn9I_0C7Iah4iJDPIEIjfDOeJqa70YeisI-OtE9PBHYSFPV3M4yBauxo/s1600/red-eclipse_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="red eclipse" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhzvd8_2YwtEGIZ0CGsk1ogUX6RDUjiMD0RsBGEKKNWEbEt7IQKEJM4vNI5ss4ZToI15XWu2fXC4ctXicwKJW2zn9I_0C7Iah4iJDPIEIjfDOeJqa70YeisI-OtE9PBHYSFPV3M4yBauxo/s320/red-eclipse_2.png" title="red eclipse" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to its "mutators", map editor and of course, its gameplay, Red Eclipse is very fun to play with your friends or with the growing online community.</div><br /><br /><h2>Download Red Eclipse</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Red Eclipse is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and it can be downloaded via <a href="http://www.desura.com/games/red-eclipse">Desura</a> or from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/redeclipse/files/redeclipse_1.4/">SourceForge</a>.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arch Linux users can install Red Eclipse from <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47449">AUR</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you've downloaded the tar.bz2 archive in Linux, extract it then run "redeclipse.sh".</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Jonathan De Nil for the tip!</i></div>

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

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

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

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

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elementary OS Gets Its Own AppCenter

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

elementary OS Gets Its Own AppCenter

The elementary OS team has released the first version of AppCenter , a tool used to install and remove software, designed to be beautiful, f...

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