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Repair Restore or Reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB

In this article we’ll show you how to r****epair restore or reinstall Grub 2 with Ubuntu CD or USB. Grub 2usually gets overridden when you install another OS. In order to make Ubuntu to control the boot process you’re going to need to Reinstall Grub using and Ubuntu live CD.     Warning: By using the “sudo” commant, especially form a live CD you can seriously harm your system.

Skype Alpha 1.11 released with improvements in Video Call

Recently Skype released an update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. It includes many new features and improvements compared to the previous version as they say, but that is not necessarily true or exact !   Now you can have support for setting an avatar in group chats and there are also some performance improvements during a video call. Some of the early users mentioned that they have already experienced issues, by receiving notifications when skype isn’t in focus.

Wine 1.8.5 with Nvidia GT 740M fix and many more

Windows Movie Maker 2.x needs ole32.dll.StgOpenPropStg Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates Windows utility ‘relog.exe’ crashes on unimplemented function ‘pdh.dll.PdhGetLogFileTypeW’ PDF Factory 3.x/4.x installer fails to install printer drivers (winspool.SetPrinterW lacks support for level 8, global default printer settings) CAPCOM games using gamepad start with axes X/Y pressed up/left SmartMusic 2012/2014 crashes on startup (Core Audio adapter ‘PKEY_DeviceInterface_FriendlyName’ property not supported) Photos opened in Nikon Capture NX 2.

NetBeans IDE 8.2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> – There are diferent NetBeans IDE <a href="https://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html" target="_blank">download bundles</a> available. Download the desired bundle or download for all bundles. For the purpose of this post, I am downloading for ALL </p> <pre>sudo apt-get purge openjdk* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer wget http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/8.2/final/bundles/netbeans-8.2-linux.sh chmod +x netbeans-8.2-linux.sh ./netbeans-8.2-linux.sh<p style="text-align: justify;"> – Follow on-screen wizard to install your IDE </p>

digiKam 5.2.0 released, with better shape and face recognition

<pre>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:philip5/extra sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install digikam5<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">How to remove digiKam 5.2.0 from Ubuntu 16.04</span> </h3> <pre>sudo apt remove digikam5 sudo apt autoremove

SmartGit 8.0.1 available, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li> Log: memory leak if having the Log window open for a long time </li> <li> Refresh, File Monitor: smartgit.fileMonitor.excludeIgnoredDirectories=false does not work properly </li> <li> Stash-on-demand: possible internal error related to progress display </li> </ul>

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

VMware Workstation Player 12.5 recently released, is a free for personal use piece of software that can be used by anyone to run (or playback) virtual machines that were initially created with the Oracle Virtualbox or VMware Workstation applications and exported as appliances. VMware Workstation Player 12.5 Changelog   What’s New How to install VMware Workstation Player 12.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 Follow on screen installer to complete the installation

cURL 7.50.3 released with cmake and openssl fix

  CVE-2016-7167: escape and unescape integer overflows mk-ca-bundle.pl: use SHA256 instead of SHA1 checksrc: detect strtok() use errors: new alias CURLE_WEIRD_SERVER_REPLY http2: support > 64bit sized uploads openssl: fix bad memory free (regression) CMake: hide private library symbols http: refuse to pass on response body when NO_NODY is set cmake: fix curl-config –static-libs mbedtls: switch off NTLM in build if md4 isn’t available curl: –create-dirs on windows groks both forward and backward slashes  

Wine 1.9.19 Dev released with World of Tanks crash fix

Wine 1.9.19 Dev recently released, comes with a number of new features, improvements and bugfixes. This includes Initial version of a udev bus driver for HID, various improvements in joystick support, Initial implementation of DC rendering in Direct2D, Improved metafile support in GDI and various bug fixes. Wine 1.9.19 Dev Changelog WinUAE settings window reappears after being dismissed PDF Export problem on Delphi 7 applications stamps.com installer hangs The Geometer’s Sketchpad 5.

VirtualBox 5.1.6 released, Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver

VirtualBox 5.1.6 was recently released as a 5.1 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. Some addressed issues includes fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases, keyboard grabbing fixes and many others. VirtualBox 5.1.6 changelog   GUI: fixed issue with opening ‘.vbox’ files and it’s aliases GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.

Vim 8.0 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

Vim 8.0 released after more than a year since it was last released. This release gives you interesting new features, such as channels, JSON, Jobs, Timers, Partials, Lambdas, Closures, Packages and more. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient. Vim 8.0 Update Jobs DirectX support for Microsoft users Support for asynchronous I/O, channels, JSON New style testing Lambdas and Closures Partials Packages estamp Timers (asynchronous) Support for GTK+ 3 Viminfo merged by tim See changelog for complete lists

qBittorrent 3.3.7 released – New feature delete torrent files with shift

qBittorrent 3.3.7 Open Source BitTorrent Client recently released, is a BitTorrent client that comes loaded with all the modern functionality necessary for daily torrenting which includes an integrated search engine, web interface, sequential download support, bandwidth scheduler, RSS support and other useful features. qBittorrent 3.3.7 Changelog   FEATURE: Delete torrent+files with Shift+Delete (pieniacy) BUGFIX: Fix 6-hour speedplot point push rate. Close #5545 (Daniel Segesdi) BUGFIX: Avoid spawning a new explorer.

Lollypop 0.9.113 released with Lastfm scrobbler fix

Enhanced search engine MTP sync for albums Move stats to settings dialog Move artist artwork outside cache Fix Lastfm scrobbler Guess tracknumber from filename Fix issues with Unity Rework all code (may have introduced unwanted regressions)

How to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04

XnViewMP is the enhanced version of XnView Classic. It is a powerful cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organizing and editing graphical & video files. Compatible with more than 500 format. In this article we’ll guide you through the process of how to install XnView MP on Ubuntu 16.04 [Bugs] GPS map issues [Requests] QT 5.6.1 [Bugs] Delete in view mode doesn’t work [Bugs] Thumbnail size change thumbnails view [Bugs] Copy instead of Move action [Bugs] Print custom size [Bugs] Thumbnail mode & thumbnail size menu [Bugs] Export after join/Capture

EME – An Elegant Markdown Editor for Linux

EME is an Elegant Markdown Editor recently released for Linux. EME was developed with Electron framework. The goal of EME is to give you teh best markdown editor experience and its available for Windows, Mac, Linux. EME Features It just suits, show editor or preview or both just as you wish. Focus mode, writing without distractions. Exportable, from Markdown to HTML/PDF… You name it. Supporting math typesetting, good for students and professionals.

How to install Node.js 6.4.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre>sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Download the nvm installation script from the<a href="https://github.com/creationix/nvm">project&#8217;s GitHub page</a> and run it </li> </ul> <pre>curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh -o install_nvm.sh bash install_nvm.sh<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Close your Terminal screen and open it again to gain access to the nvm functionality. Then run the following commands </li> </ul> <pre>nvm list nvm ls-remote nvm install 6.4.0 nvm use 6.

Ardour 5.0 Open Source Audio Editor for Linux released

Go to http://ardour.org/ website and register your email address to get the download link for Ardour 5.0 Open terminal, change directory to where you saved the ardour “.run” file and run following commands to install Ardour Wait until installation is completed Search for Ardour in dash

ScudCloud – Linux Client app for Slack, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

ScudCloud is a non official open-source Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Arch, Fedora) desktop client app for Slack. ScudCloud improves the Slack integration with Linux desktops featuring: multiple teams support native system notifications count of unread direct mentions at launcher/sytray icon alert/wobbling on new messages channels quicklist (Unity only) optional tray notifications and “Close to Tray” follow your desktop activity and will stay online while you’re logged in (if correct packages are installed) How to install ScudCloud – Linux Client app for Slack on Ubuntu 16.

Fotoxx 16.08 Photo Editor released

<li class="bbli"> Slide Show: <ul> <li> The last image remains displayed until Escape is pressed </li> <li> Transition preferences: fix large dialog that can overflow a small monitor. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Hairy: <ul> <li> Show the tones currently being selected or deselected. </li> <li> Select and deselect thresholds were adjusted for finer selectivity. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Area: <ul> <li> Area edit: edge blending appearance was made smoother.

LibreOffice 5.2.0 released with new features

<li class="bbli"> Calc: <ul> <li> New functions have been added, along with extensive tooltips that describe what a function does as you type it. </li> <li> Multiple status bar functions can be active at the same time, to provide a quick overview of your data. </li> <li> The currency toolbar icon now includes a drop-down menu to quickly choose the currency you want to use. </li> <li> When removing the border from selected cells, you can also choose to remove the border from adjacent cells as well.

cURL 7.50.1 released with cmake fix

<pre>wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.1.tar.gz tar -xvf curl-7.50.1.tar.gz cd curl-7.50.1/ ./configure make sudo make install

Install Anatine “Pristine Twitter app” on Ubuntu 16.04

Anatine is an opensource Pristine Twitter like app developed for OS X, Linux, and Windows OS. Anatine offers you some nice features which includes a lovely Dark mode theme and it also runs at the background when you close the app. Highlights of Features Dark mode You can toggle dark mode in the Anatine menu or with Cmd Shift D / Ctrl Shift D. {#user-content-background-behavior}Background behavior When closing the window, the app will continue running in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows.

Duplicity 0.7.08 Released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1573957 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> upload last chunk with files_upload_session_finish to avoid extra request </li> <li> upload small files using non-chunked api </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586934 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> fixes error handling in wrapper </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Fixed bug #1586992 with patches from Dmitry Nezhevenko: <ul> <li> Patch adds _delete_list to Par2Backend. And _delete_list fallbacks to </li> <li> _delete calls if wrapped backend has no _delete_list.

Kodi v17 “Krypton” Alpha 2 released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre style="text-align: justify;">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/xbmc-nightly sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install kodi<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install the encode addon</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install kodi-audioencoder-* kodi-pvr-*</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove Kodi v17</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get remove kodi*</pre>

FileZilla 3.19.0 released with bug fix

<li class="bbli"> Bugfixes and minor changes: <ul> <li> Fixed context menu in search dialog if not connected to server </li> <li> OS X, *nix: Fix displayed text in file list status bar if selecting a single item in the file list out of multiple already selected items </li> </ul> </li>

Calibre 2.60.0 released with news download feature

<li class="bbli"> Bug Fixes: <ul> <li> ToC Editor: Fix ToC detection in EPUB 3 files with only an NCX and no nav not working </li> <li> E-book viewer: In paged mode, when the window is toggled between full screen and window, repeatedly, preserve the position more accurately. </li> <li> E-book viewer: Fix incorrect page turning when multiple pages are displayed on screen for books that wrap all their content in a single 100% height tag.

Lollypop 0.9.109 Gnome Media Player released, Install on Ubuntu 16.04

<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lollypop<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>For Unity only, disable the overlay scrollbars:</strong></span> </p> <pre>gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal</pre> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;">Install Lollypop on OpenSUSE 13.2 and derivative systems:</span> </h3> <pre>sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gnumdk31/openSUSE_13.2/home:gnumdk31.repo -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/home:gnumdk31.repo sudo zypper refresh sudo zypper install lollypop<p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Remove lollypop:</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo zypper remove lollypop</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Lollypop on Fedora 22 and derivative systems:</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo yum install dnf-plugin-copr sudo dnf copr enable gnumdk/lollypop

Wine 1.9.12 released with fix to Dragon Age 2 demo sound

Dance eJay Demo 7 crashes due to unimplemented interface relating to devenum Bad hlp table rendering Threads not allocated to multiple processors. Dragon Age 2 demo – sound in cutscenes is muffled mspaint.exe from windows 8 wants ntdll.WinSqmStartSession Lemmings Revolution: can’t rotate playing field Lego Mindstorms EV3 Home Edition (.NET 4.0 app) needs msctf DocumentMgrSource_AdviseSink implementation Problems with DC Universe Online and Virtual Desktops Robot animations glitch in main lobby of Lego Mindstorms EV3 software Wine should take dosbox’s configuration instead of creating a new one “Trainz: A New Era” needs msvcr120.

How To Install PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo Image Editor on Ubuntu 16.04

PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo recently released, is a powerful image editing software developed by Dylan Coakley. PhotoFiltre LX is inspired by the image editor currently only available on Microsoft Windows – PhotoFiltre. However, it will not be a straight clone. It is being built from the ground up to be much improved and cross platform too! PhotoFiltre LX 0.9 Demo Changelog New colour selection palette Styling improvements to the colour selectors.

How To Install ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Derivatives

ImageMagick 7.0.1-5 recently released, is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves. ImageMagick 7.

How To Install Krita 3.0 on Ubuntu 16.04

Krita 3.0 had been released and this is a really big release: animation support integrated into Krita’s core, Instant Preview for better performance painting and drawing with big brushes on big canvases, ported to the latest version of the Qt platform and too many bigger and smaller new features and improvements to mention!. Krita 3.0 Highlights Animatable raster layers – Animated raster images with frames, and use the time-line docker to order them.

How To Install PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 on Ubuntu 16.04

PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 which was released early this year is now available for Ubuntu 16.04. PlayOnLinux as we know is a frontend piece of software for Wine, that allows you to easily install and run many Windows applications with relative ease on Linux and Mac OS X. PlayOnLiux is free and does not require a Windows licence for use. PlayOnLinux 4.2.10 changelog Wine 1.8 staging is now the default wine version on OSX.

How to Install Skype 4.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04

Skype 4.3 for Linux was released a few years back and there had not been any further updates. This tutorial is primarily focused on showing those that are currently running Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04 on how to install Skype for Linux on their machine. Quick Highlight of Skype 4.3 An updated UI Our new cloud-based Group Chat experience More reliable file transfer support when using multiple devices at once Greater accessibility by blind and visually impaired users PulseAudio 3.

Install Vuze 5.7.2 BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu 16.04

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> UI: Sort order icon was reversed in torrent options dialog </li> <li> UI: Better flushing of cached color resources on scheme change </li> <li> UI: Sort order for file priority was inconsistent </li> <li> UI: When one of multiple instances of a view was closed some menus were lost </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t pause incomplete downloads when an aggregate tag&#8217;s share ratio is hit </li> <li> Core: Fixed bug with peer connections for torrents with unlimited peer connection limits </li> <li> Core: Fixed unnecessary rechecking on start of downloads with do-not-download files </li> <li> Core: Don&#8217;t process aggregate share ratio rules while downloads are being deleted </li> <li> Core: Ensure &#8216;on download complete&#8217; actions aren&#8217;t fired while incomplete downloads are in a pending state </li> <li> Core: Backup/Restore now ignores corrupted config and temporary files </li> <li> Core: Fixed broken synchronization in DHT tracker causing 99% CPU usage </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>How to Install Vuze 5.

Opera VPN App for iOS released

Opera VPN is a service provided by SurfEasy, Inc., an Opera company. Opera’s 20-year history of web innovation enables more than 350 million people worldwide to do what matters most to them online. Get the performance you need from people you can trust.  

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 released

FileZilla Client 3.17.0 recently released, is an open source, cross-platform graphical FTP (port 21), SFTP (port 22), and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS – Port 990) client with lots of features and an intuitive graphical user interface. Among others, the features of FileZilla includes Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Cross-platform. Chnagelog since v3.17.0-rc1: New features: Recursivly queing local files for upload now displays the progress below the local file list MSW: Use dynamic TCP send buffer sizes to improve upload speeds on high-latency connections SFTP: Use hardware-accelerated AES on x86_64 CPUs if available by using the AES implementation from Nettle instead of PuTTY Building FileZilla now depends on the Nettle library, version 3.

Scylla 1.0.1 The world’s fastest NoSQL database released

<th> </th> <th> </th> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-server-dbg_1.0.1-20160411.bacc769-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-jmx_1.0.1-20160411.3d39ece-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 1.0.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/scylla-tools_1.0.1-20160411.b9fe89b-ubuntu1_all.deb">Download</a> </td> <td> 0.9.1 </td> <td> <a href="http://downloads.scylladb.com/deb/ubuntu/dists/trusty/scylladb/multiverse/binary-amd64/libthrift0_0.9.1-ubuntu1_amd64.deb">Download</a> </td> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Scylla 1.0.1 on Fedora 22</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> Scylla packages are available for 64-bit (x86_64) Fedora 22. You can either install from a <a href="http://www.

WebTorrent Desktop 0.3.3 Beta – A Streaming Torrent Client released

WebTorrent Desktop is a streaming torrent client that connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers and its currently in Beta stage. Whether it’s video from the Internet Archive, music from Creative Commons, or audiobooks from Librivox, you can play it right away. You don’t have to wait for it to finish downloading. WebTorrent Desktop Features Lightweight, fast torrent client Beautiful user experience Free, non-commercial, ad-free, and open source Instantly stream video and audio WebTorrent fetches file pieces from the network on demand for instant playback.

How to Install zbackup 1.5 alpha on Ubuntu OS

zbackup is a globally-deduplicating backup tool, based on the ideas found in rsync. Feed a large .tar into it, and it will store duplicate regions of it only once, then compress and optionally encrypt the result. Feed another .tar file, and it will also re-use any data found in any previous backups. This way only new changes are stored, and as long as the files are not very different, the amount of storage required is very low.

KeePass 2.32 Password Manager released

New Features: The quick search box (in the toolbar of the main window) now supports searching using a regular expression; in order to indicate that the search text is a regular expression, enclose it in ‘//’; for example, performing a quick search for ‘//Michael|Adam//’ shows all entries containing ‘Michael’ or ‘Adam’. Added ‘Advanced’ tab in the ‘Open From URL’ dialog (easily extensible by plugins); added options: timeout, pre-authenticate, HTTP/HTTPS/WebDAV user agent and 100-Continue behavior, FTP passive mode.

Audacious 3.7.2 Advanced Audio Player released

Cuesheet support issue: ‘Album Title’ missing (replaced with current directory name), as well as Year and Genre in playlist when adding songs from cue files Audacious crashes on missing .wvc files for hybrid wavpack files audacious -j does not open jump-to-file dialog scrobbler complains of network problem when checking permission GCC 6 fix for JACK plugin Network connection dropped then resumed, but Audacious does not refresh status

Wine 1.9.7 Development released with fix to Civilization II crash

Civilization II crashes on startup Internet Explorer 8 fails to start an InPrivate Browsing session ElsterFormular crashes when trying to print already sent income tax return IE8 shows corrupted previews on the quick tabs screen Nvidia force antialiasing no longer works Alien8 and Head Over Heels crash when window is moved partly off-screen Multiple 64-bit applications need __CxxFrameHandler implementation (Ableton Live 9.1, Adobe Cloud apps) Powerpoint viewer 2003 & 2007 show weird characters (appinstall) Microsoft Publisher 2007 and 2010 crash when opening documents/templates Allied Telesis Smart Switch Management Utility v1.

Install PileMd 0.8.3 – A Markdown Note App for Linux

<li> Rich Editor <ul> <li> PileMd is really a rich editor like a word processor. It has Undo/Redo histories, Completion of lists and also Opening links in editors. </li> </ul> </li> <li> Syncing <ul> <li> PileMd will sync your data with local files. So if you put the folder to sync into a folder syncing with cloud services, you can back up and use same data on multi devices. </li> <li> You can move the folder to sync, and also open existing folders for PileMd.

Atom 1.6.0 Text Editor Released

Add functionality and API for pending pane items Improvements to multi-pane usage Block Decorations Async Git Top and bottom bar API See release notesfor full change details

Sublime Text 3 – Build 3103 released

Added new Syntax Definition file format, .sublime-syntax Added a custom regex engine that matches multiple regexps in parallel, for faster file loading and indexing Improved Unicode support, including combining character rendering, character classification in regex searches, and case insensitivity in Goto Anything matching Packages are now on GitHub Incorporates many community provided improvements to the above packages, with significant improvements to HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, D and SQL

Kadu 3.0 Instant Messenger Final released

<div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-window.png"><img src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a> </div> <p> Kadu 3 File Transfer window </p> </div> </div> </div> </td> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-unity-launcher.png"><img src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11" /></a> </div> <p> Kadu icon in Unity with file progress </p> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td> <div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner"> <a class="image" href="http://www.kadu.im/w/File:Kadu-3-file-transfer-windows-launcher.png"><img class="thumbimage" src="http://www.kadu.im/wiki/images/b/b3/Kadu-3-file-transfer-windows-launcher.png" alt="" width="60" height="40" /></a></p> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"> <a class="internal" title="Enlarge" href="http://www.

uGet 2.0.5 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

uGet ChangeloguGet 2.0.5:  curl plug-in: Disable SSL verification for host. curl plug-in: Don’t check post and cookie file if no HTTP setting data. curl plug-in: Don’t assign data if plug-in start failed. avoid crash when program re-enter signal handler. (e.g. SIGINT) adjust width of download properties form by width of category chooser. Fix: Can’t stop all task when program into offline mode. uGet 2.0.4: save and restore width of download column.

Calibre 2.51 released with new features and bugfix

New Features Add an action to the context menu for the search bar to paste and instantly execute the search. When adding multiple books from a single directory, added the books in order of the last modified time of the book files. Bug Fixes Fix a regression in 2.50 that prevented a small number of devices from being detected on windows PDF metadata: Workaround for PDF files with corrupted XMP metadata packets, generated by Nitro PDF.

Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” Release Candidate 3 Out

Kodi 16.0 “Jarvis” Release Candidate 3, is the third Release Candidate for Kodi v16. With this release candidate, a small number of fixes that users mentioned where added. Kodi as we know is an award-winning free media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android. Fixes done in Release Candidate 3: Fix some possible DVD menu problems Fix selection of stacked multiple ISO files (movie.

Audacity Audio Editor 2.1.2 Released

Other Changes Upgraded from wxWidgets 2.8.12 to wxWidgets 3.0.2. Restructuring of the Preferences Menu Restructuring of the Track Dropdown Menu (for the Spectrograms) The Noise Reduction “Frequency smoothing” default has been increased to 3 to help avoid metallic artifacts. Resetting Preferences or deleting audacity.cfg will set the new default. (Windows) The location of Audacity’s work-in-progress folder has been changed, to avoid problems where certain disk cleaners treated them as deletable temporary files.

Telegram Desktop 0.9.18 released

v 0.9.19 Choose an emoticon and see the suggested stickers Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.18 Bug fixes and minor improvements v 0.9.17 Crash fixed v 0.9.16 GIFs autoplay and automatic download Inline bots support Automatic download settings added All media redesigned

Atom 1.3.3 Text Editor released

Fixed an exception that would occur when undoing after closing a split pane. Fixed a crash that would occur when closing a full-screen window on OSX. Fixed an infinite loop that would occur when opening multiple files with the same names in different directories. Install Atom 1.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa, Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela, Linux Mint 17.

Wireshark 2.0.1 – Open-Source Network Protocol Analyzer released

Zooming out (Ctrl+-) too far crashes Wireshark IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly About → Plugins should be a scrollable Profile change leaves prior profile residue Wireshark crashes when using the VoIP player Incorrect presentation of Ascend-Data-Filter (RADIUS attribute 242) Not possible to stop a capture with invalid filter “No interface selected” when having a valid capture filter Malformed packet with IPv6 mobility header Wireshark crashes dissecting Profinet NRT (DCE-RPC) packet All fields in the packet detail pane of a “new packet” window are expanded by default Malformed packets with SET_CUR in the USBVIDEO (UVC) decoding Display filters arranges columns incorrectly Scrolling and navigating using the trackpad on Mac OS X could be much better Lua Proto() does not validate arguments Pointers to deallocated memory when redissecting Suggestion for re-phrasing the TCP Window Full message Wireshark Portable is not starting (no messages at all) IPv6 RPL Routing Header with length of 8 bytes still reads an address

MuseScore 2.0.2 – Free music composition and notation software released

MuseScore 2.0.2 which was recently made available for installation via PPA, is an open-source music composition and notation software, allowing the users tp create, edit and print music in an WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) environment. This release, focuses primarily on stability, with over 100 more bugs fixed. But we couldn’t resist making a few additional enhancements! New Features Playback of trills and other ornaments as well as glissandi and bends, with controls to customize or disable the effect New templates: various classical chamber groups, vocal ensembles, orchestras, and concert band Palette improvements: clefs, key signatures, time signatures, lines, and other palette elements that formerly required drag and drop can be added to a selected range via double click Search box in Symbols palette Zoom to 100% shortcut (Ctrl+0) Tremolo rendering improvements New symbols: treble clef with parenthesized octave indicator, pedal line with release symbol Improvements to Bravura and other music fonts Improvements to the default FluidR3 soundfont Install MuseScore 2.

Mixxx 2.0 – Free MP3 DJ Mixing Software released

Dynamic, Resizable Skins Each of our three professionally-designed skins can stretch to fill whatever size screen you have. Turn parts of the interface on and off to reveal the features you use most. Decks with Master Sync Supporting the latest DJing techniques, Mixxx supports up to four decks playing back simultaneously. Combine tracks with loops and samples to create sophisticated on-the-fly remixes. Built-in Effects Mixxx’s new effect processing system allows you to apply up to 4 chains of effects to any mixer channel.

uGet 2.0.4 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Virtualbox 5.0.12 released – Supports Kernel 3.10.0-327.el7 with latest RHEL 7.2

VirtualBox 5.0.12recently released, is a cross-platform virtualization application that installs on your Intel or AMD-based computers, and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux or Solaris operating systems. It extends the capabilities of your computer so that it can run multiple operating systems (inside multiple virtual machines) at the same time. VirtualBox 5.0.12 changelog Fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules Improved handling of text selection mouse pointer added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks Fixed .

PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP released

Install PyCharm 5.0.3 EAP on Ubuntu Linux OS– First install Oracle Java JDK/JRE Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE – Install PyCharm via PPA

Photoflow 0.2.5 Image Editor released

<p> Bug fixes: </p> <ul> <li> Clone stamp: fixed bug in region selection affecting strokes after the first one </li> <li> Fixed compilation issues under Fedora 23 </li> </ul> Here is a screenshot showing the adjustable smoothness settings for the freehand brush:

KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 released

KDE team recently announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.17.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this VersionBaloo Fix date filter used by timeline:// BalooCtl: Return after commands Clean up and armour Baloo::Database::open(), handle more crash conditions Add check in Database::open(OpenDatabase) to fail if db doesn’t exist Breeze Icons Many icons added or improved use stylesheets in breeze icons (bug 126166) BUG: 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen (bug 355902 fix and changed system-lock-screen) Add 24px dialog-information for GTK apps (bug 355204) Extra CMake Modules

Sony Launches PlayStation Messages App for Android and iOS

We know that Messages is the most used feature of the PlayStation App, so we created the standalone PlayStation Messages app with a more streamlined design in order to get you into your Messages and communicating with your friends faster than ever before.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Mobile for Android 1.4 now available and free

We’re really excited to continue our focus on Android and pleased that Lightroom for mobile was recently listed by Google as one of the top apps of 2015. We’ve seen Android grow as a platform over the years, with billions of users around the world. As a photography platform, Android is making huge leaps and strides. New devices are being launched all the time with better and better cameras, and with the launch of Lollipop and the ability to shoot raw DNG files, Android provides one of the most powerful photography platforms available.

Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 released

Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.235 security updates for Adobe Flash Player. These updates address critical vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Vulnerability Details These updates resolve heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution These updates resolve security bypass vulnerabilities These updates resolve a stack overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a type confusion vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve an integer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution These updates resolve use-after-free vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution

qBittorrent 3.3.1 Open Source BitTorrent Client released

FEATURE: FEATURE: New “Set as default label” option in Add torrent dialog FEATURE: Support wildcards for filtering torrent list and torrent content BUGFIX: Fix -1 is displayed instead of the infinity symbol BUGFIX: Fix scan dirs settings saving BUGFIX: Exported torrents now use name instead of hash BUGFIX: Improve upgrade to v3.3.0. Now undownloaded magnets will be migrated too BUGFIX: Fix wrong encoding for listen failed error message BUGFIX: Fix RSS not automarking articles as read BUGFIX: Fix possible deadlock during application exit WEBUI: Cookies support on WebUI when downloading torrent from a URL WEBUI: Modified download and upload windows to allow autocompletion of browsers WEBUI: Fixed the spinner in the WebUI upload page WEBUI: Modified height of the WebUI download page.

ClamTK 5.20 Clam Antivirus released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/clamtk-kde/downloads/clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb sudo gdebi clamtk-kde_0.16-1_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>Install plugin for ClamTK in Cinnamon’s file manager &#8211; Nemo:</strong> </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget https://bitbucket.org/dave_theunsub/nemo-sendto-clamtk/downloads/nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb sudo gdebi nemo-sendto-clamtk_0.02-1_all.deb <p> &nbsp; </p>

Apple’s Swift Programming Language Now Open Source

“By making Swift open source the entire developer community can contribute to the programming language and help bring it to even more platforms,” said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Swift’s power and ease of use will inspire a new generation to get into coding, and with today’s announcement they’ll be able to take their ideas anywhere, from mobile devices to the cloud.”

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 released

Windows 10 Mobile ROM for Xiaomi Mi4 has just been made available for download. For Xiaomi Mi4 users wanting to give their Microsoft’s mobile operating system a try, can download the ROM from the MIUI forums and flash it on your device. Note that the ROM is only compatible with the LTE version of the Xiaomi Mi4. Alternatively you can get the ROM as well as the detailed tutorial for flashing it by registering yourself in the microsoft insider program.

uGet 2.0.3 the Best Download Manager for Linux released

Main features: Downloads Queue Resume Downloads Advanced Download Categories Clipboard Monitor Batch Downloads Multi-Protocol Multi-Connection FTP Login & Anonymous FTP Scheduler Quiet Mode Robust Keyboard Shortcuts Computer Shutdown After Completion

Vuze 5.7 Bittorrent Client released

New Features: UI : Added peer menus to peers in the swarm view UI : Tags now visibly grouped by their group in Tagging view UI : Torrent List for Tags Overview now has “Any/All” checkbox when multiple tags are selected UI : General view now shows file boundaries and skipped file zones UI : Network bindings can now be cleared via status icon context menu UI : Raw hashes entered as search expressions now support arguments UI : Added last-error column for subscriptions UI : Added alternative network hints to seeds/peers column UI : Network Information added to the top-view (F8 to show) UI : Files view now supports multiple download managers UI : Show files menu option added to Tags UI : Detect existing archived downloads when adding a new one UI : Added button to create RSS feeds from chats UI : Added description column for downloads to allow viewing and modification UI : Added context menus to set a download’s thumbnail and torrent source UI : Option to set a tag’s group when creating it UI : Tags Overview can now edit some settings when multiple tags selected Core : Added option to reset long term stats and tag session totals Core : Session up/down, Total up/down values per tag now recorded Core : Support tag-based and peer-set based network limits Core : Speed limit handler now supports tag based upload prioritization Core : Added sliding window support to network limits Core : Added an auto-restart feature Core : Option to add a unique prefix to files to avoid name clashes Core : Added ‘seedingfor’, ‘downloadingfor’ to Tag contraints Core : Tags now support ‘start/force-start/stop’ actions on assign Core : Option to abort actions such as ‘closedown computer when seeding complete’ Core : Decentralized websites now support linking via torrent, magnet or other sites Core : Decentralized websites auto-tagged as such Core : Option to move torrent files to separate golder on completion/removal Core : Added option to Timed Rotation Queue rule for longer min seeding time when torrent is connected to a peer Plug : Web plugins can now bind to interfaces as well as IP addresses Plug : Magnet plugin now has default network options Plug : RSS to Chat plugin now supports website presentation Changes:

GIMP 2.8.16 released to mark 20 Years of it’s General Image Manipulation Program

GIMP 2.8.16 was recently released to celebrated GIMP 20th anniversary. GIMP 2.8.16 features support for layer groups in OpenRaster files, fixes for layer groups support in PSD, various user inrterface improvements, OSX build system fixes, translation updates, and more changes. Our immediate future plans are to release first public version in the unstable 2.9.x series that will feature fully functional GEGL port, 16/32bit per channel processing, basic OpenEXR support, vastly improved color management implementation, new tools, on-canvas preview for many filters, and more.

Microsoft Launches AppComparison to Tell Which Apps Are Also on Windows Phone

Microsoft has just launched a new application for Android devices called AppComparison, but this time, it’s not an exclusive tool that could make Windows Phone and Windows 10 Mobile users angry. The company has decided to go for a tool that’s supposed to ease the transition from Android to Windows Phone, most likely because they expect more people to give a shot to their platform now that Windows 10 Mobile is just around the corner.

Calibre 2.44 released with new features and bugfixes

Allow setting the cover for a book from one of the book’s formats by right clicking on the format in the Book details panel. Allow drag and drop of all file types onto the book details panel and the format list in the edit metadata dialog. Edit Book: When inserting an image into the current document, add a button to paste the image from the clipboard Edit Book: Change the suggested prefix for bulk renaming of files depending on the type of files being renamed.

NetBeans IDE 8.1 IDE released

NetBeans IDE 8.1 is available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. See release notesfor all new features and enhancements made

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 now available for download

WordPress 4.4 Beta 2 which is slated for release on December 8 is now available for download and testing. This is software still in development, so it is recommend that you don’t run it on a production site. To get the beta, try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (you’ll want “bleeding edge night-lies”). Or you can download the beta here (zip). WordPress 4.4 update: Twenty Sixteen — The newest default theme for WordPress.

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizer

Advanced Phone Cleaner & Optimizeris the latest Android phone master optimizer & cleaner with new user interface. Amazing features had been added to this app to improve and boost your phone’s speed by over 80%. This had been tested and confirmed to work. So what makes Advanced Phone Optimizer different from others: Memory (RAM) Optimizer This features enables you to clean up your phone memory and optimize it’s speed by cleaning out redundant running tasks in background Application Manager With this feature, you can easily move apps to SD card, backup apps, install and uninstall multiple apps at the same time.

Unity 5.2 Game Development Tool released

Improvements 2D Improvements Allow sprites to be dragged into scene view in 3d mode. Add temp GO while dragging for visual feedback similar to when dragging prefabs/model into scene view Frame selected command (F) now works in the sprite editor window for the selected sprite rect Implement undo functionality for sprite editor window’s slice menu New grid slicing method that uses column and row count Pivot snapping on sprite frame rect in sprite editor window only happens when Ctrl is pressed while mouse dragging the pivot handle Provide a custom pivot field in the slicing menu for the sprite editor window Zooming on sprite editor window’s texture will zoom towards mouse cursor Editor Improvement

DB Browser for SQLite 3.7.0 released

Download SQLitesqlitebrowser-3.7.0-win32.exe sqlitebrowser-3.7.0-win64.exe sqlitebrowser-3.7.0.dmg sqlitebrowser-with_sqlcipher_support-3.7.0.dmgSource code (zip)Source code (tar.

NativeScript 1.2 released – live sync, push notifications, native plugins

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-linux.html" target="_blank">Install on Linux OS</a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://docs.nativescript.org/setup/ns-cli-setup/ns-setup-win.html" target="_blank">Install on Windows OS</a> </p>

Rendera 1.7 Painting App released

<ul> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Paint preview uses the current color now instead of the ugly pattern </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Implemented redo </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Quit dialog </li> <li style="text-align: justify;"> Soft edge is hidden when not applicable to the current painting mode </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Rendera 1.7 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rendera

ImageMagick 6.9.1-8 – Image Processing App released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). </li> <li> Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. </li> <li> Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. </li> <li> Draw: add shapes or text to an image. </li> <li> Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. </li> <li> Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. </li> <li> Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images.

Entangle 0.7.0 “Charm” Camera Control & Capture released

The main features introduced in this release are a brand new logo, a plugin for automated capture of image sequences and the start of a help manual. The full set of changes is Require GLib >= 2.36 Import new logo design Switch to using zanata.org for translations Set default window icon Introduce an initial help manual via yelp Use shared library for core engine to ensure all symbols are exported to plugins Add framework for scripting capture operations Workaround camera busy problems with Nikon cameras Add a plugin for repeated capture sequences Replace progress bar with spinner icon

Thunderbird 38.0.1 Mozilla mail client released

New: GMail supports OAuth2 authentication, removing the need to manually select “allow less secure applications” in Google options for the account Ship Lightning calendar addon with Thunderbird and enable with an opt-out dialog Filter sent messages Filter messages when archived Enable search in multiple/all address books Add support for Yahoo Messenger in Chat Support Internationalized domain name URLs for RSS feeds Show expanded columns in folder pane Allow file-per-message (maildir) local message storage Add a Learn more link to the support page in feeds subscribe dialog Add reading position marker line to conversations The editor for twitter should show inputtable character count Changed:

Apple Swift Programming Language to go Open Source

Federighi also announced Swift v2 will be released this year and that will come with numerous new features. Developers will be able to use Markdown in comments, pattern matching in “if,” and synthesized “headers” in Xcode alongside other improvements like a faster runtime and shorter compile times.

Android Studio 1.3 Preview 2 available

<li> The Setup Wizard now longer installs the Android M preview by default; it installs the most recent stable version (currently API 22). You should only install and use the Android M preview (and buildtools 23-rc) if you are also going to use version 1.3.0-beta1 of the Android Gradle plugin. </li> <li> The layout editor and layout preview windows only use the Android M preview layout library if the project is compiled with the M preview library.

Everpad 2.15.8 now available for Ubuntu 15.04

Everpad Evernote client is well integrated with Linux desktop and the Everpad Client has: unity lens indicator applet unity launcher The Everpad Client supports Notes, Tags, Notebooks, Resources, Places, En-* tags

Telegram Desktop 0.8.11 Messaging app released

Telegram Desktop Features Connect from most remote locations Coordinate groups of up to 200 members Synchronize your chats across all your devices Send documents of any type Encrypt personal and business secrets Destruct your messages with a timer Store your media in the cloud Build your own tools on our API Enjoy feedback from your customers Telegram messages are heavily encrypted and can self-destruct. Telegram lets you access your messages from multiple devices.

Webmin 1.740 released

<pre>sudo apt-get install gdebi wget sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/files/webmin/1.740/webmin_1.740_all.deb sudo gdebi webmin_1.740_all.deb<p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Now access the url ‘https://localhost:10000/‘. Enter your root user account and password </p>

Thunderbird 31.6.0 browser released

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Install Thunderbird 31.6.0 on Ubuntu OS</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>32bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-i686/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>64bit OS</strong> </p> <pre>wget ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/31.6.0/linux-x86_64/en-US/thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 tar -xjvf thunderbird-31.6.0.tar.bz2 sudo rm -rf /opt/thunderbird* sudo mv thunderbird /opt/thunderbird sudo ln -sf /opt/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird

Popcorn Time 2.5 for Android released

Popcorn Time’s interface is elegant and intuitive. On the first screen of the app you can quickly access any of the latest releases available to download, and you can access the selection of series or the search tool just by tapping on the screen. Note that the video file might end up stored on your device, so it’s a good idea to clean the temporary file folder for Popcorn Time every so often.

TeXstudio 2.9.0 LaTex Editor released

TeXstudio 2.9.0recently released, is a fully featured integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents. The goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar TeXstudio 2.9.0 changelog  link overlays for urls close editor tab by pressing middle mouse button more standard shortcuts (in particular for OS X) support optional filename argument in txs:///view-pdf-internal add “expand/collapse all documents” to context menu of structure add tabulary support open correct log file if output filenames are changed due to “%& -job-name=targetfile” (note: changed pdf filename not yet supported) user-defined icons are now portable: if possible icon paths are stored relative to settings dir or application dir windowed pdf viewer now supports –no-focus argument improved detection of label name for “Insert \ref to Next Label” improved context detection for preview (multi-line math, cursor inside multi-char delimiter) improved search for texdoc location improved log parsing including support for LaTeX3 warnings and errors resize with soft line warp: keep vertical cursor position constant support .

Wireshark 1.12.4 released with new and updated Capture File Support

Wireshark 1.12.4recently released, is a free, open source packet analyzer used for network troubleshooting, monitoring, analysis, software and communications protocol development. The latest release Wireshark 1.12.4 comes with a number of vulnerabilities & bug fixes, including new and updated Capture File Support – NetScaler, PacketLogger, and Pcapng. Wireshark 1.12.4 changelog RTP player crashes on decode of long call: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) “Telephony→SCTP→Analyse This Association” crashes Wireshark on manufactured SCTP packet IPv6 Mobility Header Link Layer Address is parsed incorrectly DNS NXT RR is parsed incorrectly IPv6 AUTH mobility option parses Mobility SPI and Authentication Data incorrectly IPv6 Mobility Header Link-Layer Address Mobility Option is parsed incorrectly HTTP chunked response includes data beyond the chunked response.

Kodi 15.0 alpha 1 released

<ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Added adaptive seeking through audio and video playback, also know as “skip steps” </li> <li> Android HEVC H.265 support for some chipsets </li> <li> Improve webserver caching control </li> <li> External subtitles over UPnP </li> <li> Allow scanning of new sources and marking as watched during other library operations such as “update library” </li> <li> Allow different sort orders for different sort methods </li> <li> Start of integration binary add-ons and changing the build system around it </li> <li> Improved CC (Closed Captions) support for Live TV </li> <li> ffmpeg 2.

QupZilla 1.8.6 released

added TabManager and FlashCookieManager plugins added CTRL+L shortcut to clear download list in download manager allow closing Download Manager and Browsing Library with Ctrl+W revert option to disable SSLv3, it is now correctly handled by Qt fix issue with tabs with empty url were removed from session fix zoom shortcuts with +/-/0 on numeric block fix hiding iframes that have completely blocked contents in AdBlock fix showing navigation bar when typing into locationbar in fullscreen fix visual issues with FTP listing with RTL layouts fix removing profiles from preferences fix crash when moving bookmarks on FreeBSD

Darktable 1.6.2 released

Please note that this release is a new stable point release, no big new features added. The general improvements made in this release are: Better names for key accels (no more ) Local gallery export limited to useful web formats (JPEG/PNG/WebP) Add a way to control the brush size with keys Default X-Trans Demosaic to markesteijn (single pass) get full release notes details

Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (2013.5) CTP 2 released

Microsoft announced the availability of Visual Studio 2013 Update 5Community Technology Preview 2 (CTP 2). This latest release now has added support for graphics debugging of Unity-based applications on Windows Phone, and made fixes in Team Foundation Server, Git support, and the IDE. This update is the latest in a cumulative series of technology improvements and bug fixes for Visual Studio 2013. Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 CTP 2

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 update build 139.1117 released

IntelliJ IDEA 14.0.3 build 139.1117has just been released and this comes with long-awaited enhancements and bugfixes. If you’re running IntelliJ IDEA 14 and haven’t received a notification about the update yet, check for it via Help → Check for Updates.  The following are some the key changes, improvement and bug fixes: Android device list contains non-device lines A part of method name is improperly reported as undefined path variable Live template is evaluated inside another live template placeholder (scope: JSON) Intellij does not work with android-maven-plugin 4.

Wine 1.7.35 released

Wine 1.7.35 has been released and this comes various bug fixes including support for OpenGL core contexts, initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite and some more WBEM objects. Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) as we already know is a software for running Windows applications on Linux machines. Wine 1.7.35 update Multiplayer crashes Heroes 4 Screen corruption in Evernote 1.1 3DMark 2001: Nature Test (#4) renders incorrectly around 40th second ProntoEdit NG 2.

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672 released

SMPlayer 14.9.0.6672recently released, intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and more. Notable feature of SMPlayer is, it remembers the settings of all files you play. When you watch a movie and leave, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume.

FFmpeg 2.5.3 released

FFmpeg 2.5.3 “Bohr”– is the leading multimedia framework, cross-platform solution that is used to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play any audio or video files. It includes libavcodec – the leading audio/video codec library. The most important new features are AVFoundation screen-grabbing support, animated WebP decoding support, and Animated PNG support. In addition, many exciting features for video streaming are also implemented, including MPEG-DASH fragmenting muxer, HEVC RTP payload muxer, and UDP Lite support.

Android Studio 1.1 Preview 1 Released

<li> There is a new template for creating watch faces for Android Wear: <div> <a href="http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png?attredirects=0"><img class=" aligncenter" src="http://tools.android.com/_/rsrc/1421370620201/recent/androidstudio11preview1released/watchface-template.png" alt="" width="376" height="256" border="0" /></a> </div> </li>

Dropbox 3.0.5 released

Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Windows XP Fix an issue preventing Dropbox from starting on Fedora 20 Fix a rare issue that could cause crashes when using Camera Uploads on Windows Pause icon on Mac is no longer tiny on Retina displays

VLC for Windows Phone is now available for download

<li> <div> Music playback </div> </li> <li> <div> MKV playback </div> </li> <li> <div> FLAC playback </div> </li> <li> <div> Mini audio player and background audio </div> </li> <li> <div> Media Library </div> </li> <li> <div> Support for 10bits video </div> </li> <li> <div> Subtitles </div> </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://www.windowsphone.com/s?appId=44fa83f7-a98d-4647-b9d4-c35ed729d0c9">Download VLC for Windows Phone</a> </p> </div>

Audacious 3.6 Alpha 1 released

A completely new Qt-based user interface, which can be installed alongside the existing GTK+ and Winamp Classic interfaces. The new interface is usable today but not yet as feature-rich as the existing interfaces. In future, it will be the basis of a Mac OS X port of Audacious—stay tuned. We have switched back to using GTK+ version 2.x by default. It has now been over three years since the release of GTK+ 3.

SeaMonkey 2.31 Beta 1 released

SeaMonkey 2.31 beta 1recently released, is an open source, free all-in-one internet application suite. It consists of Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools. SeaMonkey is built on the open source Mozilla Gecko engine, the same code which underlies the highly successful siblings Firefox and Thunderbird. Testers are encouraged to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

WPS Office for Linux Alpha16 released

Remove Kingsoft WPS Office for Linux Alpha16[button href=”http://www.sysads.co.uk/2014/08/install-kingsoft-office-linux-ubuntu-14-04/” style=”flat” size=”medium” color=”#1e73be” hovercolor=”#0066bf” icon=”info”]Install missing fonts[/button]

Sysstat 11.0.2 stable released

Sysstat 11.0.2package contains utilities to monitor system performance and usage activity. Sysstat contains various utilities, common to many commercial Unixes, and tools you can schedule via cron to collect and historize performance and activity data. Sysstat supports UP and SMP machines, including machines with hyperthreaded or multi-core processors, supports hotplug CPUs (it detects automagically processors that are disabled or enabled on the fly) and tickless CPUs. Sysstat’s features Can monitor a huge number of different metrics Average statistics values are calculated over the sampling period Most system statistics can be saved in a file for future inspection On the fly detection of new devices (disks, network interfaces, etc.

OpenSceneGraph 3.2.1 released

OpenSceneGraphis open source, real-time graphics middle-ware used by application developers in fields that range from visual simulation (flight, marine, vehicle, space simulator) to virtual and augmented reality, to medical and scientific visualisation, to education and games. OpenSceneGraph is written in Standard C++, taking advantage of the standard template library (STL) for containers. The software uses the scene graph approach to representing 3D worlds as a graph of node that logical and spatially group subgraphs for behaviour and high performance.

Time to Install Gnome 3.14 on Ubuntu 14.10

GNOME 3.14the latest version of GNOME 3, which was recently releasedbrings many new features and improvements. The new release includes over 28,000 changes by 871 contributors. This latest release includes major improvements for developers, including GTK+ Inspector (a new utlity to examine and modify running GTK+ applications), the ability to use SVG assets as a part of GTK+ themes, improved touchscreen support, and major progress towards Wayland. Jeff Fortin, GNOME Foundation President, said: “With multitouch and gestures support coming to GTK+, as well as maturing support for the next-generation Wayland display protocol, GNOME is paving the way for the future of the Free Software desktop and mobile ecosystem at large….

Android Studio 0.8.11 Released

<p> Similarly, if you try to import a Gradle project which does not contain a gradle wrapper, it will offer to let you insert one: </p> <div> <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png?attredirects=0"><img src="https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/tools/_/rsrc/1411084729614/recent/androidstudio0811released/add-wrapper.png" alt="" border="0" /></a> </div> </li> <li> Lint errors can now display the full issue explanation text in-place in the editor. This is helpful when the short single-line error message does not fully explain what the problem is. <div> <a href="https://sites.

Ubuntu Touch Terminal in Action

The video shows Ubuntu Touch Terminal running on Ubuntu Desktop 14.04 for this demonstration, but the application is the same on an actual Ubuntu Touch Device

Install KiCad – Electronic Circuit Board Design

kicad – project manager eeschema – schematic editor pcbnew – PCB editor gerbview – GERBER viewer cvpcb – footprint selector for components Libraries: Both eeschema and pcbnew have library managers and editors for their components and footprints You can easily create, edit, delete and exchange library items Documentation files can be associated with components, footprints and key words, allowing a fast search by function Very large libraries are available for schematic components and footprints Most components have corresponding 3D models Install KiCad on Ubuntu 14.

Calibre 2.2 Released with Improved news sources

Calibre 2.2 updates Kindle driver: Add option to not overwrite existing page number (apnx) files on the device when sending books to the device Kindle driver: Add option to allow customization of the page number (apnx) generation algorithm based on values in a custom column Metadata jacket: Allow customizing the jacket template to show the tags in alphabetical order View specific format window: If a conversion finishes in the background making a new format available, update the window E-book viewer: Automatically hide the mouse cursor if the mouse has not been used for a few seconds.

Get valuable insights into your website’s visitors with Piwik

Real time data updates – Watch real time flow of visits to your website. Get a detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited and goals they have triggered. Track different user interactions – Automatic tracking of file downloads, clicks on external website links, optional tracking of 404 pages Event Tracking – Measure any interaction by users on your websites and apps. Site Search Analytics – Track searches done on your internal search engine.

Install sqlmap on Ubuntu 14.04

Full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM DB2, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase and SAP MaxDB database management systems Full support for six SQL injection techniques: boolean-based blind, time-based blind, error-based, UNION query, stacked queries and out-of-band Support to directly connect to the database without passing via a SQL injection, by providing DBMS credentials, IP address, port and database name Support to enumerate users, password hashes, privileges, roles, databases, tables and columns Automatic recognition of password hash formats and support for cracking them using a dictionary-based attack Support to download and upload any file from the database server underlying file system when the database software is MySQL, PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server and many more

Install Cafu 3D Game Engine on Ubuntu 14.04

High-quality, real-time 3D graphics with a very powerful and flexible material system Cross-platform and cross-compiler portability Very fast built-in network code for multi-player internet and LAN games Dynamic per-pixel lighting and shadows, combined with physically correct Radiosity Very large terrain rendering, skeleton based model rendering 3D sound effects with a powerful sound system Uses the powerful Lua language for map scripting, entity scripting and GUI scripting Freely available under the GPL or a custom license that is tailored to you needs and many more feature

Secure Your Email Traffic with Scrollout F1 Email Gateway

Scrollout F1is an easy to use, already adjusted email firewall (gateway) offering free anti-spam and anti-virus protection aiming to secure existing email servers, old or new, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail and others. It combines simplicity with effective protection using powerful open source with additional set of rules & filters. Scrollout F1 Features 256 bit TLS/SSL encryption with Perfect Forward Secrecy Host-to-host IPSec transport encryption with pre-shared key Free and commercial Anti-Virus for inbound and outbound emails Different Quarantine per domain Different scores per domain for Tagging & Blocking Additional SMTP ports.

Install Suricata 2.0.3 – Network IDS & IPS on Ubuntu 14.04

Suricatais an open source high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Suricata is the OISF IDP engine, the open source Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine. Suricata is developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation), its supporting vendors and the community. This latest release Suricata 2.0.3 fixes a number of issues in the 2.0 series. Most importantly, this release addresses a number of IPv6 issues that can lead to evasion.

SeaFile 3.1 Released with Redesigned Syncing Protocol

<th> Description </th> <th> Note </th> <td> Name of this seafile server </td> <td> 3-15 characters, only English letters, digits and underscore (&#8216;_&#8217;) are allowed </td> <td> The IP address or domain name used by this server </td> <td> Seafile client program will access the server with this address </td> <td> The TCP port used by ccnet, the underlying networking service of Seafile </td> <td> Default is 10001.

Calibre 1.47 Released with New Features

Cover Grid: Now you can have your own defined emblems (icons) to be displayed next to covers, based on simple rules you create E-book Viewer: Now you can use wiktionary.org and wordnik.com as dictionary providers instead of dict.org Edit Book: You can now customize the templates used when creating new, blank HTML/CSS files via Preferences->Editor settings Comic Input: When sorting the pages inside a comic, recognize numbers, so that page2 sorts before page10 Conversion: When inserting a metadata jacket, format the series number using roman numerals.

Install Node JS 0.10.29 on Ubuntu 14.04

Node JSis a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript run-time for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. npm is a NodeJS package manager that allows you to install node programs. npm now comes pre-packaged with Node.js Node JS 0.10.29 update openssl: upgraded to 1.0.1h which fixes the openssl vulnerability npm: upgrade to 1.

Install Enlightenment 0.19 in Ubuntu 14.04

Enlightenment Desktop Environmentis a rich feature set, fast, modular and extensible window manager for X11 and Linux with a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work. It provides an efficient yet breathtaking window manager based on the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) along with other essential desktop components like a file manager, desktop icons and widgets. Enlightenment is comprised of both the Enlightenment window manager and Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL), which provide additional desktop environment features such as a toolkit, object canvas, and abstracted objects.

Install Calibre 1.45 in Ubuntu 14.04

Calibreis a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It helps users to easily read ebooks on their personal computer, convert ebooks from one format to another, create electronic books based on recipes of your very own ideas. New Features Edit Book: Add in-context help for HTML and CSS Now, you can right click on any HTML/OPF/NCX tag name or CSS property and the editor will open some help for that item in your browser.

Install Format Junkie 1.08 on Linux 14.04

Format Junkieis a Linux graphical user interface, user-friendly application with lots of options, which can allow you to convert your audio, video and image files to all the popular formats. The program is just a frontend to avconv and to ImageMagick. Format Junkie Features Audio: This tab allows you to convert between multiple different audio formats: mp3, mp2, wav, ogg, wma, flac, m4r, m4a and aac Video: Format Junkie supports the following video conversion formats: avi, ogv, vob, mp4, vob, flv, 3gp, mpg, mkv, wmv Image: Format Junkie uses the very powerful ImageMagick command line tools in order to perform conversion between the supported image formats.

Install Variety 0.4.20 Wallpaper Changer on Ubuntu 14.04

Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux desktops. It changes the desktop wallpaper on a regular basis, using user-specified or automatically downloaded images. Variety sits conveniently as an indicator in the panel and can be easily paused and resumed. The mouse wheel can be used to scroll wallpapers back and forth until you find the perfect one for your current mood. Apart from displaying images from local folders, several different online sources can be used to fetch wallpapers according to user-specified criteria.

Install Dropbox 2.10.3 / 2.11.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Dropbox 2.10.3</strong></span> is the latest release for 2.10 series and comes with following updates </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Prevents Finder crash on update </li> <li> Fix an issue that was unlinking some users </li> <li> Other small fixes </li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: #003366;"><strong>Dropbox 2.11.0</strong> </span>is the first 2.11 series and comes with some new features and changes </p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> Rewrite of the Windows & Linux UI.

Install FlareGet 3.2.42 on Ubuntu 14.04

FlareGet Features It integrates with all the browsers to replace their default download manager and start the download by itself It uses an intelligent file management system to automatically categorize your files based on their extensions It can resume unfinished downloads even on power failures or system crash It supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols to let you download files from internet It supports segmented download of a file from multiple mirror sites with automatic link checking of expired URLs and many more FlareGet 3.

Install Mailnag 1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

Mailnag is desktop-independent now (was GNOME3-only) Added plugin system to allow easy extensibility Cut down the core daemon functionality to mail checking only and moved everything else to plugins Released GNOME 3/Ubuntu Unity extension/plugin for a tighter desktop integration Added account assistants for popular email providers like Gmail Added DBUS service (for remote control/integration in other apps) Redesigned and simplified config UI Added propper logging (log messages are sent to stdout and the system log now) Heavy code cleanup & refactoring Reduced disk write access, other performance improvements Fixes for various major and minor bugs New icon by Reda Lazri

Install BleachBit 1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

BleachBit 1.2 updates Add cleaner for APT package lists. Update Konqueror cleaner (thanks to tiemay). Update Debian package for Debian and Ubuntu. Add Fedora 20 RPM package. Add Ubuntu 14.04 DEB package. Do not crash on startup for new platforms (in this case, for FreeBSD)

Install Stellarium in Ubuntu 14.04

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. The latest release Stellarium 0.13.0 brings some interesting new features: New modulated core. Refactored shadows and introducing the normal mapping. Sporadic meteors and meteors has the colors now. Comet tails rendering. New translatable strings and new textures. New plugin: Equation of Time – provides solution for Equation of Time.

Install MythTV 0.27.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

Watch and record analog and/or digital TV, including HDTV. Pause, skip, and rewind live TV shows. Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping, with manual correction via an intuitive cutlist editor. Intelligently schedules recordings to avoid conflicts. Parental controls to keep your kids out of the good shows. Watch and archive DVDs. Listen to your digital music collection. Schedule and administer many functions remotely via a web browser. Flexible client/server architecture allows multiple frontend client machines to access content served by one or more backend servers (although the most common installation consists of a single computer running both the client and server together).

Install GUFW Firewall 14.04 on Ubuntu 14.04

More preconfigured games Confirm delete rules Sort your rules Sort the Report More beautiful Refresh interval for Report Adapted for small windows Create rules from Report Search the columns Filter apps

Install Corebird 0.8 Twitter Client on Ubuntu 14.04

<th align="left"> Description </th> <td align="left"> Compose Tweet </td> <td align="left"> Go one page back(this can be triggered via tha back button on the keyboard, the back thumb button on the mouse or <code>Alt + Left</code>) </td> <td align="left"> Go one page forward(this can be triggered via tha forward button on the keyboard, the forward thumb button on the mouse or <code>Alt + Right</code>) </td> <td align="left"> Go to page <code>num</code>(between 1 and 7 at the moment) </td> <td align="left"> Show/Hide sidebar </td>

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.394 on Ubuntu 14.04

Adobe has just recently released security updates for Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.378and earlier versions for Linux and Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh. These updates address vulnerabilities that could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system / desktops including servers running Adobe Flash in a production environment. Adobe recommends users of Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.378 and earlier versions for Linux including Adobe Flash Player 14.

Install FFmpeg 2.2.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

ffmpeg is a command line tool to convert multimedia files between formats. ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts. ffplay is a simple media player based on SDL and the FFmpeg libraries. ffprobe is a is a simple multimedia stream analyzer.

Install Phototonic 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

[box type=”danger”] Phototonic 1.0.1 has just been released 2 days after 1.0 was released. This is to fix the following: Note, the PPA had been updated to 1.0.1 as same procedure as below would install the latest release [/box]

Install Meld 3.11.2 on Ubuntu 14.04

Meldis a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. Meld helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and has support for many popular version control systems. File and folder comparison panes can now be resized (Marco Brito) Folder comparisons now support scrolling between chunks using the mouse wheel in the link map, like file comparisons (Kai Willadsen) Don’t draw spurious actions for equal chunks (Kai Willadsen) Remove default sourceview behaviour for Alt+Left/Right (Kai Willadsen) Fix storing translated column names in configuration (Kai Willadsen) Several fixes for multiple windows in single-instance handling: Resolve relative paths relative to the correct instance (Kai Willadsen) Don’t create windows in the original instance when the calling instance errors out (Kai Willadsen) Raise the correct window for new windows in the same instance (Kai Willadsen) Exit correctly for command line errors in the calling instance (Kai Willadsen) Fix display of unicode paths in repositories (Kai Willadsen) Fix handling of unicode paths in recent files store (Kai Willadsen) Improve behaviour of Open External action, and handle spaces in filenames for the custom editor option (Kai Willadsen) Improve support custom installation prefixes (Kai Willadsen) Install Meld 3.

Install Selene 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 14.04

Encode videos to MKV/MP4/OGV/WEBM formats. Encode music to MP3/AAC/OGG/OPUS/FLAC/WAV formats. Option to pause/resume encoding Option to run in background and shutdown PC after encoding Bash scripts can be written to control the encoding process Commandline interface for unattended/automated encoding Added option for SOX Audio Processing Added check for missing encoders Added new About and Donation windows Fixed: ‘Add File’ button will remember the last input folder Fixed: Encoding fails if the /tmp directory is mounted with ‘noexec’ option

Install QuiteRSS 0.16.1 on Ubuntu 14.04

QuiteRSSis an open-source RSS/Atom feed reader with the aim to make it quite fast and comfortable for user. QuiteRSS is written in Qt/С++, and available for Linux, Windows, OS X, OS/2. QuiteRSS comes with following features; Embedded browser (Webkit core), Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application), User filters, Proxy configuration: automatic or manual, Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered, Adblock and many more

Install Calibre 1.44 in Ubuntu 14.04

Edit Book: Syntax highlight links, images, stylesheet includes, etc. Links that point to missing files are marked as errors. You can Ctrl + click on a highlighted link to jump to the file it points to directly. Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for manifest items missing href attributes. When clicking in the search box, select all existing text, for easy replacement. Edit Book: Add buttons to change the text alignment of the current paragraph.

Install Transmission BitTorrent 2.84 on Ubuntu 14.04

Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.  Change Log Licensing change: the GNU GPLv2 code can now be used under GNU GPL v2 or v3 Fix network hanging issues that could occur when both UTP and DHT were enabled Fix 2.

Install Geany 1.24.1 IDE on Ubuntu 14.04

New plugin Pohelper New plugin PairTagHighlighter New plugin Autoclose New plugin Geanypy (Python bindings) New plugin Defineformat Experimental support of Gtk3 on many of the plugins If the Geanypy plugin is closed when any Python plugins are still running it may cause a crash Closing Geany having GeanyLaTeX and Devhelp-plugin active, might cause a not clean shutdown of Geany

Install the latest Transmageddon Video Converter on Ubuntu 14.04

First of all if you have the GStreamer VAAPI plugins installed (and be sure to have the driver too) then the VAAPI GPU encoder will be used for h264 and MPEG2 Secondly I brought back the so called ‘xvid’ codec (even though xvid isn’t really a separate codec, but a name used to refer to MPEG4 Video codec using the advanced-simple profile.)

Install Angry IP scanner in Ubuntu 14.04

MAC vendors updated Update site URLs Debian/Ubuntu: allow more different JREs Mac: Specify Java 1.6+ in plist Upgrade JNA to 4.0 Windows: remove license step from the installer Minor bugfixes

Install Double Commander in Ubuntu 14.04

 Install Double Commander in Ubuntu FeaturesAlternatively you can see that video on install **double commander in Ubuntu **  If you want to get more information on development of Double Commander see Developmentpage. You can check the latest version on the Versionspage. See if Double Commander is supported for your platform on the Supported platformspage. Source How to install Ubuntu 16.04 tutorial

Install soundconverter in Ubuntu 14.04

Clean and easy interface – GNOME HIG compliant interface. Just get the job done and forget about it Fast, multithreaded, conversion – Process huge number of files in record time. Finally use all these cores Powerful automated renaming – Change filenames and create folders according to tags

Fotoxx 14.07 Released – Install in Ubuntu 14.04

The main menu was made smaller to save space. Some menu-icons now use left/right mouse clicks for two functions, e.g. edit undo/redo. An image with selected areas can be saved to a PNG file with unselected parts transparent. This can be useful in other image editors, e.g. Gimp. Mashup: draw lines and arrows on an image, similarly to writing text. Mashup: control of overlapping and transparent images was made easier.

Install VidMasta (Watch Movies) in Ubuntu 14.04

Set default download link timeout to 0 for instantaneous opening of download links when auto-downloading is enabled Improved accuracy of TV show episode download link searches Improved error recovery and reporting when opening/saving download links Added ability to email and copy download links, stream links, and trailer links. Added ability to copy subtitle links Improved sorting of title, year, and rating table columns by conversion from formatted text to plain text, from text to whole number, and from text to rational number respectively prior to sorting Improved positioning and timing of windows Fixed bug preventing copying of discontiguous table rows

Install Texmaker in Ubuntu 14.04

script support has been added (only for the text editor part – “User” menu) with the new option “-n” for the command line, a new instance of Texmaker can be launched (will break the synchronization with the pdf viewers and others feautures) hu and nl translations have been updated the windows and macosx lion/maverick versions are now compiled with Qt 5.2.1 while loading the last session, the bug about the focus has been fixed a bug about the “commands” combo box in the main toolbar has been fixed a typo in the russian translation has been fixed a bad trigger detection for the snippets has been fixed

Install Popcorn Time 0.3.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

Bug Fixes Fixed tooltip for IMDb stars for TV shows Fix to enable drag & drop again Make sure cursor disappears in fullscreen mode Fix French translation Store dropped torrents in Temp folder Stop movie pausing on drag Removed dangling whitespace/tabs, excessive newline Fix updater and some promise binding issues Patched installer to fix all the issues introduced with installing to program files

Install Qt Creator in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Code editor with C++, QML and ECMAscript support Rapid code navigation tools Syntax highlighting and code completion Static code checking and style hints as you type Support for source code refactoring Integrated, context-sensitive help system Code folding Parenthesis matching and parenthesis selection modes Integrated GUI layout and forms designer Project and build management tools Visual debugger Supports multiple platforms

Install Font Manager in Ubuntu 14.04

Preview installed fonts Compare installed fonts Easily install or remove fonts Easily activate and de-activate installed fonts Specify different directories to search for fonts Group fonts into “Collections”, and easily activate or de-activate groups of fonts Export “Collections” to an archive for easy backup, sharing, etc. Provides quick access to all GNOME font utilities Font Manager suggests the installation of python-reportlab to allow users to export font collections in the PDF format.

Install MPV Media Player in Ubuntu 14.04

Add client API in the form of the libmpv library, which is intended to be a stable API to get some rough control over the player (this is not supported on Mac OS X). Add option for approximating BT.709 gamma for the opengl vo (similarly to many programs in the Apple ecosystem). Add support for non-BT.709 primaries. Add support for BT.2020 colorspace. Generate and install zsh completion script (disabled by default since it may interfere with cross-compilation).

Install Esmska in Ubuntu 14.04

Send SMS through various gateways (local or international, free or paid) Supports all common operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.) Free, under open-source licence GNU AGPL3+ Import contacts from vCard files or third-party programs (DreamCom) Send SMS to multiple recipients at once History of sent messages Pluggable gateway system – easy to provide support for more gateways directly by users Extensive possibilities of changing appearance Gateway updates Moved signature to message start Added a way to easily add new contacts from unknown numbers When a message is split into several fragments (to be sent separately), they are no longer visible as separate pieces in the history (which makes it hard to forward the message), but they are instead visible as the original single message Gateway script API changed: removed SENDER_NAME, getExtraSignatureLength() and getMaxParts() Show the user signature inside the message text Split message text by word boundaries

Install Maxemum TV-Guide in Ubuntu 14.04

Easy-to-use user interface Quick channel(s)-only selection Custom channel names and icons Category filter Title-, actor- and description search Hidden in tray while not used Favourite show highlighting Realtime updates with colour encoded time Grabbing of TV-listings Custom channel icon size A popup window alerting the user when favourite show starts Favourite overview with quick removal and more..

Install Qt 5.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s new in Qt 5.3.1 Performance optimizations for Qt Quick Engine’s JIT compiler code generation and important bug fixes, especially on ARM QAbstractProxyModel::sibling to now works in the same manner as with Qt4 Many small fixes to Qt Quick Controls, for example to TableView, TabView, ComboBox and Calendar QQuickWidget now works properly also with ANGLE Qt Quick animations now work also with static builds Fix for a regression of QPushButton with QMenu Fix for a regression on Mac for passing click event to underlaying widget Initial support for Mac OS X 10.

Install TeamSpeak 3 in Ubuntu 14.04

Install TeamSpeak 3 in Ubuntu 14.04  – Now you can open teamspeak:// links, which will automatically launch TeamSpeak and connect to the specified server when you click them!

Install aTunes in Ubuntu 14.04

Store metadata for all kind of files, even if it does not support an internal tag New option to show a navigation table filter New option to hide navigation tree and use only navigation table to select elements Can store ratings both in files and in an external database to not modify files Faster podcast download New playlist option to stop playback after the current track New options to load / save play list replacing play list or creating a new one NPE updating tag in properties file check audio object exists not controlling null references Errors when dragging columns Problem creating folders when ripping CDs in Windows Removed next and previous buttons when editing tags

Install System Load Indicator 0.4 in Ubuntu 14.04

Fixed – Advanced preferences text boxes should have unit labels Fixed – indicator-multiload crashed with SIGABRT in g_assertion_message() Fixed – Change “Open System Monitor” Link Fixed – Menu monitor items do not display on Ubuntu 13.10 New – Add GUI option to turn off autoranging on graphs New – Provide monochrome option

Wine 1.7.20 Released with lots of Game fixes

To compile from source, follow steps documented on WineHQ wiki [button link=”http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit” style=”info” color=”primary”]Building 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit (x86-64) system[/button] [button link=”http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64″ style=”info” color=”primary”]Win64 Support for Wine[/button]

Install Aptana Studio 3 in Ubuntu 14.04

Aids in authoring of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Supports the latest HTML5 specifications. Includes information about the level of support for each element in the major web browsers Support for one-shot as well as keep-synchronized setups. Multiple protocols including FTP, SFTP, FTPS and Capistrano. Ability to automatically publish your Ruby & Rails applications to hosting services such as Heroku and Engine Yard. Set breakpoints, inspect variables, control execution.

Install MKVToolnix in Ubuntu 14.04

If a single subtitle track contains two or more entries at the same timecode then the cue duration and cue relative position elements written were wrong fixed wrong progress percentage shown during saving the information to text files Added a global option for disabling writing the tags with statistics for each track When identifying a Matroska file in verbose identification mode track-specific tags will be output as well mkvmerge will write track-specific tags with statistics for the average number of bits per second, for the duration, and for the track’s size in bytes and its number of frames/packets) Changed the file type detection order again.

Install Phoronix Test Suite 5.2 in Ubuntu 14.04

Runs On Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows & BSD Operating Systems Extensible Testing Architecture Embedded To Cloud Scale 450+ Test Profiles 100+ Test Suites Automated Batch Mode Support Automated Test Downloading & Installation Dependency Management Support Module-based Plug-In Architecture Minimum / Average / Maximum Result Reporting Standard Deviation Monitoring & Insurance PNG, SVG Graph Rendering Support PDF Result Reports Detailed Software, Hardware Detection System Monitoring Support

Install IntelliJ 13.1 in Ubuntu 14.04

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 102);"><strong>Create App Launcher for Intellij</strong></span> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Install gnome-panel if not already installed </p> <pre>sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel</pre> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Next run command below to launch the Create Launcher app. Enter details as follows; </p> <pre>gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new</pre> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li> <strong>Type:</strong> Application </li> <li> <strong>Name:</strong> IntelliJ </li> <li> <strong>Command:</strong> /home/sysadmin/idea-IC-135.

Install Blender 2.7.0 in Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17

Include initial support for volumetrics in Cycles, and faster rendering of hair and textures The motion tracker now supports weighted tracks and has improved planar tracking For mesh modeling there are new Laplacian deform and wireframe modifiers, along with more control in the bevel tool The game engine now supports object levels of detail The first results from the new user interface project are also in this release, with dozens of changes to make the interface more consistent and powerful This is also the first release of the multithreaded dependency graph, which makes modifier and constraint evaluation faster in scenes with multiple objects

Install SketchUp Make 2014 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s New Fixed a crash that occurred when exporting an animation while any Ruby tool was active. Fixed an EntityObserver crash in onEraseEntity that could occur if the observer removed itself. Fixed a bug in ViewObserver which caused observer methods to not fire properly in certain rare cases. This occurred when an observer was being removed and a new one being added within the same notification loop of another event. Fixed an issue where launching SketchUp by double-clicking a skp file on another drive would corrupt $LOAD_PATH and render the Standard Library inaccessible.

Install phpLDAPadmin in Ubuntu 14.04

LDAP tree browser (see screenshots) Template-based entry editing Copy LDAP entries (even copy between different servers) Recursively copy entire trees Delete LDAP entries Recursively delete entire trees View and edit image attributes (like jpegPhoto) Advanced LDAP schema browser Template-based entry creation LDAP searches (both simple and advanced) LDIF and DSML export LDIF import Rename LDAP entries Manage user password hashes (supports sha, crypt, md5, blowfish, md5crypt) Browse RootDSE LDAP information Automagically determine your LDAP server’s root DN Configurable authentication (anonymous, web login, or static) Friendly attribute translation (ie, display “Fax” instead of “facsimileTelephoneNumber”) Binary attribute support Configurable support for aliases and referrals Automatically increment UID numbers Hyperlinks for mailto and href attribute values.

phpMyAdmin 4.2.2 Released

– During installation you will be asked to select a Web server to run the phpMyAdmin interface. Select either Apache or lighttpd and press enter. – Configure phpMyAdmin database

Install Transmission BitTorrent 2.83 in Ubuntu 14.04

According to the developers: Transmission doesn’t bundle toolbars, pop-up ads, flash ads, twitter tools, or anything else. It doesn’t hold some feaures back for a payware version. Its source code is available for anyone to review. They don’t track users, and their website and forums have no third-party ads or analytics Uses less CPU than any other GUI client, including some non-GUI clients Transmission also has the lowest memory footprint of any major BitTorrent client Transmission has the features you want from a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web interface, peer exchange, magnet links, DHT, µTP, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, webseed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.

uGet 1.10.4 Released with added Celebration

Resume downloads. Queue downloads. Classify downloads in categories. Mozilla Firefox integration (through Flashgot plugin). Clipboard monitoring. Import downloads import from HTML files. Batch download. It also can be launched from the command line. Added support for Magnet Links via the aria2 Plugin Added GnuTLS support (configure –enable-gnutls) Added new languages & updated existing languages Added a new “Check for Updates” feature. Added a new “Message Banner” which allows us to provide uGet related info to all uGetters.

Install TV-Maxe 0.10 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

TV-MAXEis an application similar to soap, allowing users to watch TV stations and listen to radio via different streams. Currently it has a large number of channels, both romanian and international as the default channel lists. See listfor available channels Key changes: per-channel image settings; Unity AppIndicator support; Project Petrodava, a feature that allows the application to bypass blocked ports by redirecting the audio/video stream through port 80. This feature is also useful for users with slow Internet connections.

Install Apache Directory Server 2.0.0-M16 in Ubuntu 14.04

The Apache Directory team has just announced the release of ApacheDS 2.0.0-M16, the sixteenth milestone towards a 2.0 version. ApacheDS is an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.

Install Evolution mail client in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10, Linux Mint

Evolutionmail client is an open source, default email client for GNOME desktop environment that integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools functionality. Additional features include integration with Exchange servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support and web calendars. Evolution comprises of several components, such as Evolution Data Server, Evolution EWS and Evolution Mapi. The last two are optional, but required if you want to add support for Exchange Web Services or many other mailer features.

LightDM GTK+ Greeter 1.8.5 released

Fix tooltips stealing focus Fix get_session to not get corrupted Fix “zoomed” implementation to correctly place the wallpaper Updated translations

Install Qt 5.3 in Ubuntu 14.04

What’s New Focus on stability and usability Support for new platforms Tooling Improvements Purchasing API Compiled Qt Quick QQuickWidget Websockets and cloud

Install Nautilus 3.12.2 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

[infobox color=”#dd3333″ icon=”warning”]Extra care should be taken when updating, as there might be undesired issues as reported by a user. This package had since been updated after this post was made.[/infobox]

Install TestDisk & PhotoRec in Ubuntu, Linux Mint – Simple Steps

In this tutorial we’ll talk about TestDisk and PhotoRec in Ubuntu and Linux Mint .PhotoRecis file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media’s file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. Install PhotoRec in Ubuntu

Install Winusb in Ubuntu 14.04

Les us know if you have any questions or problems during the installation in the comments section. We’ll try to answer to every comment. You can also let us know simply if this guide worked for you, that way you’re also helping other visitors of the site to see if they can trust this solution or not.

Pipelight an alternative to Silverlight for Ubuntu

Update Silverlight to 5.1.30214.0 Add ViewRight for Caiway plugin Update Flash to 12.0.0.77 Update Shockwave Player to 12.1.0.150 Update Roblox plugin Added Vizzed RGR plugin Add pipelight-plugin commandline switch –list-enabled-all Silverlight now works even with less strict user agent settings Made pluginloader 64-bit compatible and added experimental 64-bit version of Flash Add implementation for NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall Fixed compilation of 32bit pluginloader with wineg++

Install TeamViewer 9 in Ubuntu 14.04 64bit

Copy images, screenshots, and formatted text from one computer to another via the clipboard Other improvements and fixes TeamViewer QuickSupport for instant support Open multiple connections in different tabs Wake-on-LAN with TeamViewer Protect your TeamViewer account with two factor authentication Save customized customer modules Process customer cases in the service queue together with your team TeamViewer API for integration into your applications Notifications – Everything at a glance Optimized video Redesign for even easier use [button link=”http://www.

Install PyCharm 3 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

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Install Faenza Icons 1.3.1 in Ubuntu 14.04, 13.10

New weather symbolic icons New apps: UbuntuOne Music and Ubuntu Online Accounts New designs for Twitter, Spotify and adressbook Icons for system settings categories on Ubuntu Fix some missing links

Google Web Designer made available for Ubuntu

Note:some Google Web Designer doesn’t work on non-English systems. If you run into this issue, then try this: – remove its folder under ~/.local/share/: – Start Google Web Designer using the following command:

Install SteamOS on Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.10

If you fancy trying out StemOS without the need to invest on expensive hardware’s, then this post would guide you on how to install SteamOS on a Virtual Machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I am testing this on VirtualBox version 4.3.10. The performance on a Virtual Machine cannot be compared to installing on an actual physical machine but using a VM would suffice for test purposes. Heads Up: You must exercise patience if you are to successfully install SteamOS on VirtualBox 🙂Step 1: Download latest VirtualBox and Install[button link=”https://www.

Install Virtualbox Guest Additions in Ubuntu 14.04

If you have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr on Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, you may notice that your screen isn’t re-sizing and you are unable to copy and paste into the terminal even after you had set both ‘Shared Clipboard’ and ‘Dran’n’Drop’ to Bidirectional. You need to install the VirtulaBox Guest Additions to resolve this. Below is recommended steps to accomplish that: Install Steps– Install DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) Package

Install Handbrake 0.9.9 in Ubuntu

Improved HandBrake pineapple icon Improved Retina-resolution icons within the application Assorted bug fixes and improvements Use some system libraries rather than bundling fontconfig, freetype, libxml2, libass, libogg, libvorbis, libtheora and libsamplerate Blu-ray (PGS) subtitle support works with Foreign Audio Search can be Burned-In can be passed through to MKV (but not MP4) Allow the selection of higher audio bitrates where appropriate Audio dithering (TPDF) when converting to 16-bit FLAC Click herefor more details on changes made

How to install Sublime Text in Ubuntu

Sublime Text is a sophisticated cross-platform text and source code editor, with a Python application programming interface (API). Sublime Text is proprietary software. Its functionality is extendable with plugins. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance. Sublime Text has a powerful, Python based plugin API. Along with the API, it comes with a built in Python console to interactively experiment in real time. Expected Features Speed.

Install Oracle Java JDK/JRE 7/8 in Ubuntu 13.10

New rcache Types in Kerberos 5 Replay Caching Support for Kerberos 5 Protocol Transition and Constrained Delegation Kerberos 5 weak encryption types disabled by default Unbound SASL for the GSS-API/Kerberos 5 mechanism SASL service for multiple host names JNI bridge to native JGSS on Mac OS X Support for stronger strength ephemeral DH keys in the SunJSSE provider Support for server-side cipher suites preference customization in JSSE The new Modena theme has been implemented in this release.

Install latest Skype in Ubuntu

Click below for more troubleshooting guide [button link=”https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SkypeTroubleshooting” size=”mini” style=”info” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]SkypeTroubleshooting[/button]

Create a Chrome App for your Website

[code lang=”js”] { “manifest_version”: 2, “name”: “Sysadmin Blog App”, “short_name”: “Max of 12 characters”, “description”: “Your website description in 132 characters or less.”, “version”: “1.1”, “icons”: { “128”: “icon.png” }, “app”: { “urls”: [ “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" ], “launch”: { “web_url”: “http://www.sysads.co.uk/" } }, “permissions”: [ “unlimitedStorage”, “notifications” ] } [/code]

Installing Adobe Flash Player on Ubuntu 13.10

[code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get update[/code]  [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras[/code]

Install Spotify on Ubuntu 13.10

[code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-add-repository -y “deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free”[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 94558F59[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get update[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ sudo apt-get install spotify-client[/code] [code lang=”js”]$ spotify[/code]

Keep An Eye On Your System With Glances Monitor

[code language=”js”]# yum install glances[/code] [code language=”js”] $ sudo apt-get install python-pip build-essential python-dev $ sudo pip install Glances $ sudo pip install PySensors [/code] <span style="color: #00ff00;">GREEN</span>: the statistic is “<span style="color: #00ff00;">OK</span>” <span style="color: #0000ff;">BLUE</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #0000ff;">CAREFUL</span>” (to watch) <span style="color: #842dce;">VIOLET</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #842dce;">WARNING</span>” (alert) <span style="color: #ff0000;">RED</span> : the statistic is “<span style="color: #ff0000;">CRITICAL</span>” (critical) c: Sort processes by CPU% m: Sort processes by MEM% p: Sort processes by name i: Sort processes by IO Rate d: Show/hide disk I/O stats f: Show/hide file system stats n: Show/hide network stats s: Show/hide sensors stats b: Bit/s or Byte/s for network IO w: Delete warning logs x: Delete warning and critical logs 1: Global CPU or Per Core stats h: Show/hide this help message q: Quit (Esc and Ctrl-C also work) l: Show/hide log messages

Install Wine on Linux Mint/Ubuntu using WineHQ Repository

[code language=”js”]sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa[/code] [code language=”js”]sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]sudo apt-get install wine1.6[/code] [code language=”js”]wine npp.6.5.3.Installer.exe[/code] [code language=”js”]Notepad++[/code] [code language=”js”]wine /home/sysadmin/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe[/code]

Install Gnome 3.10 on Ubuntu 13.10

[code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install gdm[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install gnome-shell gnome-shell-extensions[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo reboot[/code]

Install Unity 8 on Ubuntu 13.10

[code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get update[/code] [code language=”js”]# sudo apt-get install unity8 unity8-fake-env unity8-private[/code] [code language=”js”]# export UBUNTU_ICON_THEME=ubuntu-mobile[/code] [code language=”js”]# unity8 -mousetouch[/code] <a href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Unity8Ubuntu.mp4">http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Unity8Ubuntu.mp4</a></video>

Install Adobe Flash Player 11.2 on CentOS/RHEL 6.5

[code language=”sql”]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux[/code] [code language=”sql”]# rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm # rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux[/code] [code language=”sql”]# yum check-update[/code] [code language=”sql”]# yum -y install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl[/code]

JConsole download and install (Step by step)

<p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Click this <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomen" target="_blank">link</a> to download latest Java SE JDK or simply Google in case the link isn&#8217;t available. Click on Java Platform (JDK) <version update> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/java-jdk01.png"><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.sysads.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/java-jdk01-300x183.png" alt="JConsole download" width="300" height="183" /></a> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Under Java SE Development Kit <lastest version>, Accept License Agreement and click the download for either 32bit or 64bit version of Windows you intend to install on </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="http://www.

Installing GNOME GUI on CentOS 6.5

 <pre># yum -y groupinstall "FTP server"</pre> <p> <em><span style="color: #000080;">Any questions, please feel free to ask 🙂</span></em> </p>

My list of useful apps

Will update list from time to time and if you want to share other tools you have used, please feel free and reply: [button link=”https://evernote.com” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Evernote[/button] [button link=”https://www.avianwaves.com/Tech/Tools/RDTabs.aspx” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]RD Tabs[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ie-tab/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox IE Tab[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firebug/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox Firebug Plugin[/button] [button link=”https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]Firefox Tree Style Tab extension[/button] [button link=”http://nmap.org/download.html” size=”mini” style=”download” color=”primary” class=”sys_btn”]NMAP[/button] [button link=”http://www.openspf.org/” size=”mini” style=”info” color=”success” class=”sys_btn”]Senders Policy Framework[/button]

Netsh Commands

Some simple netsh command to manage your network interface. Please that the “PublicTeam” in quote is what I named my teaming network. So when running this command, change the PublicTeamto whatever you have named your teaming. 1. Change IP Address of PublicTeam NIC:netsh interface ip set address “PublicTeam” static 192.168.0.41 255.255.255.0 192.168.0. 12. Adding multiple IPs to the PublicTeam NIC:netsh in ip add address “PublicTeam” 192.168.0.42 255.255.255.0netsh in ip add address “PublicTeam” 192.

WinDbg Download, Install and Configure tutorial (Windows Debug Tools)‏

<p style="text-align: justify;"> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <strong>1. Install WinDbg</strong> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> &#8211; Navigate to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDbg" target="_blank">Debugging tools for Windows</a> on the Microsoft site and download the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) file from <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx" target="_blank">here</a>. (<em>Please bear in mind that as at the time of this post, Microsoft in their infinite wisdom 🙂 have merged the standalone version of the tool as part of the Windows Drivers Kit</em>).

SQL Server Backup Simulator

[Event ID: 1, SQLVDI: Loc=TriggerAbort. Desc=invoked. ErrorCode=(0). Process=2716. Thread=2148. Server. Instance=MSSQLSERVER. VD=Global\331e46ea-551a-4bb1-b628-5abbeb9fa10f_SQLVDIMemoryName_0.] – You also have options to Backup Log & Restore Database from the operation drop down list.

Add new disk resource to existing cluster group‏

– Under Other Resources -> Right-click on the SQL Server Instance name -> click Take this resource offline – Under Please confirm action -> click Take SQL Server Instance offline – When the instance is offline -> Right-click on it and select properties -> click on Dependencies tab -> click the Insert botton -> click the drop-down botton and select the new disk -> click Ok – Right-click on the SQL Server Instance -> click Bring this resource online