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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.