The classic menu indicator is now available to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and the earlier releases Oneiric and Natty as well. It will add a quite similar Gnome classic menu with sub menus for applications and system settings menus. Continue reading
KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well. Continue reading
Gimp is an advanced and free open-source image editor application, it works on many operating system including Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. We have seen earlier on the development series 2.7.x many features which lands on the final release Gimp 2.8.0. Now, the final release is available to Download. So, let’s check out its highlights and download links. Continue reading
Ubuntu Tweak is a great tool allows you to easily configure and customize Ubuntu in many ways. The earlier development release 0.6.x series which has been release during the development stages of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS brought several new features dedicated to Ubuntu Precise. Now, the final stable release Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.0 brings full support to Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, also Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.0 brings many bug fixes and new features to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot release as well. Continue reading
There are many multimedia player with variety of features and different user interface, and here’s another one called SoundBox. SoundBox is a lightweight GTK multimedia player based on GStreamer. Continue reading
Nitro or Nitrotasks is a free and opensource task manager with a very simple user interface allows you to easily organize your tasks depending on the due dates, the importance of these tasks, adding multiple tasks to different lists. Also support searching through notes and tasks. The new release includes new themes, new translations to many languages and several bug fixes. Continue reading
Cairo dock is an advanced applications launcher, it supports OpenGL and it works without OpenGL for graphic cards doesn’t support OpenGL. Cairo Dock allows you add multiple docks and applets, so, it could replace the default panels for your current desktop environment. Also it’s fully customizable with different themes and icons for each dock. Cairo Dock developers announced the last stable release version 3.0.0 with several new features, enhancements and bug fixes. Check installation instructions and what’s new down below. Continue reading
A quite handy plugin to Google search for any selected text on Terminator terminal emulator. Check how to install Terminator and how to installing additional plugins to Terminator. Continue reading
XBMC is a free and open source multimedia center, it’s available for cross-platforms. Probably you have seen a quick look for XBMC 11.0 Eden running on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot at LinuxNov in this post, if not, you might want to check it out for more information about what’s new in XBMC 11.0 Eden, because in this post we will have a look at the installation instructions for XBMC 11.0 Eden on Fedora 16 Verne only. Continue reading
The maintenance release of VLC “Twoflower” multimedia player version 2.0.1 is available to install on Fedora 16 Verne and Fedora 15 Lovelock. A few weeks ago, we have seen the changelog and installation instructions for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Using PPA in this post. Continue reading
The second maintenance release of the major release KDE Plasma and Applications version 4.8 are now available to update for Kubuntu/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and its derivatives using Kubuntu backport PPA. Continue reading
Choosing a highly secure password for your email accounts, social networks, wireless networks and any other applications or websites requires a password became a challenge. So, when you choose a password, think about the possibility of cracking it and how long it will take to crack your password. In this post we will have a look at some tips for choosing a secure and strong passwords as much as possible, and we will check a CLI tool for Linux/Unix will helps you to generate a secure passwords in case you can’t figure one out. Continue reading