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
After the submission process for thousand of wallpapers on the Precise Pangolin flicker group, the Ubuntu design team finally select the final default wallpapers and the extra wallpapers which can be downloaded from the Precise repository. 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
Video LAN announced the new maintenance release of VLC multimedia player version 2.0.1, This release includes many bug fixes, security updates, and improvements to Mac OS X interface since the major release VLC 2.0.0. Check the full changelog installation instructions down below. Continue reading
Back to January 2012, we have seen the first Beta release of XBMC 11.0 Eden the free and open-source multimedia entertaining center. The Beta releases of XBMC 11.0 came with several new features, better hardware support since XBMC 10.0 Dharma, and improvements to the new default skin “Confluence”. After over a year since Dharma release, here comes the final stable release of XBMC 11.0 Eden. Check what’s new and Download options down below. Continue reading
Trimage is a quite good tool allows you to easily compress PNG and JPG files with slightly effect on the image quality. It can be used with the graphical user interface to ease selecting the required files to compress, also you can use the command line, which I prefer to use instead of the GUI. Let’s check the download options and some examples of how to use the command line and the GUI for Trimage. Continue reading
qBittorrent is a free Bittorrent client written in C++ and based on Qt4 toolkit. It works on all major platforms “Linux, MAC OS X, Microsoft Windows, and FreeBSD”. The latest release of qBittorrent version 2.9.7 fixes many of the recently reported bugs in the past few weeks. Check the changelog and Download options down below. Continue reading
KDE 4.8.1 plasma and applications updates are available for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and its derivatives such as ” Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, ..etc ” using “backport” PPA. Continue reading
Wine software allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux/Unix operating systems. Recently many release candidate of wine 1.4 released in the past few weeks, and here comes the final stable release of Wine 1.4 after 20 Months of development. The latest stable release Wine 1.4 brings several improvements to graphics rendering, added a new DIB graphics engine, improved Direct3D, support for many new applications and over than 16,000 individual changes. Check What’s new in Wine 1.4 and installation instructions down below. Continue reading
Choqok is a free and open-source micro-blogging client for KDE desktop environment. It supports Twitter, Identi.ca social network services and opendesktop.org services. Choqok 1.3 has been released, it brings some new changes to the user interface and new features. Check the changelog and installation instructions for Ubuntu users down below. Continue reading
MyUnity is simple tool helps you to easily customize and configure Unity user interface for Ubuntu. It allows customize many elements in your desktop such as Unity launcher, Unity panel, Unity dash, themes, font and desktop icons visibility. MyUnity 3.0 brings several new features, and graphical user interface “GUI” which eases the navigation through MyUnity options. Continue reading