What’s new in Skype 4.2 | Changelog

• Feature: When opening account’s links open your logged-in account.
• Feature: Add subscription status and link to the account brief view in the main window.
• Feature: Add a button to enable voice message from the options dialog.
• Feature: When sharing the screen in a multiple monitor setup, share the one where the call window is at the moment.
• Feature: Add Messenger predefined group when logged-in with your MSA account.
  Improvement: Create an entry point to hold a conference call from the conversations view.
• Improvement: New sizes for the Skype icon.
• Bugfix: Artifacts in the contact list after changing topic or picture in a multichat.
• Bugfix: Searching in the chat window when ‘Ignore poster names’ is set might lead toclient crash.
• Bugfix: Skype crashes on attempting to stop sharing selection being in a call on hold.
• Bugfix: Disabling Birthday notification doesn’t work.
• Bugfix: Clicking on certain contact request notifications lead always to the wrong contact request against ‘live’ contact.
• Bugfix: Hide screen sharing window when call paused.
• Bugfix: Link bounding rectangle mismatch in chat when font is smaller than an emoticon present on the same line.
• Bugfix: Double click on a PSTN contact should follow preferred action and not always call.
• Bugfix: Do not pollute the Clipboard with quoted text when quoting a chat message.
• Bugfix: Do not show call on hold for conversations that cannot be put on hold (I.e: echo123).
• Bugfix: Call hold overlay icon goes away giving the idea the call is resumed when is not.
• Bugfix: Show mute indicator at the bottom even when muting from the keyboard shortcut.
• Bugfix: Do not show the login window if autologin plus start Skype minimized are enabled.
• Bugfix: Mark the birthday “read” when seen in the chat.
• Bugfix: Do not allow more than 256-length conversation’s topic.
• Bugfix: Localize all the prices in the Skype WiFi dialogs.

Download Skype 4.2 for Linux

The official Download page includes binary packages for many Linux distribution such as ” Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin, Debian 7.0, Fedora 16 32bit, OpenSUSE 12.1 32bit and dynamic package which works for many Linux distribution, check the “ReadMe” file inside the dynamic package.

 Source “Skype for Linux 4.2″.

Recently Linux Mint team has included and developed many new features to its user interface “Cinnamon” which originally forked from “Gnome Shell” user interface. Now, Cinnamon user interface feels stable and efficient for daily usage more than ever. Linux Mint 15 comes with MDM “Mint Display Manager” features 3 new tools which brings ability to theme your login screen with animated themes using a variety of web based programming languages such as HTML5, CSS, Javascript, and WebGL.

MintSources is a new tool similar to “Software Sources”, it’s developed from scratch for several Linux Mint distributions. It allows you to manage your repositories and Enable/Disable specific updates from backports PPA. Also, you can shows between many update mirrors from different countries to speed up your update process.

MintDrivers is the new Driver Manager for Linux Mint 15 which allows you to choose the suitable driver for your hardware devices. it currently supports many brands such as (nVidia, ATI, Broadcom, Samsung…).

Nemo is the official file manager for “Cinnamon” user interface. it’s forked from Gnome “Nautilus” file manager. Recently, the latest release of Nautilus file manager has excluded many features from Nautilus file manager such as extra pane, and some keyboard shortcuts is no longer working. The good news is “Nemo” file manager is still have all these features.

Desklets is the new desktop widgets, which is quite similar to screenlets. It allows you to add many widgets to your desktop.

Screensaver: Now you can set an away message before locking the screen. So, people can know where are you.

Configure Cinnamon user interface: There is an easier way to add additional “extensions, applets, desklets, and themes” using the “spices” manager. So, you won’t need to open your web browser to check the “Cinnamon” website any more.

Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” comes with many new features and improvements to “Cinnamon 1.8″ user interface and “Mate 1.6″ desktop as well. So, please check the full release notes for more information.

Download Linux Mint 15 “Olivia”

• Linux Mint 15 “32-bit” “Cinnamon” With Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “64-bit” “Cinnamon” With Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “32-bit” “Mate” With Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “64-bit” “Mate” With Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “32-bit” “Cinnamon” Without Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “64-bit” “Cinnamon” Without Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “32-bit” “Mate” Without Codecs HTTP – Torrent.
• Linux Mint 15 “64-bit” “Mate” Without Codecs HTTP – Torrent.

For more Download mirrors for Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” Check the official Download page.

Linux Mint.

XAMPP is currently available to install on Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. But, in this post we will have a look at how to setup XAMPP on CentOS 6.4 also, as I mentioned up here in the note the installation instructions are the same for CentOS, Fedora, and Ubuntu and many Linux distributions.

The last version of XAMPP is version 1.8.1 which includes these web software and modules: Apache 2.4.3, MySQL 5.5.27, PHP 5.4.7 & PEAR + SQLite 2.8.17/3.6.16 + multibyte (mbstring) support, Perl 5.14.2, ProFTPD 1.3.4a, phpMyAdmin 3.5.2.2, OpenSSL 1.0.1c, GD 2.0.1, Freetype2 2.1.7, libjpeg 6b, libpng 1.2.12, gdbm 1.8.0, zlib 1.2.3, expat 1.2, Sablotron 1.0, libxml 2.7.6, Ming 0.4.2, Webalizer 2.21-02, pdf class 009e, ncurses 5.3, mod_perl 2.0.5, FreeTDS 0.63, gettext 0.17, IMAP C-Client 2007e, OpenLDAP (client) 2.3.11, mcrypt 2.5.7, mhash 0.8.18, eAccelerator 0.9.5.3, cURL 7.19.6, libxslt 1.1.26, libapreq 2.12, FPDF 1.6, XAMPP Control Panel 0.8, bzip 1.0.5, PBXT 1.0.09-rc, PBMS 0.5.08-alpha, ICU4C Library 4.2.1, APR (1.4.6), APR-utils (1.4.1).

Step One

Download the latest release of XAMPP Linux “1.8.1″ from this Link.

Download Page.

Or, you can download it using this command in Terminal,

Step Two

Extract XAMPP Linux archive package using this command. Make sure you are currently browsing the location you have download the XAMPP archive file, Assuming you the file is downloaded in the “Download” directory for a user called “LinuxNov”. So, open it using this command.

Then extract the XAMPP Linux archive file with administrator privileges using this command.

It will take a few moments until it extract the XAMPP package to “/opt/lampp” directory. Eventually, it will finish copying and XAMPP for Linux is completely installed and ready to start.

Step Three

Start/Stop XAMPP using these commands.

Start XAMPP for Linux

Stop XAMPP for Linux

Advanced Start and stop parameters Here.

Step Four: Secure XAMPP

This process won’t prevent XAMPP from running, However, it’s necessary to setup XAMPP security options for localhost XAMPP page, phpMyAdmin, and MySQL, to make sure your personal data is secured.

Run this command which will walk you through the procedures to setup and change localhost, phpMyAdmin and MySQL passwords.

Command sample output

After you have added/changed the new passwords. It’s time to restart XAMPP using this command.

Finally, go to you web browser and open this Link to view the Localhost page which includes some links for security status, documentations, demo web applications built using several programming languages such as Python and Perl, also, there is a link for “phpMyAdmin” for creating a new databases.

Now, your web development environment is ready to use and you can install many content management systems “CMS” such as “WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, ..etc.”.

[How To]: Fix Access forbidden issue “Error 403″?!

Access forbidden!
New XAMPP security concept:
Access to the requested object is only available from the local network.
This setting can be configured in the file “httpd-xampp.conf”.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Open this file mentioned in the error page “httpd-xampp.conf” with administrator privileges and add the following text at the end of the file grant access to phpMyAdmin.

Ctrl+x to exit and “y” to save the file.

If you have another method to fix this error, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

Source”XAMPP”.

LibreOffice 4.0.3 Release Notes

• This release is bit-for-bit identical to the 4.0.3 Release Candidate 3, so you don’t need to download or reinstall if you have that version already.
• The distribution for Windows is an international build, so you can choose the user interface language that you prefer. Help content is available via an online service, or alternatively as a separate install.
• Our Windows binaries are digitally signed by The Document Foundation.
• For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type associations.
• If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with LibreOffice, we advise to e.g. use OpenJDK instead.
• LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.
• Some menu entries have changed or added. If you miss something, that may be due to the use of customised menu settings from your previous LibreOffice installation.
• This version still contains a few annoying bugs, as listed here. Specifically, the German Duden Korrektor extension needs a manual fix.

[How To]: Install LibreOffice 4.0.3 using PPA on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

Run Terminal, then type,

Download LibreOffice 4.0.3

If you prefer downloading the DEB or RPM packages and install LibreOffice manually, Here’s the link for the Download Page. Download the suitable packages for you Linux distribution “Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, …etc” and your system architecture. Then follow the installation instructions in this Tutorial Page.

 LibreOffice.

Mozilla Firefox 21 Desktop web browser release notes.

Mozilla Firefox 21 Mobile web browser release notes.

Download Mozilla Firefox 21 for Android devices directly from Google Play Store using this Link.

[How To]: Install Mozilla Firefox 21 on CentOS 6.4 and RHEL

Here we will use Remi repository for installing Firefox 21 on CentOS, RHEL and its derivatives.

Run Terminal, then type,

Browse the directory you have downloaded Remi repository and install it using this command with administrative privileges.

Finally enable Remi repository and install/update Firefox 21 using this command with administrative privileges.

[How To]: Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 21 On Fedora

Mozilla Firefox 21 has been built on Fedora 17, Fedora 18, and Fedora 19 and it will ported soon as stable release and you will be able to install using official fedora repository.

For early releases of Fedora such as Fedora 15 and Fedora 16 you can install it using Remi repository.

Fedora 16

Fedora 15

[How To]: Install/Update Mozilla Firefox 21 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

Ubuntu repository will be updated soon with the latest stable release of Mozilla Firefox version 21 so, no need to add additional repository simply run the update manager and it will be installed along with your system updates. If you would like to install update Mozilla Firefox only you can use these commands.

Remi repos.

No more waking up to ending credits of the excelent movie you started watching last night because Shutdown Timer lets you schedule the shutdown of your computer in a few clicks.

The extension provides an option to force shutdown even if running documents unsaved.

[How To]: Install Shutdown Timer extension for Gnome Shell

You can simply install and activate it using the switch key on the extension’s web page Here. Or, you can use the installation instructions down below.

Download the ZIP archive for the extension from GitHub.

Extract the archive file using this command.

Then, browse to the extension directory “shutdowntimer@lusk.cz” and move it to the Gnome Shell extensions directory “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions” using this command.

Finally, restart Gnome Shell user interface using the run command prompt “Alt+F2″ and type “r” without quotes.

If you would like to Disable/Enable extensions, try to use “Gnome Tweak Tool”. To install it for:

Ubuntu

Fedora

Arch Linux

Shutdown Timer Gnome Shell Extension ”lusk“.

As a part of the recent changes to Gnome Nautilus file manager, Many of features we used to have in earlier release is no longer available like the “Backspace” shortcut key for going back to previous visited location. This issue has been reported as a bug Here, and the importance of this bug is set as LOW priority! Anyway we found a unofficial bug fix for this issue. Before we go with this process, check the new shortcut keys.

The new Shortcut for the “Previous” and “Next” locations

This is the new shortcut keys

Hold ALT + Right or Left Arrow keys.

[How To]: Retrieve the “Backspace” key

This process won’t deactivate the new shortcut keys mentioned up here, it will only add additional shortcut key for Nautilus file manager.

Run Terminal, then open this path,

Then open “accels” file using “Nano” or “Gedit text editors and add this line.

 (gtk_accel_path “<Actions>/ShellActions/Up” “BackSpace”)

Nano text editor

or Gedit text editor

Finally, save the file and quit nautilus file manager using “nautilus -q”.

That’s it for now.

Check the full list of features of uGet download manger Here.

uGet 1.10.3 Changelog

• Add new download option – “mirrors”.
• Change hotkey, Shift+Delete to delete data, Ctrl+Delete to delete file and data.
• Changed logo, app icon and tray icons*.
• Rearrange menu items for better organization.
• Added & updated translation files.

[How To]: Install uGet 1.10.3 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail Using PPA

Run Terminal, then type

For Fedora users, here’s the RPM package. Also, check the Download page for more download options.

uGet Batch Downloads Tutorial

This is a good tutorial shows how to download multiple files using batch downloads from clipboard, text file, HTML file, and integration to Firefox web browser using Flashgot.

The official announcement for uGet 1.10.3 Here.

uGet.

Run command by clicking “Alt+F2″, then type “dconf-editor” without quotes.

Form the left side list follow this path “org –> gnome –> settings-daemon –> peripherals –> touchpad”

• Check “horiz-scroll-enabled” to enable Horizontal scrolling.
• Check “natural-scroll” to enable Natural scrolling.

Also, if you have “Ubuntu Tweak” Installed you could enable “Natural Scrolling” from “Tweaks” tab then select “Miscellaneous”.

That’s it for now.