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
Weekly development version wine 1.3.33 for running Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and MAC OS X has been released. The new version includes improvements to bidirectional text layout for writing Arabic, WinHTTP proxy fixes, new version of Wine Gecko 1.4 based on Mozilla Gecko layout engine, and several bug fixes. Continue reading
Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer shooting game, runs on many operating system such as Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Continue reading
Second Beta release of Adobe Flash player 11 has been released, Adobe Flash player 11 Beta 2 provides better performance and more stability in Linux platform. Continue reading
Terminal based application , which are minimalist apps running through your terminal … some people don’t like the fancy rich GUI and prefer simple text-based UI to use …they are old school geeks . Most of the apps in this post are very old and you may recognize them as revolutionary projects such as Vi . This list if for people who are new into Linux world and they wanna try something new ” old school stuff ” … Continue reading
We had the chance to use Illumination software creator before and we took a quick look to the stable release of it earlier in this post Here.
Illumination Software Creator 3.0 Beta brings new features to easily build IPod applications to work natively as same as other applications, along with support for building IOS IPhone applications which announced in older release Beta 1, also support windows Phone 7, and Android. Continue reading
Koffice is a free opensource office suite works on multi platforms, Koffice team announced the new Koffice release version 2.3.0, this release comes with a few features and improvements for each application.
Krita 2.3.0 released along with Koffice suite release with many new features will take a look at in a screencast for NDee. Continue reading
KDevelop is a free, opensource IDE ” integrated development environment ” works on cross platforms ” Linux, MAC OS x, windows, Solaris, and BSD “, based on KDevplatform, support many programing languages. Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Maverick Meerkat you won’t notice a big difference between it and 10.04 LTS, fixed many bugs check bug tracking on launchpad for more information.
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Main Enhancement On Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1
check the release announcement and release Notes
Download Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1
Testing Environment using Vbox with these Hardware specification:
First impression
Same looking as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, quick booting time, same installed default themes, and backgrounds, but many applications upgraded to last release.
Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 screenshots
Overall about Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1
still quite early for this release to notice changes between it and older version 10.04 LTS. but it’s working really good i didn’t got any problem with at all so far.
Waiting for Alpha 2 according to schedule will be released July 1st, That’s it for now.
I found this script really handy to convert Ogv to Flv directly, I thought to share it with you guys. helps you to quickly convert out Ogv files to flv with different resolutions.
Download and install Ogv to Flv Converter 1.3 check the installation instructions there.
after you done the installation simply right click on the file you want to convert and select script then convert from ogv to FLV 1.3
then it will ask you to select required resolution for the Flv output file
it will take a while then comes a successful message to inform you that the process done. Thanks “Siafu Linux” for this simple tool.
That’s it for now.
LXDE is really lightweight desktop and that what this desktop name stand for, a lot of distributions right now using LXDE desktop, if you was a windows user you will feel it looks similar to it a little bit. But this is not the idea, LXDE comes with a lot of integrated packages with it for file manager “PCMan file manager”, and music player LXmusic, and many other packages.
LXDE menu panel
File manager for LXDE
Music player and themes manager for LXDE Desktop, also you will be able to change themes and icons
Installation process:
you download it and install it from LXDE website This way recommended to other distribution or
for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Go To Terminal and type:
then it will take some time for the installation process
after the Installation over, Log out and log in with LXDE Desktop
Enjoy LXDE on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
That’s it for now.
it’s quite good to take control of your machine using your phone with bluepad application the idea of the application two packages 1st one installed on your distribution for example Ubuntu 10.04 and the 2nd one the phone and will list the supported phones for this application.
Using Bluepad on your phone will let you to do a lot of things to control you machine such as control multimedia files for playing audio and movies files, presentations files for open office, even games you use this application as game pad.
check this video show how Bluepad working
Here some screenshots
This is the supported devices for BluePad
For more information about Bluepad follow this link
Inform Bluepad community if you tested this application on other devices listed up there.
That’s it for now.