Minitunes: a music player for Linux that is worth knowing

I found a page listing author of a bill that did not even have a downloadable version, but pledged: Minitunes.

And behold, returning to site find that there is already a version of Minitunes for download, and even in version 0.1.1 it's probably one of best music players that have arisen in Linux.


Presented as a music player with same simplicity of MiniTube , Minitunes is extremely lightweight

Repositories PPA for Jupiter

Jupiter is application for hardware management and power consumption that is included in Aurora distribution formerly Eeebuntu.

Jupiter allows to quickly switch such as screen resolution, turn on or turn off wifi and other common option in netbooks equipped with Intel Atom CPU , is Linux equivalent of Super Hybrid Engine that comes with EeePC from Asus.

In WebUpd8 have prepared packages for

Firefox 4 Beta 2 Released:Download now

With a few days late,Mozilla Foundation has launched yet another beta version of Firefox 4 for testing by brave people who are not afraid of losing one or other document if browser crashes. Performance improvements have been recorded
as well as :better rendering transitions in CSS3
On Mac, the browser now has tabs at top (like in Chrome)
For Windows, Linux and Mac OS: Download here.

GNOME 3.0 delayed until March 2011

In a decision that will alter plans of more than a distribution based on this desktop, GNOME developers announced under its current GUADEC conference, which is taking place until next 30 July in Hague, that very Advance version 3.0 of its graphical desktop environment for nix systems will be delayed until March 2011 in September due to "quality issues in code."

The new time gained would also

Create shortcut to open Nautilus as root in Ubuntu

I would like a shortcut in applications menu of Nautilus with root privileges for when you need to avoid having to open terminal and typing sudo nautilus, or Alt + F2 gksudo nautilus (backbreaking how few)?

task is simple, we must type in a terminal followingsudo gedit /usr/share/applications/Nautilus-root.desktop
Within paste following text file[Desktop Entry]
Name=File Browser (Root)
Comment=

Presented new theme for Lubuntu 10.10

After release of first official version 10.04 distribution based on Ubuntu, the project is working very slight LXDE desktop for next big update will arrive with his Lubuntu version 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" this October.

And the most important development so far is the renewal of graphic art for all visual themes, from wallpaper, the theme for OpenBox, even logo Lubuntu all received an update

Linux Mint 10 is called "Julia"

The next version of Linux Mint, number 10, which is based on Ubuntu Maverick meerkat, is named Julia.

According to Linux Mint Blog, new version will be released this November.

Linux Mint is a distribution based on Ubuntu, compatible with Ubuntu software repositories.

Ubuntu was based on their interface, looking for human aspects and improvements, it also runs faster.

The purpose of Linux

Cortina 0.5.0 ,New Update

Another new update of Cortina, an alternative to Gnome to change wallpaper automatically after a certain specified time, very simple to use and consumes very few resources.
The program continues to evolve and have available version 0.5.0 which has been updated to support multiple languages and added a tooltip that displays information about wallpaper in use.
We can install this package in Ubuntu

Orifli, simple photouploader to Flickr

This week I tested Orifli, a simple new photo uploader for Flickr.


Orifli lets you upload multiple images at once, define privacy of your photos and add a description and tags for each of them.


Obviously there are many aspects that must be improved in this version, but simplicity and simplicity are strong point of this application, add and load quickly and directly to Flickr.

Orifli is

Lightspark 0.4.2 has been released

The modern version 0.4.2 of Flash Player open source, Lightspark, has been officially released.

Highlights of this update are:Use of Fontconfig to select source.
Great support for videos from YouTube.
Synchronization of sound.
Support Chrome and Chromium.
Support for Firefox OOPP.
If you are using a newer version of Firefox 3.6.4 that you can activate chemical Lightspark.A OOPP for you to read

Install Skype on Ubuntu

Install Skype on Ubuntu from a terminal is not very complicated, for that we will follow following steps in a terminal with sudo privileges.

Install Skype for ubuntu 64 bits :wget -c http://download.skype.com/linux/skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
rm skype-ubuntu-intrepid_2.1.0.81-1_amd64.deb
Install Skype for ubuntu 32bit :wget

How to Install Firefox 4.0 beta using Ubuntu ppa

Much has been said lately about firefox 4. The new version of this browser which is currently in beta 1 and it is considered a stable and secure version to navigate daily. I am not a fan of this browser, but I personally prefer chromium give you an opportunity to firefox 4.




Let us see how to install firefox 4 from Ubuntu repositories in PPA :


Open a terminal and type following lines each

Review of GIMP 2.7.1 With Pictures

I will refer to most important thing brought in by this version, a pilot version of official version number 2.8, which is expected to be released late this year or early next year:
First: For first time , version released by one window, where he was maligned on this program it is multi-windows, and thus causing designer a degree of confusion and prevent exploitation of entire screen space, it

OpenSUSE 11.3 is Here

The highly anticipated final version of OpenSUSE 11.3 is finally announced today in this way with support for 32 to 64 bits and a pretty impressive list of features, including:SpiderOak to synchronize 2 GB of files in the cloud free.Support Btrfs file system from installer.GNOME 2.30.1 and a preview of GNOME 3.0 to GNOME Shell (image).KDE 4.4.4 with Amarok 2.3 and a beautiful Plasma Desktop.LXDE

Banshee 1.7.2 Released

Least one step in escalation of development to Banshee 1.8 , As usual we have list of improvements and bug fixes that have been a few, but is expected to undermine according to maturity of new version.

Some improvementsOverhaul GNOME proxy support (bmc # 1920)
Make optional GIO gio with-disable-configure switch
Use new YouTube icon buttons in context
Wrap long strings in the Now Playing view

How to install Linux - tips and concepts

Every day there are more that are passed to Linux but still are many who have an incredible fear to install. There is still this belief in some parts of linux gurus is only for computer science. Some are afraid to install Linux on their PCs because they have important things and is always fear of losing everything. So I'll try to explain a little like process of installation of almost all distros

How to Install Spotify in Ubuntu

I recently found out that in genbeta spotify already has linux client. Before seeing how to install linux soon see some issues that perhaps they are interested in:
What is Spotify? It is a legal and free music over Internet. Do not download songs, but you hear them streaming through an application that you install on your computer. It has a paid version and free version. The free version includes

Firefox Security Update for openSUSE

According to Marcus Meissner announced, security team leader openSUSE, is a security update of Mozilla Firefox for all versions of openSUSE (11.0, 11.1, 11.2) and versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Server / Desktop. (10 and 11).

This update package "Mozilla Firefox" is an updated package version 3.5.10 which busg and Fixed some security problems.

You can do online from both applet "Online

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Alpha1 Published

Is on schedule has been released Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Alpha1. I'm sure you're still Tuneando Ubuntu Lucid and many have not come to enjoy not think it's water under bridge, but we have development version of successor version of Lucid.

Some features
Kernel 2.6.34
Gnome 2.31
KDE 4.5 beta1
Qt 4.7 Beta

Announcement | Complete list of changes

Download MirrorsHere (Ubuntu Server for UEC

Bluefish, version 2.0.1 released

Bluefish is a powerful editor for programmers and web developers.

It has all kinds of writing options, scripts and programming code and focuses primarily on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Bluefish runs on Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, Solaris, OpenBSD and Windows.Y is licensed under GNU / GPL.

In new version 2.0.1, some errors are corrected without too much importance and has improved

StatusNet Desktop 0.9 Released

StatusNet, creator of identi.ca social network, today announced launch of multi-platform client open source desktop.

The new hardware runs on Linux, Mac OS and Windows and can connect to any server StatusNet social messaging, including secure and private.

StatusNet Desktop enables you to directly manage your user and group membership, manage your inbox direct messages, search for ads in all

Opera 10.60 RC2 and Wine 1.2-rc5 Available

Were quickly corrected a number of bugs in Opera 10.60 RC1 and developers give us a new version, Opera 10.60 RC2. The report informs following improvements:

Changelog for Opera 1.60 RC2 :Fixed crash on Mac video
CORE-30 469 (Inline element breaks layout of inline-blocks )
DSK-304 243 (Speed Dial Transparent Not dialogs do show up CORRECTLY)
DSK-303 234 (Linux: Improved IME support)
DSK-302 021