After making its way through Windows, Ubuntu One is now available for iOS too. Ubuntu One app is now available at the app-store for iOS users. The Android version of this app has been hugely successful and the iOS version delivers to the same high standard, so you can secure and manage your photos and files directly from your iOS device wherever you are.

Download Here

A Great feature of the Ubuntu One Files app is that each time you open it, it will automatically send photos snapped on your iOS device directly to your Ubuntu One personal cloud and other connected devices. So you’ll have peace of mind knowing all your precious photos are backed up to your Ubuntu One cloud instantly. Sharing photos with family, friends and to social spaces from the app is also made easy and you can post straight to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or your blog. This is a free app so all you have to do to get started is install the app and login to your Ubuntu One account. If you are new to Ubuntu One simply register for a free account and get 5GB of free cloud storage.

More good news is that for the first time we will be at CES this year in Las Vegas from 10-13th of January . Along with all the file sync and mobile music streaming services, the recently launched Web Music Streaming and the new Files app for iOS will be available to demo, as well as an exclusive sneak peak at the future evolution of Ubuntu One.

Windows users may go to this link to download Ubuntu One installer and get free 5GB cloud space.

Njoy !

Steadyflow is a GTK+ based download manager that aims for minimalism, ease of use, and a clean, malleable codebase. It should be easy to control, whether from the GUI, command line, or D-Bus. This direct download manager is very simple and lightweight and works very well.

A  better browser integration, simple UI and better speeds make it an ideal for Ubuntu systems. Steadyflow is available for Ubuntu via the following  PPA.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sikon/steadyflow
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install steadyflow

Chromeflow -There is a Chrome/Chromium extension available for Steadyflow known as Chromeflow and it can be downloaded from here ( 32 bit / 64 bit ). Just go to the link while using Chrome, download the file and click it to get it installed. This will make things even more simpler. A right click will do everything.

Steadyflow is better than its counterparts in the following ways -

• It has very simple sleek and easy to use interface and is really lightweight.
• The indicator menu is expanded and now includes download controls for individual files and for all files at once.
• Password authentication is now supported for FTP, SFTP, SMB and so on.
• It is possible to select multiple files to start, stop, or remove them all at once. In addition, a file’s context menu now includes a “copy URL” option.
• If Steadyflow is on the Unity dock, its icon’s context menu will include an “Add download” item.

Njoy !

Adobe Flash Player 11 has been released and is for downloads. Flash Player 11 take this even further by introducing Stage 3D, a new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics rendering that delivers 1000x faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10. It enables new classes of console-quality games and immersive apps, such as Tanki Online and Zombie Tycoon. It added native 64-bit support, NVidia VDPAU and Broadcom Crystal HD acceleration.

Download Adobe Flash 11

Improvements Areas

Gaming: Flash Player 11 allow game publishers to instantly deliver engaging games to anyone with a PC, tablet, smartphone, or connected TV. And with Stage 3D, game publishers and developers can take their games to a new level, creating new opportunities for game developers and publishers to deliver and monetize their content. Two of the many upcoming games leveraging Stage 3D include Tanki Online and Ultimate Race Championship.

Rich media and premium video: Leading content providers, including Amazon, ESPN, HBO, and YouTube, deliver premium HD live video and video on demand (VoD) using Flash technology to reach multiple screens, while benefiting from adaptive streaming, content protection, smooth hardware-accelerated HD video playback, and expanded audiences with Adobe Pass for TV Everywhere.

Data-driven apps: Flash enables highly interactive, collaborative applications across devices and distribution channels.

Features

The following video showcases some of the main features of Flash 11.

Mozilla Firefox 7 final version has been released and has reportedly improved the memory handling problems, has fixed many stability as well as security issues. We recommend all users to upgrade to the latest version for a better web experience. It will arrive in the updates soon but we have also provided PPA for instant-upgrades below.

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Ubuntu PPA

This PPA will upgrade your firefox to the latest version in Ubuntu. Natty users will get the update in the Update manager soon and Oneiric testers may use the link above to download the latest version in case they want to test it right now

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox

What’s New

• Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases.
• Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems.
• Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync.
• The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default.
• Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis.
• Added support for the Web Timing specification.
• The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8.
• Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox.
• Enhanced support for MathML.

Njoy Firefox !

Opera 11.50 codenamed “Swordfish” has been released and is ready for the downloads. We have been busy a lot lately so now hopefully things will be placed on time Moving along, Opera is equipped with the newest rendering engine – Presto 2.9.168 — featuring up to 20% faster rendering of CSS and SVG, support for HTML5 tag <time>, Session History and Navigation and many other enhancements. Opera Next allows you to run the upcoming release of Opera alongside with your stable installation of Opera. It will always be automatically updated to the latest snapshot build. Opera Next is easily distinguishable by the Opera menu and the white icon.

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New Features

There are 3 features in top focus here :-

1. Opera Next, basically a dev channel for snapshots – Opera Next allows you to run the upcoming release of Opera alongside with your stable installation of Opera. It will always be automatically updated to the latest snapshot build. Opera Next is easily distinguishable by the Opera menu and the white icon.

2. Password synchronization – Swordfish introduces the most requested feature for Link: password synchronization. You can enable it when you set up link for the first time or in the Synchronization Options dialog.

3. Speed Dial extensions -  Swordfish brings your Speed Dial to life with Speed Dial extensions. Speed Dial extensions are like small web pages embedded in your Speed Dial, powered by Opera’s extension framework. They allow developers to make live previews of web pages or other nice decorations for your Speed Dial.

4) Improved user interface – Besides the above improvements, the developers continue to make Opera light, bright, and as user-friendly as possible without sacrificing power or flexibility. Some changes are highly visible, such as those to the address and status bars. Also, you will find that much of the skin has been reworked, including a brand new icon set. Some highlights are:

• Brand new toolbar icon set
• Brighter, softer colors for backgrounds and borders
• Padding and alignment improvements
• Updated status bar design and content
• Removed button borders in the address bar

5) Opera Mail - It has been further improved for usability and security.

• Improved the Gmail IMAP support that was added in Opera 11.10.
• Added support for setting designated “Trash” and “Spam” folders for IMAP servers that do not support the X-LIST or Special-Use IMAP extensions.

Rest are numerous bugfixes that will make things better this time. For details, see the official changelog. The wait for WebGL and Hardware Acceleration is still on.

Till then Njoy Opera 11.50  !!

GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks precisely but not limited to Cisco.GNS3 uses Dynamips for emulating Cisco’s IOS and is quite similar with Cisco’s IOU i.e IOS on Unix (IOU) a fully working version of IOS that runs as a user mode UNIX.Problem is that we cannot use IOU in legal way since its usage is limited to Cisco only and not to mention even the discussion is prohibited.But to our rescue is GNS3 which does effectively what IOU is supposed to do.

About Dynamips

Dynamips emulates Cisco 7200/3600/3725/3745/2600/1700 Routers on a traditional
PC.  You can use dynamips to create labs. It uses IOS Images (which are not
part of this package). Of course, this emulator cannot replace a real router.
It is simply a complementary tool to real labs for administrators of Cisco
networks or people wanting to pass their CCNA/CCNP/CCIE exams. For a Command
Line Interface for dynamips see dynagen or gns3 package.

INSTALLATION

Installing GNS3 is Ubuntu is very easy since it is already available in repositories.Just open up the Ubuntu Software Center and search for GNS3 or you can just popup your terminal and type

sudo apt-get install gns3 dynamips

Remember that you need to have your own IOS files to run it on GNS3.

CONFIGURATION

Done with the install now lets move on to the configuration part.

• Go to Edit > IOS Images and Hypervisor and add the IOS image you’ve got.
• Save the settings and move back to the topology map.
• Add the device by just dragging and dropping
• You may also consider changing the Idle PC value to one marked with * after you add a device since this will make your system more stable by consuming less RAM
• Select the device and click start button on the top and then click Console

That’s it for now ..Do visit the GNS Homepage in case you wanna thanx and Happy “conf t”

Any queries regarding Ubuntu/Mint or any other regarding linux can be asked at the forums freely.

Here are few screenshots after installation

Uget (formerly urlgfe) is a Free and Open Source download manager written in GTK+  and can be made to use with aria2 for downloading files using torrents.Simply you may regard this as a aria2 GUI for torrents but nonetheless its much better & feature rich than aria2.
It has many of features like easy-to-use , cross-platform , support pause and resume , classify download , every category has an independent configuration and the latest release 1.8 promises much more than that.This review comes in wake of a recent question by one of my friend on email asking for another alternative download manager (my default being FatRat)

INSTALLATION

The installation is pretty simple . Just fire up your terminal and

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable/ubuntu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get uget

You may additionally add aria2 and enable its integration with Uget from Eit>Settings>Plug-in
For adding aria2 use command

sudo apt-get install aria2

Uget has a very simple interface with scheduler built into it having support for shutting down system when download gets completed which is a rare feature in Linux based download managers.Also it has a uTorrent alike time based scheduler which is very helpful for users having limited number of “free download” hours.Additionally it can be easily integrated with Firefox using Flashgot and Chrome using Download Assistant . Uget supports notifications via notify-osd and also has a file monitoring support which takes it at par with any other download manager available in the market.

So from our side its a much have app on your system and we give it a rating of 9 out of 10 . For more please visit www.urlget.sourceforge.net

Keep Downloading….!!!

Really ? Yes ! Firefox 5.0 public Beta & Firefox 6.0 Alpha are now avialable and are ready for testing purposes. We recommend you to keep them upto testing levels as they might annoy you with bugs. In this post we will throw a light on Firefox 5.0 and its key features and updates. It arrived faster than our expectations but its good. We ahve been testing it and so far only 1 bug was found which is potentially not much harmful. We would recommend you to install it only for testing purposes as it may not be good for Production machines.

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Firefox 5.0 Beta for Ubuntu

For Windows and MacOSX platforms, see this page.

Testing in Ubuntu

PPA Method

The following PPA will install Firefox 5.0 beta on your Ubuntu system.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

and done.

Thanks  to Chris Coulson for the PPA. Note that this PPA is only for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 users. For the rest, the following method applies very well.

TarBall Method

1) Simply extract the file, rename it to ‘Firefox 5.0 Beta’ and copy that folder. Now type :

sudo nautilus

2) In the Nautilus window, browse the Filesystem to /usr/lib. Paste the file there and close Nautilus.
3) Now, goto System > Preferences > Main Menu and link the directory /usr/lib/Firefox 5.0 Beta/firefox and add the link to Applications > Internet.
4) Its all done. Now you can enjoy your Firefox 5.0 Beta without losing your bookmarks, your stable Firefox 4.0 or any of your data.

New Features

• Added support for CSS animations.
• Added support for switching Firefox development channels.
• The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability.
• Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance.
• Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas.
• Improved spell checking for some locales.
• Improved desktop environment integration for Linux users.
• Numerous Bugfixes.

Please see Release Notes for details.

Njoy Firefox 5 !!

Transmission – Ubuntu’s default bittorrent client has been updated to version 2.31 and is ready for your Ubuntu Desktops via PPA. This release has come up wtih native GTK+ & QT clients, Local Peer discovery, DHT support and much more.

PPA Install

Just use the follwoing PPA to install Transmission 2.31 to your Ubuntu systems.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission

and enjoy the new Transmission !

New Features at a Glance

• Local Peer Discovery.
• Uses fewer resources than other clients.
• UDP tracker support
• Multiscrape support
• Download scarcest pieces first
• Native Mac, GTK+ and Qt GUI clients.
• Daemon ideal for servers, embedded systems, and headless use.
• Remote controlled by Web and Terminal client support.
• Full encryption, DHT, µTP, PEX and Magnet Link support.
• Numerous Bugfixes.

Any queries regarding Ubuntu/Mint or any other regarding linux can be asked at the forums freely.

Njoy Faster Bt-Downloads !

Google Chrome 11 has been officially released on the stable channel by the developers and is available for download. Ubuntu 11.04 is going to be released today and we have alredy recived the news of release of Slackware 13.37, ATI Catalyst drivers 11.4, Zenwalk OS & Chakra GNU/Linux 2011.04. Today is a big day for FOSS as Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is about to be released too. This means a lot of goodies for the opensource lovers in one day, more than one can digest . So, lets see what Chrome 11 has to offer.

Download Chrome 11 Here

Install

Installing Google Chrome 11 is really easy. Download hte above file and ope it with Ubuntu Software Center and click ‘Install’ button.

Terminal way to install chrome-

cd ~/Download
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb
exit

Note - Those users who are having Chrome 11 Beta versions may find it difficult to install Chrome 11 stable. To solve this problem, just open the terminal and type

sudo apt-get remove google-chrome*.*

and now install the latest Google Chrome to your Ubuntu.

Whats New to Chrome

Speech Translator

Using Chrome, you can now translate what you say into other languages with Google Translate. If you’re translating from English, just click on the microphone on the bottom right of the input box, speak your text, and choose the language you want to translate to. In fact, you can even click on the “Listen” feature to hear the translated words spoken back to you!

HTML5

Chrome developers have improved the support for google chrome with HTML5 making it a better browser for the new generation internet. These changes will occur in the next couple months but we are announcing them now to give content publishers and developers using HTML <video> an opportunity to make any necessary changes to their sites.

WebGL

The web is becoming more interactive and animated day by day. Many web pages use the Canvas element to draw rich 2D content via the 2D context or modify DOM elements on the fly. These pages generally use the setTimeout or setInterval APIs to receive frequent callbacks, allowing them to redraw their content periodically, or use DHTML to move elements on the page. As 3D content drawn using the WebGL API increases in popularity, it will use similar animation techniques. In the forthcoming Chrome 11 release, developers plan to reduce CPU consumption even for pages that are using setTimeout and setInterval

APIs for Chrome Extensions

New experimental APIs for Chrome extensions – The Web Navigation Extension API allows extension developers to observe browser navigation events. These events fire both for top-level navigation and in-page navigation. The API therefore allows an extension to keep track of exactly what page (or section thereof) the tab is showing, and how the user got there. The Proxy Extension API closes one of our most popular feature requests, allowing users to configure Chrome’s proxy settings via extensions. Proxies can be configured for the entire browser or independently for regular and incognito windows. Configuration options range from setting a single proxy server to installing remote or even local PAC scripts. A sample extension demonstrates these capabilities.

ChromeLite

The extension which brings you the web as it was originally conceived: nothing but pure text, presented in an aesthetically pleasing monochrome palette.

Chrome Security

Google Chrome is capable of protecting users from malicious downloads. For the past five years Google has been offering protection to users against websites that attempt to distribute malware via drive-by downloads — that is, infections that harm users’ computers when they simply visit a vulnerable site. The data produced by our systems and published via the Safe Browsing API is used by Google search and browsers such as Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari to warn users who may attempt to visit these dangerous webpages.

Google is initially making download protection available to Chrome stable channels now.

Njoy !