Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance. It has been built upon Mono and Gtk#, & it uses the Helix & GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 ,FLAC etc. Banshee also supports many portable media players, including Apple’s iPod, Android devices and Creative’s ZEN players.
Gnome2 Global-Menu is the globally-shared menu bar of all applications launched in your desktop session. As we all know that Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 2 and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition comes with a Global menu, we are here to discuss the installation of Gnome2 Global Menu for GTK Applications in Ubuntu Gnome . Gnome2 Global Menu has a PPA to make the installation easy for Ubuntu 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10.
Theres good news for all Ubuntu lovers out there that our favorite Chrome Browser got updated. Its time for :
Yes ! Chrome 9 (stable) has been released with some awesome updates. The Google Developers have ported some really cool new features from Chrome’s beta channel to the stable build, including WebGL, Chrome Instant, and the Chrome Web Store.
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Google Chrome 9
UberStudent (uber meaning “productive“) is a free, and opensource Ubuntu-based Linux distribution for working, learning and teaching academics at the higher education and advanced secondary levels. It is supported by a free Moodle-based virtual learning environment. It is also for Lifelong learners, researchers, and knowledge workers of all types.
UberStudent fundamentally is the best Ubuntu Derivative for education. It is developed by professional educators around a core skills approach. These are research & writing, study, and self-management skills, essentials to students regardless of their academic major. It can additionally be extended for specific academic disciplines using its on-board tools to finding and installing additional software. While main focus is academic computing, UberStudent also contains stuff for multimedia, graphics, messaging, and gaming, all with the needs of students in mind. Its the best Ubuntu derivative for students out-of-the-box.
UberStudent 1.0 Full DVD
UberStudent 1.0 LXDE
It’s been a while since we posted about LibreOffice’s development (beta release). Since then, LibreOffice has gone through rigorous development and now here we have the first stable release of LibreOffice with a lot of updates and bug-fixes. LibO as we know it now has the PPA so its easy for us to download it and keep it up-to-date. The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 3.3.0 Final, all set for production machines. This release is fully stable and ready to use.
LibreOffice 3.3.0 – Direct link
Another Twitter Client I was just checking and this one is really awesome (you heard me).Hotot as the name goes is gonna be really hot pretty soon that I predict 
. Amazing well built this Twitter client almost all the features a user intends to use in its sleek interface.It will be pretty early to judge since its not officially available at its official site Hotot.org but I’m already in love with it. While I’m to figure out how it got the name Hotot you can go ahead and install it.
The recent built was stable enough for daily use and I’ve not experienced any errors whatsoever till now.Impressions were alike using a Twitter app on a Touch device though I really hope they get better sounds for notification .Rest at every level I see Hotot a real winner .Here are few features you really wanna know about
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:awn-testing/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-trunk avant-window-navigator-data-trunk python-awn-trunk awn-settings-trunk awn-applets-c-core-trunk awn-applets-c-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-core-trunk python-awn-extras-trunk awn-applets-python-extras-trunk
Make sure you donot have any previous version installed from the Ubuntu repository. If yes, then remove it via Synaptic.
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Well, to be honest, the most difficult part is to know where to start with and that too when you are writing about something about a marvel like ‘Ubuntu‘ a Linux distribution that has come of ages. Those who haven’t been into technology world we’ll really like to say sorry for you people ’cause in our opinion you are missing something huge.
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