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Uget – Another Awesome Download Manager for Ubuntu

09 Jun

uGet Download Manager

★★★★★★★★★☆

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)

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Firefox 5.0 Beta Testing on Ubuntu

23 May

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.

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Transmission 2.31 Released for Ubuntu

23 May

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.

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LibreOffice 3.4 Release Candidate on Ubuntu 11.04

22 May

The LibreOffice Project has announced Release Candidate 1 of the upcoming Libreoffice 3.4 release. The project is also announcing a change in its announcement strategy — the announce list will only be used for final and stable releases. As part of the announcement, Italo Vignoli mentioned that there seems to be some confusion about the LibreOffice scheduling and development process, and selecting the “right” release of LibreOffice. LibreOffice is on a “time based release model” and the project is avoiding schedule slips. He also encouraged users to select the “right release of LibreOffice for each situation.”

Conservative users who want very stable releases are encouraged to choose a commercially supported version, or at least wait for a point release that has all the bugs shaken out.

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Ubuntu Power User Community via Jonobacon’s Blog

22 May

So, while roaming around on the internet , we found something really interesting on Jonobacon’s blog and so we are sharing this idea with you all. Its about Ubuntu’s new direction towards regular desktop users which the existing Community think is parting ways with the Power Users of the community. With a very nice solution in mind, here is excerpts of what he writes -

Over the last few months there has been some concerned feedback in some parts of the community about how Ubuntu is focused more and more on attracting new users to Ubuntu by providing a streamlined and simplified user experience. Much of this is being achieved with Unity; a new desktop interface delivered in Ubuntu 11.04, which will continue to be refined and improved upon based on user testing and feedback.

One key piece of feedback from some Unity users was a concern around the lack of configurability in Unity, and a feeling that it is a little too simple and does not expose enough of the system, for which many more expert Ubuntu users enjoy.

One take-away amidst this feedback is that the general focus of Ubuntu is evolving. While traditionally we set out to provide the simplest and easiest to use Ubuntu desktop environment, and this has not changed, this focus is become more and more prevalent as we shave off more and more rough edges on Ubuntu to make it ready for the prime-time. The problem is…some folks don’t want to loose the lack of configurability and control as we move towards the prime-time. [Visit  Jonobacon's Blog]

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Super Boot Manager : The Ultimate Toolkit for Customizing Ubuntu Bootloader

22 May

Super Boot Manager : The Ultimate Toolkit for Customizing Ubuntu Bootloader

So those of you who were eagerly waiting (like me ) for a GUI for adding Burg or Plymouth to Ubuntu ..Your Wait is Over…!!!
Presenting you the ultimate toolkit ( do I sound like Steve Jobs ) for customizing Ubuntu Bootloader  Super-Boot-Manager (or SBM you may call it in short)
SBM has an integrated

  • BURG Manager - For Installing , customizing & configuring Burg
  • PLYMOUTH Manager – For Installing , customizing & configuring Plymouth
  • GRUB Manager - For Installing , customizing & configuring Grub

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Cool Terminal Alternatives for Ubuntu

17 May

Talking about Terminal, we have been working on the same default terminal for a long time. Why not change it a little. Keeping this in mind, we have selected two cool alternatives to replace the default Ubuntu terminal for your basic to advanced operations. Both of them are unique in their own way and serve the main stream purposes as well as some special purposes. These two are basically terminal emulators and are aimed mainly at increasing usability of gnome terminal in Ubuntu.

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Paint.net for Ubuntu aka Pinta 1.0

06 May

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux. The latest version of Pinta is 1.0 that was released a few days ago so we will be covering it right-away.

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