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QBittorrent 2.9.6 Released

18 Mar

qBittorrent project was created with the idea of developing a new Bittorrent client for Linux that would be easy to use, good looking, featureful but lightweight. qBittorrent can now be considered as a good alternative to other bittorrent clients. QBittorrent 2.9.6 has been released with any updates and bug fixes.

 

PPA Installation

Open the treminal and type the commands in order to install qBt 2.9.6

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hydr0g3n/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qbittorrent

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Firefox 11 Released

14 Mar

The latest version of the Mozilla Firefox, Firefox 11 is now available for download officially. Firefox 11 brings along a bunch of new features and a ton of bug fixes. The new features of the update include synchronization features for Google Chrome, where users can move settings and bookmarks to Firefox easily. It also has new developer tools, such as the 3D Page Inspector, which allow developers to look at parts of the pages in 3D.

Download Firefox 11

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Linoob’s Guide to ‘Aptitude’ in Ubuntu

14 Mar

Aptitude is a front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) system. It displays a list of software packages and allows the user to interactively pick packages to install or remove. It has an especially powerful search system utilizing flexible search patterns. Aptitude also emulates most apt-get command line options. Newer versions also come with a GTK+ interface.

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Linoob’s Guide to Install Source Package Tarballs

10 Mar

Hello Folks ..Welcome to Linoob’s Guide to install from Source Package ie Tarballs also commonly seen as tar.gz/bz2 files.Though be strongly recommend using PPA for installation or the DEB package sometimes these aren’t available and we have to rely on Tarballs package.Don’t panic cause installation using Tarballs is as simple but is avoided cause it comes at a cost of few extra steps which we generally tend to avoid. ? Building from source is a reasonably simple process, but it can be complicated sometimes. You can even end up with two versions of an application installed simultaneously which can cause a lot of problems. So, all you need to do is Be Careful !

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MyUnity – Unity Tweak Tool

07 Jan

MyUnity is a Unity Tweak tool for Ubuntu that is used to adjust, tweak and customize Unity desktop. MyUnity is also available for the Ubuntu 12.04 in the repositories so it can be installed right from Ubuntu Software Center. It is very simple, lightweight, and user friendly.

 

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VirtualBox 4.1.4 Released

04 Oct

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Recently, VirtualBox 4.1.4 has been released and is ready for Ubuntu 11.04. This release has come up with basically bugfixes only as it is a maintenance release. So, no goodies for anyone, atleast for now. But many annoying bugs like memory leak, GUI bugs while running KDE, add support for X.Org Server 1.11, fixed compiz bugs and numerous others. For details regarding the bugfixes please see the changelog.

Download – VirtualBox 4.1.4

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Adobe Flash Player 11 Released

04 Oct

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

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Cairo Dock 2.4.0 Released

28 Sep

Cairo-Dock is a unified dock-like interface for your desktop. Besides a cool dock, it provides a taskbar, and many applets that can be placed either inside the dock or on your desktop, at your convenience ! It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of ready-to-use themes.

PPA

This PPA will install cairo dock in your Ubuntu desktops (yes ! 11.10 also).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

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