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Friday, January 27, 2012
 

Holo: Android Ice Cream Sandwich Like Theme Pack For GNOME 3 (GTK/Shell)


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Holo is a cool new GNOME 3 theme pack created by Tiheum (the Faenza icon theme designer) that tries to mimic the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich theme.

Holo was initially called "Ice Cream Sandwich" and only included a GNOME Shell theme, but a recent update brought matching GTK3 and GTK2 themes too.


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Friday, January 27, 2012
 

Beets Music Tagger: Command Line Tool To Fix Metadata And Organize Your Music Library


beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all".

It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.

Further more, beets is extensible through plugins which add extra functionality like  embedding or extracting album art from files, fetch lyrics for all your songs, clean up tags and and there's even a HTML5 web player (though it's very basic and can't do too much for now).


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
 

KDE 4.8 Released, Install It In Kubuntu 11.10


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KDE 4.8 has been released today and includes many changes, such as: multiple improvements for Dolphin, Kate, Kmail and Gwenview, adaptive power management, multiple layouts available for the ALT + TAB window switcher, Kwin optimizations and more.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
 

TeamViewer 7 For Linux Released


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Quick update: the latest TeamViewer 7 for Linux* (application for remote control and desktop sharing) has finally been released today, after being in beta for over a month.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
 

Orion: A New, Clear GTK 2/3 Theme


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Orion is a new, clear GTK3 theme created by Satya, who's also behind other beautiful GTK and GNOME Shell / Cinnamon themes like Evolve, Shine, Minty, Ambiance Blue and others.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
 

Get Better Looking Qt Applications In Xubuntu 11.10 (XFCE)


Qt-based applications like Puddletag, SMPlayer, VLC and many others, look poorly in Xubuntu 11.10 (and probably in other XFCE based Linux distributions too) by default, so here's how to improve their look.


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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
 

Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 On Linux With Absinthe


Absinthe 0.3, an iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (iOS 5) untethered jailbreak tool, has been released a few days ago and it includes a Linux version too.


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
 

HUD: Ubuntu`s New Smart Menus, Announced By Mark Shuttleworth


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Mark Shuttleworth has announced HUD, or Head-Up Display, an alternative to application menus especially designed for Unity, which should solve many issues with existing menus "by connecting users directly to what they want":

Say hello to the Head-Up Display, or HUD, which will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications. [...] The HUD concept has been the driver for all the work we’ve done in unifying menu systems across Gtk, Qt and other toolkit apps in the past two years. So far, that’s shown up as the global menu. In 12.04, it also gives us the first cut of the HUD.

- Mark Shuttleworth


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Monday, January 23, 2012
 

Cinnamon 1.2 Released With Desktop Effects, Multiple Layouts, More



Cinnamon, the GNOME2-like GNOME Shell fork, has reached version 1.2, which is considered fully stable. The new release brings many new features, but also separates Cinnamon even more from GNOME Shell.


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Monday, January 23, 2012
 

Puddletag 1.0 Beta Released With Fixed MusicBrainz and Discogs Tag Sources



Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, very similar to the popular Windows application Mp3tag.

The MusicBrainz and Discogs music tag sources stopped working in the latest stable Puddletag version for quite some time because of API changes but today, a new Puddletag version has been released (1.0 beta), finally bringing support for the latest MusicBrainz and Discogs APIs.


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