Keryx is a portable, open source and cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. It is similar to "Sushi, huh?", but easier to use and with a nice GUI.

Other than being very easy to use, there are three other reasons why I really like Keryx:

• You can edit it's sources, so you can use PPAs and other unofficial repositories (under Project > Edit Sources);
• When clicking on a package, it's dependencies are displayed, along with the direct download link for the package in question.
• On the second computer, you can see the packages for which there are updates available, before downloading them.

Keryx currently only works for Debian based Linux distros (but like I said, the packages can be downloaded from Windows or Mac OS X too), but there are plans for adding support for a number of other package management systems.

For a shell music player, I used to love CMus (I still like it a lot), but I've found a similar - probably better - command line music player which is actually a MPD client: Ncmpcpp.

Ncmpcpp (Ncmpc++) is an ncurses MPD client inspired by Ncmpc (runs in a terminal). Ncmpcpp has an UI very similar to ncmpc's one, but it provides new useful features such as support for regular expressions in search engine, extended song format, items filtering, fetching artist's info from last.fm, tag editor, ability to sort playlist, local filesystem browser, song lyrics and other minor functions.

gURLChecker is a graphical web sites checker for GNU/Linux. It can work on a whole site, a single local page or a browser bookmarks file.

There's not much to say about this application, it basically just checks for bad links on a given website:

To install it in Ubuntu, run this command:

sudo apt-get install gurlchecker

After installing it, you can find it under Applications > Internet.

For other Linux distributions, download gURLChecker from HERE.

[via littlejohn]

Gloobus Preview and CoverGloobus now have 2 new PPA repositories. There aren't a lot of changes to Gloobus for now, but the PPA will be updated with big changes in a few days, as the Gloobus blog points out.

To add these repositories, run the following commands in a terminal (command available for Ubuntu Karmic only, because there aren't any packages available for older Ubuntu versions; Lucid packages will probably be available soon):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/gloobus-preview
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus

And then to install both Gloobus Preview and CoverGloobus:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install covergloobus gloobus-preview 

[image via gloobus.net]

We use GAPI (gapi-google-analytics-php-interface) to display Google Analytics page views and visits to everyone, without requiring a password - it's all done by using the Google Analytics API.

To make some Google Analytics stats public, you need a PHP5 web host but it you don't have one, there are lots of free alternatives out there and you can then embed the stats using in iframe (very easy).

I have modified the example report which comes with GAPI to display the month, year, number of page views, visits and so on, and sort it by year and then month. It basically looks like this:

You can view a demo right here, on Web Upd8. As you can see, Google Analytics public stats can be easily integrated into Blogger too (I saw lots of requests of using this in Blogger blogs).

ProxFetch is a networking tool for fetching different proxies from websites and you can then check to see if they are working.

ProxFetch can grab HTTP proxies, web proxies and socks 4/5 proxies; it can also export these proxies to a text file in the IP:PORT format, which is very useful for some applications which can use such proxy list text files.

The application does not require installation and is very easy to use. After extracting it, double click the "ProxFetch" file, then simply click on the "Find" button on the proxy type you want to find and a huge list will be downloaded instantly. To check if a proxy works, select it and click on the "Information" button.

Download ProxFetch

Gnome Zeitgeist is a tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer. It keeps a chronological journal of all file activity and supports tagging and establishing relationships between groups of files. All of the information is stored in one central database for quick access and any application can easily add it’s own data to the mix. There are several user interfaces which show the information stored in the database, sorting it by type, date, or relevance to other files. They let users tag documents, bookmark them, and even attach custom notes to each item in the database.


One such user interface is GNOME Activity Journal, which provides a GUI for Gnome Zeitgeist and it is somewhat similar to a Linux file browser called Nemo.


More about Gnome Zeitgeist, HERE and HERE.

Firefox for Mobile (codenamed Fennec) is the name of the build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser for smaller non-PC devices, mobile phones and PDAs. Firefox for mobile 1.0 uses the same version of the Gecko layout engine as Firefox 3.6. Its features include the Awesomebar, tabbed browsing, Add-on support, the ability to synchronize with the user's computer Firefox browser using Mozilla Weave and many more.

Firefox for Mobile (Fennec) version 1.0 release candidate for Nokia Maemo based N800/N810/N900 is out (Fennec for Windows Mobile is still in alpha). You can also experiment on your desktop with Firefox for mobile, provide feedback, build add-ons, and get involved by installing it on your desktop PC: for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

You can view Firefox for Mobile 1.0RC release notes as well as download links for Maemo, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, HERE.

Opera 10.5 pre-alpha for Linux is now available for download, as the Opera Blog points out.


Opera 10.5 pre-alpha for Linux doesn't rely on Qt anymore, but on any graphical toolkit installed (plain X11). The Opera team is focusing on getting support for Gnome/GTK+ and KDE4/Qt4 into 10.5:



Also, the new Opera is now using Carakan, a new, much faster javascript engine: