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Free photo editor Fotoxx 13.10 released with enhancements

Last updated: October 6, 2013

As you may know, Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use. The latest Fotoxx 13.10 has been released with many improvements and bug fixes. See details:

  • Mashup images and text can be moved, resized and rotated using the mouse.
  • Trim/Crop and Rotate were combined as one function to improve workflow.
  • Rotate: click image position to add vertical and horizontal guidelines.
  • Rotate: the automatic trim option was reinstated.
  • Flatten and Expand brightness distribution were combined as one function.
  • Paint/Clone: new option to paint/erase gradually or fully in one stroke.
  • Gallery thumbnail popup menu: rotate +/-90 degrees was added.
  • Gallery [Top] button: new option to choose from named collections.
  • World map zoom: toggle full-size/fit-window without intermediate steps.
  • Slide Show: allow pause and resume at a selected image position.
  • Slide Show: an image with the tag ‘pause’ will beep and pause until resumed.
  • View Metadata: option to show only captions and comments (e.g. for slide show).
  • Making a named collection from search results (or any gallery) was simplified.
  • CMYK function: the user interface was simplified.
  • Warp Linear/Curved/Affine are using multiple threads for faster response.
  • Bugfix: clickable tabular reports would not scroll with the mouse wheel.
  • Bugfix: the interactive translation update function was broken.

fotoxx 13.10

Download Fotoxx at its official website.

Before get started installing the package, you need to first install dcraw & ufraw in Ubuntu Software Center.

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Linux Kernel 3.10.15 LTS Released, Upgrade in Ubuntu & Linux Mint

Last updated: October 9, 2013

The Latest Kernel 3.10.15 LTS has been released with lots of drivers updates or fixes, including Radeon, Intel i915, and USB. Same to Kernel 3.11.4, the ARM platform gets a fix for the Thumb-2 bug in the AES assembler code, and two bugs were squashed for the x86 architecture. See the official announcement.

All users of Kernel 3.10 series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here’s how to do it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Linux Mint.

Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.10.15

Press Ctrl+ALt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, follow the steps below:

1. Download the DEBs:

For 32-bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.15-031015-generic_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.15-031015_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-image-3.10.15-031015-generic_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_i386.deb

For 64-bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.15-031015-generic_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-headers-3.10.15-031015_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10.15-saucy/linux-image-3.10.15-031015-generic_3.10.15-031015.201310081202_amd64.deb

2. Install the Kernel:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.10.15*.deb linux-image-3.10.15*.deb

Once done. Restart your computer.

(Optional) To remove Linux Kernel 3.10.15 and revert back to previous:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.10.15-*
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Linux Kernel 3.11.4 Released, How to Upgrade in Ubuntu Linux Mint

Last updated: October 9, 2013

The Linux Kernel 3.11 series has reached 3.11.4, which brings lots of drivers updates or fixes include Radeon, Intel i915, Wireless and USB. The ARM platform gets a fix for the Thumb-2 bug in the AES assembler code, and two bugs were squashed for the x86 architecture. Read the official announcement

All users of Kernel 3.11 series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here’s how to install or upgrade Linux Kernel 3.11.4 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives.

To get started, press Ctrl+ALt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to download the DEBs:

For 32-bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.4-031104-generic_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.4-031104_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-image-3.11.4-031104-generic_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_i386.deb

For 64-bit system:

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.4-031104-generic_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_amd64.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-headers-3.11.4-031104_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.11.4-saucy/linux-image-3.11.4-031104-generic_3.11.4-031104.201310081221_amd64.deb

Both 32-bit & 64-bit install the Debs via:

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.11.4*.deb linux-image-3.11.4*.deb

Once done, restart your computer.

(Optional) To remove Linux Kernel 3.11.4 and revert back to the previous, run command:

sudo apt-get purge linux-image-3.11.4-*
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How to Upgrade to Shotwell 0.15 in Ubuntu 13.04 / 12.10

Last updated: July 25, 2014

Yorba, the developer of Shotwell has announced a new release Shotwell 0.15, which brings several enhancements:

  • Copy and paste color adjustments between photos
  • Highlights detail adjustment
  • YouTube plugin now uses OAuth / OpenID
  • Videos in Missing Files now re-import properly
  • Improvements when thumbnailing videos
  • Numerous bug fixes

Upgrade Shotwell in Ubuntu:

The Shotwell 0.15 tarball is available for download. See the installation guide for information on getting Shotwell on your system

The team has built this release on their PPA for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint 15 & 14.

To get started installing the photo management tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install shotwell

For Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, you don’t have to do something special. Just open Software Center, search for and install shotwell, which is already the newest.

The developer doesn’t build it for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and its derivatives, because the libraries change so much between versions that it isn’t practical to build on older versions.

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How to losslessly compress JPG in Ubuntu Linux via wxPackJPG

Last updated: October 5, 2013

wxPackJPG is a simple tool to losslessly compress JPG image files. It can be used to backup image files in the JPEG format. They use about 20% less space, but can be restored to bit-identical files.

wxPackJPG is the GUI for the command-line tool PackJPG. There is already a DotNet-GUI called “PackJPG Options”, but this only runs on Windows and does not use more than one core.

Features of wxPackJPG:

  • It losslessly compresses JPEG image files. For this it uses the library packJPGlib. That means, the resulting files are 100% compatible to packJPG
  • Multithreading: wxPackJPG will use every core to compress JPEG files, if multiple files are selected
  • Multiplatform: Binaries for Windows 32/64 bit (with and without installers) and OS X are provided, source code is available for compilation on Linux and other Unixes.
  • There is a portable version which stores nothing in ini-files or in the registry

Install wxPackJPG via PPA:

The image compression tool is available in PPA for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and their derivatives such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS, etc.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway

Then update package lists and install the jpg compressor:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wxpackjpg

If you don’t want to add the PPA, download the Deb from launchpad.net

For Windows and Mac OS installers, go to Sourceforge. Enjoy!

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Install Whisker Menu for XFCE in (X)Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04

Last updated: November 12, 2014

Want the Linux Mint 15 Whisker Menu on your Xfce Desktop? Well, here’s how to do it via PPA in (X)Ubuntu 13.10, (X)Ubuntu 13.04, (X)Ubuntu 12.04 and (X)Ubuntu 12.10.

Whisker Menu is an alternate application launcher for Xfce, which is used as default in Linux Mint 15 Xfce. By default, it displays list of your favorite apps. You can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side. Or you can quickly access your app by the search box.

Install Whisker Menu via PPA:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa

Update package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Install the app launcher:

sudo apt-get install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

Once installed, right-click on your panel and go to Panel -> Add New Items…. Find out Whisker Menu and click to add it to launcher.

By default, it’s in the right corner. Right-click on the icon and move it to the left. Modify the icon and title in its properties window. Also you can remove the previous ‘application menu’ from its right-click menu.

For Debian, Feroda, openSUSE, see the installation guide Whisker Menu homepage

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Install / Upgrade FocusWriter 1.4.4 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.04/12.04

Last updated: October 4, 2013

FocusWriter is a fullscreen word processor. It has a simple, distraction-free writing environment, it utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. It’s available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, and has been translated into many different languages.

To install or upgrade to the latest FocusWriter in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 via PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa

Then update package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Finally install the word processor:

sudo apt-get install focuswriter

If you’re on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, open Ubuntu Software Center and search for and install focuswriter from the universe repository. Enjoy!

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Install Kapow punch clock via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04/12.10

Last updated: October 4, 2013

As you may know, Kapow is a punch clock program designed to easily keep track of your hours, whether you’re working on one project or many. Simply clock in and out with the Start/Stop button. If you make a mistake in your hours, you can go back and edit any of the entries by double-clicking on the session in question.

Kapow also allows you to easily keep track of the hours since you last billed a client, by providing a helpful “Billed” checkbox–the totals will reflect your work after the last billed session.

Install Kapow punch clock via PPA:

The developer has created a PPA repository for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, and their derivatives such as Linux Mint, Elementary.

To get started installing the app, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gottcode/gcppa

Then update packages lists:

sudo apt-get update

Finally install the punch clock software:

sudo apt-get install kapow

Enjoy!

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How to install Qmmp 0.7.3 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.04/12.04/12.10

Last updated: October 3, 2013

The Winamp like music player Qmmp has released version 0.7.3 with bug fixes and improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and their derivatives such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS via PPA.

What’s new in Qmmp 0.7.3:

  • added window size and position saving to the projectm plugin
  • disabled unsupported settings in the statusicon plugin under Windows
  • fixed warnings about invalid parent thread
  • fixed race condition
  • fixed ReplayGain support in the flac plugin
  • fixed parsing of the track/disc number with separator
  • fixed tooltip in the status icon plugin under Windows
  • fixed ‘show tooltip’ option in the status icon plugin
  • removed unused variables

Install Qmmp via PPA:

Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa

Then update package lists:

sudo apt-get update

Finally install the player as well as the plugin pack.

sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Install Cinelerra Video Editor in Ubuntu 13.10, Linux Mint 16

Last updated: October 3, 2013

This tutorial is going to show beginners how to install Cinelerra-CV Video Editor in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy or Linux Mint 16 Petra.

Cinelerra-CV is the community version of Cinelerra which adds new enhancements to the official source code. So far, the latest is version 2.2 and it’s available in PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and their derivatives.

Install Cinelerra via PPA:

To get started, hit Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terinal. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cinelerra-ppa/ppa

Then update package lists on your system:

sudo apt-get update

Finally install the package:

sudo apt-get install cinelerra-cv

If you’d like to install the official version of cinelerra, download the Debs from this page.

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