You know Pushbullet? Well, it’s a service that allows you to send links, files and more to your Android or iOS devices from desktop. It can show your Android phone’s notifications on your computer, enabling you to see who’s calling or texting without having to grab your phone!
Pushbullet does not have an official client for Linux desktop, you can only use it with a Chrome or Firefox extension. Fortunately, there’s now a Unity indicator for Pushbullet developed by atareao.es
Also a nautilus extension was developed (Seems not working for me at the moment):
Install:
The developer has built the packages into his PPA for Ubuntu 14.04. Run the commands below one by one in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install them:
Intel(R) Graphics Installer 1.0.5 for Linux has been released just days ago. The NEW release added support for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr and Fedora 20.
What is Intel(R) Graphics Installer:
The Intel® Graphics Installer for Linux is a simple graphical tool that allows you to easily install the latest graphics and video drivers for your Intel graphics hardware. This allows you to stay current with the latest enhancements, optimizations, and fixes to the Intel® Graphics Stack to ensure the best user experience with your Intel® graphics hardware. The Intel® Graphics Installer for Linux is available for the latest versions of Ubuntu and Fedora.
You may check out your system type 32-bit or 64 bit by going to System Settings -> Details.
Once downloaded, double-click the package to install via Ubuntu Software Center. Or use Gdebi, which will automatically resolve and install required dependencies.
One of my readers was asking how to install Sopcast Player in Ubuntu 14.04. But Sopcast is not available at any PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 at the moment and it’s not easy to build it from source for normal users. So here’s how to install this good alternative TV-MAXE.
TV-MAXE is an application which provides the ability to watch TV stations and listen radio via different streams, such is SopCast. Currently it has a large number of channels, both romanian and international.
Install TV-Maxe in Ubuntu 14.04:
Because the official PPA provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04, you can easily install the app by running below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
Stunt Rally, a free and open-source game based on VDrift and OGRE, with Track Editor, now is at version 2.3. Here’s how to install Stunt Rally 2.3 in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is an encrypted connection to a server. When you connect to a VPN server and type in a web address, the request is sent via an encrypted signal to the VPN server which then sends you back the web page.
Establishing a VPN connection will keep your ISP or government from recording your browsing history. It can also be used to visit sites that your network administrator has blocked (in some countries like China youtube is blocked). An OpenVPN connection is the most secure type of VPN, because not only is the connection encrypted by
a password, but also by three certificates.
There are many places online that sell VPN services. In this tutorial, I will use vpnbook.com’s service, because it is completely free, and runs entirely off donations.
PART 1: Get A Free OpenVPN Account
Please skip this part if you already have a VPN server set up.
1. Open up your web browser or just click the link to go to www.vpnbook.com.
2. Scroll down and click on the tab that says OpenVPN (as the picture shown below). Download one of the certificate bundles and also remember the username and password.
3. Decompress the downloaded package. Create 3 new empty text files in the result folder and called them: ca.crt, certificate.crt, key.key.
4. Open up one of the .ovpn files (All of the .ovpn files are the same, but with different configurations.) with gedit text editor, here I use vpnbook-us1-tcp443.ovpn as example.
5. In the .ovpn file, do following copy and paste things and finally save the changes.
Copy everything between <ca> </ca> tags and paste into ca.crt file.
Copy everything between <cert> </cert> tags and paste into certificate.crt file.
Copy everything between <key> </key> tags and paste into key.key file.
PART 2: Setup OpenVPN connection:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below to install VPN plugin for network manager:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn
2. Go to system area network icon -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN:
3. Click the Add button in next window and choose OpenVPN in drop-down menu as the connection type.
4. Now in VPN editing window, type in:
Connection name: type a name as you want
Gateway: the IP address in the vpnbook-us1-tcp443.ovpn file.
Type: Password with Certificates (TLS)
Username: see the picture under PART 1 -> step 2.
Password: see the picture under PART 1 -> step 2.
User Certificate: choose the certificate.crt file.
CA Certificate: choose the ca.crt file.
Private Certificate: choose the key.key file.
Private Key Password: leave it empty.
5. NOTE: Advanced settings depend on the .ovpn file you selected in PART 1 (step 4), find the ip, port, cipher and so forth at the top of .ovpn file
Click the Advanced button. Check the boxes which say:
Use custom gateway port: 443
Use LZO data compression
Use a TCP connection
Under Security tab, set Cipher to AES-128-CBC
6. When everything is done, connect to the VPN from network menu:
You’re connected to the VPN if you see this message:
Miro, formerly named Democracy Player or DTV, is an audio, video player and Internet television application. It integrates an RSS news aggregator and podcatcher, a BitTorrent client (based on libtorrent), and xine media player (or GStreamer) under Linux.
Miro is free software, released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. While Ubuntu repositories still have Miro 4, the latest release has reached Miro 6 which brings flash support for Linux and big speed improvements for launching the app, navigating, downloading, etc.
Install Miro 6 in Ubuntu 14.04:
I’ve made the packages for Miro 6 into my PPA, available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. To install it, follow the steps below:
UPDATE: Sorry that I have moved the packages from the ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps repository to ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ppa as a workaround , because someone copied my content (without even a link back) and got indexed by google before this post. So my post becomes duplicate in Google’s search result!
I’ve emailed the guy who copied my content to ask a link back, but with no luck. I feel so sad because hours of my hard work has been stolen. Please help me if you know what should I do.
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the command below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/ppa
2. Because Ubuntu 14.04 started shipping the libav fork instead of FFmpeg, we also need the PPA for FFmpeg libraries.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:djcj/vlc-stable
3. Finally update packages lists and install Miro 6 as well as dependencies:
This quick tutorial is going to show you how to install Python 3.3.5 (or 3.4.0) and set as default in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Python 3.3.5 was released on March 9th, 2014. It fixed:
a 3.3.4 regression in zipimport
a 3.3.4 regression executing scripts with a coding declared and Windows newlines
potential DOS using compression codecs in bytes.decode()
Python 3.4.0 was released one week later than 3.3.5 with below new features:
a “pathlib” module providing object-oriented filesystem paths
a standardized “enum” module
a build enhancement that will help generate introspection information for builtins
improved semantics for object finalization
adding single-dispatch generic functions to the standard library
a new C API for implementing custom memory allocators
changing file descriptors to not be inherited by default in subprocesses
a new “statistics” module
standardizing module metadata for Python’s module import system
a bundled installer for the pip package manager
a new “tracemalloc” module for tracing Python memory allocations
a new hash algorithm for Python strings and binary data
a new and improved protocol for pickled objects
a new “asyncio” module, a new framework for asynchronous I/O
Install:
A third party launchpad PPA contains older and newer Python version for Ubuntu. The two Python releases are available in the PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.
To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal and run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fkrull/deadsnakes
You may read the PPA description in the output and then: