Are you still using Linux Mint 13 Maya? Well, there’s a good news! Linux Mint developer has made a few backports from Petra to Maya. Which means you can now upgrade to MDM 1.4, Cinnamon 2.0 or MATE 1.6, and the latest versions of mintwelcome, mintstick, mintnanny, mintupload, mintupdate, mintinstall, mintsystem, mintmenu, and mintdesktop in Mint 13 Maya from the Mint backport repository.
To get started:
1. Open up Software Sources from start menu. In the first tab, check the box which says “Backported packages (backport)”
2. Launch the Update Manager from Menu. After checking for updates (Update Manager do it automatically), you’ll see a list of available updates, including Cinnamon 2.0 or MATE 1.6, MDM 1.4 and other latest packages.
KXStitch is a KDE program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts.
Patterns can be created from scratch on a user defined size of grid, which can be enlarged or reduced in size as your pattern progresses. Alternatively you can import images from many graphics formats which will allow you to reduce the number of colours and to restrict the conversion to full stitches or optionally use fractional stitches.
You may also use an image as a background. These imported images can then be modified using the supplied tools to produce your final design.
Features:
Creation of new patterns
Editing of existing patterns – KXStitch is also capable of reading PC Stitch 5 files.
Use of various floss pallets, DMC, Anchor, Madeira, JP Coates
Creation of custom palettes and colours.
Use of standard stitches
Free use of backstitching
Importing of various picture formats
Printing of patterns and floss keys
Install KXStitch:
I’ve created a PPA that contains latest build of KXStitch (so far, it’s 1.0.0). So far, the PPA supports for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint, Elementary OS Luna and other derivatives.
To add the PPA, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and run:
Want a super fast download manager? Well, Xtreme Download Manager is the good choice for you.
Xtreme Download Manager is a advanced and powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%, resume broken/dead downloads, capture videos from YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Google Video or any other website and schedule downloads.
Xtreme Download Manager uses sophisticated dynamic segmentation algorithm, data compression and connection reuse to speed up the download process.
Features:
Download files at maximum possible speed. (5-6 times faster)
Xnoise is a media player for GTK+ with an intuitive user interface, great speed and lots of features. It allows listening to music and playing video in a very intuitive way: You can easily search the library and drag each artist, album or title to the tracklist (to any position in any order).
The latest Xnoise 0.2.20 was released recently with real-time monitor media folders for changes, GUI improvements, bug fixes. See the changelog:
Redo the import dialog
Real-Time Monitor media folders for changes
Check media folders for changes that happened during the time xnoise wasn’t running
GUI improvements/changes
Change drawing of album art
Trim Settings dialog
Use application menu, only
Remove title-to-decoration plugin
Automatically activate some of the plugins
Use new libtaginfo API for tag reading/writing
Update tag editing mechanism
Many Bug fixes
update translations
Screenshots:
Install Xnoise:
The latest release can be easily installed in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and their derivatives via PPA.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise
Then install the player after checking for updates:
Codeslayer is a source code editor that boasts a clean interface but powerful features. It is written in C using the GTK+ toolkit.
Codeslayer aims to be a light-weight source code editor that provided the functionality that is used on a daily basis without all the bloat of a full blown IDE. Codeslayer has following features that a base source editor just has to have:
A tabbed editor interface
The find and replace built right into the editor
A file navigation system built into the side pane
The file navigation is organized into projects
The projects are organized into profiles
A really nice global search across the projects
plugin system
Install Codeslayer:
The latest packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and old versions for other Ubuntu releases are available in GetDeb repository.
1. To add Getdeb repository:
For Ubuntu users, download and install this deb.
For Linux Mint users, there’s an option under Software Sources -> Additional repositories to enable GetDeb
2. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. Run command to update package lists:
sudo apt-get update
3. Install the source code editor:
sudo apt-get install codeslayer
You can also use Synaptic Package Manager (available in Software Center) to install the app if you hate Linux commands.
FisicaLab (can be pronounced as PhysicsLab) is a free and open source educational application to solve physics problems. Its main objective is let the user to focus in physics concepts, leaving aside the mathematical details (FisicaLab take care of them). This allows the user to become familiar with the physical concepts without running the risk of getting lost in mathematical details. And so, when the user gain confidence in applying physical concepts, will be better prepared to solve the problems by hand (with pen and paper). The latest release of FisicaLab have the following modules:
Kinematics of particles 2D.
Circular kinematics of particles 2D.
Static of particles 2D.
Static of rigid bodies 2D.
Dynamics of particles 2D.
Circular dynamics of particles 2D.
Heat, calorimetry, ideal gas and expansion.
The static and dynamic problems are entered constructing the free body diagrams of the objects. Although FísicaLab is easy and intuitive, we recommend you read the help files first before set any problem. You can access these files in the option menu Info -> Help (or FisicaLab -> Info -> Help).
This tutorial shows how to install the latest version of Webmin in Ubuntu Linux from its official repository.
As you may know, Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.
To get started, login your remote server and follow the steps below:
1. Run below command to edit the source file:
sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
2. Press i on keyboard to start editing the file and add this line into the end:
deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
Press Esc to exit edit. Shift + : and followed by wq to save the changes.
3. Now execute command to download and install the key:
Fritzing, easy-to-use electronic design software now is at version 0.8.4b. Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives
As you may know, Fritzing is an open source project designed to help one transition from a prototype to a finished project. Aimed at users who want to produce or document circuits and experiments, one starts by building a physical prototype, then recreating it with Fritzing’s graphical editor. From there one can generate a schematic, PCB artwork, and PCB production files.
What’s New in Fritzing 0.8.4b:
Fritzing gets a facelift! (special thanks to Christian and Fabian)
new Welcome view
new Fritzing Creator Kit examples (in both English and German)
Tips and Tricks updated
First Time Help now a separate dialog
binaries built using Qt 4.8.5
updated Dutch translation (thanks Dave)
updated German translation
new parts:
Breadboard BB 301 (contributed by Jeremy)
RGB LED WS2812
bug fixes:
Mac OSX Mavericks Parts Bin Hover crash
Saving files with custom parts: sometimes the fzp did not list the latest svg files
Boost 1.54 bug no longer crashes Fritzing
Many part tweaks
Install Fritzing:
The DEB packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their alternatives are maintained by ehbello’s PPA.
Once the PPA updated, press Ctrl+Alt+T and run commands below one by one in terminal to install the app:
FF Multi Converter, simple app to convert audio, video, image and document files between all popular formats. It uses ffmpeg for audio/video files, unoconv for document files and PythonMagick library for image file conversions.
FF Multi Converter 1.6.0 was released recently, it has been finally ported to python3 and PythonMagick library replaced by ImageMagick. Users can now pass extra command line parameters for image conversions to the program.
New translations: Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Taiwan) and Malay.
Install ffmulticonverter:
The DEB packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint will be available soon in this page or the PPA:
ffDiaporama is an app for creating video sequences consisting of title, photos, video clips, and music. The default version in Ubuntu repository is old. Here’s how to install the latest version from ffDiaporama PPA. So far, it supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
At the moment, the latest stable version is ffDiaporama 2.0 which brings following improvements:
Accelerated rendering of video (reduced the time needed to compile videos by up to 25%)
Can compile with Qt 4 and Qt 5 (depending on what is available in the system)
64-bit Windows version and support for Windows 8 and 8.1
Adding dynamic text variables (calculated texts can be used in the slides)
Generate thumbnails at 600×800 corresponding to rendered videos (very useful for differentiating videos when using Jukebox and MediaCenter application)
Generate .nfo file for XBMC (very useful for those who use XBMC because it allows the videos to have a poster and a sheet into XBMC)
Adding models (predefined elements used as the basis for creating thumbnails or slides)
Adding an export project function (saves the project and all the files used by the project in a subdirectory)
Support of ffmpeg 2.0 and 2.1
Integrating Wiki directly into the application for offline reading
Cliparts managment
Alias in the multimedia file browser (A clipart entry is displayed in the directory tree)
Portability clipart from one PC to another and an Operating System with another (Cliparts from the clipart directory are treated as library items and do not need to be copied into the project resources )
Supports project containing several thousand slides (instead of several hundred in previous versions)
Install ffDiaporama:
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
