Gnome sound converter application has been updated to version 2.1.4 with 3 important bug fixes. Ubuntu 14.04 user can upgrade it from Getdeb repository.
SoundConverter is the leading audio file converter for the GNOME Desktop. It reads anything GStreamer can read (Ogg Vorbis, AAC, MP3, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MOV, M4A, AC3, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, MOD, XM, S3M, etc…), and writes to Opus, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and MP3 files, or use any GNOME Audio Profile.
The latest 2.1.4 was released with below important fixes:
1. Fixed the error when converting a video to an audio file: Python (v2.7) requires to install plugins to play media files of the following type: H.264
2. Fixed the issue that converts things with same filename at the same time doesn’t work. When trying to convert all the music of one artist at the same time. The problem arose when the first track on an EP was also the first track on an album.
3. Fixed SoundConverter can’t export to a folder on an MTP device.
Install or Upgrade to SoundConverter 2.1.4:
Getdeb repository has built the package based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Go to the link below and download the “soundconverter_2.1.4-1~getdeb1_all.deb” package.
Download SoundConverter DEB
Then double-click on the package to open it with Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button to install the Sound Converter.
Liferea, a free RSS feed reader and news aggregator, gets a new release. PPA has been updated with the latest packages, available for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Liferea, stands for Linux Feed Reader, is a native app for Linux desktop. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/newsclient, with an embedded graphical browser. It’s able to play audio & video feeds with plugins.
The latest version 1.10.11 was released a few hours ago with bug fixes and translation updates:
Fixed: Doesn’t automatically update feed name and favicon for new feed (reported by asl97)
Fixed: Missing dist files for documentation (patch by Mikel Olasagasti)
Fixed Javascript links not opening in new browser tabs
Updated French translation (Guillaume Bernard)
Updated Hebrew translation (Genghis Khan)
How to Install Liferea in Ubuntu:
Liferea is available in Ubuntu Software Center by default, but it’s always old. I have create a Ubuntu PPA and keep uploading the latest packages for all current support Ubuntu releases.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the commands below and run one by one:
This simple tutorial is going to show you how to play your PSP games in Ubuntu desktop with ppsspp Sony PSP emulator.
Install PPSSPP psp emulator:
PPSSPP can run your PSP games on your PC in full HD resolution. It can even upscale textures that would otherwise be too blurry as they were made for the small screen of the original PSP.
All trademarks are property of their respective owners. The emulator is for educational and development purposes only and it may not be used to play games you do not legally own.
PPSSPP is available in its official PPA for Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and their derivatives. To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
Gnome 3 photo manager shotwell 0.19.0, an unstable pre-release of the upcoming version 0.20, has been released with support for Rajce.net and Gallery 3 photo services.
Shotwell is a popular photo manager for Gnome 3 with below great features:
Import from disk or camera
Organize by time-based Events, Tags (keywords), Folders, and more
View your photos in full-window or fullscreen mode
Crop, rotate, color adjust, straighten, and enhance photos
Slideshow
Video and RAW photo support
Share to major Web services, including Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube
The latest 0.19.0 has been released as a pre-release of the upcoming version 0.20 with below changes:
Support for Rajce.net and Gallery 3 photo services added
Set background image for lock screen
Better detection of corrupt images during import
Various bug fixes
Updated translations
The .deb installer is available in Yorba’s daily build PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.10. Check your OS type: 32-bit = i386 or 64-bit = amd64, and download & install the appropriate package from the link below:
The .deb package can be installed by double-click on it to open with Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.
HandBrake, a free and open source video transcoder, finally gets an update by releasing 0.10 beta. It has been such a long time since the last v0.9.9.
Today we are releasing the first of several beta’s for the 0.10 release with the hope of releasing a final build sometime in the next couple of months.
The 0.10 release will give us the opportunity to push out many improvements, but allow us to continue working on the new API we have planned for the 1.0 release.
Changes in HandBrake 0.10:
Core:
Intel QuickSync Video Encode / Decode support.(Windows only currently)
DXVA Hardware Decode support (Experimental and Windows only)
Choice of Scalers: Lanczos, Bicubic (OpenCL) (Experimental)
hqdn3d filter now accepts individual settings for both chroma channels (Cr, Cb)
New NlMeans? denoiser. This is very slow, but results are significantly better than hqdn3d.
Libavformat is now used for muxing instead of mp4v2 and libmkv
The LibAV AAC encoder is now the default as FAAC has been removed.
H.265 encoder (Experimental – available when compiled from source with –enable-x265)
Added VP8 Encoder (using libvpx), available in MKV files only.
Removed mcdeint deinterlace and decomb modes. This relied on the snow encoder in libav which has been was removed by upstream.
Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Linux:
Automatic audio and subtitle track selection behaviours which can be stored per preset.
Improvements to Auto-Naming feature.
Batch Add to queue by list selection.
Russian and Czech Translations
Bug fixes and Misc Improvements
Requires GTK3
Install HandBrake 0.10 beta in Ubuntu 14.04:
The new release is available in the snapshots PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 and its derivatives. To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one:
The KDE Community has just announced the KDE Applications 4.14. The new release offers more software stability, with little emphasis on new and less-proven stuff.
The KDE Community announces the latest major updates to KDE Applications delivering primarily improvements and bugfixes. Plasma Workspaces and the KDE Development Platform are frozen and receiving only long term support; those teams are focused on the transition to Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5.
Changes in KDE 4.14 Applications:
Kopete: supports for SOCKS5 proxy in ICQ protocol (before only HTTP type was supported)
Kopete: supports for audio calls (both protocols Google libjingle and real jingle) for *all* jabber accounts, enabled by default
a new Lua backend has been added to Cantor
the VI mode for Kate has been improved in Kate
Dolphin now shows thumbnails of .gpx, .kml and other file types supported by Marble, and various KML improvements have been implemented for Marble.
This simple tutorial shows how to install Gnoduino IDE, implementation of well-known Arduino IDE for GNOME, in Ubuntu 14.04 & Ubuntu 12.04.
Why Gnoduino?
The original Arduino IDE is written in Java however, and that makes for poor integration on the Linux platform, particularly with Ubuntu Unity. Luckily enough someone has been busy to do a simple rewrite of the original IDE in Python and GTK, making a fully Linux native IDE, and it’s called Gnoduino. This implementation is targeted at GNOME and its purpose is to be light.
How to Install Gnoduino IDE in Ubuntu:
Besides building from source, the IDE is available in PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, paste the command below and hit enter to run. Type in your password when prompt.
For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run the commands below one by one to get this release from PPA:
Gcalcli is a command line tool for Linux users to manage Google Calendar. It allows you to get your agenda, search for, add, delete, edit events and even import those annoying ICS/vCal invites from Microsoft Exchange and/or other sources.
Additionally, gcalcli can be used as a reminder service and execute any application you want when an event is coming up.
Gcalcli features:
OAuth2 authention with your Google account
list your calendars
show an agenda using a specified start/end date and time
ascii text graphical calendar display with variable width
search for past and/or future events
“quick add” new events to a specified calendar
“add” a new event to a specified calendar (interactively or automatically)
“delete” event(s) from a calendar(s) (interactively or automatically)
“edit” event(s) interactively
import events from ICS/vCal files to a specified calendar
support for URL shortening via goo.gl
easy integration with your favorite mail client (attachment handler)
run as a cron job and execute a command for reminders
work against specific calendars (by calendar name w/ regex)
flag file support for specifying option defaults
colored output and unicode character support
super fun hacking with shell scripts, cron, screen, tmux, conky, etc
Install Gcalcli in Ubuntu:
This python app is available in the default repositories of Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10, and Ubuntu 12.04. So we can easily install it by running below command (or via Software Center):
sudo apt-get install gcalcli
For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, due to this bug, we need to download & install the latest parsedatetime 1.2 to get gcalcli work.
cd /tmp
wget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/python-parsedatetime_1.2-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-parsedatetime_1.2-1_all.deb
How to Use Gcalcli:
Before getting started, set up your Google Account via:
nano ~/.gcalclirc
Type in below as its content:
[gcalcli]
user: GMAIL-ACCOUNT
pw: PASSWORD
After saving the changes by Ctrl+X, type y, and hit Enter, use the tool via below commands:
To get your agenda:
gcalcli agenda
To get a month agenda in a nice calendar format:
gcalcli calm
Quick add an event:
gcalcli quick 'text here'
For more, run:
gcalcli --help
Display Google Calendar as Desktop Widget:
With this command line tool, you can also display Google Calendar on your desktop through conky. To do so, first install the required packages:
Vuze BitTorrent client has finally reached v5.4.0 with new features, UI changes and various bug fixes.
Vuze is a multimedia BitTorrent client based on Azureus intended for DVD and HD video. It includes some social-networking features to share videos among friends.
User Interface
Added ‘force start’ and ‘super seeding’ options to the create-torrent wizard
File filter added to torrent-options dialog
Minimum/Target share ratio setters added to column menu and torrent options view
Added ‘SHA1′ column to files-view
Added a default save directory to apply when ‘best guess’ is enabled and nothing matches
File path names can now be entered into the search box to open the torrent
New column showing the date of completion of the most recent file
Added ‘initial tags’ to the create-torrent wizard
Enabled networks can now be specified in torrent-options dialog
Added an ‘apply to current’ function to tags with initial-save/move-on-complete set
Added ‘availability’ button to torrent-options to allow a torrent’s availability to be checked before addition
Tag buttons can now be enabled in Library view; category buttons can be hidden
Added ‘pause for’ option for selected torrents in Library view via Advanced menu
Client Core
Added simple tag constraint language (e.g. to define a tag that contains downloads whose title matches a regex)
BEP 40: Canonical Peer Priority
Added ‘copy-on-complete’ function to tags
HTTPS support for web-seeds
Speed limit handler can now start/stop downloads assigned to particular tags
Install Vuze in Ubuntu:
The getdeb apps repository contains the latest packages for Ubuntu 14.04, see: GetDeb.net
If you don’t want to add this repository, go to the link below:
Download Vuze .DEB
Download and install below packages via Gdebi (available in Software Center):
