Xnoise, a GTK media player with intuitive user interface and great speed now is available for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty in its PPA.
Xnoise 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).
Xnoise has a whole lot of features. Among these are:
Simple GUI without clutter
Fast(!) searchable media library
Album Art view for a convenient view on album cover images
Plugins for MPRIS, Magnatune, LastFm (album art and scrobbling), Lyrics fetching, Notifications, Ubuntu Soundmenu, …
Available for a lot of different languages
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Screenshot:
Install Xnoise:
Add the PPA to get the latest version of Xnoise. To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it open run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shkn/xnoise
After that, install the media player after checking for updates:
QuiteRSS is an open-source RSS/Atom news feeds reader available for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OS/2. It’s written in Qt/С++, aims to be quite fast and comfortable.
QuiteRSS has below features:
Feed and news filters: new, unread, starred, deleted (for news until restart application)
User filters
Proxy configuration: automatic or manual
Feed import wizard: Search feed URL if site URL was entered
Embedded browser (Webkit core)
Mark news starred
Automatic update feeds: on startup, by timer
Automatic cleanup on close using criterias
Enable/Disable images in news preview
Ability to quickly hide feed tree (for comfortable viewing)
Open feed or news in own tab
Quick news filter and quick search in browser
Sound / Popup notification on new news
Show new or unread news counter on tray icon
Minimize on system tray: on start, on close, on minimize
Import/Export feeds (OPML-files)
Portable (Windows)
Free working set (Windows)
Shortcuts
Open-source
So far, this latest release is QuiteRSS 0.14.2 (30 Dec 2013), which contains below changes:
Added: Option “Options->Browser->Load images”
Added: Feed option “Disable update”
Added: Shortcuts for main browser actions
Added: Setting for text and background colors of focused feed
Added: Language: Finnish
Changed: Load feed’s favicon from main webpage
Changed: Process “dc:date” while parsing feed
Changed: Mouse gestures. Jump to news description if there is no previous page on back-action
Changed: Address bar appearance
Changed: Send whole new’s text when share news by e-mail
Fixed: Adding feeds that contains “amp;”
Fixed: Parsing of some feeds
Fixed: Action “Next unread news”
Fixed: Recounting and displaying counters in categories tree
Fixed: Manual run of filter when option “Store DB in memory” is disabled
Fixed: Displaying focused feed, while switching tabs with enabled filter
Fixed: Taking account of filter text when switching news filter
Install QuiteRSS:
For Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives, we can easily install QuiteRSS from PPA.
To do so, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run commands below one by one:
Codimension is yet another free experimental Python IDE licensed under GPL v3. It aims to provide an integrated system for traditional text-based code editing, and diagram-based code analysis.
Many Python developers will find codimension useful as-is, even though not all of its features have been implemented yet.
Codimension currently has belw features (major only, no certain order):
Ability to work with standalone files and with projects
Remembering the list of opened files (and the cursor position in each file) separately for each project
Editing history support within / between files
Ability to hide / show tab bars
Recently edited files list support for each project separately
Recent projects list support
Automatic watching of the project directories for deleted / created files and nested directories
Template supports for new python fies for each project separately
Editor syntax highlight
Imports diagram for a file, a directory (recursively) or for a whole project with jumps to the code
Simple line counter
Hierarchical python files content browser with quick jumps to the code
Hierarchical classes / functions / globals browsers with filtering and quick jump to the code
Object browsers support showing docstrings as items tooltips
File outline tab
Running pylint with one click and quick jumps to the code from the produced output
Running pymetrics with one click and quick jumps to the code from the produced output where possible
Ability to run pylint / pymetrics for a file, a directory (recursively) or for a whole project
Table sortable representation of the McCabe cyclomatic complexity for a file or many files
Ability to have pylint settings file for each project separately
Opening file imports using a hot key; jumping to a definition of a certain imported item
Incremental search in a file
Incremental replace in a file
Search in files
Search for a name (class, function, global variable) in the project
Search for a file in the project
Jumping to a line in a file
Pixmaps viewer
Editor skins support
Detecting files changed outside of codimension
Code completer
Docstring and calltip search for the current editor word
Jump to the definition of the current word
Finding occurrences of the current word
Jumping to the beginning of the current function or class
Main menu
PythonTidy (python code beautifier) integration and diff viewer
Unused classes, functions and global variables analysis
Disassembling for classes and functions
Table representation of profiling results
Graphics representation of profiling results (side effect: shows a call graph)
Debugger
PyFlakes integration
Calltips
Plugin support
SVN support
Install Codimension:
It’s easy to install this IDE in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install it from PPA:
Netflix Desktop app for Ubuntu Linux now is at 0.8.7. This release works around a problem with upstream Wine 1.7.9, it is highly recommended that anyone working off of the latest Wine also upgrade Netflix Desktop.
As you may know, Netflix Desktop provides a convient tool that downloads and installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight. The project package also includes some convience settings to integrate Netflix into Firefox in such a way that everything feels like a native Ubuntu application.
Netflix Desktop 0.8.7 gets below changes:
Fixed a mistake in the wine-mpg2splt-installer installation script.
Fixed a problem with missing download files.
Updated the British English, French, Uyghur, Turkish translations.
Fixed xattr python script on newer Ubuntu releases.
Updated Silverlight 5.1 to include the fix for MS13-087.
Blacklisted hardware acceleration for nVidia driver 310.44.
Turn GPU acceleration on for Nouveau and Tungsten Graphics drivers.
Install Netflix Desktop:
For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives, Netflix Desktop can be easily installed from PPA.
Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to add the Netflix Desktop ppa:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
Then you can get the latest packages after checking for updates:
After nine months of hard work, the developer finally announced the GraphicsMagick 1.3.19. This release brings dozens of bugfixes, several feature and performance improvements, and also below new features:
JPEG: Add support for writing ‘XMP’ profile.
PNM: As a simple non-standard extension to the standard PNM and PAM formats, support writing and reading 32-bit sample depth. Writing such files is only supported by the Q32 build although they may be read by any build.
WebP: Now supports reading and writing Google’s WebP format. This feature is not currently supported by the Windows Visual Studio build.
Looking for a command-line IRC client? Well, there’s a good app called F-IRC. Its goal is to be as user friendly as possible with easy navigation and keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation. The learning curve should be as shallow as possible.
The developer wrote this app because:
I wrote it because I had too many problems with irssi. For a lot (most?) people irssi is perfect but I wanted an easy, clear interface like XChat and mIRC usable from within a terminal window (and compatible to GNU screen). I wanted easy channel select navigation, a pop-up menu for actions and easy to configure. There was no such thing at that time.
Install F-IRC:
I’ve build this app into PPA for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
To add the ppa, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Then install the irc client via:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install f-irc
Go to F-IRC homepage for source tarball if you would like to build it yourself.
PlayOnLinux, the graphical front-end of Wine has reached version 4.2.2. As you may know, PlayOnLinux provides a clean, user friendly interface for Linux users to install and use Windows applications and games.
PlayOnLinux is a free software based on wine and you don’t have to own a Windows® license to use it. The latest version 4.2.2 was released on 31 Dec 2013. ChangeLog is available in the source code.
PlayOnLinux main window, installed app listed here
PlayOnLinux lists all available apps
Install PlayOnLinux:
To get PlayOnLinux working, we must install wine:i386 for Ubuntu 12.04 and higher.
Install Wine:
To install the stable version of wine, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and then run below command:
sudo apt-get install wine:i386
If you would like to install Wine with latest new features, run below commands one by one in terminal to install Wine 1.7 from PPA:
QMplay2, a qt-based media player and downloader just got a new update. As you may know, QMplay2 plays all formats and stream supported by ffmpeg and libmodplug (including J2B). Also it has an integrated Youtube browser.
According to the changlog, the new release fixed ALSA issue, improved the code and playback settings, added the possibility to record covers as well as German translations.
Install QMplay2 in Ubuntu:
QMplay2 is updating frequently, one or two weeks per release, the best way to get the player is using the PPA repository.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:samrog131/ppa
After that, you can always run below commands (or use Synaptic Package Manager) to install or upgrade QMplay2:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qmplay2
Once installed, open the player from Menu / Unity Dash, or media files’ context menu.
Qtractor, free multi-track recording and sequencing software just released version 0.5.12 with many great new features.
As you may know, Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Target platform is Linux, where the Jack Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI are the main infrastructures to evolve as a fairly-featured Linux desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home-studio.
The latest Qtractor 0.5.12 contains below changes:
Fixed another off-by-one MIDI plugin chain timing bug, delaying the actual playback of the first MIDI event, whenever it started at the same and as long as the initial play-head position (after another ticket by Holger Marzen, thanks again).
A new LV2 host convention is in effect on plugins that expose multiple AtomPort’s in either direction: only the first input or output declared AtomPort is eligible to convey regular MIDI data events (introduced while trying Frank Kober’s forthcoming QmidiArp LV2 suite of plugins,thanks).
Zooming with shift/ctrl+mouse-wheel and pointing over the main tracks view or MIDI clip editor time ruler header’s now fixed.
A rare freezing loop condition has been fixed on the oldest of MIDI file save/write routines (after a ticket and solution by Tuomas Airaksinen, thanks again).
Copy/paste now preserving clip names (ticket by Holger Marzen, thanks).
Scaling of whole tempo map with a given factor has been added, through a spin-box and button in Tempo Map / Markers dialog, after a long overdue patch by Tuomas Airaksinen, thanks again.
When issued from main tracks view (ie. Clip/Tools menu) MIDI clip tools are now a bit more crash-resilient re. undo/redo-ability.
Session auto-save / crash-recovery support is now on trial as in View/Options…/General/Session/Auto-save current working session every 10 minutes (default on).
Plugin-list chain context-menu now includes MIDI instrument audio output options to existing non-dedicated output buses, any other than the previous hard-wired default (eg. Master).
Tracks export now allows for the mix-down/merge of multiple audio/MIDI output buses (Track/Export Tracks).
When adding new tracks, try preserving the last selected bus names, while not the default Master ones (after a suggestion from danboid aka. Daniel MacDonald, thanks).
More preparations for Qt5 configure build.
Brand new thumb-(over)view toolbar widget added to MIDI clip editor window (aka. piano-roll overview).
General MIDI RPN/NRPN 14-bit controller support is now being introduced on real-time MIDI input parsing, on standard MIDI file I/O, on MIDI Controller options and, of course, on MIDI clip and event list editor.
Pretty innocent nitpick on most thread cleanup routines.
Download & Install Qtracktor:
The DEB packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian, RPM packages for Fedora, OpenSUSE are available in qt-apps.org
RSSOwl, the powerful RSS / RDF / Atom News Feed Reader now is at version 2.2.1. The developer announced in the website:
After some time without news from RSSOwl, I am happy to release version 2.2.1. You will now find quick access to common actions like archiving or labeling right below the article content. Especially for articles with lots of content this means you no longer have to scroll all the way up to the title to run actions on the news. In addition, some broken keyword feeds have been fixed and new ones added.
RSSOwl common actions below the content
Install RSSOwl:
The GetDeb repository has built this release for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Linux Mint 13/16. To get started installing it, follow the steps below:
1. Add GetDeb repository:
For Ubuntu user, download and double-click to install this deb.
For Linux Mint user, there’s an option under Software Sources -> Additional Repositories -> archive.getdeb.net.
2. Use Synaptic Package Manager to reload package lists and install the app. Or just run below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
