Terra is a drop-down terminal emulator based on GTK+3.0. It has a tranparent background and supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically.
It’s a good alternative to Yakuake terminal. Here are the screenshots:
Install Terra in Ubuntu & its derivatives
For Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Linux Mint and Elementary OS. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one to install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ozcanesen/terra-terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terra
Download and install the DEB from this page if you don’t want to add the ppa.
Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. It is a search GUI powered by locate and find behind the scenes, with autocompletion from Zeitgeist and locate. The advanced options allow filtering by date and file type. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+.
Features:
search files anywhere on your computer, include mounted partitions.
search hidden files
search files by modified time
search files by type
Install Catfish File Search:
You can install Catfish file searching tool in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands one by one to install the tool:
Indicator-terminal is an applet in Ubuntu top panel that shows a terminal window for running commands when you click on the icon.
Install Indicator-terminal in Ubuntu:
NOTE: This project is still in early development. It has bugs and may break you system. Use it at your own risk!
There’s a PPA for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, when it opens, run below commands one by one:
TVPVRD is a highly flexible and configurable server daemon that acts as an advanced digital TV recorder using one or several installed TV capture cards.
The server manages scheduled recordings and provides an efficient command language interface on a dedicated TCP/IP port. As an alternative interface the daemon also comes with a basic WEB-interface through the daemons built in micro-web-server. To keep the WEB-interface simple only the most common commands are available through this interface.
The goal with this project is to provide an advanced recording and transcoding (using ffmpeg) server without the need to configure complex databases or GUI. The daemon sits unobtrusively in the background.
The server is self-contained and uses a plain text database (in XML format) to store and manage recordings. In addition, the server has built-in intelligence to make it as easy as possible to manage and use. Examples are highly flexible commands to specify future recordings and automatic load assessment on the server to avoid starting too many parallel transcoding jobs. The server is completely self-contained and has a small footprint.
Install TVPVRD in Ubuntu:
The GetDeb repository provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, and a little old versions for Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 11.10 and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
To Add GetDeb repository, just download and double-click to install the package below (For Linux Mint users, read this post).
getdeb package
Once done, install TVPVRD by running below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install tvpvrd
Use TVPVRD:
There are two main ways to use tvpvrd:
via command line shell, run man tvpsh to get details
via the built in Webserver (http://localhost:9301/)
You need to enable the config file by running below command:
cd /etc/tvpvrd; sudo mv tvpvrd.conf.full.template tvpvrd.conf
Then edit the file by:
sudo gedit /etc/tvpvrd/tvpvrd.conf
There you can change the port, enable web interface by “enable_webinterface=yes” and many other settings.
As you may know, Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.
What makes Brackets different from other web code editors?
Tools shouldn’t get in your way. Instead of cluttering up your coding environment with lots of panels and icons, the Quick Edit UI in Brackets puts context-specific code and tools inline.
Brackets is in sync with your browser. With Live Development, Brackets works directly with your browser to push code edits instantly and jump back and forth between your real source code and the browser view.
Do it yourself. Because Brackets is open source, and built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, you can help build the best code editor for the web.
Try out Brackets:
The official download page provides the DEB packages for Debian / Ubuntu and their derivatives, such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS, and so forth.
Just download and double click the DEB to bring up Ubuntu Software Center and install it. Or run below commands instead once downloaded:
Pipelight is a special browser plugin allows to run your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser. The project combines the effort by Erich E. Hoover with a new browser plugin that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API.
Pipelight consists out of two parts: A Linux library which is loaded into the browser and a Windows program started in Wine. The Windows program, called pluginloader.exe, simply simulates a browser and loads the Silverlight DLLs. When you open a page with a Silverlight application the library will send all commands from the browser through a pipe to the Windows process and act like a bridge between your browser and Silverlight. The used pipes do not have any big impact on the speed of the rendered video since all the video and audio data is not send through the pipe. Only the initialization parameters and (sometimes) the network traffic is send through them. As a user you will not notice anything from that “magic” and you can simply use Silverlight the same way as on Windows, like you can see on the following screenshot:
Install Pipelight on Ubuntu
Warning: Before you continue the installation you should note that:
It is strongly recommended to close your browser before installing! Some browsers try immediately to load the plugin which might fail or crash the browser when the installation is not complete!
Silverlight might contain (like all other browser plugins) security issues – You may want to enable click-to-play for this plugin to prevent an undesired start of Silverlight.
Pipelight needs to start Wine to execute the pluginloader. This may slow down the start of your browser.
The Pipelight PPA is available for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives. You can easily install it by running below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) one by one:
You may need to accept a license agreement for a set of fonts during the installation. After it’s done just start your browser, type about:plugins in the addressbar and hit enter – if the installation went well you should now see Silverlight in your plugin list and everything is ready to run! Pipelight will install Silverlight on the first start of your browser, this may freeze the interface for several minutes (and you may just see a blank page without any progress). There might appear some dialog asking if Mono or Gecko should be installed during the Silverlight installation – you can safely choose no, as this is not necessary to get Pipelight running. After this step, the overall performance of your browser shouldn’t be affected any more.
Try to install BeatBox music player in Ubuntu? Well, I’m here to tell you Beatbox has gone! The developer announced that he won’t take much attention on it due to lack of time. If you prefer this music player, you may go to noise.
“I’m sorry to say that BeatBox will not be seeing much attention from me at this point due to lack of time.
I’ve added elementary to the BeatBox team, which means they can merge, pull, push, whatever they want to the project. I’ve recommended that they merge parts of BeatBox. Its core and plugin API could be very useful to them, but whether or not that merge happens is up to them.” — Scott Ringwelski
BeatBox was the default music player for Elementary OS, and now it is Noise. Though there is not much of differences between Beatbox and Noise, both only differs by: Music view, Search bar, and the name of course
Install Noise in Ubuntu and Linux Mint
Due to the dependency problem, BeatBox is not working now. So here’s how to install Noise music player in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 13, 15, 16.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the Elementary daily build PPA:
This will install a package called Apticron, which is a simple script sends daily emails about pending package updates such as security updates, properly handling packages on hold both by deselect and aptitude.
Apticron is available in Ubuntu’s universe repository. You can install it via apt-get command, or just search for and install the package from Ubuntu Software Center.
Once installed, edit the config file /etc/apticron/apticron.conf. Enter your email address by replacing root with your email address.
# apticron.conf
#
# set EMAIL to a space separated list of addresses which will be notified of
# impending updates
# EMAIL=”root”
Save and close the file.
When updates are available you will get an email once a day. When no updates are available, apticron doesn’t send any email.
The bpm-tools is a command line tool to automatically calculate and tag the tempo (in beats-per-minute) of music files. It reliably detects the tempo of the vast majority of popular music I have used it with, and is a useful tool for DJs and use with xwax on Linux, and scripting on the command-line.
Right now the code serves as the best explanation of the algorithm — a relatively simple application of an autocorrelation by statistical sampling. As yet, there is no scientific comparison of the algorithm with others software.
bmp-tools is available in Ubuntu Software Center for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. For Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, you may install it from PPA by running below 2 commands one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):
PostMan is a small utility allows to upload images to Flickr, Google+, Picasa, and Ubuntu one. This is done through a simple and modern intuitive user interface. Drag stamps to mark destinations, and drag images to select content.
PostMan image uploader is available for Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.04 in Ubuntu Software Center. Just search for and install the package. For Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, download the DEB from the below link:
