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.
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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:
My Weather Indicator is a simple applet that displays weather information on panel and widget on desktop. Here’s how to install in Ubuntu 13.10, Elementary OS, Linux Mint 16 via PPA.
The supported weather services are Open Weather Map, wunderground.com, YAHOO!, world weather online. My Weather Indicator supports two locations and displays temperature, pressure, visibility, wind velocity, rain gauge, snow gauge, and local time. It also displays a widget on your desktop.
Install My Weather Indicator:
You can install My Weather Indicator in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and their derivatives.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the ppa:
The touchpad indicator applet, which shows the status of the touchpad, and to enable and disable the touchpad, now is available in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy. Here I’ll show you how to install it in Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Elementary OS using the developer’s PPA repository.
So far, the PPA provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and the derivatives. Also there are old versions for Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10 and derivatives.
Tutotiral Objectives
Install Touchpad Indicator in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy
Enjoy!
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the Touchpad Indicator PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
Then you can install the indicator via below commands:
After properly installed Nvidia drives in Ubuntu, you may get the Nvidia Logo while booting up your machine. If you find it’s annoying to have this screen, this tutorial will show you how to easily disable it by two ways.
One command to disable Nvidia logo
The easiest way to do this is running below command in terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T):
sudo nvidia-xconfig --no-logo
After that, you won’t see the logo in bootup any longer.
The other way is to manually edit the Nvidia config file. Edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf by running below command:
sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
add Option “NoLogo” to Section “Device”, make it look like this:
XnView MP has reached version 0.61. Since the default is version 0.51 in Ubuntu Software Center, the latest XnView brings a lot of bug fixes and improvements. With this tutorial, you can always get the latest version of XnView in Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Changes since XnView MP 0.51:
Batch convert: Watermark, stretch image
remember item selection in information panel
8bf 64bits plugin can be used with XnViewMP 64bits version
XMP-photoshop:Location not more written
JPEG arithmetic decoding support
Change timestamp can create EXIF date
Show always selection information
JPEG2000 Export
Print in view mode
Clean DB can remove files with categories
Database has been improved, PLEASE make an backup of it before to install this version
Linux, better way to delete files/folders
Fix XMP/IPTC import problem
Download & Install XnView MP:
First you may check OS type 32-bit or 64-bit by System Settings -> Details.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal:
For 32-bit system, download and install XnView via below 2 commands:
PAC is a free alternative to SecureCRT and Putty. It provides a GUI to configure connections: users, passwords, EXPECT regular expressions, macros, etc.
PAC Manager works on Debian/Ubuntu, and RPM based linux platforms. All you need to do is download and install the installer package and fix denpendencies.
Features:
Unique linux app to implement SecureCRT’s functionality (more or less!)
Remote and local macros
Remotely send commands with EXPECT regexp
Cluster connections!! Connections on same cluster share keystrokes!!
Scripting support! (vía Perl code)
Serial/tty connection via cu/tip/remote-tty connections!!
Pre/post connections local executions
TABS OR WINDOWS for connections!!
Proxy support
KeePass integration!
Wake On LAN capabilities
Possibility to split terminals in the same TAB!
Quick acces to configured connections via tray menu icon
Best linux GUI for ssh, telnet, sftp, rdesktop, vnc, cu, remote-tty, ftp, etc
DEB, RPM & .TAR.GZ packages available!!
More to come (ASA I find time!)
FREE (GNU GPLv3)
To get started, download the .deb package from SourceForge.
Then press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run blow commands to install the package:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/pac-*all.deb
Fix dependency problem if any:
sudo apt-get -f install
Install the indicator support for Unity Desktop:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2-appindicator-perl
When everything is done, open PAC Manager from the Unity Dash.
Transmission is a lightweight Bittorrent Client comes by default with Ubuntu. While Canonical only provides critical updates, here I’ll show you how to install / upgrade the latest Transmission in Ubuntu via its PPA. Supports Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise and Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal.
UPDATE 2024: The tutorial is outdated! If you’re looking for most recent Transmission PPA, see this one instead.
At the moment of writing this tutorial, the latest release is Transmission 2.8.2. It brings a lot of bug fixes and a few improvements.
Fix webseed crash
Fix crash when adding UDP trackers whose host’s canonical name couldn’t be found
Fix crash when sending handshakes to some peers immediately after adding a magnet link
Fix crash when parsing incoming encrypted handshakes when the user is removing the related torrent
Add safeguard to prevent zombie processes after running a script when a torrent finishes downloading
Fix “bad file descriptor” error
Queued torrents no longer show up as paused after exiting & restarting
Fix 2.81 compilation error on OpenBSD
Don’t misidentify Tixati as BitTornado?
Fix bug that had slow download speeds until editing preferences for Mac Client
Fix crash that occurred in some cases after using Torrent > Set Location
Fix crash where on_app_exit() got called twice in a row
Fix 2.81 compilation error on older versions of glib
Can now open folders that have a ‘#’ in their names
Silence gobject warning when updating a blocklist from URL
Add Qt5 support
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal. When it opens, run below command to add the Bittorrent PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
After that, run blow command to install Bittorrent. Or use Synaptic Package Manager to upgrade the package.
This quick tip is going to show you how to install the Classic Gnome Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander. 
