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Movgrab features:

• proxy support
• write the download to std-out so you can easily play the video in an external application
• lets you pick the preferred video/audio formats for sites that offer more than one
• generic downloader which means Movgrab might be able to download videos from other websites not listed as supported
• can resume downloads (use "-r" - only works when writing a single file)
• fork into background (use "-b" flag)
• written in straight C so it has no dependencies

Full list of supported websites: 

Basic Impressive usage:

- Use left click to advance to a new slide and right click to go back to the previous slide (the arrow keys work too).

- To create a highlight box, draw a rectangle using your left mouse button:

• Unity support for opening new windows
• Searching by regular expression
• Improve and extend drag&drop support to include more sources of text, e.g. Gtk file chooser path buttons
• Add a plugin to watch a terminal for inactvity
• Add configuration to remove terminal dimensions from titlebars
• many bug fixes

WebUpd8 reader Reda El Khattabi has created a small tool that makes it very easy to create an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Zenity, YAD (a Zenity fork with many improvements) or basically any bash script or command.

Features:

• supports submenus and separators
• you can specify a custom icon
• persistent mode or quit after executing command

For now the tool doesn't support specifying a timeout after which it should quit, but this feature might be added in the future.

Usage (examples)

echo "Add
Advanced
List
Search
Settings" | ./cappind.py -p -i y-ppa-manager | while read s; do
case "$s" in
Add ) y-ppa-cmd add ;;
Advanced ) y-ppa-cmd advanced ;;
List ) y-ppa-cmd list ;;
Search ) y-ppa-cmd search ;;
Settings ) y-ppa-cmd settings ;;
esac
done

• "-p" makes the indicator persistent and adds a quit menu item at the end - without it, the indicator quits after executing the select action.
• "-i" specifies an icon from the current icon theme (don't use an exact path to an icon, it won't work. Just enter an icon name).

Martin Owens has announced the release of two plugin that allow you to publish your images to DeviantArt with a single click from GIMP or Inkscape:

This is a BIG deal my friends and I’m very excited because not only do we have this functionality, but we have it FIRST, before ANY proprietary software package. That’s right, the stash API was only announced last week and here I am giving you the keys to brand spanking new functionality right from within your favourite art creation applications!

- Martin Owens

Install deviantArt Stash Plugins for GIMP and Inkscape

The plugins are available for Ubuntu 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04 in Martin Owens' PPA and you can install them using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/deviantart-plugins
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp-plugin-dastash inkscape-extension-dastash

To publish an image to DeviantArt: