Tue, 15/05/2012 - 20:26 | 
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Nautilus Columns is a Nautilus extension that displays PDF and audio (mp3, WAV and FLAC) tags as well as EXIF metadata to the Nautilus List View. The extension has been updated recently by WebUpd8 reader Arun to work with Nautilus 3.4 so you can use it in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The extension supports displaying the following info in the Nautilus list view columns:
- mp3, WAV, FLAC: artist, track, album, title, bitrate, date, genre, length and sample rate
- EXIF: dateshot, image size, software and flash
- PDF: title, author (displayed under "Artist")
Screenshots:
Tags: Mon, 06/02/2012 - 20:10 | webupd8.org
Impressive is a cross-platform tool to display presentations in a stylish way. The application supports PDF files or a folder containing images and besides beautiful slide transitions, Impressive features some useful presentation tools like: highlight boxes, which can be used to draw attention to a specific part of the slide, spotlight effect which is kind of like a highlight box but dynamic, and a screen overview which you can use to easily select a slide.
Impressive is highly customizable too, but unfortunately there's no GUI front-end (at least, that I know of). However, the default settings should be good enough for most people and to run it, all you have to do is open a terminal and type: "impressive /path/to/some_presentation.pdf" or "impressive /path/to/image/folder/" and the presentation should start.
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:
Mon, 23/01/2012 - 15:37 | webupd8.org
Mendeley is a free to use, cross-platform PDF organizer with some extra features that make document management and research easier:
- Reference manager (generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice / LibreOffice)
- PDF viewer (can also add annotations, etc.)
- Import and organize PDFs
- Collaborate / share documents
- Backup and cloud sync
The application is basically a library manager for your PDF files that lets you organize and even store your documents in the cloud (without encryption) and can be used from Linux, Windows, Mac, mobile devices or the web. With a free account, you get 500MB of personal storage and another 500MB of shared space and you can also create both public and private groups to easily share documents with friends or colleagues.
Tabbed interface, supports annotations
Fri, 07/10/2011 - 14:36 | webupd8.org
ReText is a text editor for MarkDown syntax that supports some popular formats such as PDF, ODT, HTML and plain text. It has tabs support, live previews, web pages generator, HTML syntax highlighting, KDE integration and more.
ReText keeps improving and since our last ReText post, it got many cool new features. For instance, ReText could export to Google Docs but only for new documents so you couldn't replace/update any existing documents. But the latest ReText got support for GData 3 API, meaning you can update the files you've previously exported to Google Docs.
However, you can't import files from Google Docs so the files need to be saved locally if you want to update them.
ReText now also supports reST (reStructuredText), with a GUI option to switch between Markdown and reST as well as a full-screen mode for distraction free writing.
Other new features:
Tue, 13/09/2011 - 11:45 | webupd8.org
Many users try Linux for the first time in a dual boot setup so WebUpd8 reader Satyajit has created a nice dual booting guide to help them get started.
Guide to Dual Booting (PDF) tries to cover the basics: from a detailed Windows, Ubuntu or Fedora installation guide to various issues users may encounter like what happens if you install Windows after Ubuntu and how to get Ubuntu back by restoring GRUB or adding Linux to the Windows bootloader (using an utility that lets you tweak the Windows bootloader, called EasyBCD), which may seem easier for users coming from Windows.
And to make it complete, the guide also covers removing either Windows or Linux from the dual boot setup.
You, the WebUpd8 readers, probably don't need this guide, but I'm sure you have friends who want to try Linux and will find this dual booting guide useful.
