Mon, 20/02/2012 - 20:05 | 
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According to the Firefox 2012 roadmap, Mozilla plans to introduce some major changes and new features this year, including a new default theme called Australis:
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:
Wed, 01/02/2012 - 20:27 | webupd8.org
FreeFileSync is a muti-platform folder comparison and synchronization tool that comes with some very useful features like support for multiple folder pairs, binary files support, can create "batch files" which can be used to automate folder synchronization and others.
Mon, 30/01/2012 - 16:39 | webupd8.org
ownCloud is a free software alternative to some proprietary web services that includes music streaming, file management which supports sharing, calendar, contacts and more:
ownCloud offers the ease-of-use of Dropbox and box.net with a more secure, transparently managed offering. As an open source project ownCloud 3 offers innovative features, a flexible architecture and no vendor lock in.
ownCloud 3 has been released recently with some cool new features, such as:
- Built-in cloud text editor that supports 35 programming languages for syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts support, automatic indent and outdent, unstructured / user code folding and live syntax checker (for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS). Editing more advanced file types like .doc and .odt is planned for a future release:
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:53 | webupd8.org
beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all".
It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.
Further more, beets is extensible through plugins which add extra functionality like embedding or extracting album art from files, fetch lyrics for all your songs, clean up tags and and there's even a HTML5 web player (though it's very basic and can't do too much for now).
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
Thu, 12/01/2012 - 18:31 | webupd8.org
Super Flexible File Synchronizer is a cloud backup and synchronization tool that supports FTP, SSH, WebDAV, Amazon S3, and Google Docs. The application is cross-platform, but only the Linux version is free (though it's proprietary).
Super Flexible File Synchronizer uses ZIP compression and data encryption and comes with multiple synchronization modes, like Standard Copying, Exact Mirror, and SmartTracking.
Probably the most interesting thing about Super Flexible File Synchronizer is the Google Docs support which you can use to easily synchronize your documents from / to your computer, so any changes you make on Google Docs an be synced with your computer as well as the other way around. The application also supports synchronizing files between two Google Docs accounts, or between any of the supported services / protocols.
Wed, 11/01/2012 - 15:30 | webupd8.org
WinUSB is a tool that lets you create a Windows USB install stick from Linux in just two clicks. The application supports Windows 7 an Vista and can use either an ISO or a DVD as a source.
A while back we wrote about creating a bootable windows 7 USB drive from Linux using Unetbootin, but newer Unetbootin versions can't do this anymore (you can still use an older version though) and you have to manually format the USB drive to NTFS, which may look a bit complicated for some users. But thanks to WinUSB, this process is now a lot easier!
WinUSB comes with both a graphical user interface and a command line tool and in my test, I was able to successfully boot the Windows Seven USB stick created using WinUSB (created under Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot).
Install WinUSB and create a USB stick Windows installer from Linux
Mon, 09/01/2012 - 16:32 | webupd8.org
Sublime Text 2 is an excellent TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.
If you like Sublime Text 2, you'll love Sublime Package Control, a cross-platform package manager that lets you easily discover, install and update various packages (plugins) for Sublime Text 2.
Here are some of the plugins that you can install using Sublime Package Control: GIT, Mercurial or SFTP/FTP support, CSS Less (code folding and nesting for CSS), GoTo Recent, HeX viewer and editor, jQuery snippets pack, Vim / Emacs like modelines, SCSS bundle, Open Terminal, JSLint, PowerShell Utils, LaTeX Tools, HTML5 bundle, Zen Coding and many others.
Thu, 05/01/2012 - 19:44 | webupd8.org
Minutube, a simple application which you can use to download and play YouTube videos without Flash, has reached version 1.7.
Among the most important changes in Minitube 1.7 are:
- Clickable usernames in the playlist (so you can see more videos from a certain user/channel)
- "Manually start playing" option
- "Stop after this video" option
- Window "Float on Top" option
- Ability to skip to the previous video
The new version also supports passing an YouTube URL or even a search query via command line which means you can for instance create an Unity lens that opens videos in Minitube (like the one for VLC), browser extensions, etc.
