Geary Is An Amazing Email Client For Linux

September 7, 2017, 7:45 pm

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Geary is a free and open-source desktop email application, developed for Linux users written vala language and released under GNU LGPL-v2.1 license. It is simple and straightforward to setup and has modern user interface. It shows email messages as conversations which lets you read a complete discussion without having to find and click from message to message.
It supports almost every major email provider such as Yahoo, Gmail, Outlook and so on, as well as other email services either your own or by some company using IMAP configuration. It notifies you for the new email using desktop notifications so you will never miss an email. It's interface easy and straightforward and email setup is fairly simple. Further more it lets you search and organize your emails easily.

Features:

Modern and straightforward interface
Quick email account setup
Shows related messages together in conversations
Fast, full text and keyword search
Full-featured HTML and plain text message composer
Desktop notification of new mail
Compatible with GMail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com and other IMAP servers
Ability to answer directly in conversations or open it in a separate window
Signature support
Support for sending as another identity

To install Geary email client in Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install geary

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install Geary email client (Dev builds) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geary-team/dev-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install geary

Available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install Geary email client (Stable releases) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:geary-team/releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install geary

That's it

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Latest OwnCloud Is A Major Release So Far, Install In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 7, 2017, 7:46 pm

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ownCloud is a cloud hosting solution which can be deployed at home and using it locally or access it from anywhere. It functions similar to Dropbox/Google Drive and so on but with more functionality. It is open-source, free to use that means anyone can create a private server at home/office or for business. ownCloud also support online services like Google Drive, with online document editing, calendar and contact synchronization, and more.
Now you don't have to pay anyone in order to host your data because you store your data in your own server and access it using ownCloud from any device inside network and from anywhere in the world (you have to configure it). Its openness eschews enforced quotas on storage space or the number of connected clients, instead having hard limits (like on storage space or number of users) defined only by the physical capabilities of the server.

The ownCloud server is written in the PHP and JavaScript scripting languages. For remote access, it employs SabreDAV, an open-source WebDAV server. ownCloud is designed to work with several database management systems, including SQLite, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle Database, MSSQL and PostgreSQL.
In order to synchronize files with their ownCloud server, desktop (For Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X) and mobile (Android and iOS) clients are available. Files and other data (such as calendars, contacts or bookmarks) can also be accessed using a web browser without any additional software. Any updates to files are pushed between all computers or mobile devices connected to a user's account. Access, Sync and Share your data, under your control. ownCloud provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to view, sync and share across devices easily-all under your control. ownCloud's open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.

Using ownCloud mobile Apps you can browse all of your ownCloud synced files, create and edit new files, share these files and folders with co-workers, and keep the contents of those folders in sync across all of your devices. Simply copy a file into a directory on your server and ownCloud does the rest. Whether using a mobile device, a desktop, or the web client, ownCloud provides the ability to put the right files in the right hands at the right time on any device in one simple-to-use, secure, private and controlled solution.

Features:

Smooth performance and easy user interface.
File storage in conventional directory structures or via WebDAV.
Encryption of user files.
Synchronization of clients running Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X.
Calendar (also as CalDAV)
Task scheduler.
Address book (also as CardDAV)
Music streaming (through Ampache)
User and group administration (via OpenID or LDAP)
Sharing of content across groups or public URLs.
Online text editor with syntax highlighting and code folding
Bookmarking
URL shortening Suite
Photo gallery and video viewer.
Viewer for ODF Files (.odt, .odp, .ods)
Mozilla Sync hosting - If you are a Mozilla Firefox user, all history, form data, bookmarks etc. can be stored in your ownCloud server.
Connecting external storages (If you have accounts on Dropbox, GoogleDrive, or Amazon S3, you can mount those storages into your ownCloud installation)
Customizable with one-click-install apps.
File editing and preview support for PDF, images, text files, Open Document, Word files and more.
Integration of anti-virus scanning functionality with the anti-virus app.
LDAP / Active directory integration
Example files for new users. Preload a new user's Files area with, for example, a tutorial file, which appears when they first log in.
Powerful integrated logging
Fine-grained control over access to data and sharing capabilities by user and by group.
Advanced quota management with configurable accounting of external storage.
Sharing REST API. Control sharing from mobile apps and desktop clients
Easy development of 3rd party apps with the share REST API. Quick access to core functions for app development with the powerful ownCloud App API and webhooks following the publication / subscription model.

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/other Ubuntu derivatives
To Install ownCloud in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Add Repository in Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/17.10 Artful:

Terminal Commands:
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_17.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
wget http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_17.04/Release.key;sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

Add Repository in Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18.x:

Terminal Commands:
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
wget http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_16.04/Release.key;sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

Add Repository in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.x:

Terminal Commands:
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/owncloud.list"
wget http://download.owncloud.org/download/repositories/stable/Ubuntu_14.04/Release.key;sudo apt-key add - < Release.key

Now Run following commands to install owncloud:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install owncloud
sudo apt-get install owncloud-files

To configure and manage ownCloud checkout the documentation.

Do you use ownCloud or other web service?

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Caffeine Can Help You Disable Screenlock And Screensaver Temporarily

September 9, 2017, 9:03 pm

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Caffeine is pretty famous utility designed for Linux to disable screen-lock and screensaver temporarily so you can focus on what you are doing on your system. It stays in the panel and fairly straightforward application. It can be useful either you are working or listening or watching something that players don't prevent computer from going into sleep mode or prevent screensaver.
Without caffeine you need to go to power management in the system settings then disable sleep and also screensaver, Caffeine solves this issue and it comes in handy as well because you can activate/deactivate it right from system tray just with a single click.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install Caffeine Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caffeine-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install caffeine

That's it

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CobiBird Theme Updated And Available For 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/Linux Mint 18

September 10, 2017, 12:32 am

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CobiBird theme is designed to work in most of the Linux desktops including Gnome, Unity, Xfce, Lxde, Cinnamon, and Mate. It was based on Greybird theme with dark menus for a while but since version 0.8.2 the creator changed almost everything (from menubar items, menu adjustment, color selection fix, improves insensitive menus, to fixed menu separators) in this theme and now it is not based on Greybird Gtk. The initial version was released way back in 2013 and recently a new version of CobiBird has been released to support Gtk 3.22. We have added it to out PPA and it is now available for Ubuntu 17.10/17.04/16.04/14.04/Linux Mint 18/17. If you find any kind of bug or problem with this theme then report it to creator and it will get fixed in the next update.

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install CobiBird theme in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cobibird

That's it

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Draw Freely Vector Graphics Using Professional Inkscape

September 12, 2017, 9:54 am

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Inkscape is a free and open-source professional vector graphics application, it is cross-platform available for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac. You can use Inkscape if you are either professional or hobbyist designer, using this software you can create wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format.

Its interface is somewhat similar to CorelDraw and similar drawing programs. There are rectangles, ellipses, text items, bitmap images and freehand curves. As an added bonus, both vector and bitmap objects can have alpha transparency and can be arbitrarily transformed. It supports multiple opened files and multiple views per file. Graphics can be printed and exported to png bitmaps.
If you are used to Adobe Illustrator then you may find this application easy to use, since it does the same job. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG. It has a comprehensive feature set, a simple interface, multi-lingual support and is designed to be extensible; users can customize Inkscape's functionality with add-ons.

Features:

Drawing: pencil tool, pen tool, calligraphy tool
Shape tools: rectangles, ellipses, stars/polygons, spirals
Text tool (multi-line text, full on-canvas editing)
Transformations (moving, scaling, rotating, skewing), both interactively and by specifying exact numeric values
Layers (lock and/or hide individual layers, rearrange them, etc; layers can form a hierarchical tree)
Color selector (RGB, HSL, CMYK, color wheel, CMS)
A gradient editor capable of multi-stop gradients
Pattern fills (bitmap/vectors)
Dashed strokes, with many predefined dash patterns
Path markers (ending, middle and/or beginning marks, e.g. arrowheads)
Alpha transparency support for display and PNG export
Live watching and editing the document tree in the XML editor
PNG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, sk1, PDF, EPS and PostScript export formats and more
Command line options for export and conversions
Complete list of features can be found here.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install Geary email client in Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape

That's it

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Harmony: A Player That Can Play Audio Locally And From Cloud Services

September 12, 2017, 10:13 am

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Harmony is audio player inspired from iTunes, it is built with Electron and vanilla JS, available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It plays audio files locally and from cloud services as well. It is based on plugins, and plugins are available for Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, Hype Machine, Deezer, and local files.
It is skinable means you can write and install themes but it has two themes available other than default. Harmony can be controlled using keyboard shortcuts and media keys. Press ? to see the list of available shortcuts. It is responsive design player that means you can resize it however you want, make it compact or half screen or full screen, it will follow you. It uses the tray or the sound menu integration to control the playback even when the app isn't focused.
Developers can now create their own plugins, as it is possible for users to install third-parties in Harmony. You can checkout documentation for themes and plugins.

Features:

Cross-platform available for Linux, Mac, and Windows
Quite nice and simple UI
Responsive design give you full control to window resize
Control player right from the tray menu
Dark Themes comes with it but you can install your own/third-party theme
last.fm integration and scrobbling
Support for plugins
Stream from Online Services support: Google Play Music, Soundcloud, Deezer, Spotify, Reddit etc.

Download Harmony Player

Did you like it?

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Temps: A Beautiful Weather Application For Your Desktop

September 13, 2017, 8:31 pm

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Temps is a simple, free and open-source smart weather application, designed to stay on the desktop as a widget. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is built using Electron, Menubar, Chart.js, and OpenWeatherMap technologies.
It does work with most of the desktops and lets you touch it visually. Basically it stays on the desktop as a widget and display current weather in any location around the world. It displays forecast for the following four days with current day.
Since this is a non-profit project, developer is not able to offer unlimited access to weather information that means you can signup to OpenWeatherMap API and create a free key for yourself.

Features:

Free and open-source
Actual weather information for any location
Four-Day weather forecast
Interactive hourly weather graph
Timezone & Geolocation support
Information directly in your menubar available
Rain, snow and thunder animation
Minimal and colorful design

Download zip file and extract it. Then use chmod +x Temps to make it executable from terminal and launch it ./Temps.

Download Temps Weather

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Synfig Studio: A Powerful Open Soure Animation Software

September 13, 2017, 8:45 pm

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There are some animation applications available but Synfig made its way trough crowd-funding and it's been successful. It is powerful, free, open-source vector-based 2D animation software package, developed from the scratch for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer resources and people, it is released under the GNU General Public License.
Synfig stores its animations in its own XML file format, often compressed with gzip. These files use the filename extension .sif (uncompressed), .sifz (compressed) or .sfg (zip container format). The files store vector graphics data, embed or reference external bitmap images, and also a revision history of the project. It can render to video formats such as AVI, Theora and MPEG, as well as animated graphics formats such as MNG and GIF. It can also render to a sequence of numbered image files, using formats such as PNG, BMP, PPM and OpenEXR.

Layers: Synfig supports a multitude of layers of various types; geometric, gradients, filters, distortions, transformations, fractal and a few others.
Bones: Full-featured bone system allows to create cutout animation using bitmap images or control your vector artwork. The Skeleton Distortion layer allows to apply complex deformations to bitmap artwork.
Sound support: Synfig has basic features for syncing your animation with soundtrack using Sound Layer. Linux users can get all benefits of full-featured audio editors through the JACK integration.

Features:

Ability to design the animation in the front-end and render it at a later time with the backend
Supports multitude of layers of different types
Requires less resources and people
Capability of simulating soft-shading using curved gradients within an area
Wide variety of other real-time effects that can be applied to layers or groups of layers
Ability to control and animate the width of lines at their individual control points
Ability to link any related data from one object to another
Works with High Dynamic Range Imaging.

Download Synfig Studio

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SelekTOR: A Frontend GUI For Tor Browser (Bypass Country Restriction)

September 18, 2017, 12:30 am

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Tor is a free software designed to make communication anonymous. Tor directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network consisting of more than seven thousand relays to conceal a user's location and usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. Tor makes it more difficult for Internet activity to be traced back (Warning: still possible). Tor's use is intended to protect the personal privacy of users, as well as their freedom and ability to conduct confidential communication by keeping their Internet activities from being monitored.

SelecTOR is a frontend GUI for the Tor application. It is free for Linux and open-source based on Java released under license GNU GPL-2, it acts as a Tor launcher and exit node chooser for browsers that support system proxying using PAC files. It can be used for security and anonymization purposes or to bypass some firewall. Simplifies the process of selecting Tor exit nodes and manages selective URL pattern based on routing via system proxying.

Features:

Support for Google Chrome, Chromium, Firefox and most Mozilla based browsers without the need for add-ons.
Can be used with Privoxy.
You can quickly select Tor exit nodes by country.
Greatly simplifies the usage and configuration of Tor in client mode, SelekTOR does most of the hard stuff for you.
Nodes are now filtered to ensure that they support both HTTP & HTTPS, and thus ensuring greater reliability when used with web browsers.
Will continuously monitor and maintain a connection to the exit node with the best response time, with as little downtime as possible when switching.
As well as proxying all traffic through the active Tor node, SelekTOR can also do selective routing of traffic through the active tor circuit based on URL patterns.
Whois and Atlas Node details (pretty graphs) available with a single mouse click..
Needs very little configuration, the installation defaults will work for most people out of the box.
Currently runs on most Linux desktops XFCE, LXDE, Mate, Cinnamon, Gnome 3 Shell, KDE4, Unity, Pantheon, Enlightenment.
Built in proxy pattern editor, Import and Export pattern files as a single zip file.
Requires OpenJRE 1.7 or better this is usually supplied with your Linux distro, please ensure this is installed before installing SelekTOR.
Requires the latest Tor client 2.6.10 but will also work fine with the 2.4.x series.
Languages supported for Linux release English and French.

Install Tor Web Browser:

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To Install Tor Browser in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.torproject.org/torproject.org/ $(lsb_release -cs) main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 886DDD89
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor tor-geoipdb

Download and install SelekTOR

Download SelekTOR

Once you download deb file then run following commands (replace package name in the first command)

Terminal Commands:
sudo dpkg -i package.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

That's it

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Open-Source Alduin RSS Reader for Linux

September 18, 2017, 12:30 am

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RSS readers are useful if you want to get latest updates from website(s). Alduin is a free and open-source RSS feed reader available for Linux and Windows, built using modern technologies like: Electron, React, TypeScript and Less, it has easy to use user-interface and suitable for all types of users. It has native system notification support, and additionally it supports podcast feeds too.
Using the Alduin RSS interface is fairly simple, just click on the plus shaped button, and it will pull new articles from that given feed url, you can delete already added feed sources, lock the side menu in place.

Currently Alduin is in still development state that means you don't get full-features product now like any other famous RSS reader but developer mentioned that it will continue to evolve and new features will be added to it. You can't group or organize sources, and can't choose how the information should be presented to you. Also it doesn't sync any web services.
The application is in heavy development and still there is not stable release, developer said he is making progress to evolve Alduin. At some point in the near future we will see stable release of Alduin.

Download Alduin

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Termius A Reliable SSH Client for Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 20, 2017, 8:36 pm

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Termius is a client terminal which has built-in Telnet and SSH, it was formerly known as Serverauditor, and it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android, it offers full Terminal emulation on all your devices. You can run multiple concurrent terminal sessions with SSH, Telnet and Mosh. It has a robust emulation environment with full Emacs, Vim and MC support. Special characters, colors and command line tools work exactly how you’d expect them to.

You don't have to worry about infrastructure and credentials, since they are organized very well and logically. It comes with powerful organization features. Combine a collection of hosts into a group with shared settings, easily configured at the top level. Effortlessly find what you’re looking for with tagging, search and rich previews.
Secure Sync AES-256: Hosts, Port Forwarding rules, Snippets and Keys (optional) can be synced across your all devices. All data is client-side encrypted, with zero knowledge cloud storage and 2FA.
Some little features that can help a lot and time savers like autocomplete, quick connect, snippets and history save you seconds every session, minutes every day and hours every week.

Features:

Cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android
Secure sync with AES-256 encryption
Password and key authentication, Also support 2FA
Connect to multiple hosts
Organize hosts using Tags and Groups
Infrastructure and credentials, organized logically
Support for port forwarding
Color schemes and changeable fonts
Export and import keys
Quickly execute multiple sudo commands
Code Snippets
SFTP support

Termius is available as snap package from snappy store, it can be installed on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty
To Install Termius SSH client in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
sudo snap install termius-app

To remove Termius run this command:

Terminal Commands:
sudo snap remove termius-app

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Remmina Remote Desktop Application for Linux

September 20, 2017, 8:36 pm

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Remmina is a free and open-source remote desktop application, it is written in C and GTK+, released under GNU GPL license, and only available for Unix/Linux based systems. Basically it aims to be useful for system administrators and for those who need to access remote computers. It supports multiple network protocols in an integrated and consistent UI, at the moment RDP, VNC, NX, SPICE, XDMCP and SSH protocols are supported. You can install Remmina plugins: RDP, VNC, NX, XDMCP, SSH, Telepathy

Features:

A GTK+ 3 application.
Maintain a list of connection profiles, organized by groups
Make quick connections by directly putting in the server address
Remote desktops with higher resolutions are scrollable/scalable in both window and full-screen mode.
View-port full-screen mode: remote desktop automatically scrolls when the mouse moves over the screen edge.
Floating toolbar in full-screen mode, allows you to switch between modes, toggle keyboard grabbing, minimize, etc.
Tabbed interface, optionally managed by groups.
Tray icon, allows you to quickly access configured connection profiles

Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint:

Available for Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04/Linux Mint 18/17/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Remmina in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:remmina-ppa-team/remmina-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install remmina remmina-plugin-rdp libfreerdp-plugins-standard

Available as snap package, it can be installed on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17
To Install Remmina in Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
sudo snap install remmina

Install in Fedora:

To install Remmina in Fedora open Terminal and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
dnf copr enable hubbitus/remmina-next
dnf upgrade --refresh 'remmina' 'freerdp'

For Arch Linux install it from here and for other distributions checkout this page.
That's it

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Opera Web Browser Now Has Built-in WhatsApp and FB Messenger, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 25, 2017, 6:00 am

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Opera is an independent Scandinavian company that's been in the business of making web browsers since 1994. Opera is a free, secure and fast web browser based on Chromium and Blink(the rendering engine used by Chromium), that includes tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, integrated searches. Opera known to load pages and tabs faster (depend on internet connection). Opera checks risky sites, alerting you to potential threats. Recent versions of Opera include Facebook messenger and WhatsApp, so you don't have to go to your phone or web. Additionally it has features like battery saver and free VPN.
Opera keeps your browsing safe, so you can stay focused on the content, it protects you from fraud and malware on the web.
Multitask on the web easily: Visual bookmarks, tab cycling and customizable shortcuts, keep you on track and save you time. Now Opera has video pop-out feature - a floating, moveable video frame that lets you keep browsing or work in other apps without missing any of the action.

Features:

Secure and more private
Multitask on the web easily
Speed and performance improvements
Currency conversion while you shop
Over 1,000 extensions make it easy to customize
WhatsApp and Facebook messenger
Built-in RSS feeds reader
Sync Opera data across all devices
Long list of closed tabs history
Smoother video playback (Video pop-out feature)

To install Opera web browser in Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/opera-stable.list'
sudo sh -c 'wget -O - http://deb.opera.com/archive.key \| apt-key add -'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install opera-stable

Which one is your favorite browser?

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Are You Fond Of HDR Photography? Try Luminance HDR Application In Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 25, 2017, 6:01 am

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Luminance HDR is an graphical user interface that is used for manipulation and creation of High Dynamic Range(HDR) images. It is based on Qt5 toolkit, it is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, and released under the GNU GPL license. It provides a complete workflow for High Dynamic Range(HDR) as well as Low Dynamic Range (LDR) file formats.
Prerequisite of HDR photography are several narrow-range digital images with different exposures. Luminance HDR combines these images and calculates a high-contrast image. In order to view this image on a regular computer monitor, Luminance HDR can convert it into a displayable LDR image format using a variety of methods, such as tone mapping.

Features:

Create an HDR file from a set of images (JPEG, TIFF 8bit and 16bit, RAW) of the same scene taken at different exposure setting
Save and load HDR files
Rotate and resize HDR files
Tonemap HDR images
Projective Transformations
Copy EXIF data between sets of images
Supports internationalization

Supported HDR formats:

OpenEXR (.exr)
Radiance RGBE (.hdr)
Tiff formats: 16bit, 32bit (float) and LogLuv (.tiff)
Raw image format (various extensions)
PFS native format (.pfs)

Supported LDR formats:

JPG
PNG
Portable Pixmap (PPM)
Portable Bitmap (PBM)
TIFF (8 Bit)
FITS

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Luminance HDR in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install luminance-hdr

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Visual Studio: A Versatile And Open Source Code Editor Available As Snap

September 26, 2017, 12:15 pm

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Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft, the free community edition supports plugins and available at no cost. It lets you develop websites, applications, web apps, mobile apps and web services. Visual Studio supports 36 different programming languages and allows the code editor and debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C, C++ and C++/CLI (via Visual C++), VB.NET (via Visual Basic .NET), C# (via Visual C#), F# (as of Visual Studio 2010) and TypeScript (as of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2). Support for other languages such as Python, Ruby, Node.js, and M among others is available via language services installed separately. It also supports XML/XSLT, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.

Features:

Code editor: Supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for variables, functions, methods, loops and LINQ queries.
Debugger: Debugger works both as a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger.
Designer: Visual Studio includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications.
Extensibility: Visual Studio allows developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to extend its capabilities.

Visual Studio is available as snap package from snappy store, it can be installed on Ubuntu 17.10 Artful/17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty
To Install Visual Studio Code Editor in Ubuntu open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open
sudo snap install --classic vscode

To remove Visual Studio run this command:

Terminal Commands:
sudo snap remove vscode

Which IDE is your favorite?

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GNU Emacs: A Great Text Editor For Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 26, 2017, 12:15 pm

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Emacs text editor doesn't need any introduction because it is quite famous and used widely. Emacs is a free, open-source, extensible, customizable text editor. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows and Mac, developed by GNU project and released under GNU GPL license. Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on its direct descendent, GNU Emacs, continues actively as of 2017. Richard Stallman began work on GNU Emacs in 1984 to produce a free software alternative to the proprietary Gosling Emacs.
Emacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Additionally, implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language that provides a deep extension capability, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Extensions have been written to manage email, files, outlines, and RSS feeds, as well as clones of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake and Tetris.

Features:

Content-aware editing modes, including syntax coloring, for many file types.
Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
Full Unicode support for nearly all human scripts.
Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical interface.
An entire ecosystem of functionality beyond text editing, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.
A packaging system for downloading and installing extensions.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install GNU Emacs in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kelleyk/emacs
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install emacs25

To install text based Emacs run this command:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install emacs25-nox

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ULauncher: A Light And Fast App Launcher For Linux

September 27, 2017, 9:16 am

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There are plenty of application launchers available out there for Linux and it is really different to compare any launcher with one another. ULauncher is free and written in Python programming language, it uses less resources and works in almost every Linux desktop environment such as: Gnome, Cinnamon, Unity, Mate, Xfce, Lxde and Openbox with tint2. Using Ulauncher you can search through installed applications, navigate through folders and open files, also search on Google and Wikipedia.

Features:

Instant app launcher: Ulauncher provides instant search results. It also remembers your previous choices and automatically selects the best option for you.
Fuzzy search: Type in an application name without worrying about spelling. Ulauncher will figure out what you meant.
Shortcuts: Improve your workflow with customizable shortcuts. Create shortcut for web search or your scripts.
Fast directory browser: Browse files and directories with ease. (Type ~ or / to start. Press Alt+Enter to access an alt menu.)

Shortcuts to use ULauncher:
Ctrl+ Space - To open Ulauncher
/ - search files
so - search in stackoverflow
g - search in google
wiki - search in wikipedia

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other Ubuntu derivatives
To install ULauncher in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:agornostal/ulauncher
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ulauncher

That's it

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Paper Theme And Icons Looks Great On Ubuntu/Linux Mint

September 27, 2017, 9:16 am

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Paper theme and icons are designed for Linux desktop environment, this suite is inspired by Material design created by Sam Hewitt, icons are based around the use of bold colors and simple geometric shapes. Each icon has been meticulously designed for pixel-perfect viewing at any size. Both theme and icons are lightweight and well-managed doesn't eat system resources, the theme is modern and icons with most flat design and minimal use of shadows for depth. Paper has been developed primarily with modern GTK3 (GNOME-based) desktop environments in mind, legacy-toolkit and GTK2 environments will not provide an ideal experience, as much of the visual design relies on modern GTK3+ widgets. This suite is released under the terms the GNU General Public License GPL v3.
It is compatible with most of the desktop environments such as: Gnome, Unity, Cinnamon, Xfce, and so on. Current this suite is in active development that means you can contribute to the project by any means either reporting bugs to contributing your code, for more details contact developers.

Available for Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty/16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install Paper theme and Icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snwh/pulp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paper-gtk-theme
sudo apt-get install paper-icon-theme
sudo apt-get install paper-cursor-theme

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Syncthing: Let Your Desktop Be Local Server For Your Mobile Device

September 29, 2017, 3:49 pm

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Syncthing is an open-source, free file synchronization application, written in GO programming language, available for almost every operating system Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac, BSD, Android and iOS. It can sync between device that are present on the local network (no Internet required), or between remote devices over the Internet. It is secure and safe since both things are built-in into the application.
Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. It should be safe from data loss, protecting the user's data is priority. Developers took reasonable precaution to avoid corrupting the user's files.

Private: None of your data is ever stored anywhere else other than on your computers. There is no central server that might be compromised, legally or illegally.
Encrypted: All communication is secured using TLS. The encryption used includes perfect forward secrecy to prevent any eavesdropper from ever gaining access to your data.
Authenticated: Every node is identified by a strong cryptographic certificate. Only nodes you have explicitly allowed can connect to your cluster.

Features:

Easy to Use, Open-source and free
Web GUI. Configure and monitor via browser
Works as Peer to Peer model
Cross-platform available for almost every OS
Safe from data loss
Syncthing doesn't need IP addresses or advanced configuration
Secure Against Attackers
Syncthing should be approachable, understandable and inclusive
Synchronize as many folders as you need with different people.
User interaction should be required only when absolutely necessary
Syncthing is primarily about empowering the individual user with safe, secure and easy to use file synchronization

To install Syncthing in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
wget -q https://syncthing.net/release-key.txt -O- \| sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://apt.syncthing.net/ syncthing stable" \| sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/syncthing.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syncthing

For other Linux distributions and mobile applications can be downloaded from here.

What do you say about this great application?

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DAEMON Sync: Share/Backup Files Over WiFi Without Internet

September 29, 2017, 3:49 pm

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DAEMON Sync lets you synchronize or backup your mobile data to computer over local WiFi without any hassle. Unlike any other cloud service DAEMON Sync lets you sync/backup files between devices without having internet connection over local WiFi that means you data never goes through someone else's servers, you can run DAEMON server on computer and let device speak to it directly. It is cross-platform available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
You can backup, browse and share videos and photos and evaluate all advantages of truly secure cloud service. The basic functionality of DAEMON Sync is free for non-commercial use, but other products and advanced features require activation license.

Setting up DAEMON Sync is fairly simple, fast and easy just install the server on the computer, and install app on mobile device, on the server side enter a PIN code to tie the two together. You don't have to worry about user accounts or passwords. By default DAEMON Sync choose photos, videos, and screenshots to make a backup in the server but you can choose what file/folder to sync.

Features:

Lightning speed up to 50Mb/sec
Forget about USB cables!
No cellular data usage
No Internet connection required
One and only full automatic background backup with advanced scheduling options!
Linux, Android, iOS, Windows and Mac OS are fully supported.
Cloud services can’t be 100% safe. DAEMON Sync can.
Authorize your mobile device only once and synchronize media files with server in background.
Connect as many devices as you want

Download and install DAEMON Sync

First you need to install DAEMON Sync server on your computer then install DAEMON Sync application on your mobile/tablet device and connect them using PIN.

Download DAEMON Sync

That's it

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