Install Orchis3 theme in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/and other related Ubuntu derivatives

Orchis3 theme is a variation of moka project orchis theme. It is designed for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, it is high quality theme and moka team known as great theme designer. In this version metacity (title bar) is dark with round shape buttons and includes some other changes. It is now available via PPA for 14.04 trusty. I tested this theme under Unity and Gnome Shell, FS-icons used in screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change theme.
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Install SMPlayer 14.3.0 with YouTube and Mplayer support in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 12.10/Ubuntu 12.04/Linux Mint 16/14/13 and other Ubuntu derivatives

Smplayer is a complete media player for Windows and Linux. It uses the award-winning MPlayer as playback engine which is capable of playing most video and audio formats (avi, mkv, wmv, mp4, mpeg... see list). It uses its own codecs, so you don't need to install any codec packs.
One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you start to watch a movie but you have to leave... don't worry, when you open that movie again it will resume at the same point you left it, and with the same settings: audio track, subtitles, volume...
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Install Flat and Photoshop themes for GIMP (version 2.8/2.9) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/any Linux distribution

1: GIMP Flat themes

Flat GIMP themes were designed to make GIMP modern image editor like Photoshop. Many people don't like GIMP default icon theme/look and want to change it with something else, so here comes 8 variants which includes: dark, light, darker and also variants with small fonts. Using these themes you can make Gimp experience better and eye catching. Flat themes are in active development, so if you encounter any bug or problem with themes then you can report to creator. I uploaded these themes to my ubuntuone account, so you can easily pull from there using commands.
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Install Latest Google Earth in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.04 Trusty/15.10/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.x/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives (64bit / 32bit)
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Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program that was originally called EarthViewer 3D created by Keyhole, Inc. It is a free application that allows users to fly from space to your neighborhood, search for schools, restaurants, parks and hotels, get driving directions, and much more. Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. With Google Earth Explore, search and discover the planet. Google Earth lets you fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more.
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Install BitTorrent Sync with GUI in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/10.04 Lucid/Linux Mint 16/14/13/9/and other related Ubuntu derivatives

BitTorrent Sync application is completely free and developed by BitTorrent team, it is cross-platform application available for Linux/Windows/Mac/Android/iOS/Windows Phone. BitTorrent Sync is a simple tool that applies p2p protocol for direct live folder sync with maximum security, network speed and storage capacity. It works just like a file server you can sync and share unlimited files or folders across all your devices. Sync and share any file! Photos, videos, word docs, PDFs - any file big or small. Sync can handle any size and there are no limits. BitTorrent Sync for Android gives you access to all of your synced folders when you’re on the go!
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Ubuntu Team just released the Ubuntu 14.04 "Final Beta" version of the world's most widely-used desktop Linux distribution: Today's release of Ubuntu 14.04 "Final Beta" on the desktop brings a host of performance and quality improvements making it the fastest and most visually polished Ubuntu experience to date. Some major changes in 14.04 Trusty Beta are: Dash performance got better, Unity new lock screen, Unity control center, Locally integrated menus, HiDPI (High pixel density display) for High resolution screens, Windows borders dropped, Click to minimize on application launcher (disabled by default), Real-time window resize, Global menu can be disabled for individual applications, and Unity launcher can be resized to 8px. Checkout release notes of Ubuntu 14.04 Final Beta.
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Install Google-Task-Indicator in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Google Task Indicator is developed by atareao. There is no official application available to manage your Google tasks but it is fine indicator which can help you to manage your tasks locally or externally. It shows the latest ten tasks with in the indicator. Further you can edit, watch, delete and manage them easily using indicator preferences. This utility synchronize tasks easily but first you need to authenticate the application for your account. It has features like manage tasks locally or external, which means you can set options to delete/keep tasks from preferences, also you can manage tasks offline then synchronize later. Additionally you can mark task as completed or delete locally/externally from this utility.
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Install Mate 1.8 Desktop Environment with MintMenu in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/and other related Ubuntu derivatives
mate desktop

MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. If you wish to use this desktop environment on Ubuntu to replace your current desktop interface. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. Mate updated to Gtk and all Gtk themes works with Mate, it comes with three themes Menta, BlackMATE, and others.
MATE is under active development to add support for new technologies while preserving a traditional desktop experience.
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Install Blender 2.70 in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise Pangolin/Linux Mint 16/14/13/12/and Blender 2.69 in Ubuntu 13.04/Linux Mint 15

Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Through its open architecture, Blender provides cross-platform interoperability, extensibility, an incredibly small footprint, and a tightly integrated workflow. Blender is one of the most popular Open Source 3D graphics applications in the world.
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Popular Features:
  • Cycles Render Engine
  • Motion Tracking
  • UV Tools
  • "Carve" Booleans
  • Remesh modifier
  • Game Engine
  • Collada
  • Python API
  • More Features.

What's in this release 2.70:
  • Fix: View3D could have invalid transform orientation using undo
  • Fix: Auto-perspective was changing to perspective while orbiting
  • Fix: Black matcap when object located on a curve
  • Fix: Z-offset problems with camera view
  • Fix: Missing 3D view redraw when editing group layers and offset
  • Correct GLSL preview: material using shader nodes didn't consider "Transparency" is a shader pipeline option. 
  • Fix: Setting scene frame does not update active camera
  • Fix: Dopesheet / Graph editor, select columns between markers doesn't appear to work
  • Fix: Animation channels can't be grouped in action editor
  • Fix: Restrict Frame Range not being obeyed on Driver F-Curves
  • Fix: Bones are not selectable in weight paint mode anymore
  • Fix: Crash on RMB click on bone's custom property
  • Fix: Bone Crash when holding Ctrl+RMB
  • Fix: Transformation bone constraint breaks Track To / Dumped Track
  • Fix: Audio Only Sequencer wont render
  • Fix: Audio does not Scrub, plays fully instead
  • Fix: Motion tracker crash blender
  • Fix: Plane track can't be adjust when select mouse is set to left
  • Fix: Save to file - increment number doesn't update background color of filename field if hovered
  • Fix: User prefs > Input - Category names cut off
  • Fix: Default keybindings: Text editor auto-complete accepts Return, but not Numpad Enter
  • Fix: Expanded Enum Alignment glitching
  • Over 560 Bug Fixes

To install Blender in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:
That's it
Source: Blender
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Install Mediterranean Shiki & BeforeDawn themes in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Linux Mint 16/other related Ubuntu derivatives

Mediterrenean Shiki and BeforeDawn are custom blend themes of MediterraneanLightDarkest and MediterraneanTributeBlue themes which are derived from the MediterraneanNight Series Pack. The main difference between both version is metacity(borders) and rest of the theme pretty much looks same, modifier improved these themes and fixed some issues. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
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Known for their extensive range of pragmatic IT eBooks, Packt Publishing are celebrating their 2000th book title ‘Learning Dart’– they want their customers to celebrate too.
To mark this milestone Packt Publishing will launch a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ offer across all eBooks on March 18th – for a limited period only.
Packt is one of the most prolific and fast-growing tech book publishers in the world. Originally focused on open source software, Packt contributes back into the community paying a royalty on relevant books directly to open source projects. These projects have received over $400,000 as part of Packt's Open Source Royalty Scheme to date.
Their books focus on practicality, recognizing that readers are ultimately concerned with getting the job done. Packt's digitally-focused business model allows them to quickly publish up-to-date books in very specific areas across a range of key categories – web development, game development, big data, application development, and more. Their commitment to providing a comprehensive range of titles has seen Packt publish 1054% more titles in 2013 than in 2006.
Here are some of the best titles across Packt's main categories - but Buy One, Get One Free will apply across all 2000 titles:

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Install Gnome-Do in Ubuntu 14.04/13.10/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Do is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. Do not only allows you to search for items in your desktop environment (e.g. applications, contacts, bookmarks, files, music), it also allows you to specify actions to perform on search results (e.g. Run, Open, Email, Chat, Play, etc.) and it allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment (applications, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.).
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Install Latest Calibre Library in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/any Linux Distribution

Calibre is an eBook management software that is almost without equal, on any platform that runs it. Major improvements in this release are: PDF: Add support for reading and writing extended (XMP) metadata. Calibre can now read and write XMP metadata from PDF files. This means that all metadata that you can create in calibre, including custom columns, can be stored in the PDF files. It is also useful when importing PDF files created by some academic publishers, that sometimes have good XMP metadata, such as DOI identifiers, tags and so on.
E-book viewer: Add support for touchscreens when running on Windows tablets. The builtin viewer in calibre now supports touch screens on Windows tablets. You can tap or swipe to turn pages. Swipe up or down to jump between sections. Swipe and hold to flip through pages rapidly and pinch to zoom in and out.
A new tool to compare ebook files, showing the differences in their underlying text, styles and images side by side. The new compare tool is very useful in combination with the book editor. It allows you to see what changes have been made between checkpoints and what changes were made by automated tools. You can also compare different versions of the same ebook file. How to use each of these features is described below.
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New Features:
  • Edit Book: Add a tool to easily insert hyperlinks (click the insert hyperlink button on the toolbar)
  • Edit book: Add a tool to easily open a file inside the book for editing by just typing a few characters from the file name. To use it press Ctrl+T in the editor or go to Edit->Quick open a file to edit'
  • Edit book: Allow disabling the completion popups for the search and replace fields. Right click on the search/replace field to enable/disable the completion popup
  • E-book viewer: Add an option to control the maximum text height in full screen. Note that it only works if the viewer is in paged mode (which is the default mode).
  • Show the search expression for the virtual library in a tooltip when hovering over the tab for the virtual library.
  • Book details panel: Show author URL in a tooltip when hovering over author names
  • Kobo driver: Update to handle updated Kobo firmware
  • An option to add multiple books from inside a ZIP or RAR file. Right click the Add Books button and choose 'Add multiple books from archive'.
  • Database backend: Make the database backend more robust when the calibre library is placed on flaky filesystems. Now when an I/O error occurs while writing to the database, the connection to the database is closed and re-opened and the operation is retried.
  • DJVU Input: Speedup extraction of text from DJVU files by implementing the BZZ decoder algorithm in C
Bug Fixes:
  • Library backup: Avoid infinite retries if converting metadata to backup OPF for a book fails. Simply fail to backup the metadata for that book.
  • Edit book: Fix file permissions for the edited book being changed on Linux
  • Fix text entry cursor becoming invisible when completion popup is opened
  • E-book viewer: Fix pressing the Esc key to leave full screen mode not changing the state of the full screen button
  • When reading metadata from filenames, do not apply the fallback regexp to read metadata if the user specified regexp puts the entire filename into the title. The fallback is only used if the user specified expression does not match the filename at all.
  • Linux binary install script: Fix error on linux systems where the system python has an encoding of None set on stdout. Assume encoding is utf-8 in this case.
  • MOBI Input: Fix empty <a> tags not being handled correctly in rare cases when the markup is bad enough to be parsed only using the fallback HTML parser.
  • Edit book: Fix column number of cursor shown in the bottom right being one less than it should be.
  • Edit book: Fix names for non-BMP unicode character (Such as emoticons) not being displayed in the lower right corner. Also allow these characters to be searched for by name in the Insert special character tool.
  • Do not show system tray notification popups while analyzing books on device, as they can be slow on systems that display multiple messages serially instead of replacing the last message
  • Linux installer script: Do not use the filesystem to pass the downloaded tarball to tar as it is possible for malicious code running on the users computer to alter the download file between signature verification and calling tar to extract the files.
  • DJVU Input: When extracting embedded txt from TXTz sections in DJVU files, fix incorrect extraction of txt when the djvutxt external program is not present.
  • Wireless device driver: Fix a regression that prevented it form working with the Calibre Sync Android app.
  • Fix a regression in 1.26 that caused width and height attributes on <img> tags to generate CSS width and height properties without a 'px' suffix
  • Linux binary installer: Fix an error when using proxies and python 3 with the new installer script
  • Edit book: When exporting files, fill the choose filename popup with the name of the file being exported as the default name
  • Make the new Linux installer script compatible with python 2.6.

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Install Pantheon File Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/13/other related Ubuntu derivatives

Pantheon File Manager is a simple, light, fast, powerful and forked from Marlin file manager. It is default file manager in Elementary OS and maintained by Elementary OS. It doesn't have too much functionality like Nautilus, it offers minimal graphical user interface but incorporates several features such as excellent management of previews, file properties, and so on detailed research. Pantheon file manager also has Dropbox and Ubuntu One plugins and it allows you to upload files in your web space and share it with others with context menu. Some other enhancements like subtle blue glow of the folder when cursor on over folder, single click open file/folder, multi-tab functionality, and from properties folder management that user can color tags the files/folders which complies with preferences.
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Black background in conky widgets are known issue now a days, so I come up with some solutions to fix these issues. You may install the conky you love but get black shadow with conky, it is because of Compiz window decoration in Unity and other desktops who uses compiz. If you are in any other desktop and getting same shadow so there is another solution is to change conky mode within the conky script.
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