Deepin is a Linux distribution that aims to provide an elegant, user-friendly, safe and stable operating system for global users. Based on HTML5 technologies, Deepin team has developed a series of new special software, such as Deepin Desktop Environment, Deepin Music Player, DPlayer, Deepin Software Center etc.
Deepin team has announced the availability of the final version of Deepin 2014. In recent years, Deepin developed rapidly and has got support of users from more than 40 countries or regions in the world. The operating system has been downloaded tens of millions of times and ranks first on DistroWatch among Chinese Linux operating system distributions. Deepin 2014 officially offers 10 languages. And all the languages are integrated in an ISO mirror to facilitate the user's installation.
Deepin 2014 brings a brand-new Deepin Desktop Environment 2.0, with a specially designed Deepin theme, which makes the overall style and appearance of Deepin 2014 unified, neat and tidy. The brand-new pieces of software such as Deepin Movie, Deepin Translator, Deepin Boot Maker and so on are added in Deepin 2014. Deepin 2014 has perfectly supported BIOS and UEFI boot.
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Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell

Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the new book - Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell
And three lucky winners stand a chance to win 3 digital copies of this book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.

Overview:

  • Perform network enumeration techniques with Dig, whois, dnsenum, dnsmap, and others
  • Learn how to fuzz and reverse engineer using the Kali Linux command line tools
  • Exploit common web application vulnerabilities using skipfish, arcachi, and sqlmap
  • Accomplish man-in-the-middle attacks straight from your command line
  • Assess SSL security using sslyze and openssl
  • Carry out network traffic analysis using tcpdump

How to Enter?

All you need to do is head on over to the book page and look through the product description of the book and drop a line via the comments below this post to let us know what interests you the most about this book. It's that simple.

3 Winners will get an e-copy of the Book.

Note: We will select 3 winners by generating random numbers based on total number of comments. Don't comment twice or more, you can't win if we detect more than one comment from your side (We have tools to encounter this situation ;) so be fair).

Deadline:
The contest will close on (July. 10th, 2014 - Time 01:00 AM). Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment as guest or use disqus account!

Link to book page: Penetration testing with the bash shell


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Winners Selected


Congratulations: Malvern Mitchell, Rand Hirt, Bhavesh Mehta

Sorry guys who couldn't win this contest, maybe next time.
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Ravefinity icons are hand picked and refined dark colors brought to you by ravefinity, it is a mixture of different icon sets are: Faenza, Humanity, Elementary and other icon themes. This icon suite offers 12 color variants and each color is available for light and dark panel, so you can use any color with any theme (doesn't matter it's dark or light). Ravefinity guys also provided suite of Ambiance & Radiance themes in different colors you can check here. If you found any missing icon or want to add a new icon then report here.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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Sphere icon theme is complete and well designed for Linux. Last version 1.2.5 released in 2013 and got many improvements. We added blue places in our PPA, if you want to try other colors (Dust, Orange, Red, Green, Petrol and Violet) then scroll to see the commands for that colors, first of all install icons then change color of places if you want to change any. Sphere icons offer more than 8000 icons from 16x16 to 255x255 sizes. The development of this icon set is stopped, so do not expect any update for missing icon. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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aTunes is a rich featured audio player and organizer, released under GNU General Public License. It is multi-platform available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows, it is written in Java language. It has ability to rip songs from audio CDs (for Linux it needs extra packages (cdparanoia, cdda2wav, icedax) or optional encoders (oggenc, lame, flac). aTunes is an alternative to many other players such as Amarok, Clementine, foobar2000 or even iTunes.
It currently plays several popular audio formats (mp3, ogg, wma, wav, flac, mp4, m4a, ra, rm, cue), as well as allowing users to easily edit tags, and organize their music collection. aTunes runs on any platform with a Java 6 compatible Runtime Enviroment. Additionally users can play online radio stations, podcasts and rip songs from their audio CDs.
aTunes can only READ iPod contents until 4th generation. It has not been tested with later versions. It can't write songs to iPod. However, aTunes can write to many generic mp3 players acting as external hard drive (i.e. mass storage devices).
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Voice commands allows you to perform some main actions with voice. It offers this facility in 67 languages and at this moment 95 voice commands are available. It allows user to their own voice to enhance their overall Linux experience. The function of this program starts running play_stop.sh script, which will start recording your voice, and if after five seconds, or run it again, start voice recognition, for now, make one of all commands available.
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Packt Publishing celebrates 10 years with a special $10 offer

It has been 10 years since Packt Publishing embarked on its mission to deliver effective learning and information services to IT professionals. In that time, it has published over 2000 titles and helped projects become household names, awarding over $400,000 through its Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.

To celebrate this huge milestone, Packt is offering all of its eBooks and Videos at just $10 each – this promotion covers every title and customers can stock up on as many copies as they like until July 5th.

If you’ve already tried a Packt title in the past, you’ll know this is a great opportunity to explore what’s new and maintain your personal and professional development. If you’re new to Packt, then now is the time to try their extensive range – Within their 2000+ titles range, you’ll find the knowledge you really need , whether that’s specific learning on an emerging technology or the key skills to keep you ahead of the competition in more established tech fields.’

More information is available at: http://bit.ly/1mMrNQL
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Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone. Aimed at users who want to produce or document circuits and experiments, one starts by building a physical prototype, then recreating it with Fritzing's graphical editor. From there one can generate a schematic, PCB artwork, and PCB production files.
The Fritzing company offer a software tool, a community website and services in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, fostering a creative ecosystem that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and layout and manufacture professional pcbs.
Fritzing offers several ways to easily create the part that you need. Fritzing is installed with a Parts Library and every new release brings new parts. In Fritzing, parts are organized into "bins" which can be accessed from the parts palette on the right. Simply drag a part on the sketch area to use it, and then adapt its properties in the info palette.
fritzing
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Nightingale is a free and open-source desktop audio player and web-browser, it is fork of the Songbird media player. It has beautiful interface with a wide range of supported audio formats including flac, all with multi-platform support (Linux, Windows, and Mac). It supports extensions and skins feathers. Like Firefox/Iceweasel, it is built from the Mozilla cross-platform and open source framework, based on Songbird. Users can add features and change functionality in Nightingale by installing extensions (add-ons).
Skins are referred to as "feathers" in Nightingale, and give users and artists the ability to change the look of Nightingale via an extension which generates a default skin. Using CSS (and optionally XUL), and an image manipulation program such as Photoshop or GIMP, users are then able to make Nightingale look however they want.
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FocusWriter is a lightweight, full-screen, distraction-free rich feature word processor, it is cross-platform available for Linux, MS Windows, and Mac. This program is translated into many different languages. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work.

FocusWriter allows you to skin your environment by creating themes that control the font, colors, and background image to add ambiance. It also features on-the-fly updating statistics, daily goals, multiple open documents, spell-checking, and much more.
Additionally, when you open the program your current work in progress will automatically load and position you where you last left off so that you can immediately jump back in.
You can set writing goals, and enjoy features not usually found in similar writing applications like spell checking and tabbed documents. FocusWriter offers features usually absent from focus-centered writing tools like spellcheck, tabbed documents, real-time stats on your work (character, word, paragraph, and page count), as well as daily goals based on word count or time spent writing. The interface is there when you want it and vanishes into the background when you just want to write. It does not require many system resources, it has a good response time and there are enough options to keep you busy for quite a while.

Main Features:
  • TXT, basic RTF, and basic ODT file support
  • Timers and alarms
  • Daily goals
  • Fully customizable themes
  • Typewriter sound effects (optional)
  • Auto-save (optional)
  • Live statistics (optional)
  • Spell-checking (optional)
  • Multi-document support
  • Sessions
  • Portable mode (optional)
  • Translated into over 20 languages
focuswriter
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WizNote is free, cross-platform cloud based notes solution which helps personal and professional to take notes and collaborate with team members. It is especially designed for Internet users and mobile Internet users. It allows users to edit, view, modify, and create notes interactively on Linux, Mac, MS Windows, Android, iOS, and Windows-Phone devices anytime, anywhere. All notes private or group notes synced automatically on all connected devices.
It also offer WizNote Business Service, teams/groups can communicate and collaborate with each other using this application with messages and comments. All WizNote servers are cloud based with multiple copies synced, you don’t need to worry about data loss at all.
Another great feature of this service, it allows you to attach files/images/links (Attachments) with notes and also you can categorize them into groups, tag notes, multi-level folders support, so later you can find any specific note easily or share note easily. WizNote focuses more on knowledge of rapid collection, management, reading and sharing.
wiznote
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Install Trevilla themes and icons in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/16/15/14/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Trevilla themes set contains various flavors which are made by ninorpanama. Developer mentioned themes are mostly like metro-style. These themes are designed to work with GTK3/2. Trevilla themes are available in 5 different variants Trevilla-Dark, Trevilla-White, Trevilla-White-Orange, Trevilla-White-Blue. This update brings compatibility with latest GTK and it has two icon sets.
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DockBarX is lightweight dock/taskbar/panel replacement for Linux desktop which works as stand-alone dock (called DockX), as an Avant Window Navigator applet, as a Xfce4 panel applet, as a matepanel applet or as a legacy Gnome2 panel applet. DockbarX is a fork of dockbar made by Aleksey Shaferov and the DockbarX branch is developed by Matias Särs. DockBarX is free software and is licensed under GPL3.
It has features like autohide, dodge windowsm dodge the active window, Unity progress bars and badges support as well as dynamic quicklists.
Dockbar has a launchpad page. If you want to report bugs, translate DockbarX into your language or request features, you should do it there, if possible. It's still OK to report bugs and request features here as well, if you don't want to register a launchpad account. The launchpad page is for both vanilla Dockbar and DockbarX, so make sure to tag any requests or bug reports directed to DockbarX with "dockbarx".
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Flattice theme is based on Flatts theme, it is modified by vinceliuice from gnome-look.org site. It is simple and flat designed to make desktop clean and beautiful. It has themes for Gtk3, Gtk2, Metacity, Unity, Xfwm4.
FlatBird theme is flat and clean, it is designed for Unity, Gnome, Xfce, and Openbox desktop. There are two versions of this theme flat-borders and round-borders. These themes are tested in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
Flattice Theme
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ThemeColorizer is great tool to create different color variations of themes, it is free and easy to use application. By default it works with Ambiance and Radiance themes because ".tcconf" files of these themes are included with this application, for other themes you need to manually configure ".tcconf" files, they are easy to make.
In order to make variants of a theme simply open theme path select theme folder then choose color and save theme to /home/user/.themes location. Then use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
themecolorizer
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