KDE Connect allows your device to communicate between your Linux and Android/Blackberry devices. Using KDE Connect you can receive notifications of your phone directly to your Linux desktop, or use KDE Connect as remote control for your Linux desktop. KDE Connect uses secure communication protocol in order to provide these services over the network, and also allows developers to create plugins for KDE Connect on top of it. Right now there are KDE Connect clients available for Android and Blackberry devices, and soon it will be available for iPhone.
Indicator for KDE Connect is a tool to integrate the desktop with your smartphone, this indicator is aiming to bring those integration on any system using libappindicator.
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Install Wine 1.7.35 in Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid/14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.1/17/ and older version on Ubuntu 12.04/Mint 13

Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.
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Changes in this release:
  • Beginnings of support for OpenGL core contexts.
  • Initial support for glyph placement in DirectWrite.
  • Some more WBEM objects.
  • Support for surround sound in DirectSound.
  • Better text run support in DirectWrite.
  • Many HTML engine fixes.
  • More support for WBEM objects.
  • A few more C/C++ runtime functions.
  • Support for copy/paste commands in MSHTML.
  • Some more font support in DirectWrite.
  • Better handling for loss of focus in Direct3D windows.
  • Several more API Sets DLLs.
  • New version of the Mono engine.
  • A few more functions implemented in MSHTML.
  • Improved support for restoring display mode.
  • Font metrics improvements in DirectWrite.
  • Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 1.7.35 via PPA in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Install Winehq 1.7.35 from source in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:



You can download source of Wine 1.7.35 for other Distributions from Source Forge.
Wine stable versions available: Wine 1.6, Wine 1.5 (PPA, Source) and Wine 1.4
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Smplayer is a free multimedia player released for Linux and MS Windows under the GPL License. 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.
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Enlightenment started as a project to build a Window Manager for X11. That was way back in 1996. It has grown much since. It still produces this Window Manager, but it has evolved to also cover Mobile, Wearable and TV UI needs for projects such as Tizen as well as traditional the “desktop” UI.
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MDM is a Display Manager which is developed by Mint team for their operating system known as "Linux Mint" a popular Ubuntu derivative, MDM is based on GDM. It provides graphical configuration tools, which allows to change the themes, remote access, automatic and timed login, event scripting, language selection and it comes with more features than any other Display Manager currently available. There are several HTML and GDM themes designed by Linux Mint team and others for MDM display manager.
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Dalisha icon set is beautiful piece of art which is created by Eep Setiawan, it offers round-circle icon theme for Linux. The good thing is that it contain icons for all Linux desktop environments such as Unity, Gnome, Cinnamon, KDE, Mate and others. With in this icon theme offers more than 30,000+ icons which are available as most sizes including scalable. Symbolic icons used from moka icons in order to enhance and complete this icon theme. This icon set is in active development and contains icons most of the applications, if you still found any missing icon then report to creator. Also checkout icons collection. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer designed for Linux operating system, it comes with great features and easy to use. There are many wallpaper manager applications available which offers many features but Variety has its own way to get things done. It can display wallpapers from local sources or lots of various online sources, allows user to change wallpaper on a regular interval, and provides easy ways to separate the great images from the junk.
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There are many to-do applications available for Linux which offers basic/advance functionality. Here comes another great to-do application called "Go For It" which is completely free and open source software, as its names shows that go ahead and complete your tasks with this app. It is a stylish to-do list with built-in productivity timer. Go For It! keeps track of your tasks and assists you in processing them subsequently. The timer avoids distraction, by keeping your focus on the current task, while reminding you to take short breaks on a regular base.
It also allows you to store and synchronize your tasks on your mobile device, To-do lists are stored in the Todo.txt format. This simplifies synchronization with mobile devices and makes it possible to edit tasks using other front-ends. If you already use Todo.txt, beware of the fact, that Go For It! automatically archives completed tasks to the done list!
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ClipGrab is a free software to download and convert videos from different famous sites of Internet. You can easily save your favorite videos from sites like Dailymotion or Vimeo. And you can convert these videos into "usable" formats like WMV, MPEG or MP3. You can check here which sites are supported by this software.
It can convert videos to WMV, MPEG4, OGG Theora, MP3 (audio only), OGG Vorbis (audio only) or simply download videos in their original format. However, downloading from some sites doesn't allow you to select other format from drop-down menu, it could be issue with site videos.
ClipGrab can download from the following sites: Clipfish, Collegehumor, Dailymotion, MyVideo, MySpass, Sevenload, Tudou, Vimeo and others. ClipGrab isn't limited to the sites listed, because many more sites are supported "unofficially" through the automatic site-recognition of ClipGrab. By the way, ClipGrab can also download HD videos from sites that have support for high definition.
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Clarity icons are light, modern & beautiful icon theme. It is based on famous Aw0ken and Token icon themes, lots of shapes and basic color pallete was taken from these icons. Creator also used some shapes from OpenClipart, Wikipedia, Humanity icon theme and ACYL icon theme. Most of other icons are also designed by simplifying existed icons/logos. Mostly icons are in monoshape, but some icons also have additional elements. This icon theme has 8 templates to build different colors icons, so I created all those colors and uploaded to our PPA, further more if you want different color then you can download and follow instructions to create your own customized color icon set. The eight variants available are as follows: violaceus (violet/pink gradient), lux_violaceus (glossy), canus (grey gradient), dark_canus (dark grey gradient), caeruleus (blue gradient), lux_caeruleus (glossy), viridis (green gradient), and luteus (orange gradient). This icon theme is compatible with Unity, Gnome, Xfce, Mate, etc. In following screenshots Ambiance Blackout and Flat were used. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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There are many command line wireless scanner tools available for Linux, which requires command line knowledge to deal with them. Also there are some GUI tools available for Linux which scans wireless network around your wireless device like iwScanner, etc.
LinSSID is great application designed from scratch using C++, Qwt, and Qt languages, it is similar to iwScanner and Inssider (for MS Windows). LinSSID displays the information available from iwlist tool in graphical format. LinSSID displays a table of all of the local wireless networks that your device can receive, and information about them. It also displays charts of the signal strength of each network by channel number and over time. LinSSID will work with more than one wireless device attached to a system, but only one at a time (selectable).
LinSSID requires root privilege to run the iwlist tool. It can be run in one of two ways to do this. The preferred method is to launch LinSSID as a regular user and let it ask for a password. It will then use the password to get iwlist information, but LinSSID itself will not run with root privilege. Alternately, LinSSID can be launched with root privilege. This second method is less secure since any misbehaving code in the program could possibly have detrimental effects on the system.
It is multi-threaded, using the main thread to communicate with the main window and the user while a second worker thread keeps a named pipe filled with iwlist data. The program is in active development, so if you find any bug report it to the developer following this link.
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FFmpeg is popular multimedia framework, that allows users to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing. It is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
FFmpeg security is a high priority and code review is always done with security in mind. Though due to the very large amounts of code touching untrusted data security issues are unavoidable and thus developers provide as quick as possible updates to last stable releases when new security issues are found.
Since "Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty" FFmpeg is dropped and its fork adopted 'libav' which made a lot of application unusable under Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty. In coming release '15.04' Ubuntu team decided to add FFmpeg again to its repositories, so there won't be such issues like we have with 14.04/14.10 but there are unofficial FFmpeg PPAs available for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty. Now unusable applications can be used again on Ubuntu 14.10/14.04 using FFmpeg and if you want to use FFmpeg from command line then follow this official documentation.

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FFmpeg offers following functionality with libs:
  • libavutil is a library containing functions for simplifying programming, including random number generators, data structures, mathematics routines, core multimedia utilities, and much more.
  • libavcodec is a library containing decoders and encoders for audio/video codecs.
  • libavformat is a library containing demuxers and muxers for multimedia container formats.
  • libavdevice is a library containing input and output devices for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output software frameworks, including Video4Linux, Video4Linux2, VfW, and ALSA.
  • libavfilter is a library containing media filters.
  • libswscale is a library performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations.
  • libswresample is a library performing highly optimized audio resampling, rematrixing and sample format conversion operations.

You can also follow this guide to build from source.

There are two unofficial PPAs available to install FFmpeg in Ubuntu 14.10/14.04. A PPA by Kyrill offers packages for 14.10 Utopic and 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.1/17
To install FFmpeg in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Another PPA offers FFmpeg packages for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13 (This PPA is also promoted on official FFmpeg website)
To install FFmpeg in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Note: This PPA is removed and now you cannot install ffmpeg with above PPA.
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Install XiX Music Player (QT) in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/other related Ubuntu derivatives

XiX Player is a free easy to use multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS.

Changes in this release versions:
  • Read more OPUS Tags.
  • Read "UNSYNCED LYRICS" in OGG/OPUS.
  • Support for folders in Multi-Rename
  • Fixed an application freeze when an encoded picture frame was found in a flac file
  • Buffer length can be changed in the configuation dialog
  • Search now searches all added tags
  • Added a webbrowser unit LAZBRO (http://www.wascal.net/)
  • Show Wikipage of artist with external browser (English and Language chosen for XiX), or with integrated LAZBRO browser
  • Show complete LastFM artist Information & most played songs on LastFM from artist (integrated)
  • Save BEGIN and END trim of song
  • Play now start at the BEGIN trim and stop at the END trim setting of song.  This way you can skip unwanted intro's or silence.
  • Added very basic DSD support.  (Added .dff and .wav)
  • Number of times a song was played didn't get saved. (I do not save it in the ID3-Tag, if you want this feature, let me know)
  • Saved state of SHUFFLE was not shown at first start
  • Added Grouping, SubTitle, Conductor, Orchestra, Original Title, Original Year, Interpreter to the tags (MultiTag dialog) (MP3/FLAC/APE/OGG)
  • Save/Read Lyrics in the ID3-Tag (MP3/FLAC/APE/OGG). 
  • Reading/Saving FLAC/MP3 embedded picture in MultiTag Dialog. (Also used in the Main app when no local or internet folder has been found)
  • Fixed a few errors on saving FLAC/OGG Tags in RENAME and INFO Dialog.
  • Reading CD-TEXT is seperated from reading CD.  Some bugs are gone, but still not 100% correct.
  • Fixed: Creating a new playlist created a wrong submenu.
  • Remove selected songs from playlist is working again. Don't know what happened, but the procedure was left empty.

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Install Linux Deepin Terminal in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives via PPA

Deepin Terminal Emulator is developed by Linux Deepin team, also known as new generation terminal emulator and aims to enhance the command line user experience. Professional may find it useful and very handy with a lot of features. It is default terminal in Linux Deepin distribution and it has features like vertical and horizontal terminal split, terminal workspace switcher, transparent background with adjustment or background image, ssh connection, font resizing, hot keys (changeable), quick access to important option by right click menu, fullscreen, search and etc... Deepin Terminal also has several skins you can choose from or you may add your own skin.
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Install Deepin Audio Player in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Deepin Audio Player is designed by Linux Deepin team and it is default audio player in Linux Deepin. It is an awesome music player with brilliant and customizable UI, gstreamer front-end, with features likes search music by pinyin, quanpin, colorful lyrics supports, and more powerfull functions you will found. It is completely free and open source released under GNU General Public License.



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