OpenShot Video Editor

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/openshot-1-4-1-released-and-ubuntu-ppa-installation-instructions-included.html

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats. Check out the full feature list, view screenshots, or watch videos of OpenShot in action!

What is new in OpenShot 1.4.1

Highlights include:

* New 3D animation (wireframe text)
* New Titles (gold)
* New Effects (fish eye)
* New Animation Presets
* Support for Blender 2.6.X
* Localization fixes (seg faults, audio volume, rotation effect)
* UI bugs (disappearing icons using some GTK themes)
* Improved Help Manual
* Improved Title UI (interactive font list)

Install OpenShot 1.4.1 in ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot frei0r-plugins

If you want to use 3d titles you have to install blender using the following command

sudo apt-get install blender

2011 Top 5 Software Downloads

Disk Investigator 1.61 (Windows)

Disk Investigator helps you to discover all that is hidden on your computer hard disk. It can also help you to recover lost data.

HDClone Free Edition 4.1.2b (Windows)
The Free Edition of HDClone is the ideal tool for moving or cloning contents of entire hard disks.

KeyScrambler Personal 2.9.0.1 (Windows)
KeyScrambler Personal is a free plug-in for your Web browser that protects everything you type from keyloggers.

Disk SpeedUp 1.4.0.888 (Windows)
Analyze, defrag and optimize disks or a single file/folder for peak computer performance.

TweakNow PowerPack 2011 3.4.7 (Windows)
A fully-integrated suite of utilities that lets you fine-tune every aspect of your computer's operating system and Web browser.

[技巧]夜间智能定时关机

http://www.appinn.com/tip-schedule-task-for-auto-shutdown/

 - 小众软件

和大多数人不一样，侍其二狗有癖好，关机癖。计算机不用的时候一定要关上。这种强迫症带给二狗很好的节能习惯和更多的麻烦，他经常半夜惊醒去看看电脑有没有关机。其实，善用 Windows 自带计划任务就能实现电脑夜间只能自动关机。如果到了关机时，电脑还在使用中，也不会强制关闭，而是等到电脑完全空闲了再关机。@appinn

开始菜单 -> 所有程序 -> 附件 -> 系统工具 -> 任务计划程序。点击窗口，右上角的创建任务。

任务名称：夜间关机。关机操作需要权限，所以务必选中"使用最高权限运行"。

切换到"触发器"选项卡，点击"新建…"。

设定一个你觉得合适的每天关机时刻，例图是每天零点十分三十秒。设置为"每天"，然后确定。

切换到"操作"选项卡，点"新建…"。程序或脚本 输入关机命令 shutdown，参数后面输入 /S。如果你想停止当时运行的一切程序，在 /S 后面加上/F。

切换到条件选项卡，如图设置只有在电脑空闲时才执行任务。这样避免你正在操作电脑时，电脑强制关机。

切换到设置选项卡，如图设置。如果到关机时间仍在使用电脑，计划任务会在 30 分钟后再次试图关机，如果电脑到时候仍然不空闲，计划任务再等30分钟，如此类推。

好了，现在二狗可以放心的睡觉，不用半夜爬起来看看电脑关没关了。

Android apps can now run on your PC via BlueStacks

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20118500-93/android-apps-can-now-run-on-your-pc-via-bluestacks/

 | Digital Media - CNET News

(Credit: Lance Whitney/CNET)

Those of you who want to check out an Android app without an Android device can now run that app on your PC thanks to a program from the folks at BlueStacks.

The software, dubbed the BlueStacks App Player, has just hit the alpha stage, meaning a test version of it is now available for anyone to download. The basic player lets you run several preloaded apps, install up to 26 others, and sync apps from an Android phone to your PC.

Related stories:
• BlueStacks marries Android to Windows
• Windows and Android, sitting in a tree
• BlueStacks puts Android apps on Windows

I installed the App Player on a PC runningWindows 7. The installation failed the first time around, but a second attempt proved successful. The app places an Android gadget in the upper right corner of your screen. Clicking on the gadget opens a menu from which you can launch any of the preloaded Android apps, including Bloomberg News, Bubble Buster, Words Free, and Drag Racing, along with six others.

The apps themselves launch in a full-screen virtualized version of the Android operating system, so they run smoothly. The only obstacle I encountered is that since the apps are designed for a touch screen device, running them on a desktop computer with keyboard and mouse was less than ideal. Using a laptop with a multitouch pad was definitely an improvement. Overall, the integration with Windows via a simple desktop gadget proved to be clean and seamless.

You can click on an option to add more apps, which requires you to log into the BlueStacks App Channels using a Facebook account. From the Channels page you can download apps that connect you to the Web sites of dozens of newspapers and news outlets, as well as a host of games, including Checkers, MineSweeper, Sudoku, and Memory Trainer.

To send apps from your phone or tablet to your PC, you'll first need to download the BlueStacks Cloud Connect App on from Google's Android Market and install it on your mobile device. Entering a unique pin number in the app then sets up the connection with your PC, allowing you to push over apps from your device.

For now the App Player supports only Windows PCs. The company is working on a Mac version but concedes that it may be a while before one is available. BlueStacks is also busy cooking up a premium version of the App Player, which as yet has no price tag, but would support such apps as Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja, and let you add an unlimited number of apps.

Speaking with CNET this past May, company CEO and co-founder Rosen Sharma, who previously was McAfee's chief technology officer, explained that he got the idea for BlueStacks from his 6-year-old daughter.

"She went to a Netbook, and she wanted the same apps on it," Sharma said. But obviously that wasn't doable. "The number of people who want something like that is very, very large--both consumer and enterprise," he added.

Lance Whitney

Lance Whitney wears a few different technology hats--journalist, Web developer, and software trainer. He's a contributing editor for Microsoft TechNet Magazine and writes for other computer publications and Web sites. Lance is a member of the CNET Blog Network, and he is not an employee of CNET.

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/openshot-video-editor-reaches-version.html

OpenShot Video Editor Reaches Version 1.4, Gets New Effects, Transitions And More

Canonical Releases Windows Version of Ubuntu One

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/30/canonical-releases-windows-version-of-ubuntu-one/

 | TechCrunch

Canonical, the commercial backer behind theUbuntu Linux distribution, have been hosting a file synchronization service called Ubuntu Onefor a couple years now. A free account gets you 5GB of storage, and the client side controls have been baked into the last couple of releases of the Ubuntu distribution. It works pretty much like Dropbox or similar services, but has been — until today — Linux-only.

In an announcement late last night, Canonical has revealed that there is now a Windows client for Ubuntu One, allowing you to access all your files from either Linux or Windows computers.

We have long received feedback from Ubuntu users regarding their evolving needs to manage all their content from a single, secure place across multiple platforms and devices. We've looked at many use cases, the most common being the Ubuntu user who is using more than one device or OS. Many people have to work in Windows or Mac environments, even if they prefer to use Ubuntu as their home desktop or OS of choice. Another case is enabling more opportunities for sharing across platforms. For example families using different operating systems in one household can use Ubuntu One as their central place to store all their music, documents, photos and share them easily with each other and friends.

Ubuntu One also offers a nifty music streaming service. For $4 per month, you get 20 GB of storage and the ability to stream music files from your account to your mobile device. The Ubuntu One app is available for iOS and Android, and Android devices get the added benefit of a controllable offline cache, allowing you to listen to your cloud-stored music without requiring a network connection. Neat stuff.

Tags: android, ios, Ubuntu, canonical, ubuntu one

Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source software of the year

http://www.infoworld.com/print/171567

For a healthy sampling of open source success, just follow the links below to profiles of InfoWorld's 2011 Bossie Award winners:
Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source applications [5]
Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source desktop and mobile software [6]
Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source application development software [7]
Bossie Awards 2011: The best open source data center and cloud software [8]

How to install wireshark 1.6.1 using ubuntu PPA

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-wireshark-1-6-1-using-ubuntu-ppa.html

 | Ubuntu Geek

July 24, 2011 · General

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.

Features

Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:

Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
Live capture and offline analysis
Standard three-pane packet browser
Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
Captured network data can be browsed via a GUI, or via the TTY-mode TShark utility
The most powerful display filters in the industry
Rich VoIP analysis
Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), Pcap NG, Catapult DCT2000, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, Network General Sniffer® (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer® Pro, and NetXray®, Network Instruments Observer, NetScreen snoop, Novell LANalyzer, RADCOM WAN/LAN Analyzer, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, Tektronix K12xx, Visual Networks Visual UpTime, WildPackets EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, and many others
Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
Live data can be read from Ethernet, IEEE 802.11, PPP/HDLC, ATM, Bluetooth, USB, Token Ring, Frame Relay, FDDI, and others (depending on your platform)
Decryption support for many protocols, including IPsec, ISAKMP, Kerberos, SNMPv3, SSL/TLS, WEP, and WPA/WPA2
Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list for quick, intuitive analysis
Output can be exported to XML, PostScript®, CSV, or plain text

Install wireshark 1.6.1 using ubuntu PPA

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/programs-ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install wireshark

VirtualBox 4.1 Released With GUI Option To Clone VMs, More

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/07/virtualbox-41-released-with-gui-option.html

 ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

VirtualBox 4.1 hs been released today, bringing some new GUI features like support for cloning VMs and a new wizard for copying virtual disks. Other changes:

• Experimental support for PCI passthrough for Linux hosts
• Enhanced wizard for creating new virtual disks
• Raised the memory limit for 64-bit hosts to 1TB
• Windows guests: Experimental WDDM graphics driver, supporting Windows Aero and providing Direct3D support using a cleaner approach
• New Networking Mode UDP Tunnel: allows to interconnect VMs running on different hosts easily and transparently
• Experimental support for SATA hard disk hotplugging available with VBoxManage

For a complete changelog, check out this page.

A bit of info on the new features so you'll know where to find them:

• to clone a VM, simply right click it in the main VirtualBox window and select "Clone"
• to copy a virtual disk, select File > Virtual Media Manager, right click a .vdi and select "Copy"

Install VirtualBox 4.1 in Ubuntu / Debian via repository

1. Firstly, remove VirtualBox 4.0 (if it's installed):

 sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-4.0

2. Add the VirtualBox repository and install the latest VirtualBox 4.1:

 echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list 
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

3. Optional: for USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards support, you'll also have to install an Extension pack which you can download from HERE.

To install VirtualBox extension pack, double clicking the extension should be enough but if that doesn't work, open VirtualBox, go to File > Preferences and on the Extensions tab, click the "add" button on the right and browse for the VirtualBox extension pack.

For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OSX, see the VirtualBox download page.

How to install gpodder 2.15 on ubuntu using PPA

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-gpodder-2-15-on-ubuntu-using-ppa.html

| Ubuntu Geek

(I installed gPodder on Pig7U by following the stops here, HL 20110518)

gPodder is a Podcast receiver/catcher written in Python and pyGTK. It manages podcast feeds for you, and automatically downloads all podcasts from as many feeds as you like. If you are interested in Podcast feeds, simply put the feed URLs into gPodder and it will download all episodes for you automatically. If there is a new episode, it will get it for you. It supports download resume, if the server supports it.

Features

iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone support

RSS, Atom, YouTube and Soundcloud feeds
Focus on Usability
Integrated with the gpodder.net Web Service
User interfaces: GTK+, Maemo 4, Maemo 5 and CLI
Plays well together with the Panucci podcast player
Open Source and Free Software (GPL v3 or later)

What is new in gpodder 2.15

Sanitize filename when saving to folder
Remove gstreamer track length detection
Win32: Fix issues with backslashes in commands
Better generation of one-line description
Fix bug when different podcasts have the same GUID
GTK UI: Fix podcast directory dialog layout
Translation updates:
French translation of gpodder.desktop (by Vysserk3)
Galician (by Gonçalo Cordeiro)
Norwegian Bokmål (by Jim Nygård)
Spanish (by Jorge Suárez de Lis)

Install gpodder 2.15 on ubuntu using PPA

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thp/gpodder
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gpodder

AMD (ATI) Catalyst 11.4 Released Just In Time For Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/amd-ati-catalyst-114-released-just-in.html

~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog

A quick update: AMD has released Catalyst 11.4 with support for X Server 1.10 so all of you who want to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal should now be able to use Unity.

I do not use an ATI graphics card so I can't really tell you how everything works so all I can do is give you a download link:

Download ATI Catalyst 11.04