How to install and upgrade the Banshee inside Ubuntu

Install or Upgrade to the latest version of Banshee in Ubuntu

After some 6 months of hard work by Banshee developers, Banshee 1.5 has been released. But it is not yet available in the official Ubuntu repo. Here is how you could upgrade your existing Banshee 1.4 to all new Banshee 1.5 in Ubuntu.

Update: Banshee 1.5.1 is released.
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Ubuntu IBM Lotus Symphony Free Download

There are many office suite software available in the internet. One of the best office suites is IBM Lotus Symphony develop by IBM. IBM Lotus Symphony is a feature-rich set of office tools that are free and easy to use. There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. Lotus Symphony is a set of applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Current version of IBM Lotus Symphony is version 1.3 You can download this software from the link below.

Download Details:

• Version: 1.3
• Operating System: Ubuntu Linux
• Type: Free (free registration required)

 

Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10) beta is available for download

The upcoming release of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala is ready for download, due launch at late this october. This Beta version offers many improvements and new features, special from Ubuntu team. Personally, I love ubuntu, its mature, stable and free off course :)

Well, as you probably already know, there is now a revamped Human theme, the Humanity icons and lots of wallpapers! Moreover, the Ubuntu Software Store has been renamed to Ubuntu Software Center and updated several times in the last two weeks. And... in order to improve the boot performance, the Ubuntu developers have now transitioned to Upstart.

Acetone ISO 2.1.1 Free Download

The new version of AcetoneISO is released. Introducing acetoneISO 2.1.1, there are many improvements and bug fixes since previous version.
AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things.

Download:
Ubuntu Jaunty 32 bit
Ubuntu Hardy 32 bit
Ubuntu Intrepid 32 bit

Free Linux software CompTemp Monitor

Sometimes we need to check our computer hardware status. For example the temperature inside our machine. In windows environment we can easily search for software that capable to give a detail info about our system status like temperature, fan speed and many more. But in Linux, there are only a few kind of software like that. One of monitoring software in Linux is Comptemp monitor 0.9.6.1

Computer Temperature Monitor is a little applet for the GNOME desktop
that shows the temperature of your computer CPU and disks on screen.

It also allows you to log temperatures to a file.
You can set alarms to notify you when a tempertature is reached.
Several monitors can be added to the panel to monitor different sensors.
It is designed to look like CPU Frequency Gnome applet, so they match each other on panel.

Supported sensors:
* ACPI thermal support
* IBM laptops ACPI sensors
* adt746, windtunnel and windfarm (Apple iBooks, iMacs and G5 machines)
* Omnibook (HP and Toshiba models)
* i8k (Dell Latitude and Inspiron)
* i2c sensors kernel module (Linux kernel 2.6)
* HDDTEMP for hard disk temperatures


Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.6.x. Other dependencies include:
python, python-gnome, python-gnome-extras, gconf2, hddtemp

Download:

• Source
• Ubuntu
  

Wine 1.0.1 Free download

Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix.
Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. Wine does not require Microsoft Windows, as it is a completely free alternative implementation of the Windows API consisting of 100% non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.

Binary Compatibility:
· Loads Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows 3.x and DOS programs and libraries
· Win32 compatible memory layout, exception handling, threads and processes
· Designed for POSIX compatible operatings systems (eg. Linux and FreeBSD)
· ``bug-for-bug'' compatibility with Windows
Graphics:
· X11-based graphics allows remote display to any X terminal
· X11, TrueType (.ttf/.ttc) and Windows Bitmap (.fon) Fonts
· DirectX support for games (limited Direct3D support)
· Printing via PostScript driver or legacy native Win16 printer drivers
· Enhanced Metafile (EMF) and Windows Metafile (WMF) driver
· Desktop-in-a-box or mixable windows
· Windows MultiMedia (WinMM) layer support with builtin codecs

Download Wine 1.0.1 tar.bz

Download for Ubuntu

Download for Debian

Best audio software Audacity 1.3.9 for Ubuntu free download

Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The audio I/O uses PortAudio, which fully supports OSS, Mac OS X CoreAudio, and Windows WMME, and can be compiled with support for ALSA and Jack.

In this post, I just provide download link for Ubuntu only. For more information regarding this Audacity, pelase visit Official website of Audacity at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Download Area:

Audacity 1.3.9 for Ubuntu Jaunty 32 Bit

Audacity 1.3.9 for Ubuntu Jaunty 32 Bit

Audacity 1.3.7 for Ubuntu Intrepid 32 Bit

Audacity 1.3.7 for Ubuntu Intrepid 64 Bit

Audacity 1.3.7 for Ubuntu Hardy 32 Bit

Audacity 1.3.7 for Ubuntu Hardy 64 Bit

Real player 11 for Linux free download

Real player is well known multimedia player in Windows environment. Now, Real player is also available for Linux system. I think its a very good software, I have been using this software for 2 years and no problem.

RealPlayer plays streaming audio and video over the Internet in real-time.
It plays RealAudio, RealVideo, MP3, 3GPP Video, Flash, SMIL 2.0, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, RealText, Ogg Vorbis, and Ogg Theora. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, Pocket PC, Nokia 9200 Series, Nokia 7650, Palm OS 5-based handhelds, Linux, Solaris, and many Unix variants.

Download Real Player 11:

RPM Package

Deb package (for ubuntu & Debian)

New version of Fotoxx 8.4.1 is released

 

Fotox is a linux software for improving image file made with digital camera. Additional features has been made to the newest version of Fotoxx.

Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail image browser. Import most camera RAW files and edit with 16-bit color. Save edited images as tiff-24/48 or jpeg with adjustable compression. Edit the whole image or an area outlined with the mouse, with adjustable edge-blending. Edit functions have fast feedback using the whole image. Multiple undo/redo aids evaluation of changes. Add tags, dates, and star-ratings to images. Search images using these criteria and also (wildcard) file names.

The GUI has Chinese, English, French, German, Galacian, Italian, and Spanish. A user guide is available in English. Edit functions include:

+ Flatten brightness distribution (quick fix for many photos) + Brightness and color adjustments using movable curves + Trim, Rescale, Rotate (any angle) + Warp (stretch/distort image by dragging the mouse) + Sharpen, Blur, Noise reduction, Red-eye removal + Panorama and HDR composites (hand-held photos OK) + Artful transformations (simulated drawing or painting) + Pixel edit with variable brush and blending

Download Fotoxx version 8.4.1

Ubuntu Jaunty 32 bit

Ubuntu Hardy 32 bit

Ubuntu Intrepid 32 bit