Faenza is one of the popular monochrome GNOME icon themes. It provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colorful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items. It comes with both light and dark looks for the desktop.
Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and developed by the Mozilla Foundation.
To install thunderbird 7.0 on ubuntu 11.04
1.Open the terminal and type
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/thunderbird-stable
hit enter and type ubuntu password.
2.Then type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get update
3.Type below command and hit enter
sudo apt-get install thunderbird
4.Press y and hit enter to continue
5.To open Thunderbird, click Applications icon or unity dash from unity launcher. And type Thunderbird in the search applications field.And click Thunderbird mail/News.
RecordMyDesktop is a free open source linux desktop screencasting program and it producing an ogg encapsulated theora and vorbis output file.
To install recordMyDesktop on linux mint 11
1.Open linux mint software manager.To open software manager in linux mint, click Menu button and select software manager under system.
2.Type recordMyDesktop in the software manager search field and select gtk-recordMyDesktop.
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OpenShot Video Editor is a free open-source video editing software for Linux, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework.
To install Openshot on linux mint 11
1.Open linux mint software manager. To open software manager in linux mint, click Menu button and select software manager under system.
SpiderOak is free online backup, sync, sharing and storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & openSUSE) and it is the best alternative to dropbox. Use SpiderOaky to backup, synchronize, and share data across all of your computers, external drives and network volumes.
click here to know more about SpiderOak.
1.Go to SpiderOak download page and download the ubuntu client 32 or 64 bit deb package file.
2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.
3.Type your ubuntu password if needed and wait until the installation is complete.
4.To open SpiderOak, click Applications icon or unity dash from unity launcher. And type SpiderOak in the search applications field and click SpiderOak Backup.
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Scribes is an ultra minimalist text editor with remote editing,automatic word completion and many more.
Main features:
Extensible via Python plugins.
Remote editing (ftp, sftp, ssh, samba, webdav, webdavs).
Snippets.
Automatic word completion,correction and replacement,pair character completion and smart insertion,indentation.
Powerful text processing and manipulation functions.
Bookmarks and smart navigation.
Document Switcher.
Syntax colors for over 30 languages.
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Ubuntu Tweak is a free and open source Ubuntu management software for Ubuntu. Using this tool you can easily configure your ubuntu operating system and desktop settings. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 licence.
Note: This project is no longer under maintenance
Ubuntu tweak is a free software to config ubuntu GNOME desktop and system options.
Main Features:
System Information view.
GNOME Session Control.
Auto Start Program Control.
Quick install popular applications.
Show/Hide and Change Splash screen,desktop icons or Mounted Volumes.
Show/Hide/Rename Computer, Home, Trash or Network icon.
Tweak Metacity Window Manager’s style and behaviour
Compiz Fusion settings, Screen Edge Settings, Window Effect Settings, Menu Effect Settings
GNOME Panel Settings
Nautilus Settings
Advanced Power Management Settings
System Security Settings
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1.Go to virtualbox linux download page and download the deb package file for Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) (32-bit or 64-bit).
2.Double click the .deb package file or open with ubuntu software center and click the install button.
3.Type your ubuntu password if needed and wait until the installation is complete.
4.To open virtualbox, click Applications icon from unity launcher. And type virtualbox in the search applications field and click Oracle VM virtualbox.
Code::Blocks is a free open source C++ IDE . Code::Blocks can be extended with plugins. Any kind of functionality can be added by installing/coding a plugin.
Main features
Multiple compiler support:GCC(MingW/GNU GCC),MSVC++,Digital Mars, Borland C++ 5.5,Open Watcom.
Syntax highlighting
Code folding for C++ and XML files
Code completion,Class Browser,Smart indent
To-do list management with different users
Full breakpoints support