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How to install Olivia on ubuntu – Cloud Music Player

Post last modified:January 4, 2020
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Post author:Manikandan

Olivia is a free and open source cloud music player for Linux. Using this you can play online and offline music tracks, listen radio stations and stream stream audio. You can search , play, save and organise music from other online sources. Some of the important features are Smart Play Mode, Player mini mode, download and save track while streaming, search video in YouTube, plays audio only of YouTube streams and MPRIS support.

It comes with more than 25k online radio stations support. And you can browse new music according to your location, their genres, moods, singles, albums and Top music chart. It comes with lyrics search feature and themes support.

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How to install Olive Video Editor on Ubuntu – Free Non-linear Video Editor

Post last modified:January 3, 2020
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Post author:Manikandan

Olive is a free and open source non-linear video editor for Linux, Windows and MacOS. It is released under GPL v3 license.It is good for professional video editors but still in alpha stage. software. It comes with timeline editing with video and audio strip with pointer, edit, ripple, razor, slip, slide and hand tools. You can also include transition effects, Video effects and Audio effects in your video. Some other important features are graph editor, media viewer, themes support and Keyboard shortcuts support. you can also do some proxy editing of clips, up to 1/16th of the video’s resolution.

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How to Install Peppermint OS on Oracle virtualbox

Post last modified:March 13, 2020
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Post author:Manikandan

Peppermint OS is a Lubuntu based Linux operating system and lubuntu is based on Ubuntu. Peppermint OS is a fast web-centric operating system that uses the light weight LXDE desktop environment. It mainly targets on Linux newcomers with low hardware requirements. It comes with minimal and normal installation options with long term support code base. It also comes with nemo file manager and ICE cloud & web application management tool. In this tutorial i am using the below softwares to test the installation of Peppermint OS on Oracle virtualbox.

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How to install Unknown Horizons on Ubuntu – Real Time City Building Game

Post last modified:December 26, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Unknown Horizons is a free and open source real time strategy city building game for Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Linux. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPLv2) and CC-BY-SA License. In this game player need to build a settlement and must provide needed goods like food, lumber and tools and public services to the settlers. When the settlement economy and happiness grows, the settlement population will grow and the people will rise to higher social classes.Taxes are the main source of income in this game.

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How to install OpenClonk Action Game On Ubuntu

Post last modified:December 24, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

OpenClonk is a free and open source 2D action and tactics game for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It is released under the ISC license. In this game Clonks are small humanoid beings and you need to control clonks by keyboard and mouse. Clonks do shoveling through earth, mine gold, construct a building, riding on rockets and wielding swords like tasks. This game is the combination of Settlers, Lemmings and Worms games. You can create your own scenarios, objects and campaigns using C4Script. It comes with dynamical and destructible pixel landscapes and build with earth, tunnel, sky, coal, ore, gold and water.

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How to install The Powder Toy on Ubuntu – Free Physics Sandbox Game

Post last modified:December 23, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

The Powder Toy is a free and open source falling sand physics sandbox game for Windows, MacOS, Linux and android. It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.0+. Using this game you can stimulate gravity, air pressure, heat and velocity. It is great science game for kids and all type of people. They can use this game as a learning aid. This game comes with Walls, Electronics, Sensors, Force, Explosives, Gasses, Liquids, Powders, Solids, Radioactive, Life and many more components. Using this you can build almost anything. This game is written in C++ and using SDL.

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How to install Pioneer Space Trading and Combat Game on Ubuntu

Post last modified:December 21, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Pioneer is a free and open source space trading and combat game for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The game is open world game so your are free explore the planets in galaxy without any set objectives. This game is heavily inspired by Frontier Elite 2 game. It is released under open source GNU general public license. It is a single player offline space adventure game. Some other similar type of space trading and combat games are Oolite and Endless Sky.

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How to install Soundconverter on Ubuntu – Multi-threaded Audio converter

Post last modified:December 20, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Soundconverter is a free and open source audio conversion utility for Linux. Using this simple and easy to use audio converter, you can convert any GStreamer supported files like AAC, MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MOV, M4A, AC3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, DTS, ALAC, MPC, Shorten, APE, SID, MOD, XM and S3M to Opus, MP3 AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and WAV file formats. It uses multiple cpu cores so the file conversion is fast. You can also use this app for extract audio files from video files. Other important feature is you can change the converted filenames and create new folders according to the audio tags. It is released under open source GNU general public license v3.0.

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How to install Xine open source media player on Ubuntu

Post last modified:December 18, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Xine is a free and open source multi media player for linux and Windows. It is released under open source GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2) License. Using this you can play your DVD, VCD and CDs in your computer. It supports 3gp, AVI, ASF, FLV, Matroska, MOV, MP4, NUT, Ogg, OGM, RealMedia Container formats and Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP, RealVideo, Sorenson, Theora, WMV video formats. It also supports AAC, MP3, RealAudio, Shorten, Speex, AC3, ALAC, AMR, FLAC, Vorbis audio formats.

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How to install Color Picker tool on Ubuntu

Post last modified:December 14, 2019
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Post author:Manikandan

Color Picker is a free and open source color picker tool for Linux. It is released under open source MIT License. Using this easy to use color picker tool you can choose any color from your screen. This simple new app is based on the Qt and looks promising. It supports HTML, HexRGBA, RGB, HSB/HSV, CMYK color formats and it converts and shows colors HTML, HEX and RGB. It comes with color list support and flat light theme, dark theme and system theme.

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