Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Rhythmbox 3.0</b> was released more than a month ago, bringing an improved user interface, Python 3 support for the plugins and more. Unfortunately, the new version didn't make it into Ubuntu 13.10, but there's a PPA you can use to install it (also available for Ubuntu 13.04).</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Rhythmbox 3.0" border="0" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1__oPTe0v17pAeefbpcWx5dof0uCSfZ8dZ7lfOGGWr2Wmx0sXBqTbzNSgM-OQbihG_Rhciy4vJqDksioPeSYk9EuGaoWS2YJi8RdrfPVkJ12xBtX15Rt6q2vAUIK9oZxHgAn2VvrlcvM/s320/rhythmbox-3.0.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Rhythmox 3.0:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">the plugins now use Python 3;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">new task progress display below the track list (used for various things including track transfers and import jobs);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">support for composer tags;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">restyled playback controls;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">restyled source list using symbolic icons;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">better introspection of everything;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">separate CBR and VBR encoding styles with different sets of exposed properties;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">playlist settings (browser visibility etc.) saved in playlists.xml;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">better use of RTL icons where appropriate;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">fixed IM status and ReplayGain plugins;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">many other bug fixes.</li></ul><br />A complete Rhythmbox 3.0 changelog can be found <a href="http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/3.0/rhythmbox-3.0.news">HERE</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Rhythmbox 3.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 or 13.04</h2><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0_2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Rhythmbox 3.0 Ubuntu" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/rhythmbox-3.0_2_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rhythmbox 3.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 (Unity)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Because Rhythmbox 3.0 uses Python3 for plugins instead of Python 2, <b>none of the plugins available in the Rhythmbox <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/08/rhythmbox-third-party-plugins-ubuntu-ppa.html" title="Rhythmbox third-party plugins PPA">third-party plugins PPA</a> will work</b>. You can get some of them to work by installing them manually (including the Equalizer plugin and the cool <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/rhythmbox-coverart-browser-plugin-gets.html">CoverArt browser</a>) - for more info, see <a href="http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/how-to-install-rhythmbox-3-0-in-saucy/">THIS</a> article.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rhythmbox 3.0 is available in an unofficial PPA maintained by Jacob Zimmermann, for Ubuntu 13.10 and 13.04 (and derivatives). <b>Add the PPA and install/upgrade Rhythmbox 3.0 using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jacob/media<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install rhythmbox</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.lffl.org/2013/10/installare-rhythmbox-30-in-ubuntu-1310.html">lffl.org</a></i></div>

Install Rhythmbox 3.0 In Ubuntu 13.10 Or 13.04

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Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/">Cinnamon</a> 2.0 has been released today featuring many bug fixes as well as some new features.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the release <a href="http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/10/cinnamon-2-0-released/">announcement</a>, with version 2.0, Cinnamon is no longer a frontend ontop of the GNOME desktop like Unity or GNOME Shell, but "<i>an entire desktop environment</i>". Cinnamon is still built on GNOME technologies and uses GTK, but "<i>it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed</i>" because it now communicates with its own backend services, libraries and daemons.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cinnamon 2.0" border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg93xPVz4y7CUU0nwUMF8H2rbyUEfXi_99oZKV0O9-0tAN5hpZBPqWpN21FAnc36LhsvCxfE1NcwhERFPcsbtUfL9jA9huCMz7fsMSutm9zTV0pPHDp6QQxGcmsH-iU8-TVCuq7-0GZm-0/s320/cinnamon-2.0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Changes in Cinnamon 2.0:</b></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li style="text-align: justify;">improved edge-tiling: </li><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>tiled windows can be resized;</li><li>in addition to top, bottom, left and right, windows can now be tiled into the 4 corners of the screen;</li><li>a new feature called "HUD" was added: when dragging a window near a tiling zone, Cinnamon displays a hint so you know where the window will tile - see second screenshot below;</li></ul><li style="text-align: justify;">a new edge-snapping feature has been added - it's similar to edge-tiling, but there's a difference: maximized windows do not cover snapped windows. To snap a window, drag a window with your mouse towards an edge while pressing the Control key;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">configurable individual sound effects: you can configure sounds for events such as Cinnamon startup, switching workspace, closing, minimizing or maximizing windows and so on.</li><li style="text-align: justify;">replaced GNOME "User Accounts" with new Cinnamon "Users and Groups". Users can access and modify their own info via the Account Details module;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">added an User Applet which can be used to shutdown, restart or suspend the system, turn off the notifications, access the account details or System Settings. Furthermore, the applet supports MDM and LightDM user switching and LightDM guest user session;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">cinnamon-bluetooth has replaced blueman;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">important performance improvements for full-screen apps.</li></ul><br />Here are a few screenshots with some of these changes:<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-user-applet_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New User Applet</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-hud-and-tile-osd_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new "HUD" tiling feature (see the hint at the top) / window snapping OSD</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-users-groups_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Users and Groups</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects.png" rel="image_group" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-sound-effects_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinnamon 2.0 Sound Effects</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Some minor new features include: <br /><ul><li>sound applet: added support for SMPlayer and Tomahawk;</li><li>added snap OSD;</li><li>expo: middle click on window thumbnail now closes the window;</li><li>window-list improvements;</li><li>more!</li></ul><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo.png" rel="image_group"><img alt="Cinnamon 2.0 Nemo screenshot" src="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/cinnamon-2.0-nemo_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Nemo, the default Cinnamon file manager (forked from Nautilus) has also received some interesting improvements:</div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">two new extensions were added - nemo-preview (for previewing files, fork of GNOME Sushi), and nemo-media-columns (adds various info to the Nautilus list view);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in list view, columns are now re-orderable by simple drag and drop method, without having to open a separate dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">in the List View, you can now right-click a column heading to add or remove visible columns quickly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">also in the List View, Nemo will try to avoid having a horizontal scroll bar by truncating the name column when necessary;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to always start in split-pane mode;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is a new option in Preferences to ignore folder-specific metadata regarding zoom level, view type, and column layouts;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Move/Copy To context menus - they now include a "Browse…" entry to pick your target folder, as well as options to include bookmarks and places in the menus;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you can now turn file tooltips on or off in the different views;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">there is an additional menu item in the list-view column context menu, to temporarily disable auto-sorting of new or changed items. By enabling this, new files are simply added to the bottom of the file list, and renamed items stay put, regardless of alphabetical or other sort criteria;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved the Open With dialog - you can now add custom mime-type handlers on the fly;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">improved handling of the file operation progress dialog. You can now close the dialog entirely and it will turn into a dynamic icon in the system tray, showing overall progress with a circular icon. From that icon you can get additional information via the tooltip, and you can click the icon to restore the full progress dialog;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">middle-clicking a tab will now close it.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Getting Cinnamon 2.0</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Cinnamon 2.0 will be included by default in the upcoming Linux Mint 16 "Petra" </b>(which should be released at the end of November) and then it <b>will be backported to LMDE and Linux Mint 13 LTS</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04 or 12.10</b> (there are some packages that <a href="https://launchpad.net/~gwendal-lebihan-dev/+archive/cinnamon-stable/+packages">failed</a> to build for Ubuntu 12.04 so I suggest you wait until these are fixed!) users can install the latest stable Cinnamon by using the stable PPA.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important:</b> in my test under Ubuntu 13.10, installing Cinnamon broke the Unity session (I was unable to log in to Unity until I removed Cinnamon; this didn't occur in Ubuntu 13.04) so use it at your own risk!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Add the PPA and install Cinnamon in Ubuntu using the following commands</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install cinnamon</code></pre>Then, log out and select Cinnamon from the login screen session menu.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For other Linux distributions, see the Cinnamon <a href="http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61">downloads page</a>.</div>

Cinnamon 2.0 Released, Becomes An `Entire Desktop Environment`

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How To Disable Amazon / Shopping Suggestions And Other Unity Scopes In Ubuntu 13.10

<div style="text-align: justify;">In Ubuntu 13.04, if you want to get online search results in Dash without shopping suggestions, you can simply remove the Unity Shopping lens. In Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) you can't remove the Shopping lens but there is another way to achieve the same thing and it seems this isn't obvious because I've seen quite a few users complaining about it. So here's how to disable the shopping scopes or any scope for that matter, in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, without disabling all the online search results.</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-shopping-suggestions.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash sopping suggestions" border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_ZN1dFan1SxeHi1TrujFUIm7jyXcguTvjJ6PfsOTiKiWdOx_Dz8UfEfI3e3nDXfyzS-lPqpUv4GFWV2p7XgPOCW8oLfCGCayoy9fYvnbbPSlzpqr1aopP9lxPsoeRWG47C1G0pEbGC0/s320/ubuntu13.10-shopping-suggestions.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unity Dash with shopping suggestion</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">First of all, don't try to remove the Unity Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 13.10 because it won't work. Here's what you'll get if you try that:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">$ sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-shopping<br />Reading package lists... Done<br />Building dependency tree <br />Reading state information... Done<br />Note, selecting 'unity-scope-home' instead of 'unity-lens-shopping'<br />0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you remove <i>unity-scope-home</i>, which was selected instead of <i>unity-lens-shopping</i>, you won't get any results in Dash, not even for installed applications.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can't remove the Unity Shopping Lens in Ubuntu 13.10 because there's no Shopping lens. Ubuntu 13.10 comes with a feature called <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/unity-smart-scopes-feature-lands-in.html">Unity Smart Scopes</a> (or "100 scopes") which uses a huge list of scopes to display results in Dash and among these, there are some used for shopping. So if you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, you must disable these shopping scopes (see below).</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-no-shopping.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash no sopping suggestions" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-no-shopping_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unity Dash without shopping suggestions</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><h2>How to disable Unity Dash plugins (scopes) in Ubuntu 13.10</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To disable a Dash plugin (scope) in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, open <i>Dash</i>, go to the <i>Applications</i> lens (either do it manually using your mouse or use the Super + A keyboard shortcut), click "Filter results" on the right and under "Type", select "Search plugins". All the Dash search plugins (scopes) should be listed, like in the screenshot below:</div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-plugins.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Unity Dash plugins" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-plugins_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dash plugins (scopes)</td></tr></tbody></table><br />To disable a plugin, click on it and then click the "Disable" button:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-disable-amazon.png"><img alt="Unity Dash Amazon scope" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/ubuntu13.10-dash-disable-amazon_thumb.png" /></a></div><br />Later on you can enable them back in the same way.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Disable the Amazon / shopping suggestions Unity Dash scopes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you don't want shopping suggestions in Dash, disable the following scopes (by using the instructions above): Amazon, Ebay, Music Store, Popular Tracks Online, Skimlinks, Ubuntu One Music Search and Ubuntu Shop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To disable all these shopping Dash plugins/scopes from the command line</b>, use the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Lenses disabled-scopes "['more_suggestions-amazon.scope', 'more_suggestions-u1ms.scope', 'more_suggestions-populartracks.scope', 'music-musicstore.scope', 'more_suggestions-ebay.scope', 'more_suggestions-ubuntushop.scope', 'more_suggestions-skimlinks.scope']"</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>inspired by <a href="http://marcosbox.blogspot.com/2013/10/ubuntu-1310-la-ricerca-su-amazon-non-si.html">MarcosBox</a></i></div>

How To Disable Amazon / Shopping Suggestions And Other Unity Scopes In Ubuntu 13.10

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Sync And Collaboration Tool `SparkleShare` 1.2 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">SparkleShare</a> is an open source cloud collaboration/synchronization tool that uses Git under the hood and can be used with your own Git repository or with services such as BitBucket, GitHub, Gitorious and Plan.io.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwBTDJ0QTi_gCBIE_WWCm1WHrW_8K6XD4A1s896Fj7mroIqBZmw3U3C0Lqn_WpmWNgkvgMsKeFXgbsMxztPsCfC-EbIkAfsuvEXoC5mzlKPQH_0Bq-_mZ4DUcN-Zb1VPqhek-Xfb8MBA/s1600/sparkleshare.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sparkleshare" border="0" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwBTDJ0QTi_gCBIE_WWCm1WHrW_8K6XD4A1s896Fj7mroIqBZmw3U3C0Lqn_WpmWNgkvgMsKeFXgbsMxztPsCfC-EbIkAfsuvEXoC5mzlKPQH_0Bq-_mZ4DUcN-Zb1VPqhek-Xfb8MBA/s320/sparkleshare.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The application features file synchronization, version control, client side encryption and more and is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. According to its homepage, SparkleShare and is great for frequently changing project files like text, office documents and so on, but not for large music/photo collections, large binary files hat change often and so on (because it uses Git which doesn't handle binaries very well).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <b>new SparkleShare version</b> has been released recently: <b>1.2.0</b>, which includes mostly bug fixes, such as:</div><ul><li>Fixes to the invite feature, now works when SparkleShare isn't running yet;</li><li>Fix some interface logic in Add dialog;</li><li>Fix some inaccurate sync state messages in the status icon;</li><li>Fix conflict when running when TortoiseGit is installed;</li><li>Fix crash when user cancels initial project download;</li><li>Fix Continue button not enabling when entering encryption password;</li><li>Fix Planio plugin name showing up as Gitorious on Linux;</li><li>Show download speed on initial project add.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install SparkleShare in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">SparkleShare is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but it hasn't been updated in a while (for instance, the current version in Ubuntu Saucy is 0.9) so to install the latest version, you can use an unofficial PPA. You'll also have to add the Git-core PPA, on which the SparkleShare PPA depend on.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To add the required PPAs and install the latest SparkleShare in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rebuntu16/sparkleshare+unofficial<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install sparkleshare</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After SparkleShare has been installed successfully, start it and from the tray/appindicator select <i>SparkleShare > Add hosted project</i> and then select if you want to use your own server or BitBucket, GitHub, Gitorious or Planio:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzu36VdxI25ngp3yQM1qCPQRMUTM0rA70hQqFOZPdZfoaJZ_AsldllRzYkPzzJ7vN5r_w8yZJusWoXH8mrtgYXN7k-qwawxpWKgBSf8i2Rzr-rnGXkF4GSadGez21G1O2lt481aJlwA/s1600/sparkleshare_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="sparkleshare" border="0" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyJzu36VdxI25ngp3yQM1qCPQRMUTM0rA70hQqFOZPdZfoaJZ_AsldllRzYkPzzJ7vN5r_w8yZJusWoXH8mrtgYXN7k-qwawxpWKgBSf8i2Rzr-rnGXkF4GSadGez21G1O2lt481aJlwA/s320/sparkleshare_2.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows or Mac OS X, download SparkleShare from its <a href="http://sparkleshare.org/">website</a>.</b></div>

Sync And Collaboration Tool `SparkleShare` 1.2 Released [Ubuntu PPA]

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Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

<div style="text-align: justify;">Xfwm4 4.11.0 has been uploaded recently to the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a> for (X)Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, <a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000283.html">bringing</a> Sync to VBlank support for the Xfwm4 (Xfce's window manager) compositor, which should prevent tearing when dragging/resizing windows, media players and flash applications, etc.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s1600/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="xfce sync to vblank" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGvM6puM32bs-4IW4QmDqU8uJJY40bxdJ3K2qwP9mtZHvLzp0myOAXEeHFyU23a9daXkXqN4BoOwftGhGRGNvphW0YVBbwa8NhWn4LwBu6Nlh0GWlx1wKaAE4H_WclcJ-X_68lweREzzI/s320/xfce-window-manager-tweaks.png" width="320" /></a></div></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Xfwm4 comes with an updated version of the patch we wrote about a while back but it seems the issues posted <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/xfce-sync-to-vblank-support-for-xfwm.html">HERE</a> still apply (I'm not sure exactly which), so the Vsync support is not perfect, but it should be a great improvement for many users.</div><br />Along with Xfwm4, some other components were also updated:<br /><ul><li>xfce4-settings 4.11.1 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000284.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>automatically re-enable Laptop-displays if all other displays get disconnected;</li><li>add option to automatically show minimal-display dialog when new display gets connected;</li><li>fix bugs with mnemonic accelerators;</li><li>make touchpad type delay configurable.</li></ul><li>xfdesktop 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000285.html">complete changelog</a>): </li><ul><li>Custom folder icons;</li><li>Apply wallpaper to all workspaces option;</li><li>Add an unmount option and notifications when a device is removed.</li></ul><li>libxfce4ui 4.11.0 (<a href="http://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce-announce/2013-September/000282.html">complete changelog</a>):</li><ul><li>GTK3 version of libxfce4ui for applications that use it.</li><li>improved keyboard shortcut handling code.</li></ul></ul><br /><br /><h2>Upgrade Xfwm4 in Xubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To upgrade Xfwm4 and the other Xfce components in (X)Ubuntu (13.10, 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04), you must add two PPAs: the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.10">Xfce 4.10 PPA</a>, which will upgrade Xfce to version 4.10 for Xubuntu 12.04 and which also provides updated packages for all Xubuntu versions: Thunar, Xfce4 Terminal, Parole and so on, as well as the <a href="https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/+archive/xfce-4.12">Xfce 4.12 PPA</a>.</div><br /><b>Before proceeding, please note that the packages in the Xfce 4.12 PPA are pre-releases, which may contain bugs! Use them at your own risk!</b><br /><br /><b>Add the PPAs and upgrade using the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10<br />sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</code></pre><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>Important: </b></span>when running "dist-upgrade", make sure you read the output before entering "y" to make sure no important packages are removed!<br /><br /><b>Then log out and log back in.</b><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The VSync to VBlank support option in Window Manager Tweaks doesn't work so to enable Sync to VBlank, use the following command:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p "/general/sync_to_vblank" -s true</code></pre><br /><br /><h2>Revert the changes</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to downgrade the packages installed from these PPAs to the versions available in the official (X)Ubuntu repositories, use the commands below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install ppa-purge<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.12<br />sudo ppa-purge ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10</code></pre>

Xfwm4 4.11.0 Released With Sync to VBlank Support, Install It In Xubuntu

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How to Make Money Online with Shortened URLs

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s1600/shorturl.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW9QwgXXMqKlg_3rxk5J4vlLuTek0MVoHXMEyYWzsOMtidEneWIAPwSVyOeOmnpKA0eCjWGX1SZNCXJaAqhUl4V9Z3Y5AjX0vBxpUiTTVlfR5GHHaGbCZAsBrJYUe-PN6cWEgPsTh1f-U/s200/shorturl.png" width="200" /></a>There are many website allows services to shrink URLs. <span style="font-family: inherit;">URL-shortening services allow you to make cash when you use them to shorten long URLs from various websites. you can post shortened URLs on your blog, website, Twitter, Facebook or any other social network when belong to. once your visitors click on the shortened URLs, you can generate income from every click-through. </span>Basically short URL works as a redirection service which is able to redirect the shorter URL to the supposed web page.<br /><a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><b>How Can you Earn Cash from this URL shortening providers ?</b><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sign up with desired universal resource locator shorterner provider (List Below).</li><li>Copy your links and make short URLs from your account.</li><li>Share your short URL anyplace with your friends, social media, websites, download links.</li><li>Whenever somebody click those shortened links,  they will go through some short 5 to 15 seconds advertisements(for e.g. below).</li><li>After this he will skip the ad and look at the link that was hidden behind that short link.</li><li>Thats it, whenever somebody go through this advertisement once clicking, you’re paid.</li></ul><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Top best shorten URL website to earn money</h3></div><div><br /></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. <a href="http://adf.ly/?id=1116804" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ADF.LY</a></span></h4></div><div>Adf.ly is a world largest web site that allows you to shrink your URL, it's not different from alternative such websites like goo.gl, bitly.com, tinyurl.com, however difference is that they can give you a fix part of cash against and they and that they have ad twist. They're going to offer you $5 against 10,000 visitors, mean to say that if 10,000 peoples visits your shrink URL then they will give you $5.<br />Payout = 5$<br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. <a href="http://cashfly.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cashfly.com</span></a></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;">We're a free web link shortening service with a twist. Every time one of your links is shared with someone else on the Internet, you get paid! It's that easy, simply register for an account then start linking. Each time someone visits one of your links - YOU GET PAID.</div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">3. <a href="http://linkbucks.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkBucks.com</a></b></h4><span style="font-family: inherit;">LinkBucks allows you to make cash from the links your users post, from the links you place on your website, or from the posts you make in a forum. It is simple and easy to get started making money Today!</span><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b><b>4. <a href="http://adlock.in/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adlock.in</a></b></span></h4><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Adlock is a url shortening website . Shorten your long URL to adlock.in/xxxx and start earning</span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b><b style="font-family: inherit;">5. </b><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><a href="http://bee4.biz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bee4.biz</a></u></span></h4></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">bee4.biz is a free short URL redirection service with a twist. Get paid for every link you share on the Internet. You can place links on FaceBook, Twitter, forums, and anywhere you share links!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white;">All sites are good but i prefer adf.ly because this is more trusted and i get paid many time .</b></span></div></div></div>

How to Make Money Online with Shortened URLs

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Ubuntu GNOME" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iQSp7PO-ogxg3SaVnegFpbRB08CM5G8zgWiBzfEHbVFpzQPqI8nJu2IahNxVSmDORzb6InkzwMOT2EI7iQ1BBXW_qV3RiyGxUSCBOqdHP4J1DuqMkMQ6Su40qCecENum5f2TgIcH3gg/s220/ubuntu_gnome_logo.png" /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher, software engineer at Canonical, recently posted a <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/004311.html">message</a> on the Ubuntu Desktop <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2013-October/thread.html">mailing list</a> in which he proposes that Ubuntu stays on GTK/GNOME 3.8 for the next cycle (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS).</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">In his message, Sebastien states the following <b>reasons</b> for staying with GNOME 3.8 for another cycle:</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><ul><li><i>we (Ubuntu Desktop) are currently mostly happy with what we have;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>the focus for the Ubuntu Desktop team is likely to continue to be Ubuntu Touch/phone next cycle;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>due to the previous factor, we are going to be limited in resources to do desktop work;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it's a LTS cycle, we should focus on bugs fixing if possible;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>GTK 3.10 deprecates several options, it would be good to stay away from those controversies for the LTS (see <a href="https://launchpad.net/bugs/1228886">this</a> as an example of what is going to happen once we deprecate those options);</i></li><i> </i><li><i>it seems like the next RedHat enterprise edition is going to be based on GNOME 3.8, if that's the case it would make sense for us to focus on ;</i></li><i> </i><li><i>bringing quality to the same version/share the maintenance work a bit.</i></li></ul></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For stability, this make sense since Ubuntu 14.04 is going to be a long term release and updating to GNOME <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/09/see-whats-new-in-gnome-310-video.html" title="See What`s New In GNOME 3.10 [Video, Screenshots]">3.10</a> or 13.12 will likely introduce many bugs that can't be fixed in time because the Ubuntu developers are focusing on Ubuntu Touch/phone, but it also means that Ubuntu 14.04 will lag two releases behind GNOME which will affect Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu users who are contributing to GNOME as well as some non-core GNOME applications that require the latest GNOME technologies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Sebastien Bacher's message is just a suggestion / invitation to discussion and not a final decision</b>, but considering that there's not enough man power (because of the Ubuntu Touch focus) to fix everything in time for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, it doesn't seem like there's an actual choice.</div><br /><b>What do you think?</b>

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Stay On GTK/GNOME 3.8?

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Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="ubuntu saucy salamander" border="0" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwAEgf76_M-S8NNuKv0bdvOZQVkgL0tNu3xI3LMdDLQzd8ecbGJbrBPSbv6hw4_BX2Ctx3oF8cEA2hMGq2kg1PSAI0dDhtb0R6Xgl3rKOOqb4vS0Ia383HwuEJs1SChyphenhyphenXY2BP_KHVPLog/s320/Saucy_Salamander_Abstract_by_Jos%C3%A9_Vera_alcivar.jpg" width="320" /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Canonical has decided not to switch to Xmir by default for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in June, it was <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/ubuntu-1310-saucy-salamander-switching.html">decided</a> to use Mir + Xmir by default in Ubuntu 13.10 (for open source drivers only) but that will no longer happen "<i>due to some outstanding technical difficulties</i>". A native Mir + Unity 8 will still be used for Ubuntu Touch so that's not affected by this decision.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">According to a <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">post</a> on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list, the issues are in XMir part of the stack which provides the compatibility layer between X server and Mir - more specifically, the XMir multi-monitor support which doesn't work "to the extend we’d like to see it for all of our users".</div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">"We always planned to ship Mir + XMir on Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop but after months of furious XMir development we needed to make a judgement call about whether we could assure a quality overall Ubuntu Desktop experience with XMir across all supported configurations. While Mir is in good shape for this and XMir is close, we didn’t feel that the user experience around XMir's multimonitor feature was meeting the parity standard."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">- <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Mir Not Default Q&A</a></div></blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">A <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Q&A</a> about this on the Ubuntu wiki mentions that the recent <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/linux-and-open-source/a-bump-in-the-high-road-intel-drops-support-for-xmir-in-xorg-driver/">revert</a> from Intel (the Intel Xorg driver got XMir support but the change was later reverted) has nothing to do with this decision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mir and XMir will be available in the repositories so users can use Xmir if they want, but will not be used by default.</div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2013/10/01/xmir-update-for-ubuntu-13-10/">Ubuntu Fridge</a>, <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir/13.10/NoDefaultQ%26A">Ubuntu wiki</a></i></div>

Ubuntu 13.10 Will Not Use XMir By Default

Canonical has decided not to switch to Xmir by default for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander. Back in June, it was decided to use Mir + Xmir by...

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