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Shotwell is a simple photo organizer for GNOME desktop environment. It enables you to do basic photo manipulations of your personal photo collection. Yorba, a non-profit software group based on San Francisco, is the organization behind Shotwell. It incorporate a simple user interface. Shotwell is written in Vala.

Shotwell photo organizer (Image from Shotwell official site)

Shotwell provides a non-destructive way to tweak your photos. Instead of modifying the original photos, Shotwell stores all edits in a database and applies them on-the-fly as necessary. This means that you can easily undo all edits and even revert to original directly.

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Ubun2.com

Ubuntu, the most popular linux distribution, is about to reach 13 million users. Unlike the other distributions, the number of non techie computer users come to ubuntu world is considerably high. Most of the non – techie people are not familiar with forums. Unfortunately Ubuntu’s main support is given through forums. It would be better if there is a place which is very much like Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow. People love to use such services.

Ubun2.com is such a start up which is inspired by Yahoo Answers and  Stack Overflow.
“Ubun2.com is a web 2.0 style question and answers service for people to discover and share ubuntu (linux based operating system) knowledge with the world.

Inspired by the popularity of Yahoo Answers, Stack Overflow and popular forums we thought ubuntu deserves a reliable and dedicated web 2.0 resource for sharing solutions to problems.”

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qBittorrent

qBittorrent is a multi platform easy to use  BitTorrent client. The project was started in March 2006. qBittorrent creators  claim  that qBittorrent V2  is the closest equivalent for µtorrent. Its available for Both Ubuntu and Mac OSX.

New version qBittorrent v2.0.0 was released on Dec 10th 2009 and 3 days later there was bug fix release v2.0.1

qBittorrent project has won Les étoiles du libre Free Software competition, in desktop applications. The project is very live and feature rich.

qBittorrent V2 features

• Polished µTorrent-like User Interface
• Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine
  • Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites
  • Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies)
• All Bittorrent extensions
  • DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet URI, …
• Remote control through a Web user interface
  • Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax
• Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents
  • Torrents queueing and prioritizing
  • Torrent content selection and prioritizing
• UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support
• Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support)
• µTorrent spoofing to bypass private trackers whitelisting
• Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex)
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Bazaar

Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu offers commercial support for it’s popular version control system Bazaar. Canonical is supposed to provide support for developers to deploy an manage Bazaar. Moreover canonical’s support includes migrating from other version control systems.

Some sort of version control system is essential for any serious software development. Bazaar is a newcomer in version control systems and facing tight competition from rivals like Concurrent Versioning System (CVS) and Subversion (SVN). But canonical’s magic hands grabbed a fair amount of market share in this short time span.

Canonical claim that, Bazaar is used by 80,000 people around the world on over 9,000 software projects. Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system uses Bazaar from it’s Jaunty Jackalope release onwards. Read the rest of this entry →

One of the big step forward that Microsoft has done with its new operating system Windows 7 is the ability to create custom themes without hacking system files. Many designers and creative authors are sharing eye candy themes for Windows 7 which makes you excited about your desktop.

Of course Christmas and winter season are coming. It would be nice to see some season related themes for the desktop.

Here we are posting some eye candy winter and Christmas theme that shared across the net.

Christmas themes series 1

Christmas Themes Series 1

Source : http://www.tucknoloji.com/2009/11/christmas-themes-series-i-for-windows-7/

Download this theme from HERE

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Google Chrome developers announced the availability of Google Chrome 4.0 Beta for Linux. For a long time, only a development version was available for Linux platform. Now Google Chrome is available for download at Chrome official site.
Chrome Beta is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures. Binary packages are available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE operating systems. Also repository for updates is available for Ubuntu family.

Google Chrome 4 Beta - Ubuntu 9.10 (Image from Softpedia)

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Ubuntu has shows huge improvements in many areas. But in one area it still lack many features. Multimedia. Ubuntu’s preloaded media players (Rhythmbox and Totem) does not even carry an equalizer. This topic has been raised many time in Ubuntu brain storm. But Rhythmbox and Totem developers does not show any interest in implementing one.

Here is a small script which enable you to use a system wide equalizer which can control all the sound producing application. Its works with Pulseaudio. There is no need to restart any running application for this equalizer to come to effect.

System wide Puseaudio Equalizer

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Allmyapps.com is a web based software installation system that is available for both Windows and Ubuntu. It uses a repository based system for downloading and installing softwares.

Windows users are may not familiar with repository based software installation. Usually what people do is  find softwares from it’s official site or some software downloading sites (Usually in the form of .exe or .msi). Install the downloaded file by double clicking on it. But allmyapps.com brings absolutely a new way of software installation.

Allmyapps.com home page

Here you need not search for your favorite application. More than 25000 applications have been installed in a allmyapps.com system. You can select your favorite application and click install. The software is downloaded and installed. Read the rest of this entry →

As far as an ordinary computer user is concerned, The main thing that impress him is the user interface. Mac OSX and Windows have succeeded in it up to some extend. But Ubuntu is still lacking something that attract an ordinary user.

Here I am posting 3 videos which shows how beautifully some one can make an Ubuntu desktop looks like Windows Xp, Windows 7 and Mac OSX

Ubuntu looks like Windows Xp