Fogger

Turn any cloud app into a regular ubuntu application with proper unity integration.

https://launchpad.net/~loneowais/+archive/ppa/+files/fogger_0.1-public3_all.deb

Reddit Posting

Grive, Google Drive Linux Client

 

Here is the link to the open source Google Drive client for Linux, appears to be only 64bit

http://match065.github.com/grive/

F.lux

Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?

Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

During the day, computer screens look good—they're designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn't be looking at the sun.

f.lux

F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

It's even possible that you're staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kilian/f.lux
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fluxgui

Jumanji Web Browser

jumanji is a highly customizable and functional web browser based on the libwebkit web content engine and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind jumanji is a web browser that provides a minimalistic and space saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction like vimperator does.
Features

Bookmarks
Buffered commands
Commandline completion
Configuration file
Cookie support
Custom stylesheet support
Downloads
Follow hints
Highly customizable
History
Load custom scripts
Markers
Plugin blocker
Private Browsing
Proxy support
Sourcecode view
Tabs
tabbed support
Configuration

The complete default configuration including the appearance and shortcuts of the
program are defined in a seperate file named config.h. In this file you are able
to change and adjust all the default settings of jumanji according to your
wishes. In addition it is possible to overwrite and extend them with a custom
jumanjirc file.
Dependencies

Note: It might work with lower versions than stated
libwebkit (>= 1.2.1)
libsoup (>= 2.22.4)
libunique (>= 1.1.2)
gtk2 (>= 2.18.6)
glib (>= 2.22.4)
Repository

git clone git://pwmt.org/jumanji.git

Commands

Groovewalrus

Here is a link to download groovewalrus, a grooveshark client
(requires python-wxgtk2.8, mplayer)

I had to do a search for python-wxgtk2.8 in synaptic, since the package installed without complaining about this dependency.

Flash Galaxy S devices with Ubuntu

What is Heimdall?

Heimdall is a cross-platform open-source tool suite used to flash firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S devices.

How does it work?
Heimdall uses the same protocol as Odin to interact with a device in download mode. USB communication in Heimdall is handled by the popular open-source USB library, libusb-1.0.

Why “Heimdall”?
The flashing software Odin is named after the king of gods in Norse mythology. Loke, the software component on the Galaxy S that provides functionality to flash, may also to be named after an important character in Norse mythology, often translated as Loki. As such I have named my flashing software Heimdall, after the Norse god, and guardian of the Bifrost Bridge.

What platforms does Heimdall run on?
Linux, OS X and Windows (XP, Vista, 7 etc.)

Link to command line binary

Link to frontend

http://www.glassechidna.com.au/products/heimdall/

Install wordpress on ubuntu

Install wordpress package:
$ sudo apt-get install wordpress

Enter in mysql prompt:
$ mysql -u root -p

Create a wordpress user:
mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to wordpress_user@localhost;

Set a password:
mysql> set password for wordpress_user@localhost = PASSWORD(‘yourpass’);

Create your database:
mysql> create database wordpress;

Flush it:
mysql> flush privileges;

Add to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf :

# wordpress
Alias /blog /usr/share/wordpress
<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride Limit Options FileInfo
DirectoryIndex index.php
</Directory>

Remove wp-config.php link:
# rm /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php

Move config sample to original wp-config:
# mv /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config-sample.php /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php

Edit /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php and replace database variables with these ones you created.

In your web-browser access:

http://127.0.0.1/blog

 

Tomahawk, social media player

Tomahawk 0.3.0

 PPA for Ubuntu 11.10 & 11.04


Just add ppa:tomahawk/ppa to your sources, update, and install. In more detail:

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk/ppa


• sudo apt-get update


• sudo apt-get install tomahawk

For more detailed direction see: How to build Tomahawk on Ubuntu 11.04

 

Fritzing with Linux

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. We are creating a software and website in the spirit of Processing and Arduino, developing a tool that allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others, teach electronics in a classroom, and to create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing.

Here is a link to the download page
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxhd4HKrWpg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Openclonk

OpenClonk is the Open source successor of the Clonk gaming series.

OpenClonk is a project dedicated to the further development of the Clonk game series. Our goal is to improve and make the real strengths of Clonk more fun to play: Bustling mining, production lines and economy, fast and fiddly melees. Another focus lies on the further enchancement of the game engine and the extensibility/modability of the game content with C4Script which has always been one of the most important features of Clonk.

Add ppa:openclonkdevteam/releaseto the system's software sources and install OpenClonk from the package manager. More detailed instructions are available at LaunchPad. The ppa has only a Maverick build, so you will have to download http://www.openclonk.org/nightly-builds/ for newer editions.

gdiskdump, GUI for DD

Gdiskdump is a graphical interface to the excellent and powerful application for console called diskdump (dd) allows you to clone and make images of partitions and hard disks.

Download deb from here



THANKS: Ubuntips

Grooveshark client

The Desktop Client can be downloaded here. It isn't as updated as the web version of Grooveshark yet, but we're working on it. To get the application going:

1. Download the latest version of Adobe AIR.

2. Download the desktop client by clicking on the link above.

3. Profit.

Lyx, a document processor

LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

LyX combines the power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. This results in world-class support for creation of mathematical content (via a fully integrated equation editor) and structured documents like academic articles, theses, and books. In addition, staples of scientific authoring such as reference list and index creation come standard. But you can also use LyX to create a letter or a novel or a theatre play or film script. A broad array of ready, well-designed document layouts are built in.

LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries. You just write. On screen, LyX looks like any word processor; its printed output — or richly cross-referenced PDF, just as readily produced — looks like nothing else.

LyX 1.6.10 released. (May 9, 2011)

Nap, a Linux Napster client

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nap/

Bitcoin on Natty

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Bitcoin is a new P2P currency. See

Wiki Article

Main Site

The executables for Natty are here

Create ISO out of DMG image

DMGextractor is a great cross-platform utility for extracting dmg to iso. Useful if you duel boot Ubuntu and OSX

There are some other useful utilities at this site, like HFSexplorer

Some proprietary Linux software

If it makes you feel better, then by all means, pay for software. Wish there was some way of rewarding developers with something other than cold hard cash. Then they wouldn't feel the need to put up barriers. We've covered ways of doing this before, like Flattr, or the Ransom Model. BTW both applications below are completely out of the price range of people living in the developing world.

Two commercial, closed-source packages which run on Linux:

Softmaker Office 2011

Guitar Pro 6 The linux version is available as a shareware trial.

Kdenlive Light Graffiti plugin

Simon A. Eugster (Granjow) demonstrates his Light Grafiti plugin

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18497028[/vimeo]

Daisy Audiobook Plugins

DAISY is an NISO Z39.86 standard for blind, visual impaired, print-disabled, and learning-disabled people. Here a some plugins and projects associated with the standard.

1. ODT 2 DAISY OpenOffice extension

Odt2daisy is an OpenOffice.org Writer extension, enabling to export in DAISY 3 format, including support of Mathematical content conforming to the MathML standard.

2. AnyDaisy Firefox extension

A Firefox extension which allows reading of DAISY books. This project is being developed by Benetech with fundingassistance from the Mozilla foundation.

3. Daisyplayer

A 2006 project which appears to be dormant, you can still check out the code and download a deb.

Android App Inventor for Ubuntu

Liam Green Hughes posted this excellent tutorial

Link to Google Android general Tutorial.

While you at it, take a look at what could have been -- Ubuntu MID i.e. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device edition.