Install World of Padman Ubuntu

Popular first person shooter World of Padman has received a much-awaited new release which brings the 6 year old game up to version 1.5.
The game, originally started in 2004 as a modification of Quake III: Arena, is an open source cross-platform shooter loosely based on the Padman comic strip for the magazine Playstation Games which originated in the 1990s.

The current iteration of the game now runs on an enhanced version of the ever-so-prominent ioquake3 engine to deliver some updated slick visuals which compliment the fun gameplay.
Version 1.5 brings a heap of new changes as the announcement boasts:

“Countless things have been revised and partly modified. There is a new game type, new maps, new player models, a new weapon, new powerups and much more. You might be in for some surprises.”

Download it now

You can grab the latest version of World of Padman for Ubuntu by heading over to the official announcement and choosing a mirror.
Be warned, the download is 900mb!

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Install Xonotic Nexuiz Ubuntu 10.10

Xonotic, a fork of popular and graphically beautiful first person shooter Nexuiz, has had its first preview release, 0.1.
Nexuiz has been around a while and is well known as being one of the nicest looking games available to run natively under Linux. The open source project hasn’t had a release since late 2009, and many speculate that the project is officially dead.
Not wanting to leave such a great game untouched and let it sink into the ground of the vaporware graveyard, the Xonotic project was born. Promising new features, graphics, physics and maps (not prescription medicine as the name suggests), they are determined to inject new life into the stranded FPS.

“The last release of Nexuiz (2.5.2) was on the first of October 2009, and when we decided to fork early March 2010 we continued where we had left off with Nexuiz. Large parts of the code, graphics and music have been redone and have improved immensely. In over a year we have managed to make huge progress on pretty much every part of the game.

However this release is still a preview, which means that bugs are likely to exist and that some of our decisions turn out to have unwanted side effects.”

What’s new?

Today, the project released a preview, Xonotic 0.1, which sees a whole host of new stuff added, as well as a heap of bugs as one should expect from such an early release. This is of course great news for Linux FPS fans who have been following the project eagerly awaiting some news.
The new release sees features such as:

• Performance and graphics improvements
• A new dynamic and configurable HUD
• New informative cross hairs
• New game menu
• Tweaks to physics and weapon balance
• New player models and animations
• New maps
• Client authentication and encryption

Phew! Quite the changelog.
For the complete list of changes and a detailed description of each, you should direct your browsers to the press release and have a read.

Download it now

You can grab the game from these handy dandy links.
Download via torrent
Download via HTTP
md5sum: aafb43893aa66e01488c817e3a60d96d

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Gwibber’s new look interface

It feels an age since we last mentioned anything related to Gwibber but, thankfully, there’s a reason for that.
Back in July last year Ubuntu’s Neil Patel created some superb designs for a ‘new look’ Gwibber. Designs so ace that they are being turned into reality, as Gwibber creator Ryan Paul told us when we interviewed him back in August: -

“I’m sure some OMG! readers have already seen the excellent mock-ups by Neil Patel (here) of his proposal for a next-generation Gwibber interface.
When we implement those mock-ups, we are going to be using native widgets, which will hopefully help improve our performance considerably.”

Whilst the entirely redesigned shebang isn’t ready to try out just yet a few tantalizing demos, prototypes and tests are available to see – including this one of a new look ‘posting box’
So,  for now, grab yourself a bib and drool over this short video demo of what might end being your new favourite text entry field…

• Gwibber Posting Box Protoype

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Install Atolm (Borderless Elementary, GTK Theme Updates) Ubuntu 10.10

Atolm, the new but already popular dark theme created by the Orta author has been updated yesterday. Here's the changelog for Atolms 0.6.5:

• Speed optimizations, the theme is now faster than Orta
• Notebook spacing changed.
• Notebook tabs changed.
• Nautilus breadcrumbs and mode button improved.
• Check, radio buttons and tabs now share the same coloring with buttons.
• White arrows on spinbuttons fixed.
• Ubuntu Software Center text colors fixed.
• Emesene status button text color fixed.
• Pidgin status toggle button text color fixed.
• Various Evolution Fixes.
• OpenOffice text visibility fixes.

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Borderless Elementary

Borderless Elementary is just a modified Elementary theme which looks very slick thanks to the removal of the borders and smaller widgets. This theme is ideal for a netbook, but looks great on any screen resolution.


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Install HandBrake 0.9.5 Ubuntu 10.10

Handbrake is a multithreaded video transcoder that supports any DVD-like source and most multimedia file it can get libavformat to read and libavcodec to decode.

Even though it's not its first aim, Handbrake is used by many as a DVD ripper and it was voted as "best Linux DVD ripper" by the WebUpd8 readers.

Handbrake 0.9.5 was released today, bringing some very interesting new features and improvements:

• BluRay disc structure support. (No decryption support)
• Updated Libraries (x264, ffmpeg)
• SSA Subtitle support (including burn-in)
• MP3 audio now supported in MP4 files
• VOBSUB subtitle now supported in MP4 files
• Updated Presets for newer devices and better quality
• AC3 encoding support.
• Improved DVD Main Feature detection (when using dvdnav)
• Universal audio downmix support (all audio types can be downmixed)
• Point*to*Point encoding (second or frame start and end times)
• Batch Scan (Scan Multiple files at once)
• Many Bug fixes and UI improvements.

A complete changelog is available @ Handbrake forum.

Install Handbrake 0.9.5 in Ubuntu

Add the Handbrake PPA and install Handbrake 0.9.5 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, 10.04 Lucid and 10.10 Maverick using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases

 sudo apt-get update

  sudo apt-get install handbrake-gtk

For other Linux distributions, Windows and Mac OSX downloads, visit the Handbrake downloads page.