gSharkDown Download music on Ubuntu

gSharkDown is a GNOME desktop application for downloading and playing audio files from the grooveshark  service. It is based on the groove-dl library from George Stephanos.

Features

Some of the importart features:

• GNOME Desktop integration
• Ease to use
• Playlist with loop option
• Song information with album picture
• Remembers the playlist on exit
• Notifications on track change (disabled by default)
• Multimedia Keys support under GNOME Desktop

Dependenices

gSharkDown depends on the following libraries:

• pygtk2 (python-gtk2 == 2.18)
• ConfigObj (python-configobj)
• python-gobject
• python-gstreamer0.10

1.- Find your artist or song

2.- find your song and clicking on the +

Before you configure the folder where you download, the song right click on the icon bar of the program preferences, and finally her song download.

Download at https://bitbucket.org/vkolev/gsharkdown/downloads/gsharkdown_0.2.7-1_all.deb

Source and credit to The website for all Linux Mint users
Special thanks to Ubuntu Untuk Malaysia

Bigisi Themes For Ubuntu



Link to our launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/bisigi-project

1 – Add the repository

It’s easier than in previous ubuntu versions! Open a terminal and do:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi/ppa && sudo apt-get update

if the server doesn’t respond, just wait a few minutes and try again

2 - Install Themes

Then install themes: (this command install all themes. If you want to install only one theme, go look here)

sudo apt-get install bisigi-themes

or click on apt://bisigi-themes

List of commands to install specific themes:

AquaDreams:                    sudo aptitude install aquadreams-theme

Ubuntu Sunrise:                sudo aptitude install  ubuntu-sunrise-theme
Bamboo-Zen:                    sudo aptitude install bamboo-zen-theme
Step into Freedom:            sudo aptitude install step-into-freedom-theme
Tropical:                           sudo aptitude install tropical-theme
Exotic:                              sudo aptitude install exotic-theme
Balanzan:                          sudo aptitude install balanzan-theme
Wild Shine:                       sudo aptitude install wild-shine-theme
Infinity:                            sudo aptitude install infinity-theme
Showtime:                        sudo aptitude install showtime-theme
Orange:                            sudo aptitude install orange-theme
Ellanna:                            sudo aptitude install ellanna-theme
AirLines:                           sudo aptitude install airlines-theme
Eco:                                 sudo aptitude install eco-theme
Split:                                sudo aptitude install split-theme 

 

Select wallpaper resolution during installation

During the installation of certain themes a window will ask you to choose the resolution of your screen.

- 16/10: For the following resolutions: 1280×800 / 1440×900 / 1680×1050 / 1920×1200 / 2560×1600. For HD 16/9 screens:  1366×768 / 1920×1080,  use this option too

- 4/3: For the following resolutions: 800×600 / 1024×768 / 1280×1024  / 1600×1200

Clean uninstall of Ubuntu

To delete Ubuntu partition you will need a windows installation CD/DVD.After booting from CD/DVD go to the 'repair windows' section.There open the windows console and execute this command 

bootrec.exe /fixmbr

bootrec.exe /fixboot

then reboot the system.Format your Ubuntu partition with any windows filesystem.its complete...TA !!DA!!

'Steadyflow' Download Manager Gets Firefox Support through FlashGot

We recently posted an article about a new download manager in development for Ubuntu - 'Steadyflow'. The development is going on at  fast pace. The download manager have already got Firefox integration through FlashGot.

Please note that as of now Firefox integration can only be enabled  through development version of FlashGot - 1.2.2rc1. The version is not stable yet.

The Firefox integration works well with Steadyflow version 0.1 and upcoming version 0.1.5 which will soon land into the PPA as the packages are being built.

In other changes, the download manager got a new icon and help and preferences menu have beenunified into one. (upcoming version 0.1.5)

Yo can find the installation instruction for Steadyflow from here

Download FlashGot development version from here