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  

GNOME, Unity and KDE

GNOME

The most Popular Linux Desktop, Latest version : 3.0 (Released on April 6, 2011), Other major version : 2.3. it’s free and open source software, developed by GNOME community, developers around this planet. it’s based on GTK framework. Most of the Popular distros like Fedora, Ubuntu (not in 11.04) etc. uses GNOME as their default Window Manager.

KDE

Another Popular Desktop (free and released under LGPL), based on Qt framework.

Unity

a new desktop, Developed by Canonical, will be the default desktop for upcoming versions of Ubuntu. 

Music player open when selecting a file from places Ubuntu

In short this is the solution:

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Find the line inode/directory= and either delete the whole line or add to front.

nautilus-folder-handler.desktop;

AcetoneISO - Daemon tools for ubuntu

AcetoneISO, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things.

 

Download

Source Code: here
Ubuntu:
- starting from Ubuntu 11.04 and up "apt-get install acetoneiso"
- Updated or previous packages for ubuntu can be found here
Debian Sid: "apt-get install acetoneiso" or here
OpenSuse: here
Fedora: here
Mandriva: urpmi acetoneiso
Archlinux: here
Slackware: here
Gentoo: here
Subversion for developers (SVN): here

testing laptop motherboard

1. Laptop is used to carry from place to place…so people who travel a lot must think of the weight of the laptop.

2. Every battery has a lifetime. So going for a Laptop with hardly any battery backup is not suggested. Minimum of 45 minutes battery backup is very necessary. So while purchasing the secondhand laptop please keep in mind to check the laptop only on battery for minimum 30 minutes and also keep an eye on battery usage indicator.

3. Carry with yourself an audio, video & Blank CD/DVD so that u can check the audio section and video section of the laptop including the CD/DVD read/write test.

4. Run the scandisk utility available in all versions of windows and check for bad sector in hard disk.

5. Take with yourself any external device like thumb drive to test the USB port.

6. Take with yourself SD memory card to test Card Reader (If the option is available on the laptop)

7. Take any good floppy to test the floppy drive (Any how current Laptops are not coming with Floppy Drive)

8. Take an external headphone and microphone to test the external audio port.

9. Attach the laptop to the external monitor to check the external VGA port is working or not.

10. Open any word file and check all the keys are working or not.

11. Check for battery charging for 5 to 10 minutes and see the battery indicator is showing charging.

12. Press the window and the break keys on the keyboard and see the amount of RAM and CPU details.
Further chick the hardware option and then the Device manager to see all driver are installed or not. There should be no Exclamation mark.

13. Slide the LCD screen slowly on the hinges and check any flicker on the display if so there may be a problem on the connector cable driving the LCD circuit of the laptop.

14. Also check the Modem, Bluetooth & Wi-Fi Port if available on your laptop to be purchased (Do only if you know) I will be writing on these subject next.

15. Check the laptop minimum for 45 minutes to see whether laptop hangs or restarts or shutdowns.

16. See the Laptop User manual and Driver CD are there with the Laptop.

17. See that u get a laptop carry case, otherwise u have to purchase one.

18. If all the conditions meets out OK and within your budget just go for it.

19. Happy LAPTOPing.