As you may know, Picapy is a nice application for managing and uploading PicasaWeb images, enabling the users to easily upload more than one image at once, delete them or get the URLs. The latest version available is Picapy 2.1.2, which has been recently released a while ago, bringing a few fixes only. Installation instructions: …

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. As you may know, Shutter is a screenshot tool, similar to the Snipping Tool available on Windows systems. The latest version available is Shutter 0.93.1, which is only a bug-fix release: updated Dropbox.pm and XFIXES.pm fixed deprecated code updated translations Installation instructions: In order to successfully install Shutter, we have to add the PPA …

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As you may know, GnuCash is an open-source, cross-platform small business financial-accounting software similar to HomeBank, designed to easily help the users track bank accounts, stocks, incomes and expenses. Via its intuitive checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. The latest version available is GnuCash 2.6.12, …

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As you may know, DVDStyler is a multi-platform, open-source DVD authoring application that allows the users to create professional looking Video-DVDs. Among others, it has a user-friendly GUI, support for drag & drop and copy/paste, has support for AVI, MOV, MP4, MPEG, OGG, WMV, VOB, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, MP2, MP3, AC-3, has a feature …

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As you may know, Kadu is an open-source instant messenger client written in Qt, having support for popular messaging protocols, like: GaduGadu, XMPP, GTalk, Facebook Messenger. The latest version available is Kadu 3.0, which has been recently released, coming with changes. For more information, see the changelog. Installation instructions: The latest Kadu builds are available …

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Yum (yellowdog update modifier) is the main package manager for Fedora. It downloads the binaries, installs the package and fixes the dependencies. Yum uses rpm (in background) to install packages. 1. How to install packages with yum: yum install packagename This will install the package and fix the dependencies. $ sudo yum install nmap You …

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As you may know, Nano is an open-source, user-friendly, text user interface text editor, based on Pico, which is released under a proprietary license. While it is not as complex as Vim or Emacs, Nano has syntax highlighting and indentation features. Useful Nano tips: Disable mouse support – Alt+M Go to next line – Ctrl+N …

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As you may know, Bomi (ex. CMPlayer) is a graphical user interface for the command-line MPV media player. Among others, it has an intuitive, user friendly interface, unlimited playback history, automatic playlist generation and restoration, support for hardware accelerated GPU decoding and support for dvd playback and image slide show. The latest version available is …

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Avidemux is an open-source, cross-platform tool for video editing, written in C++ and using Qt for its GUI. It allows the user to cut, filter and encode videos easily, having support for the most popular file types, including: AVI, DVD, MPEG, MP4 and others. The latest version available is Avidemux 2.6.12, bringing changes: [H264] Fixed …

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Noise is the default music player of Elementary OS, built using the GTK3 libraries. Starting with Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, it has been used by default on eOS, replacing BeatBox. The latest version available is Noise 0.3.1, released a while ago. Installation instructions: Noise is available via the Elementary Daily PPA, so installing it on …

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