The open source video transcoder HandBrake has reach version 0.9.9. Many new and widely requested features have been added and many more under the hood improvements have been made in this release.

Also, there’re two other releases: HandBrake with Intel’s Quick Sync Video (Beta), and HandBrake with OpenCL (Beta).

Here’s the changes of HandBrake 0.9.9:

• Improved HandBrake pineapple icon b[......]

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This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to quickly restore the Unity default icons, window decoration, cursor, and GTK theme in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail.

First go to Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install “unity tweak tool”:

Unity Tweak Tool is a simple configuration software for Unity Desktop Environment. Once installed it, launch and go to Appearance -> Theme[......]

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This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to easily install Subsonic music streamer in Ubuntu Server and Desktop, using the ppa repository which supports Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, and 12.04 Precise.

Subsonic is a web-based music streamer, jukebox and Podcast receiver, providing access to your music collection wherever you are. Use it to share your music with friends,[......]

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kenny is a light-weight editor to create application launcher scripts. It’s integrated in unity and in the indicator bar. It works on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, 12.10 Quantal, and 12.04 Precise.

With kenny you can add application launchers, file folder locations, and custom scripts as quicklists of kenny icon in the Unity Launcher, or as menu items of the indicator applet.

The user interfa[......]

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This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to remove the ugly white dots from the LightDM login screen in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail.

Before:

After:

There’re two ways:

1. Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal, copy and paste following 3 commands and run one by one:

• Allow user lightdm to create a connection to the X server:
  sudo xhost +SI:localuser:lightdm
• Swit[......]

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This simple tutorial is going to show you how to install a Windows 7 theme and tweak your Ubuntu desktop to make it look more like Windows 7.

First take a look at the result:

It’s not easy to configure the default Unity desktop’s left Launcher, so I used the xfce desktop.

To get started, follow the steps below:

1. Install Xfce Desktop Environment:

Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to open a termin[......]

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“For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.” said in a blog post[......]

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Picapy is a simple Web Picasa manager. It allows you to perform basic functions with your Picasa or Google+ account: create and delete album, and add and delete photos.

This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Picapy in Ubuntu using the ppa repository. So far, the ppa provides the latest packages for Ubuntu 13.04 and 12.10.

To get started:

Hit Ctrl+Alt+T to o[......]

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This simple and brief tutorial is going to show you how to add ‘Open As Root’ to Nautilus context menu in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring.

The Nautilus has upgraded to 3.6.x in Ubuntu 13.04, so that it’s a little different. Now the Nautilus scripts should be placed under “/home/$USER/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/”

To get started:

1. Copy the script and paste it into a new file named Open As Root. P[......]

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This simple tutorial is going to show you how to enable SSH on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. SSH (Secure Shell) is a secure communication protocol that lets you remotely access networked computers.

To get started, press “Ctrl+Alt+T” to open up a terminal window for running commands.

1. Run this command to install SSH server:

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

That’s it!

2. Use[......]

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