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Google is not exactly known for its desktop apps, but, for now, it still needs them for special tasks. To support voice and video chat, Google developed a browser plugin which has now been finally made available for Linux desktops as well
…s now available!,” Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer at Google wrote.“Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon,” he explained.
Like Google mentions, the plugin is only available for Debian-based distros and only in binary form. Getting it is straightforward, just download the .deb package and install it with your manager of choice.
Google says an RPM package for Red Hat-based distros is on its way, but you can probably use one of the many package converters out there in the meantime.
An Linux version of the plugin was the top user request, but it wasn’t a trivial task for Google engineers. Google says it had to develop an all-new video rendering method for the in-browser video chat feature.
It also put a lot of effort into the PulseAudio-based audio handler. The plugin works in 64-bit systems, as well.
Google says the plugin is on par with the Windows and Mac versions and this was one of the main goals, to have a…
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Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser.
…Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser. Import camera RAW files and edit with 16-bit color. Save edited images as TIFF-8/16, PNG or JPEG with adjustable compression. Edit the whole image or a selected area, with adjustable edge-blending. Edit functions have live feedback using the full window. Undo/redo up to 99 edits. Add tags, dates, and star-ratings to images and search using these criteria and (wildcard) file names. Fotoxx does not use filters, layers, and masks - the edit functions work directly on the image.What’s New in This Release:…
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JAlbum is a gallery software that makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free! With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser.
…JAlbum is a gallery software that makes web albums of your digital images. JAlbum aims to be the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and free! With JAlbum, no extra software is needed to view the albums, -just your web browser. Unlike “server side” album scripts, JAlbum albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support. You can also share your albums on CD-ROM.JAlbum is written after numerous disappointments with existing album software. With JAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just color theme and basic layout, still making an album is just a matter of drag and drop…
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JAlbum Makes Web Albums of Your Digital Images 8.9.3 in Ubun
Midori is a lightweight Web browser based on GTK+2 and WebKit. It features tabs, windows, and session management and is extensible via Lua scripts.Features * Full integration with GTK+ 2 * Fast rendering with WebKit * Tabs, windows and session management * Flexibly
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I found this really nice extension for Chromium/Chrome. This extensions gives a ChromeOS like App Launcher to your browser and allows you to launch many Google services and more from a nice interface with application icons.
…I found this really nice extension for Chromium/Chrome. This extensions gives a ChromeOS like App Launcher to your browser and allows you to launch many Google services and more from a nice interface with application icons.Check out this screencast:…
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Ubuntu Vibes: Get ChromOS like App Launcher in Chromium
The desktop search tools can now be used not only to find a single file by its name, but can also perform searches within the context of e-mail, images, videos and music.Some tools go a little ‘further and also indexes the history and browser bookmarks to desktop search tools work by creating an index of all files. When the system searches…
…Space, possible outcomes are shown, such as Python, pytypte, etc..Under the search term and the number of results returned, you may need to navigate through various pages of results to find the one that we tried, all by simply clicking on the link at the top right pane of the results.When you view the results, recoll print a small sample for each file, although this may not be enough to see if the file found is the right one. In our help, you can click the preview button next to the link on the result to preview the document with the internal viewer of the program. To help us refine the search, recoll can define words to search and then filter assuming all are present, or at least one and no other options (advanced search). You can also limit your search to certain types of MIME file, as PDF files or spreadsheets. Finally, if you know a part of the path where the file might be, you can limit your search to a certain tree. While many other tools constantly monitor the disk to keep the index in line with any…
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Fotoxx is application for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.It lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser, import camera RAW files and edit them with 16-bit color, save edited images as TIFF-8/16, JPEG, or PNG, and edit the whole image or…
…Fotoxx is application for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.It lets you navigate an image collection using a thumbnail browser, import camera RAW files and edit them with 16-bit color, save edited images as TIFF-8/16, JPEG, or PNG, and edit the whole image or a selected area with adjustable edge blending. It supports multiple undo/redo. Tags, dates, and ratings can be added to images, which can be searched using these criteria as well as file names. Functions include brightness and color adjustments, trim, rescale, rotate, warp, sharpen, blur, noise reduction, red-eye removal, HDR composites, tone-mapping, and panorama.New release 10.8.3:The Italian translation was updated.You can install using the following .deb files: download fotoxx-10.8.3-32.debdownload fotoxx-10.8.3-64.debdownload rpm / tar.gz…
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Gnome User That has same problem Windows users and Mac, with Respect to display bar paths in file browser
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Many were expecting this feature from google to check their documents, picasa web albums and email accounts with same web browser still they signed in another google account.
…Many were expecting this feature from google to check their google docs, picasa web albums and gmail with same web browser still they signed in another google account. After several months of testing time, google brought this service to its users. Now you can sign into maximum of 3 accounts with different google accounts in [...] Many were expecting this feature from google to check their google docs, picasa web albums and gmail with same web browser still they signed in another google account. After several months of testing time, google brought this service to its users. Now you can sign into maximum of 3 accounts with different google accounts in same web browser. Many internet users normally have multiple web browsers in their personal computer, hence they use multiple accounts with different web browser to get use google docs, google calendar, gmail and so on. However, this service is not fully allowed across all google services and limited to,App EngineCodeCalendarGmailReaderSitesVoiceDocs (coming…
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Google Allows Multiple Accounts Sign-In