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Ericsson Application Awards 2012 winners to be announced May 22nd

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:47

On May 22nd, our friends at Ericsson will announce the winners of the Ericsson Application Awards 2012 at a prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the finalists are innovative apps within health care and social interaction. You’ll be able to follow the ceremony in a live webcast. Karl-Johan Dahlström, head of Developer Relations at Sony [...]
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Launch of Open Source Robotics Foundation

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:47

Willow Garage announced the formation of The Open Source Robotics Foundation, Inc. The OSRF is an independent, non-profit organization founded by members of the global robotics community. Their mission is to support the development, distribution, and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education, and product development.
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Add PDF, Audio And EXIF Metadata To Nautilus 3.4 List View [Nautilus Columns]

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:46

Nautilus Columns is a Nautilus extension that displays PDF and audio (mp3, WAV and FLAC) tags as well as EXIF metadata to the Nautilus List View. The extension has been updated recently by WebUpd8 reader Arun to work with Nautilus 3.4 so you can use it in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

The extension supports displaying the following info in the Nautilus list view columns:

mp3, WAV, FLAC: artist, track, album, title, bitrate, date, genre, length and sample rate
EXIF: dateshot, image size, software and flash
PDF: title, author (displayed under "Artist")

Screenshots:

To install Nautilus Columns in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-columns

Then, restart Nautilus (the .deb tries to do this automatically, but just in case):

nautilus -q

Once installed, in Nautilus select Edit > Preferences and on the "List Columns" tab, enable the audio, EXIF and PDF metadata that you want to be displayed. This info is only displayed in the list view so select View > List from the Nautilus menu (or use CTRL + 2).

That's it for Ubuntu 12.04 users.

For other Linux distributions, you can download Nautilus Columns from HERE. Important: this version doesn't work with Nautilus versions older than 3.4! To install it, extract the archive and copy the "bsc-v2.py" file to one of the following folders (if they don't exist, create it):

for the current user: ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/
for all users: /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/

You'll also need to install some dependencies: python-nautilus, python-mutagen, python-pyexiv2, python-kaa-metadata, libnautilus-extension1a and python-pypdf (they might have a different name, depending on your the Linux distribution). After you've installed everything, remember to restart Nautilus.

Thanks to Arun for porting Nautilus Columns to Nautilus 3.4!

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

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Open Source RTS Game 0 A.D. Alpha 10 Released

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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:53

Wildfire Games has released the tenth alpha version of 0 A.D., an open source, historical real-time strategy game which features excellent graphics and sound. The new alpha brings Hellenic factions, basic technologies, civilization phases, click-and-drag wall building functionality, healing and more.

Improvements in 0 A.D. alpha 10 "Jhelum":

Hellenic factions: Athenians, Macedonians and Spartans
Healing: a priest can now heal units
New models/artwork: Roman Siege Walls, Iberian Special Building, Temple and Fortress, more
9 new maps
Technologies: economic or military bonuses that can be researched
Civilization phases: start with Village, then upgrade to Town and City
Click and drag wall building functionality
Many other improvements and bug fixes

You can see the new features available in the latest 0 A.D. alpha 10 in the video below:

(direct video link)

0 A.D. is missing some features like a multiplayer matchmaking service, campaigns or settings and more. If you want to help implement some of these features, help with existing ones or in any other way (web design, sound, etc.), check out THIS forum post.

Download 0 A.D.

Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, 11.04, 10.10 and 10.04 users can install 0 A.D. using a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wfg/0ad
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install 0ad

The packages in the stable PPA above are a bit old, but should be updated soon. Alternatively, you can use a PPA that provides weekly 0 A.D. development snapshots.

Download 0 A.D. - available for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

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Window Buttons Extension Available For GNOME Shell 3.4 [Ubuntu 12.04]

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:32

The GNOME Shell Window Buttons extension has been updated for GNOME Shell 3.4 and is now available in the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA.

Window Buttons is an extension that displays the minimize, maximize and close window buttons on the top GNOME Shell bar, like in Unity. The buttons order or theme can be customize and the extension comes with 5 built-in themes: Ambiance, Radiance, Zukitwo, Zukitwo Dark and a generic (default) theme.

Install and configure GNOME Shell Window Buttons extension

To add the WebUpd8 GNOME 3 PPA and install GNOME Shell Window Buttons extension in Ubuntu 12.04 (there's also an older version available for Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME Shell 3.2), use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell-extension-window-buttons

Once installed, restart GNOME Shell and activate "Window Buttons" using GNOME Tweak Tool.

The extension has been tested with Ubuntu 12.04 and GNOME Shell 3.4.1 but it should work on other Linux distributions too (not tested!) - you can download it from HERE.

Window Buttons on the top GNOME Shell bar, window titlebar removed using Maximus

The extension can be configured using Dconf Editor - if it's not already installed, use the command below to install it:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Then run Dconf Editor and navigate to org > gnome > shell > extensions > window-buttons. Here, you can change various settings, such as:

theme: set the theme you want to use: "Ambiance", "Radiance", "Zukitwo", "Zukitwo-Dark" or "default"
pinch: set the window buttons like Mutter, Metacity or Custom.
order: if you've set the pinch (see above) to Custom, here you can set the button order
onlymax, hideonnomax: enabling these two options, the window buttons will be hidden when there are no maximized windows. This option is a bit buggy, to get it to work, use the maximize/unmaximize button on the top GNOME Shell bar a few times and the buttons should dissapear when there are no maximized windows.

After changing some of the settings, like the theme, you must restart GNOME Shell.

To automatically remove maximized windows titlebar, you can use Maximus - for more info, see: How To Remove Maximized Windows Titlebar In GNOME Shell

You can get the window buttons on the panel using the Classic (Fallback) GNOME Session too, see: `Window Applets`, Finally Available For GNOME 3 (Classic / Fallback)

Thanks to Sander Deryckere and barravi for updating the extension to work with GNOME Shell 3.4!

Originally published at WebUpd8: Daily Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.