Posts with the tag Applications | Philipp's Computing Blog

sudo -i
echo "deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free"  >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -q http://deb.opera.com/archive.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
aptitude update
aptitude install opera

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impressive – presentations of PDFs

2010-02-09 16:40
Category:
Tags: Applications, Linux, Presentations

impressive was formerly known as KeyJnote.

Impressive is a great tool to present PDF presentations to an audience using nice transition effects. It is ideal for everyone who creates a good looking presentation using advanced techniques like LaTeX (beamer class) as it combines good looking PDFs with the refreshing transitions of...

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Gnome Office

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: Applications, Office

GNOME Office is a free office suite for GNOME which consists of:

AbiWord word processor
Evolution groupware and e-mail application
Gnumeric spreadsheet
GNOME-DB, software that provides database connectivity.

The Debian project includes additional applications in this list:

Dia diagram editor
GIMP raster graphics editor
Inkscape vector graphics editor
XSane graphical frontend of scanner access
Planner project management tool
GnuCash (Finanzverwaltung)

You can...

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Guitar Tools

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: Applications, Guitar, Making Musik

http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gitarre:_Freeware_f%C3%BCr_Gitarristen

Tuning

Free Music Instrument Tuner: http://home.gna.org/fmit/

sudo aptitude install fmit

AP Tuner for Windows v3.08: http://www.aptuner.com/cgi-bin/aptuner/apmain.html

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Installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: Applications, Browser, Internet, networking

http://ubuntublog.ch/applikationen/google-chrome-fuer-ubuntu

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then add to the file:

# Google Chrome
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

And add the sign-key to you keyring:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

Then update and install:

sudo apt-get...

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Gedit Plugin to Search and Replace using Regular Expressions

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: Applications, Gedit, programming, Usability

found here: http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
http://halfhourhacks.blogspot.com/2008/03/gedit-regular-expression-plugin.html

cd .gnome2/gedit/plugins
wget http://neednom.com/bfisher/blog/geditplugin/regex_replace.tar.gz
tar -xf regex_replace.tar.gz
rm regex_replace.tar.gz

Then open gedit and select Edit → Preferences → Plugins and activate the regex plugin

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Sweet Home 3D

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: 3D, Applications

http://www.sweethome3d.eu

run with Java Web Start

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://www.sweethome3d.eu/SweetHome3D.jnlp
javaws SweetHome3D.jnlp

or the original java one:

cd ~/Downloads
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.13/jre/javaws/javaws ./SweetHome3D.jnlp

and run using

cd ~/Downloads/
javaws SweetHome3D.jnlp

or if the above does not work, use:

install and run including Java VM

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/SweetHome3D-2.0-linux-x86.tgz
tar -xf SweetHome3D-2.0-linux-x86.tgz

and run

cd ~/Downloads/SweetHome3D-2.0
./SweetHome3D

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Set up gedit for use with C++

2009-08-18 10:18
Category: Ubuntu 9.04
Tags: Applications, C++ development, Gedit, programming, Usability

The post describes the setup for gedit to get most out of it for C++ development.

Activate gedit plugins using Edit → Preferences in gedit.

Smart indentation plugin for C/C++/Java

http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=csmartindent.tar.gz

Function browser

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gedit-funcbrows/

The Ubuntu package gedit-plugins including an embedded terminal

to get an integrated terminal, get the package gedit-plugins. This...

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