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downloadhelper addon firefox

2011-12-22T17:19:00.000-08:00

http://www.downloadhelper.net/update.php?from=4.9.5&to=4.9.7

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

AbiWord

2011-07-15T19:28:00.001-07:00

AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application.
It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and
is extensible with a variety of plugins.

This package includes many of the available import/export plugins allowing
AbiWord to interact with ODT, WordPerfect, and other formats. It also
includes tools plugins, offering live collaboration with AbiWord users
on Linux and Windows (using TCP or Jabber/XMPP), web translation and
dictionary support, and more.

Additional plugins that require significant amounts of extra software to
function are in the various abiword-plugin-* packages.

vdeo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIy9ylWeDUw

Ebook http://www.4shared.com/document/EyGFAsyC/AbiWord_Tutorial_2.html

blender 3d models

2011-07-15T09:11:00.000-07:00

Blender is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering,
post-production, interactive creation and playback (games). Blender has its
own particular user interface, which is implemented entirely in OpenGL and
designed with speed in mind. Python bindings are available for scripting;
import/export features for popular file formats like 3D Studio and Wavefront
Obj are implemented as scripts by the community. Stills, animations, models
for games or other third party engines and interactive content in the form of
a standalone binary and/or a web plug-in are common products of Blender use.

video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9hdfst2pE

blender 3d

2011-07-15T09:08:00.000-07:00

Sweet Home 3D

2011-07-15T08:56:00.001-07:00

Sweet Home 3D is an interior design Java application for
quickly choosing and placing furniture on a house 2D plan
drawn by the end-user, with a 3D preview.

WebSite: http://www.sweethome3d.com/importModels.jsp

Backup Tool

2011-07-14T13:04:00.001-07:00

Easily backup and restore your personal data and your software selection.

Sound Recorder

2011-07-14T12:58:00.001-07:00

This package contains a few media utilities for the GNOME desktop:
* the GNOME audio mixer;
* the GNOME Sound Recorder;
* the GStreamer properties capple

Rhythmbox Music Player

2011-07-14T12:56:00.001-07:00

Rhythmbox is a very easy to use music playing and management program
which supports a wide range of audio formats (including mp3 and ogg).
Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, the current version also supports
Internet Radio, iPod integration and generic portable audio player
support, Audio CD burning, Audio CD playback, music sharing, and
Podcasts.

OpenShot Video Editor

2011-07-14T12:55:00.001-07:00

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor. It
can create and edit videos and movies using many popular video, audio, and
image formats. Create videos for YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Metacafe, iPod,
Xbox, and many more common formats!

Features include:
* Multiple tracks (layers)
* Compositing, image overlays, and watermarks
* Support for image sequences (rotoscoping)
* Key-frame animation
* Video and audio effects (chroma-key)
* Transitions (lumas and masks)

OggConvert

2011-07-14T12:53:00.001-07:00

OggConvert is a small GNOME utility which uses GStreamer to convert
(almost) any media file to the patent-free Ogg Vorbis, Theora and
Dirac formats.

The main interesting points are:
* It is very easy to use: drag a file onto the source bar (or use
the file chooser) and hit Convert button. Of course, you can also change
the video format, quality settings and the output filename if you like.
* It uses GStreamer, so it can convert (almost) any file Totem can play.
* It can deal with audio-only files, video-only files, and files with many
audio tracks (such as DVD rips with a commentary track).
* Thanks to the magic of GStreamer, metadata (for example, title and artist
info on an MP3) is preserved.
* Adheres to the GNOME HIG as much as possible.
* Supports the Schroedinger encoder for encoding to the Dirac video format
(note that this encoder is currently experimental).
* Supports encoding to the Matroska container format.

Minitube

2011-07-14T12:52:00.001-07:00

Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in
a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream.

Minitube does not require the Flash Player.

Minitube is not about cloning the original YouTube web interface, it aims to
create a new TV-like experience.

Kino

2011-07-14T12:51:00.001-07:00

Kino allows you to record, create, edit, and play movies recorded with DV
camcorders. This program uses many keyboard commands for fast navigating and
editing inside the movie.

The kino-timfx, kino-dvtitler and kinoplus sets of plugins, formerly
distributed as separate packages, are now provided with Kino.

Kdenlive

2011-07-14T12:50:00.001-07:00

Kdenlive is a non-linear video editing suite, which supports DV, HDC and much
more formats.
It main features are:
* Guides and marker for organizing timelines
* Copy and paste support for clips, effects and transitions
* Real time changes
* Firewire and Video4Linux capture
* Screen grabbing
* Exporting to any by FFMPEG supported format

K3b

2011-07-14T12:49:00.001-07:00

K3b provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning
tasks. While the experienced user can take influence in all steps
of the burning process the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings
and the reasonable k3b defaults which allow a quick start.

Brasero Disc Burner

2011-07-14T12:47:00.001-07:00

Brasero is a simple application to burn, copy and erase CD and DVD
media: audio, video or data. It features among other things:
* On-the-fly burning
* Multisession support
* On-the-fly conversion of music playlists in all formats supported by
GStreamer

This package contains the main binary, the burning plugins and the
nautilus extension.

The following packages, if installed, will provide Brasero with added
functionality:
* cdrdao to burn combined data/audio CDs and for byte-to-byte copy
* GStreamer backends to support more audio formats
* vcdimager to create VCDs or SVCDs
* libdvdcss2 to copy encrypted DVDs

Avidemux

2011-07-14T12:46:00.000-07:00

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and
encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible
MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated
using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.

This package contains the classic version with GTK+ interface.

GNU Emacs

2011-07-14T12:44:00.000-07:00

GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor.
This is a metapackage which will always depend on the latest Emacs
release.

Audacity

2011-07-14T12:40:00.001-07:00

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux.
It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of
digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum
analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited
undo/redo.

Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and AU.

Audacity

2011-07-14T12:39:00.000-07:00

Audacity is a multi-track audio editor for Linux/Unix, MacOS and
Windows. It is designed for easy recording, playing and editing of
digital audio. Audacity features digital effects and spectrum
analysis tools. Editing is very fast and provides unlimited
undo/redo.

Supported file formats include Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and AU.

PDF MODE

2011-07-14T12:15:00.000-07:00

PDF Mod is a simple tool for modifying PDF documents. It can rotate, extract,
remove and reoder pages via drag and drop. Multiple documents may be combined
via drag and drop. You may also edit the title, subject, author and keywords of
a PDF document using PDF Mod.

Inkscape

2011-05-19T10:32:00.000-07:00

inkscape.org

Inkscape loads and saves a subset of the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format, a standard maintained by the WWW consortium.
Inkscape user interface should be familiar from CorelDraw and similar drawing programs. There are rectangles, ellipses, text items, bitmap images and freehand curves.
As an added bonus, both vector and bitmap objects can have alpha
transparency and can be arbitrarily transformed.
Inkscape supports multiple opened files and multiple views per file.
Graphics can be printed and exported to png bitmaps.
Some of the import and export features are provided using the packagesdia, libwmf-bin, pstoedit, skencil, imagemagick, and perlmagick.
Other extensions use ruby, libxml-xql-perl, python-numpy, and python-lxml.
You must have these packages to make full use of all extensions and effects.
If you want to use the spellchecker, you have to install aspell and the respective language-pack, e.g. aspell-en or aspell-de.

inkscape basic

inkscape advance

inkscape full

inkscape video

Inkscape Drawing Tutorial

Open office

2011-05-19T10:03:00.000-07:00

OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office productivity suite that provides
a near drop-in replacement for Microsoft(R) Office.

This metapackage installs all components of openoffice.org:
* openoffice.org-writer: Word processor
* openoffice.org-calc: Spreadsheet
* openoffice.org-impress: Presentation
* openoffice.org-draw: Drawing
* openoffice.org-base: Database
* openoffice.org-math: Equation editor
* openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev: Mobile Devices filters
* openoffice.org-filter-binfilter: legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2)

You can extend the functionality of OpenOffice.org by installing these
packages:
* hunspell-dictionary-*/myspell-dictionary-*: Hunspell/Myspell dictionaries
for use with OpenOffice.org
* openoffice.org-l10n-*: UI interface translation
* openoffice.org-help-*: User help
* openoffice.org-thesaurus-*: Thesauri for the use with OpenOffice.org
* openoffice.org-hyphenation-*: Hyphenation patterns for OpenOffice.org
* openoffice.org-gtk: Gtk UI Plugin, GNOME File Picker support,
QuickStarter for GNOMEs notification are
* openoffice.org-gnome: GNOME VFS, GConf backend
* openoffice.org-kde: KDE UI Plugin and KDE File Picker support
* menu: Will add openoffice.org menu entries for every Debian window manager.
* unixodbc: ODBC database support
* cups-bsd: Allows OpenOffice.org to detect your CUPS printer queues
automatically
* libsane: Use your sane-supported scanner with OpenOffice.org
* libxrender1: Speed up display by using Xrender library
* libgl1: OpenGL support
* openclipart-openoffice.org: Open Clip Art Gallery with OOo index files
* iceweasel | firefox | icedove | thunderbird | iceape-browser | mozilla-browser:
Mozilla profile with Certificates needed for XML Security...
* openjdk-6-jre | gcj-jre | java5-runtime:
Java Runtime Environment for use with OpenOffice.org
* pstoedit / imagemagick: helper tools for EPS thumbnails
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-*: GStreamer plugins for use with OOos media backend
* libpaper-utils: papersize detection support via paperconf
* libldap-2.4-2: LDAP client library; needed for OOo getting its profiles
from LDAP

Open office writer tutorial

Open office impress tutorial

Open office calc tutorial

Openoffice All Tutorials

Learn openoffice

openoffice.org

Linux Mint Debian

2011-05-19T09:49:00.000-07:00

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1604

Squeeze

2011-02-08T08:19:00.000-08:00

Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a technology preview.

Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications.

http://www.debian.org

Gimp

2011-01-02T05:18:00.000-08:00

GIMP is an advanced picture editor. You can use it to edit, enhance,
and retouch photos and scans, create drawings, and make your own
images. Lots of tools are available; you can sharpen and resize photos,
and remove dust and red-eyes, for example.

It has a large collection of professional-level editing tools and
filters, similar to the ones you might find in PhotoShop. Numerous
fine-control settings and features like layers, paths, masks, and
scripting give you total control over your images.

Many image file formats are supported, including JPEG, PhotoShop
(.psd), and Paint Shop Pro (.psp) files. It can also be used to scan
and print photos.

gimp tutorial

gimp tutorial

gimp video tutorial

2010-10-16T18:33:00.000-07:00