Gmelius : Advanced Gmail UI

Google started excavation on its new user interface for Gmail on the last year.  Till now it is not so popular and everybody is not in love with the new design. But it is so recommended for a better guidance at your mail reading. There are a lots of browser extensions available in the net-market like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera Mini. But people using other browsers may not have access this extensions & another thing must be noticed that the most popular browser Google Chrome is compatible from Chrome 18. 
After all Gmelius is a cross-browser extension that proposes a better and cleaner Gmail inbox. 
Get it : Gmelius

• Make Gmail header auto-expandable.
• Remove the "People Widget".
• Customize Gmail navigation icons.
• Add a subtle row highlight.
• Add Homogenize the appearnace of your incoming emailsa subtle row highlight.
• Add attachment Icons.
• Make the Google logo clickable.
• Add-Scroll to the top of your inbox according to the menu Google+.
• Move emails labels from the left to the right of your inbox.
• Regain some space in your inbox.

  

Finally GIMP 2.8 stable version is released

What are the different & new features available in the newer version of GIMP (2.8) 

GIMP 2.8 stable released

• Single window mode: Single main window instead of overlapping floating windows (also optional for the users those are acquainted with the previous versions. 
• On-Canvas Text editing : Editing text is not performed in a separate window anymore.
• Multi-Coloumn Dock windows which makes the GIMP UI a lot more customizable.
• Improved screen real estate for dock able dialogs using "save" now saves the file in the GIMP XCF format and it can't be used for saving PNG and other files. for non-xcf file types, we have to use the 'export' menu entry.
•   It's easy to create layer groups which can be organised in tree-like structures brush system and tool preset improvements. 
• Now easy to tag brushes and patterns, new slider widgets. 
• A new set of default brushes and tool presets from RAMON MIRANDA
• New open window navigation which displays a small preview fro each tab 
• Tools rendering on canvas have been ported to cairo to provide smooth antialiased graphics
• A new 'lock pixels' feature 
• Support for JPEG2000 and loading 16bit RAW data
• Export color values to CSS, PHP, JAVA, PYTHON, or PLAIN TEXT.
• Core integration of the graph -based GEGL library
• Export to PDF
• New Tool : Cage transform which maes it possible to easily warp parts of objects using an adjustable user-defined polygonal frame && more n more

Ubuntu 11.04 : Have Minimalstic & Faster

Initially  it is made this for Linux Mint setup, but it can be also used for Ubuntu. It is  recommended to run these commands right after installation of Mint/Ubuntu before installing any software and system update to avoid removal of any packages you have installed. Just open the terminal and execute the following command.

Now with its best speed

# Remove Unnecessary Packages and Games

sudo apt-get -y -f purge aisleriot apport apport-gtk apport-symptoms aspell aspell-en at at-spi avahi-utils baobab bluez-alsa bogofilter bogofilter-bdb bogofilter-common brltty brltty-x11 busybox-static byobu checkbox checkbox-gtk computer-janitor computer-janitor-gtk couchdb-bin cpu-checker dc desktopcouch dnsmasq-base dnsutils doc-base ed erlang-base erlang-base-hipe erlang-inets erlang-mnesia erlang-public-key erlang-runtime-tools erlang-ssl erlang-syntax-tools erlang-xmerl espeak espeak-data gbrainy gdb geoip-database ghostscript-x gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-dictionary gnome-games-common gnome-mahjongg gnome-nettool gnome-orca gnome-sudoku gnome-mag gnome-search-tool gnome-system-log gnome-themes-selected gnomine gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gvfs-fuse guile-1.8-libs ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-android intel-gpu-tools iptables iputils-tracepath kerneloops-daemon launchpad-integration libavahi-gobject0 libdotconf1.0 libelf1 libfolks-telepathy22 libfs6 libgadu3 libgail-gnome-module libgconfmm-2.6-1c2 libgd2-xpm libgdict-1.0-6 libglademm-2.4-1c2a libgnome-mag2 libgraph4 libgtk-vnc-1.0-0 libiptcdata0 libmp4v2-0 libnfnetlink0 libopencc1 libpst4 libspeechd2 libtagc0 libtelepathy-farsight0 libutempter0 libxp6 lftp lksctp-tools lm-sensors logrotate ltrace lsof manpages manpages-dev memtest86+ mono-csharp-shell mono-gmcs mousetweaks mtr-tiny myspell-en-au myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za nano netcat-openbsd ntpdate onboard popularity-contest protobuf-compiler pulseaudio-esound-compat quadrapassel rdesktop rsyslog sane-utils screen screensaver-default-images speech-dispatcher ssh-askpass-gnome strace tcl tcpd tcpdump telepathy-logger telepathy-salut telnet time toshset ufw vbetool vino w3m wamerican wbritish x-ttcidfont-conf x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xbitmaps xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-mathml xfonts-scalable xfonts-utils xinit xinput xorg xorg-docs-core xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-gl xterm

# Remove font packages

sudo apt-get -y -f purge ttf-dejavu-core ttf-indic-fonts-core ttf-kacst-one ttf-khmeros-core ttf-lao ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-takao-pgothic ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-unfonts-core ttf-wqy-microhei

# Install the ttf-unifont package which works better

sudo apt-get -y -f install ttf-unifont

And that's it. now install all those stuff you need to install. Here is what I do usually,

# Remove Unity and Ubuntu One

sudo apt-get -y -f purge gir1.2-soup-2.4 gir1.2-unity-3.0 libnux-0.9-0 libunity-misc0 python-ubuntuone-client python-ubuntuone-control-panel python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome ubuntuone-control-panel ubuntuone-control-panel-gtk unity-asset-pool unity-common unity-place-applications unity-place-files

# Remove Misc Suff

sudo apt-get -y -f purge brasero brasero-cdrkit brasero-common gthumb gthumb-data libbrasero-media1 libburn4 libisofs6 liboil0.3 libquvi0 libsyncdaemon-1.0-1 libtotem-plparser17 tomboy totem totem-common totem-mozilla totem-plugins

# Add Some Repositories

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:elementaryart/elementarydesktop

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tiheum/equinox

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/gimp

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hel-sheep/pastie

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:synapse-core/ppa

# Update Software Sources

sudo apt-get -y -f update

# Upgrade System

sudo apt-get -y -f dist-upgrade

# Install Needed Packages and Codecs

sudo apt-get -y -f install aptoncd aria2 axel bleachbit cheese dexter ejecter elementary-theme elementary-icon-theme equinox-theme faenza-extras faenza-icons-mono faenza-icon-theme gimp gimp-gmic gmic gloobus-preview gnome-disk-utility gnomebaker gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse indicator-applet-complete libavcodec-extra-52 libavutil-extra-50 libcdaudio1 libcelt0-0 libflite1 libgme0 libid3tag0 libmimic0 libmjpegtools-1.9 libmms0 libofa0 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0 libopenjpeg2 libopenspc0 libquicktime1 librtmp0 libsidplay1 libwildmidi1 libzbar0 lzma mozilla-plugin-vlc p7zip p7zip-full p7zip-rar pastie pitivi shotwell synapse tasque ubuntu-tweak unarchiver unrar vlc youtube-dl

# Remove Obsolete Packages

sudo apt-get -y -f --purge autoremove

You can modify the above script as per your usage. If in any case you find some of the programmes are not working then remove them from the list & proceed

Reference : funsurf-blog.blogspot.com

Ubuntu : KFaenzamod One of the most liked Icon theme

Faenza is the bestest Icon pack for Linux ever. But some of the modified versions also get popularity in other platforms like KDE which is named as KFaenza. Now the latest updates released which also include support for Ubutnu in its primary desktop environments like Unity, Gnome-shell, Cinnamon etc. KFaenzamod installation :

Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and issue the following commands:

• cd /tmp && wget -O kfaenzamod.zip http://goo.gl/lYffm
• unzip kfaenzamod.zip
• mkdir ~/.icons
• for i in KFaenzamod*.tar.gz; do tar xvzf $i -C ~/.icons; done

To enable KFaenzamod (light), run this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'KFaenzamod'

To enable KFaenzamod (dark), eun this command:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'KFaenzamoddark'

YouTube embeds in your blog easily

YouTube on your blog

A very easy way to embed Youtube code to blog posts. As it is a easy process i'm not explaining. It would take you a few minutes as long as you follow exactly the following steps:

• Go to Blogger and click New Pos
• In the Post section, you will see Compose and HTML, click on HTML. (actually, you can use any)
• Open Youtube.com in a new window
• Select your video
• Click on the Share button
• Click on Embed
• Copy the code
• Paste that code to your post
• Click Preview to see the result, then click Publish or Save<