Play on Linux - Run Windows programs in Ubuntu easily

Play on Linux is another app to run Windows apps in Ubuntu. Install wine and then install Play on Linux. To learn how to install wine click here. After installing wine go to following link to download Play on Linux.

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html

Follow the instructions there and install play on linux.


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Installing Flash player

To install the latest Flash player open a terminal and type

sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

This will install flash player no matter whether you have a 32bit or 64bit installation. Now restart Chromium or Firefox and go to YouTube to test if everything is ok!

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Media Players in Ubuntu

MPlayer/SMPlayer

Personally I prefer mplayer and smplayer (mplayer's GUI) for video playback. It supports almost any video type, external subtitles as well as DVD playback as long as you have the needed codecs installed as shown previously. To install it type: 

sudo apt-get install mplayer smplayer

VLC

Many users prefer the Video Lan Client (VLC) as their multimedia player. VLC supports many formats without need for additional codecs. Simply install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install vlc

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Ubuntu Tweak Tools

Ubuntu Tweak

Ubuntu Teak is an application to make configuration of  Ubuntu easier.  Among other things you can change the login wallpaper. To install Ubuntu Tweak open a terminal and run following command

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

Gnome Tweak Tool

Gnome Tweak Tool is an application to make configuration of Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide. Run following command to install Gnome Tweak Tool

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Once installed, Gnome Tweak Tool should show up as "Advanced Settings" in the menu. Besides changing fonts or themes, Gnome Tweak Tool can also be used to enable/disable Shell extensions, tweak the desktop, various windows behavior or Gnome Shell.

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How to play MP3 and other copyrighted codecs in Ubuntu

You will need to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras to play the copyrighted codecs in Ubuntu. Please follow this link to learn how to install Restricted Extras...

Installing Ubuntu Restricted Extras

Usually Ubuntu doesn't play Mp3 files and some other files. As the codecs of these files are copyrighted Ubuntu can not add these in the installation media illegally. No problem. Here is way to install Ubuntu Restricted Extras very easily.

Restricted Extras

The Ubuntu Restricted Extras will install Adobe Flash Player, a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), mp3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding (libdvdread4, but see below for info on libdvdcss2), the unrar archiver, odbc, and cabextract. It also installs multiple "stripped" codecs and avutils (libavcodec-unstripped-52 and libavutil-unstripped-49). To install restricted extras simply run the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Altr+T and run following command.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Note: Installation only works completely and properly when done from the command-line Terminal. The entire package will not usually install completely from within a Package Manager.

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Download and convert Youtube/Vimeo videos in Ubuntu

There are lots of ways to download Youtube or Vimeo videos and save to your hard disk in Ubuntu.
ClipGrab is a free and easier way downloading and converting online videos from many sites like YouTube or Vimeo.

Video Search in ClipGrab

ClipGrab can download from the following sites: YouTube, Clipfish, Collegehumor, Dailymotion, MyVideo, MySpass, Sevenload, Tudou, Vimeo.
Downloaded videos can be converted to the following file formats: WMV, MPEG4, OGG Theora, MP3 (audio only), OGG Vorbis (audio only).

Video Download in ClipGrab

 By the way, ClipGrab can also download HD videos from sites that have support for high definition (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo)



Install ClipGrab on Ubuntu
For installing ClipGrab we need to add the ppa to our software sources. Simply start our very friendly terminal by pressin Ctrl+Altr+T ,insert the following code and hit enter...

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:clipgrab-team/ppa

If it asks for any confirmation press enter. Wait until the process is finished.

Adding PPA to Software Sources

After adding the PPA run following command in the terminal.


Wait until the process is finished.

Getting the updates

When the process is finished run the following code to install ClipGrab.

sudo apt-get install clipgrab

If asks confirmation press 'y' and hit enter. Wait until the process is finished. When the process is finished go to dash and search for clipgrab. Now start downloading your favorite videos.


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BleachBit: Free Open Source Tool to Clean Disk Space and Maintain Privacy

BleachBit is a free tool similar to CCleaner which quickly frees disk space and guards your privacy. It can clear cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk from your computer system.
It can be used in both Ubuntu and Windows operating systems. It wipes clean 90 applications including Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and more.

Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster.

Features List:

• Clears cache, cookies, Internet history, temporary files
• 90+ applications support including all famous web browsers
• Comes with file shredding feature to permanently delete files
• Windows and Linux support

You can download it using following link:

Download Link (Linux)

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How to Access Ubuntu partition if you have a dual-boot system with Windows and Linux, you probably know that Windows and Linux both use different file systems. Windows uses FAT32 and NTFS file systems where as Linux uses ext2 and ext3 file systems. You can access Windows partitions from Linux but on the other hand Windows doesn't allow access to Linux partitions. Many times we might need to access files stored in Linux partitions and we realize that we can't access them from Windows. In this situation we have to reboot our system in Linux to access those files. Wouldn't it be better if we could access Linux partitions from Windows? Today we are sharing 5 interesting FREE tools which allow access to Linux partitions from Windows: Partitions (ext2, ext3, ext4) From Windows in Dual-Boot System?

If you have a dual-boot system with Windows and Ubuntu, you probably know that Windows and Ubuntu both use different file systems. Windows uses FAT32 and NTFS file systems where as Ubuntu uses ext2 and ext3 file systems.

You can access Windows partitions from Ubuntu but on the other hand Windows doesn't allow access to Ubuntu partitions.

Many times we might need to access files stored in Ubuntu partitions and we realize that we can't access them from Windows. In this situation we have to reboot our system in Ubuntu to access those files.

Wouldn't it be better if we could access Ubuntu partitions from Windows? Today we are sharing 5 interesting FREE tools which allow access to ubuntu partitions from Windows:

• Explore2fs (Read-only Access)
• Ext2 IFS (Installable File System) (Read as well as Write Access)
• DiskInternals Linux reader (Read-only Access)
• Ext2 FSD (File System Driver) (Read as well as Write Access)
• Ext2Read
• LTOOLS

Explore2fs:

Explore2fs is a GUI explorer tool for accessing ext2 and ext3 file systems. It runs under all versions of Windows and can read almost any ext2 and ext3 file system.
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Ext2 IFS (Installable File System):

Ext2 IFS provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system to include the Ext2 file system.
Ext2 volumes get drive letters. Files, and directories of an Ext2 volume appear in file dialogs of all applications.
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DiskInternals Linux reader:

DiskInternals Linux Reader runs under Windows and allows you to browse Ext2/Ext3 Linux file systems and extract files from there. The program provides for read-only access and does not allow you to make records in Ext2/Ext3 file system partitions.
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Ext2 FSD (File System Driver):

Ext2 FSD is an open source linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows systems (2K/XP/VISTA/7, X86/AMD64).
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Ext2Read:

Ext2Read is an explorer like utility to explore ext2/ext3/ext4 files. It now supports LVM2 and EXT4 extents. It can be used to view and copy files and folders. It can recursively copy entire folders. It can also be used to view and copy disk and file.
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LTOOLS:

The LTOOLS are a set of command line tools to read and write Linux ext2, ext3 and ReiserFS filesystems (Linux's standard filesystems) from DOS or Windows running on the same machine.
It also comes with GUI programs "LTOOLSgui" (Java based graphical user interface) and LTOOLSnet (.NET based user interface).
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