Search Android Apps & Games From Unity Dash With Ubuntu Google Play Lens - Ubuntu 12.10/12.04

In this article, we will introduce the Ubuntu Google Play lens which allows users to search and access Android apps and games available in Google Play directly from the Unity Dash. Here are some screenshots of this Unity lens under Ubuntu 12.10:

Ubuntu Google Play Lens Installation

Under Ubuntu 12.04, you can install the lens with these commands:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:abhshk-btra/rotatingcanvas 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install googleplaylens

For Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), run these commands:

sudo apt-get install python-unity-singlet 

cd /tmp 

wget http://goo.gl/ZozkU -O googleplaylens_12.11_all.deb 

sudo dpkg -i googleplaylens_12.11_all.deb

Log out the current session and log back in to enable it.

How To Increase The Battery Life Of Samsung Galaxy S3

Samsung’s Galaxy S3 has become one of the best selling smartphones in the market, within two months after it’s launch it reached 10 million-unit sales mark . The galaxy s3 come with a lot of new attracting features but the main issue of galaxy s3 is regarding it’s battery life even though the phone is powered with 2100 mAh battery. The main issue is that even if the phone is in standby state the battery will get drained automatically. It seems that you’re one of the device owners suffering from this problem then we could have details of a simple fix for you.

Seem like Samsung has made a mistake in thepower_profile.xml  file. Samsung may have set the value to 34 mA in the standby cell power_profile.xml (practically impossible). In order to rectify this issue we need to modify the value to 3.4 mA instead of 34 mA.
A few developers from XDA Developers released a small mod which could solve this issue, you can install that mod easily on you Samsung Galaxy S3 by following these steps!

Follow these steps to install the mod on your galaxy S3.

You need to have root previlages to continue with the procedure, beofre starting you need to root your phone and install ClockworkMod . Once youinstalled ClockworkMod just follow these steps:

• Download the mod from the following  link
• Aftre downloading that file copy it to your SD card which is currently in use with the device.
• Turn off your Galaxy SIII and boot  it into the recovery mode you can enter recovery mode by pressing (home button + volume down + power station).
• Once the recoevry is loaded choose  Install zip form sdcard  and then  choose zip form SD card.
• Select the file (cell_stand by_Fix.zip), confirm and apply the mod and reboot the device.
• The mod will get successfully installed!

You will notice the diffrence once you start using your device, as you can see from the following images:

Install Tor Browser Bundle 2.2.39-5 From PPA In Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 13

Tor Browser Bundle has been updated to version 2.2.39-5. You can now install it from our PPA under the following Linux distributions:

Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10 

Linux Mint 13/12

Tor Browser Bundle 2.2.39-5 Installation

Open the terminal and issue these commands for 32-bit systems:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install tor-browser 

sudo chown $USER -R ~/.tor-browser/

For 64-bit systems, run these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:upubuntu-com/tor64 

sudo apt-get update 

sudo apt-get install tor-browser 

sudo chown $USER -R ~/.tor-browser/

For manual installation, you can download Tor Browser Bundle from here.

Kwort Linux 3.5 RC1

David Cortarello has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Kwort Linux 3.5, a CRUX-based lightweight Linux distribution that uses the GTK+ toolkit and the Openbox window manager: "Today I'm rolling out a new release of our system. We have been testing this release for over a week and it looks pretty stable. Our system got a complete update, from the toolchain to the latest X11 applications. We are rolling this release with Linux kernel 3.5.4, the latest Chromium (Firefox is available in the ISO image in more/xapps). The latest LibreOffice is also available in the ISO image (more/xapps) for you to install with kpkg. Most noticeable changes are in the installer and kpkg as both got a speed-up and I also gave kpkg the ability to upgrade a single package or the whole system. Ext4 has become the default file system." Visit the distribution's home page to read the full release announcement. Download: kwort-3.5rc1.iso (337MB, MD5).

Totem 3.6.3 Video Player Released! Run and Installation on Ubuntu

Totem now known as Video, has been updated to version 3.6.3 just a few hours ago. For those who does not know, Totem video player is the default GNOME Shell : based on GStreamer, the media player offers all the features of the user might need (mechanism playlist, ability to keyboard navigation, navigation in the timeline, acceleration and decreased reproduction ).
The update 3.6.3 of Totem, the third maintenance update in the series 3.6, carries a changelog really small, but significant:

• was put in place the mechanism that manages streaming files in. ogg (the problems were caused by a ‘ incompatibility with plugins gstreamer in package gst-plugins-bad )
• bugs have been fixed that caused memory leaks during the buffering of online video.

The update to version 3.6.3 Totem will soon be available within repository of Ubuntu and the Ubuntu GNOME Shell Remix so there you can simply open a terminal and type

Into sudo apt-get
update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Into A brief update will also be available for Totem – Video is dedicated to all the other GNOME-based distributions.

How To Use RAR To Compress, Decompress, And Split Files From Terminal - Ubuntu/Linux Mint

In this tutorial, we will learn some basic commands for handling rar formats under Ubuntu or Linux Mint. We will see how to use the terminal to compress and decompress rar files. We will also see how to compress large files and split them in small chunks using the rar compression.

1. Installing RAR

To be able to compress/decompress rar files under Ubuntu/Linux Mint, you need to install RAR packages with this command:

sudo apt-get install unrar rar

2. RAR Uses

- To extract the contents of a .rar file, run this command:

unrar e file.rar

or

rar e file.rar

- To extract an archive file and keep full path intact, run this command:

 rar x folder.rar

- To compress a file into a rar file, run this command:

 rar a file.rar file.ext

Replace ext with your file format you want to compress (txt, exe, avi, ogg, etc.)

- To compress a folder, run this command:

rar a -r folder.rar path/to/folder/

- To compress and split the file into fragments, run this command:

rar a -v20000 file.rar file.mp4

or

rar a -v20000 -vn file.rar file.mp4

The commands above will compress file.mp4 and split it into many files, each one has a size of about 20MB.

For more help about the use of the rar format, run this command:

man rar