Urd (Usenet Resource Downloader) is a Web-based Usenet binary download manager. It stores the newsgroup information in a MySQL database and aggregates the articles into sets of a single download (e.g. one album or movie). The Web interface can be used to search with regular expressions. It uses its own downloading daemon that has support for scheduling downloads and updating databases. URD can also download directly from NZB files and even create NZB files. Further features include custom scripts, multiple languages, a template based Web interface, support for multiple servers, automatic par2 and unrar support, and an intuitive user interface.
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This is list of New Applications and Defaults on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Thunderbird is included as default email client including menu and launcher integration.
Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool, making it easy to upload backups to Ubuntu One.
The new Gwibber landed in Oneiric bringing improved performance and a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.
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MongoDB wasn’t designed in a lab. We built MongoDB from our own experiences building large scale, high availability, robust systems. We didn’t start from scratch, we really tried to figure out what was broken, and tackle that. So the way I think about MongoDB is that if you take MySql, and change the data model from relational to document based, you get a lot of great features: embedded docs for speed, manageability, agile development with schema-less databases, easier horizontal scalability because joins aren’t as important. There are lots of things that work great in relational databases: indexes, dynamic queries and updates to name a few, and we haven’t changed much there. For example, the way you design your indexes in MongoDB should be exactly the way you do it in MySql or Oracle, you just have the option of indexing an embedded field.
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VirtualBox is a free, open source, cross-platform application for creating, managing and running Virtual Machines (VMs).
You've heard a lot about Linux and you'd love to try it out, but you don't know enough to take the plunge and install it alongside Windows -- maybe you're worried you'll wipe all your files off in the process. Besides, you'd like to have another computer handy so that you can look something up if you get stuck, but you don't have another computer. This is it.
Or maybe it's the opposite. Perhaps you've taken a step out of your comfort zone and ditched Windows -- maybe for Ubuntu, or maybe for Mac OS X. You feel liberated! No more Blue Screens of Death! You're living life on the edge, getting on with your work… and then you come to a screeching halt. You discover that a piece of software crucial to your workflow runs on Windows… and only Windows.
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We have already posted some time ago about Nice Ubuntu themes for Maverick Users and this is updated for Natty users now.