DBeaver – Universal database manager

September 29, 2011 · General · (No comments)

DBeaver is free universal database tool for developers and database administrators.

Usability is the main goal of this project, program UI is carefully designed and implemented.
It is freeware.
It is multiplatform.
It is based on opensource framework and allows writing of various extensions (plugins).
It supports any database having a JDBC driver.
It may handle any external datasource which may or may not have a JDBC driver.
There is a set of plugins for certain databases (MySQL and Oracle in version 1.x) and different database management utilities (e.g. ERD).
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gscan2pdf 1.0.0 released and PPA installation instructions included

September 28, 2011 · General · (No comments)

Only two clicks are required to scan several pages and then save all or a selection as a PDF or DjVu file, including metadata if required.gscan2pdf can control regular or sheet-fed (ADF) scanners with SANE via scanimage or scanadf, and can scan multiple pages at once. It presents a thumbnail view of scanned pages, and permits simple operations such as cropping, rotating and deleting pages.OCR can be used to recognise text in the scans, and the output embedded in the PDF or DjVu.
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Unity Books Lens PPA installation instructions

September 27, 2011 · General · 1 comment

One of Unity's main features is the Dash. The Dash allows the user to quickly search for information both locally (installed applications, recent files, bookmarks, etc) and remotely (Twitter, Google Docs, etc).

The Dash achieves this by having one or more Lenses that each are responsible for providing one category of search results for the Dash. The user may search the Lens either through the Dash home screen (called global search) or through the Lens' own page in the Dash by clicking on the Lens' icon on the Lens Bar.
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Grub Customizer 2.2 released and installation instructions included

September 26, 2011 · General · 6 comments

The goal of this project is to create a complete and intuitive graphical grub2/burg configuration interface. The main feature is the boot entry list configuration -- but not simply by modified the grub.cfg: to keep the dynamical configuration, this application will only edit the script order and generate proxies (script output filter), if required.
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Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Screenshots Gallery

September 24, 2011 · General · (No comments)

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2.Codenamed “Oneiric Ocelot”, 11.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle fixing bugs and introducing a couple of new features as we polish up for the release.
Ubuntu Changes since Beta 1
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