January 14, 2011 · General · 2 comments

Banshee is an open-source media player, originally called Sonance until 2005. Built upon Mono and Gtk#, it uses the Helix and GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDs and supports many portable media players, including Apple's iPod, Android devices and Creative's ZEN players.Other features include Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. Banshee is released under the terms of the MIT License and is available for Linux as well as Mac OS X operating systems.
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January 12, 2011 · General · (No comments)

TagPlayer is a Boffin like application. It allows the user to play music based on the music's lastfm tags.It uses pylast for Last.fm API access, GStreamer for music playback and pyGTK for GUI. The project is developped using Quickly for fast prototyping.
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January 11, 2011 · General · 4 comments

Shotwell is a photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It allows you to import photos from your camera, view and edit them, and share them with others.
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January 10, 2011 · General · (No comments)

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide.
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January 9, 2011 · General · 5 comments

4Pane is a multi-pane, detailed-list file manager for Linux. It is designed to be fully-featured without bloat, and aims for speed rather than visual effects. In addition to standard file manager things, it offers multiple undo and redo of most operations (including deletions), archive management including ‘virtual browsing' inside archives, multiple renaming/duplication of files, a terminal emulator and user-defined tools.
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