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uTorrent is one of the most popular bittorrent clients and isextremely powerful and light. The demand for its release for linux has been for long. This new release for linux is definitely please many.

But this new launch is only the uTorrent server without an UI for linux. This is only the alpha version being released and UI may come in the future. Ofcourse, without an UI one’s activities may be restricted a bit but still all is not disappointing from any view. One can do a lot of things without having a uTorrent UI too.

UTorrent has a feature called WebUI. This feature is an alternate control for the client mode allowing control from anywhere in the world through the web. μTorrent sets up a server on your computer which you can access from any other computer if you have your computer’s IP address. WebUI provides all the features of a regular client UI but is accessible through a browser.

The new linux version is this WebUI based. Thus, you can start uTorrent in your system, have it running in background and connect it through a browser and then manage your torrents as normal.

Talking of uTorrent, the version 3 of uTorrent has generated much excitement and speculation among users. Version 3 is set to integrate 3 new core technologies changing your uTorrent experience for good.

• The first new technology is uTorrent web. This service allows you to access your uTorrent interface from anywhere without worrying of firewalls and NATs. Once you configures a username and password, you can log into web.utorrent.com and manage your utorrent downloads from anywhere. You can even stream media files from your computer and hence see them anywhere.
• Another function is torrent sharing. It has simplified the process of torrent usage for beginners. With the new ‘Send Torrent’ feature, you will be taken to a page from where you can download a version of μTorrent which comes prepackaged with the torrent file you chose. You can then share this link with anyone and he’ll be able to directly download the torrent. If the client is not installed then utorrent is installed and download is started else the download is started automatically.
• Another feature is addition of Griffin – apps framework. This provides a light framework for apps for uTorrent using html.

Other changes which may be noticed are change in the icons and look or uTorrent providing a sleeker look. Along with UDP support, further changes have been made in priotiy setting features of uTorrent.

These new changes in uTorrent seem quite promising and will probably strengthen the popularity of uTorrent as one of the best bittorrent clients available.

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OSD Lyrics is inspired by lrcdis. With OSD Lyrics, you can enjoy an OSD lyrics show with various media players in Linux.

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The icon becomes animated if there is some content available for download on a website. You can click on ‘down arrow’ right of the icon and select the video/audio you want to download.

In case multiple-streams of same video (usually of different quality) are available it will show you an option to download any one of them. This feature is especially useful for quickly browsing through your videos in Low Quality mode but downloading the high quality video for later viewing.

Clicking on the chosen video will download that video to the default location.

Further the addon also make some commonly used tasks after video download easier. It gives user the option to get the raw URL of video which can be plugged into other softwares, to tweet the video to their twitter account, to convert the video after downloading & to secure the videos with the password on local drive. The last two options require two separate addons from the same developer.

As a last feature, the Downloader Helper also features a list of sites ,along with their ratings, from where free videos are availalble. You can get this list by clicking on the icon itself.

Download DownloadHelper Extension for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/3006

1. twirhl : Twirhl is one of the earliest and one of the most popular twitter client for Linux. It is based on Adobe Air platform. Some of its features are :

runs on both Windows (2000/XP/Vista/Win7) and Mac OSX

connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic Video accounts

displays notifications for new messages

shorten long URLs (using digg.com, bit.ly, snurl, twurl or is.gd)

cross-post your updates to Jaiku and many other sites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more via Ping.fm

post images to yfrog

search tweets using Twitter Search and TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with saved searches

automatically find tweets mentioning your @username

record a video on Seesmic Video, and share it on Twitter immediately

get your Seesmic Video updates in real-time using XMPP

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download here : download

2. Pino : Pino is one the lightest twitter client for Linux. Pino is a Linux twitter client written in Vala and designed to be simple and fast. It only shows your timeline and mentions but it’s still in the beta stage (currently beta 3).

download here  : download

3. TweetDeck : This is probably one of the most widely used twitter clients for Linux currently in the market. It is not a one of twitter client but also enable managing of accounts such as facebook, myspace and linkedin. So it is more of a all in one desktop social client than being just a twitter client.

download here  : download

4. gtwitter : It is one of the simpler of the rest of the mentioned clients. It is a simple GTK+ based application for Linux, designed to interact with Twitter web service. Someof the features of it are :

• Read your friends public timeline
• Read public timeline
• Post to twitter
• Set refresh interval
• Images from friends timeline are being cached
• Notification area icon

download here  : download

5. Echofon ( formerly Twitterfox )

TwitterFox is a Firefox Extension that displays updates from your friends and lets you update your status. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets. As Ubuntu already comes preinstalled with Firefox so installing this Twitter app is as easy as a pie.

Some of its features are :

• Unread count in Firefox status bar

• One-click access to Twitter popup window

• Easily post links to current page in Firefox

• Instant notification of new Tweets within Firefox

• Support for multiple Twitter accounts

• Handles all standard Twitter tasks such as direct messages and mentions

• Syncs unread tweets with your iPhone when you use Echofon Pro for iPhone

• Supports custom sound effects for notification

• Multiple color themes available

• Easily post links to the current page in Firefox

TwitBlock simply scans the profile of all those people who are following you on twitter and a point system is used to order your followers, with the people most likely to spam right there on top. A score does not necessarily mean that an account is spam, it merely indicates that the account at the top has a very high probability of being a spammer. A helpful advice to all would to be have a look at the account before blocking the same just to make sure that a real user is not blocked.

Another advantage of this application is that it does not requires your password. Signing into TwitBlock is done via twitter’s OAuth implementation. Also here are the terms and conditions specified by TwitBlock for using your account information.

• TwitBlock will not tweet from your account without asking you first;
• TwitBlock will not reveal to a third party who you are  blocking;
• TwitBlock will not tell you who is blocking you;
• TwitBlock can never know your password or your email address.

Click here if you feel like giving TwitBlock a try.

Go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

Following window will open.

Select the recommended drivers and click Activate. Make sure you are connected to Internet. The drivers will be downloaded and installed.

All that is left to do now is to reboot your computer and see the new graphics in action.

Home Page

http://www.bitdefender.com/

Description

BitDefender Antivirus 2009 provides advanced proactive protection against viruses, spyware, phishing attacks and identity theft, without slowing down your PC.

Request for a free license

First, we’ll get our selves a free license. Remember this is only for personal use and if you are using it for office use please buy the product. Go to the following page:

http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en–BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html

and click Request a free license. Enter the details and select I agree and click send. You’ll get your key in the email.

Download Bitdefender AntiVirus

1. On the same page as above, click Download.
2. On the next page enter all the details and click submit.
3. You’ll receive another mail, this time with the link to the download page.
4. Go to the link and click BitDefender Antivirus scanner for Unices (Linux, FreeBSD).
5. On the next page click Download.
6. Click EN_FR_BR_RO/ on the next page.
7. On the following page click Linux.
8. Finally click BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-7.6-4.linux-gcc4x.i586.deb.run to download the executable deb file on your Desktop.

Installing BitDefender Antivirus

1. Open a terminal window

2. Go to the directory where you download the file (In my case it is Desktop).

3. All you have to do now is type the following:

sudo sh BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-7.6-4.linux-gcc4x.i586.deb.run

4. Enter your password and type  accept once you have gone through the license agreement.

5. In order start BitDefender go to Applications > System Tools > BitDefender Scanner.

6. Enter the key that you received your mail to extend your subscription by clicking set new key.

Have fun using one of the very good Antivirus on your Ubuntu machine.

Just to see how it works I tried installing AVG anti-virus on my machine on Ubuntu and it looks good. Installation is pretty easy and the interface is pretty intuitive for using. Let’s see how to get it working on Ubuntu.

Homepage

http://avg.com

Installation

1. Download free AVG version for Linux from here. I chose the deb version for my ubuntu.

2. Double click the downloaded deb file, enter your sudo password and click install.

This should install AVG on your Ubuntu machine. In order to start/launch AVG, you can go to Applications > Accessories > AVG for Linux Workstations

Although you can run the test without using super privilege.

In order to update the version you’ll have to start AVG with super privileges. To do so, open terminal and type the following:

sudo avggui

Enter your password and you are good to update AVG.