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Torrents are a great and unique way to acquire and share files with other people from around the world. We GNOME users have many torrent clients to choose from, but the two most popular choices are Deluge and Transmission.

Gnome exists more than a decade but it seems that all great things are happening just lately. Gnome’s future feels safer than ever and promises for a competing OS outside the Linux ecosystem are rising, relying on genuinely realistic foundations.

Microsoft’s Kinect technology was the next amazing step in gaming. Microsoft is constantly testing and improving this technology in an attempt to make it more useful for all its customers in any platform (gaming, desktop, research). What about us the Linux users? Is there a similar technology for us to enjoy? Apparently there is, and it is called Skeltrack!

Some people are lazy, some people haven’t the time, some people don’t know how and some people just don’t really care to try Gnome 3.5.2, but I bet you all are curious to have a look at the new Gnome. So here it is, enjoy the tour :)

Editing videos is a job that is usually done by tech savvy people with patience and special knowledge. I am not one of them really. I never succeeded in editing videos using well known available on Linux tools, mainly because I didn’t have the patience to read help files and see what is going on and how things are done. With LiVES is maybe the first time I find myself doing pro-stuff in a pretty clear, simple and easy to use way.

Gnome-Shell in 3.6 will release a new face, with two major changes. First one and most controversial is the removal of the categories and the second one is the addition of a new application discovery button. Find out why.

Gnome developers work on a Screen Lock that is useful mostly for touch devices. They also work in a new Login Screen. The main purpose of screen lock is obviously to prevent accidentally actions to happen in the system. While Screen Lock shares lot of similarities with Login Screen -currently GDM- , it seems that these two aren’t compatible and will not be merged.

This is nothing official by Gnome Foundation. We are collected all the modules that Gnome is working on and we built a brainstorming tentative list of features that we want to see and we might see in about a year from now, in the second semester of 2013 or the first of 2014.

Chrome is an unknown little application made by Google -an insignificant technology company- that help us to browse World Wide Web. Currently Chrome runs in a small number of Personal Computers and Mobile Phones, in some Tablet devices and in a few TVs. Well I wasn’t completely honest, but you already know that, don’t you? :) What you might don’t know is how fast you can set up an application to the Chrome Web Store and make your Webpage easily discoverable by people.

Good news and updates from the Google Summer of Code are out everyday, and we have our eyes and ears open to inform you of everything that worths your attention. Today we had an interesting blog post from Zan Dobersek who was happy to announce that the Gamepad API support patch for GNOME is coming round the corner.

Cheese the webcam Gnome’s application that was written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphaël Slinckx is under a new design development. Yet another Gnome App that it might get cloud support?

Shutter is a free and open-source screenshot program that offers advanced capturing, sharing and editing abilities. It stands out for its feature richness and editing power that will save you time jumping from one application to the other, and adds professional look, or artistic style to your screenshots!

A year and a half after the controversial release of Gnome three point zero, many people don’t know yet how to customize their desktop and instead blame Gnome developers. Do they have right? In some point yes..

Backing up is one of the most important things one should do to be a happy user, and although most people understand this, there are very few who actually do it. What is the reason we are not backing up our files? There may be three reasons for this. The first one is that your files are not that important so you don’t care if you loose them or not. The second is that backing up takes time and resources. The third reason is that you may think that it is a complicated process that requires special technical knowledge to perform with success. Deja Dup is the answer to the third statement, and the answer is “no”.

Emerillon is a simple yet powerful and easy to use map viewer that uses OpenStreetMap based maps to allow users to browse the world, search the map for places and placemark these places for later quick access!

This is similar how Gnome-Documents handles Google Docs after we setup online accounts. While in Gnome 3.4 we could set up a MS Live account, we couldn’t access MS Docs.. well in 3.6 we gain that ability.

That is another big step towards to make Gnome more polished and usable for people that aren’t satisfied with its default shape. Extensions are written from indie developers but they are part of the “core” Gnome desktop and can completely change the user-system interaction experience .

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers that manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.

We are living in 2012 but so far Linux Desktop is nowhere. Even the “too big to fail” Canonical struggles to make partnerships with manufacturers and distribute Ubuntu in a broader market. Maybe Gnome could show the way?

Gnome three point six will surprise us in many ways. After the redesigned Shell we will get a new pretty package manager and ..a bit further a brand new fancy software center!