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Banshee media player is one of Gnome’s most popular and important applications that ensures the seamless playback of audio and video files in harmony with the Gnome DE. Bertrand Lorentz who is one of the main developers, offered to give us a snapshot of what is going on right now for the project and what was discussed on the recent major conferences that he was present.

Do you have an old hard drive that you use to store valuable data and you need to determine approximately how much of life is left in its electronic heart? Did your hard drive travel and you want to check any possible damaged that it may sustained? Do you want to see information like attributes, features, firmware version etc but you don’t know how? You should check out GSmartControl!

This is a quick look to the new Lock (Screen Shield) of Gnome Shell, and the new interface of GDM, which both come to brake more the visual coherence between Gnome and Ubuntu that ships LightDM.

The former Google’s employee and currently Executive Director of Yorba, talks about developing with Gnome and he spots the strategies that a company should use to have profit by developing Open Source Desktop Applications. Adam has an impressive bio in Google’s desktop projects and his company has already released 2 top quality Apps for Gnome; Shotwell and Geary.

These are really interesting news that come directly from Ubuntu’s Sebastien Bacher in Launchpad Bug Tracker. Sebastian basically says that Ubuntu cannot follow Gnome upstream as Gnome lack to plan their work in advance or communicate enough with Ubuntu about their new features. Sebastian also says that Ubuntu might use Nautilus 3.4 or Nemo or Marlin. Ubuntu puts the pressure in Gnome for sure!

There were lot of voices against the replacement of categories with pagination, and that was another controversial feature originally planned for Gnome 3.6. Guess what. It won’t happen.

Celestia is a captivating space navigator that allows you to explore and discover our known universe in three dimensions. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond our galaxy using zooming, point and go and time accelerating / freezing features.

I have spend endless hours playing Nibbles (Gnome Snake Game) in the past, but this game now feels old. So I decided to write my own Snake Game for Gnome. I will use Clutter and JavaScript which is quite powerful combination, and I though to make some samples here, to enable people to write their own Gnome Apps.

I’ll make some tutorials, in image/text processing, event driven programming, effects / animations / timelines, drawing with Cairo and Cogl and finally a simple Graph Scene.

Red Hater David Zeuthen in his blog introduces all the new features in Gnome Disks 3.6 and also refers to the upcoming new options for Gnome 3.8. There are some nice additions; some are just optics and some are useful tools, but in my opinion not everything is perfect and complete.

Summer is when most people in the world spend their holidays, and spending holidays means having some free time to spend. One of the best things to do with that free time of yours is to relax through a good book reading.

Sometimes, human minds get stuck without a reason between two options, jumping from the one to the other, never finding exactly what they are looking for. This is what happens to most people with today’s browsers. Almost no one completely likes Firefox and Chrome for their own personal reasons, but everyone keeps trying both when a newer version becomes available. Time to make a step towards something “greener” and give Midori a try!

MediaBox is the most simplistic media player you’ll ever use. It uses GStreamer and is able to playback all the files supported by it.

This means that you can play both music and video files using MediaBox to do it, using very little resources and a very simple way to choose the files you want to playback.

Let’s be realistic for a moment here. I believe that there is not a single Fedora user who doesn’t use repositories that conflict with Fedora’s policy and default selection ideology. Not even the most hardcore Fedora developers can use the completely useless system that Fedora is out of the box, without adding third party sources and pieces of proprietary software.

Some days ago I had posted about the new upcoming Gnome mail application and a reader let a comment about Geary. What is Geary? A mail client app, written in Vala which seems to share many common design goals with Gnome Mail. I didn’t know about Geary since then, so I checked it and.. Wow, it is a fantastic App, the best mail client by far, -in its special kind. But this post isn’t about just Geary, it is about this modern company. YORBA!

This is a simple guide on how you can hack your Gnome Shell (just a bit!) and make one unique theme just for you.

I used Adwaita as base because everyone has this (but you can do this in every theme), and I also used some Marvel images that you can replace with anything you like.

Flickr is maybe the most popular image hosting website in the world, helping millions of users to manage their photos online, and to easily share them on any of the widely used social networks. Frogr is a smart and very useful little application that allows you the easier pre-set and upload of your photographs on Flickr straight from your Gnome desktop!

This is the second post from the “Making GTK3 themes”series. The first post can be found here. We will name our theme as “Dream”. So create a directory named “Dream” under “~/.themes” and then create another directory named “gtk-3.0? under “~/.themes/Dream/gtk-3.0?. All the files we create will be inside this directory.

Gnome Live is the absolute place if you want to learn what’s happening behind the scenes, what’s coming next and why we are getting all these controversial new features. And there is more! Highly anticipated Apps and amazing new tools ..all in one place!

Video editing is a complicated task no matter the platform and the experience that one may have on this sector. Fortunately, there are many available applications for the Linux platform that can do simple, or advanced video editing with Avidemux being one of the simplest. On this How-To, we will see how you can do some basic “everyday” things without much effort, or complication.

Some hours ago Cosimo Cecchi pushed Nautilus 354 on Git. This is a nice release because we get the first major UI changes. Not all Gnome stack has jumped to 354 yet, so we are going to review each App separately. I used an Ubuntu 12.10 vbox for compiling, because is easier to solve dependencies there.