How to install JDownloader

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Leonhu

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/922

Because JDownloader isn't part of the Linux Mint Software Center, you have to download the automated Install/Start-Script from http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh.

After downloading, place the file wherever you want, best place for me is the Desktop (because that is the file, which starts JDownloader after the installation).

If you want to edit the Installation-path, open the file with a text-editor and edit line 19. Default is "~/.jd" (home).

Now you have to make the file executable. Right-click on it and select "Properties". Go to the Permissions-Tab and mark the option "Allow executing file as program". Then open the file again.
JDownloader should now start the installation.

When the installation is complete, run the file again. Now JDownloader should start.

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FVD Speed Dial

Mozilla Firefox Add-On, FVD Speed Dial, is a stylish speed dial for Firefox. A speed dial is an extension which allows the user a graphical means to often-visited websites. I used Speed Dial by Josep del Rio for a while now and was quite happy. I stumbled upon FVD tonight and was WOW! Now that is cool! So after downloading the extention and get this importing dials from Speed Dial! I was up and running. So far FVD is every bit as convenient as Speed Dial is and more!
 

Current version: 3.7.2
by Pavel Shcherbakov


FVD Speed Dial - Speed dial button, New tab dial, Organize bookmarks, Custom backgrounds, custom dials, organized groups, most visited dials, you can hide your dials and much more!

 If you get the opportunity, go and get this extension and give it a try. I think you will also find that it is a truly stylish and useful add-on to Firefox.

BumpTop: 3D desktop fun!

Author: Bump Technologies, Inc.
Date: 2010-02-27
Size: 17.6 MB
License: Freeware
Requires: Win7/Vista/XP

BumpTop™ is a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. Like a real desk, but better. Now with awesome mouse and multi-touch gestures!

Your desktop doesn't have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore! Transform it with BumpTop. Create the desktop that suits your needs and style.

Piles are how we organize on our real desks but computers force us into rigid, hierarchical folders. Piles are lightweight, flexible and its easy to see what's inside. Let order evolve naturally or quickly get a mess organized with a pile, you’ve got options.

BumpTop piles work like in the real world. Toss items at a pile to add them or pop them into a grid, flip through them with your scrollwheel or fan out a pile to quickly see what’s inside. Converting between folders and piles is seamless too.

BumpTop makes your pixels come to life. Grab, toss, pile and sort your icons and watch them respond with stunning lifelike motion simulated with nVidia PhysX, a gaming grade physics engine. Your flat desktop will pop with BumpTop's saucy 3D visuals and new organization possibilities.

Reduce keystrokes with BumpTop's elegant, intuitive gesture system. Gesture in any direction with the dynamic Pie Menu to instantly invoke a command, eyes free. Or lasso select and manipulate items in a single, fluid stroke with the LassoMenu.

Got a touchscreen or tablet computer? BumpTop's physical effects are even more captivating as icons move under your finger like they would in the real world. Flick through piles, toss icons at widgets to get stuff done, use fluid gestures to advance photo slideshows or manipulate stuff.


Project has been acquired by Google in 2010 and is no longer in development.

Combine all your chat clients

From the homepage:

IM all your friends in one place

Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and more chat networks all at once.

Free Studio: Software to handle all your video and audio conversions

From the homepage:

Description

New Free Studio Manager is a completely redesigned all-in-one package for our programs. It contains 8 sections to bundle all free multimedia applications which have been developed by DVDVideoSoft. These sections the following: YouTube, MP3&Audio, CD-DVD-BD, DVD&Video, Photo&Images, Mobiles, Apple Devices, 3D. Thus all the programs are included in the new interface for easy access to any of them.
With this free software you can convert video and audio files between different formats and to iPod, PSP, iPhone, BlackBerry and all popular mobile phones and devices; burn and rip DVDs and audio CDs; upload and download YouTube videos and music to your computer, iPod, PSP, iPhone and BlackBerry; perform basic editing of audio and video files as well as record videos and make snapshots.

Since I spent practically the whole day using it...

Prolly my favorite text editor.

There are many reasons. The nice, clean interface. Simple without being simplistic. Plus all those plug-ins!

Is prolly my next favorite. But really they are pretty close.

Which brings us to my replacement for Windows Notepad.


But in reality, who really needs THREE text editors! I just have all three mostly because I installed them to try them out and never felt I needed to uninstall either. Plus Metapad is so dang small that, c'mon, with the ginormous hard drives would you really hurt for space because its installed? You're more likely to forget where its installed.

yWriter - Novel writing software

from the site:
yWriter is a word processor which breaks your novel into chapters and scenes, helping you keep track of your work while leaving your mind free to create. It will not write your novel for you, suggest plot ideas or perform creative tasks of any kind. yWriter was designed by an author, not a salesman!

Bluefish Editor for those programming days...

About Bluefish

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites. See features for an extensive overview, take a look at the screenshots, or download it right away. Bluefish is an open source development project, released under the GNU GPL licence.
Bluefish runs on most (maybe all?) POSIX compatible operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS-X, OpenBSD and Solaris, and in addition it runs on Windows.

Update (02/05/12): Bluefish is now on version 2.2.1

Audacity: The Free, Cross-Platform Sound Editor

Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems.

 If you've ever wanted to make your own mixes or even just take a sample of Stewie from Family Guy annoying Lois to use as a ringtone. Audacity is the software to use. Plug-in support, click and drag interface, multi-channel support. The list of features goes on and on!
Best of all, its FREE!!!