Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Utility to Search Google via your GNOME menu/panel - Googlizer

Googlizer  is a panel launcher for the GNOME desktop, although is by no means restricted to use in the panel, or within GNOME. It takes the  X selection,  sends  it  to  either the Google search engine ( , or local equivalent), or an arbitrary search URL specified on the command  line, and  then  passes the results to the user’s preferred browser in GNOME. This browser then starts up and shows the results of the search.

It is not designed to be invoked from the command line; but is supposed to  be  added to the user’s panel via the menu system. To  place  it on a panel, add a launcher and specify the path to the Googlizer binary as the command in the launcher options, or if you have a menu entry  on the GNOME menu, you can drag a copy of that launcher onto the panel.

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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Quick File and Folder Preview for Ubuntu Linux - Globus-Preview

Gloobus-Preview is an extension for the Gnome Desktop Environment designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. It’s based on Apple’s “Quicklook”.

Globus-Preview allows instant access to a variety of file types without the need of opening their default application. It allows you to take a quick look at the content of a file on the fly, saving you valuable time and CPU resources. Video and audio files can be navigated on preview mode by dragging the slider of the progress bar at any given time.

Globus-Preview can currently preview over 40 file formats
  Images: jpeg / png / icns / bmp / svg / gif / psd / xcf
  Documents: pdf / cbr / cbz / doc / xls / odf / ods / odp / ppt
  Source: c++ / c# / java / javascript / php / xml / log / sh / python
  Audio: mp3 / ogg / midi / 3gp / wav
  Video: mpg /avi / ogg / 3gp / mkv / flv
  Other: folders / ttf / srt / plain-text

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Monday, 27 February 2012

Text To Speech and Translation Application For Ubuntu Linux - Gespeaker

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows. eSpeak uses a "formant synthesis" method. This allows many languages to be provided in a small size. The speech is clear, and can be used at high speeds, but is not as natural or smooth as larger synthesizers which are based on human speech recordings.

eSpeak is available as:
 * A command line program (Linux and Windows) to speak text from a file or from stdin.
 * A shared library version for use by other programs.

Gespeaker is a GTK+ front-end for espeak. It allows to play a text in many languages with settings for voice, pitch, volume, speed and word gap. The text played can also be recorded to WAV file.

Gespeaker supports multiple languages, currently English, Italian, French and Spanish. It works well with both Gnome, XFCE, LXDE environments.

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Friday, 24 February 2012

Embedding Terminal in Nautilus - Nautilus Terminal

Nautilus Terminal is a terminal embedded in Nautilus, the GNOME's file browser. It is always open in the current folder, and follows the navigation (the "cd" command is automatically executed when you move to an other folder).

Nautilus Terminal features:
 * It always follows your navigation in your folders.
 * It supports Copy/Paste (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V).
 * It supports drag & drop of files and folders.
 * It can be hidden/shown when you want (with the F4 key).
 * It is resizeable.

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