Sunday, September 15, 2013

LMMS 0.4.15 landed in Ubuntu 13.10's Ubuntu Software Center

LMMS (Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a solid versatile audio-wise application, useful to create music items, including beats, sound mixes, melodies, etc, essentially, covering a relevant range of an advanced audio-creation spectrum.

Among its features, LMMS comes with:

* beat and bassline editor handy to create beats and basslines * FX mixer with 64 FX channels * song editor * easily-graspable user-friendly Piano-Roll with support for pattern and melody editing * numerous instrument plugins (including AudioFileProcessor, BitInvader, Kicker, Organic, FreeBoy, PatMan, TripleOscillator, Vibed, etc) * full-of-controls interface



Weeks ago, LMMS 0.4.15 was released, bringing several fixes and optimizations, under-the-hood improvements strengthening the 0.4.x series, improvements such as: * chords-related fixes * fixed freezes when forwarding MIDI events to instruments * enhancements to plugins (accurately retaining custom track names, fixed crashes of reversed samples, etc) * refreshed used Qt version LMMS 0.4.15 landed in Ubuntu 13.10's Ubuntu Software Center, therefore, users are able to install the latest release of LMMS directly via the warmth of Ubuntu Software Center.

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Final Term updated with interesting command completion and enriched Unity launcher quicklist

Final Term is a powerful, optimized and worked-on-detail terminal emulator that takes the terminal experience to a completely new level, where interactions, polished animations, intelligent features and support are first class citizens. Among its features, Final Term comes by default with smart command completion, semantic text menus, 8 / 16 / 256 colors, accurate precise window resizing, on-demand drop-down look, beautiful themes, etc, essentially, a modern terminal emulator. By simply launching Final Term, the user is to immediately notice its polish and finely-tuned elements, as in the case of the animated cursor imprinting an energetic robot-like elegant feel into the fancy terminal.



Final Term has been updated to another meaningful release, introducing user-friendly command completion and enhanced desktop integration. Final Term allows the user to select commands via a drop-down menu, typing (for example) sudo apt- summons a drop-down where command completions are exposed and clickable; selecting a command is as simple as utilizing the keyboard's up and down arrows and hitting the Enter key, action that both completes the command and executes the command (one action). The newly-updated Final Term introduces passive command completion, meaning: * typing the (for example) sudo apt- command, summons the drop-down with suggested command completions * yet, as additonal, pressing on the keyboard's right arrow, adds the complete now-editable command to the terminal, without executing it Basically, the passive command completion allows the user to modify certain parameters of the command, like for example, modifying the name of the to-be-installed packages, pressing on the right arrow, allows the user to modify and adjust the command accordingly.



Moreover, the new version enriches its desktop integration by adding a new entry to its Unity launcher quicklist; right-clicking now on Final Term's Unity launcher icon, presents a new Open a New Window entry, clicking on it, opens another Final Term window. The mentioned features come to further solidify and improve Final Term, aligning the handy versatile terminal to the desktop, as well as permitting an improved more hassle-free command management. How do we install Final Term 0.1? Add the following daily (probably unstable) PPA (Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 13.10)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:versable/finalterm-daily

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install finalterm

At the moment, Final Term is work in progress.