2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Minty-Fresh™.

Crunchy numbers

The Leaning Tower of Pisa has 296 steps to reach the top. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2010. If those were steps, it would have climbed the Leaning Tower of Pisa 4 times

In 2010, there were 4 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 13 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 16mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was November 12th with 12 views. The most popular post that day was installing pytube in Ubuntu Karmic.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were google.co.in, taufanlubis.wordpress.com, en.wordpress.com, translate.google.de, and google.it.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for pytube deb, pytube.deb, bitdefender ubuntu, pytube ubuntu, and pytube deb.net.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

installing pytube in Ubuntu Karmic March 2010
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2

Bitdefender for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx July 2010
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3

Uget Dwonload Manager for Ubuntu Karmic February 2010

4

how to add backgrounds in Ubuntu karmic? April 2010

5

About Me February 2010
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Bitdefender for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

There are so many third party anti-virus applications to Ubuntu. One of the best anti-virus application is Bitdefender. Check Bitdefender for more information.
Bit defender is one of the efficient and effective virus scanner for operating systems like Ubuntu. For home/personal use you can get one year free license, whereby it is possible to update freely for one year. For free license refer here. Just to the site and register to get one year free license.

Installation:
there are two types of installations one is from the terminal (hassle free); and the other is manual i.e., from the Bitdefender website; go to the Bitdefender portal and download .DEB file from Bitdefender for Unices, just install it by Debian Package manager.

and from the terminal,
first; go to System > Administration > Software Sources; there under other software (second button) add the following line;

deb http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/ bitdefender non-free

then reload software sources; after update there will be a message regarding gpg key error, don’t worry.
go to terminal; Applications > Accessories > terminal; and then type or paste the following lines, to add gpg key;

wget http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/deb/bd.key.asc
sudo apt-key add bd.key.asc

then, again update (but this time from the command-line, by typing or pasting following line;
sudo apt-get update

after the update, type the following command-line;

sudo apt-get install bitdefender-scanner-gui

that’s all it will install two files namely; bitdefender-scanner bitdefender-scanner-gui; the file size will be some where around 35MB.

how to add backgrounds in Ubuntu karmic?

Some times ‘change desktop manuals’ will not work with customized wallpapers. Say, I would like to put one of my family photos as desktop wallpaper, it will remain only for single login session and next time we login the previous background will not be there, but default or one that appears in backgrounds in appearance preferences. See the below screen-shot …………

Now how to set personal Photos or other interesting images of your preference………………….

gconf-editor can come handy for this…..

for this you need to install gconf-editor, just go to Synoptic Package Manager and see whether gconf-editor is installed or not. If not install and do the following.

Say I want to set an image image.jpg as desktop background,

1. Open the terminal
2. Go to the directory where this image is saved or is there.
3. Copy the image to /usr/share/backgrounds/, this can be done with the help of cp command;sudo cp image.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds/
4. See whether the image is copied or not.
5. Now, open gconf-editor;

1. In the window, under menu, which means left column of the window, click desktop option, there click backgrounds, you can observe some configuration settings right side, there double click picture file name, the row turns to be editable, now change the picture name as image.jpg, thats all you immediately can see the desktop turned with the background of one you like.

installing pytube in Ubuntu Karmic

You don’t want to do all media editing activities through command line?

Like finding, downloading, converting, and other editing works which we do using youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, and other.

Following are the features of Pytube:

• Easy GUI
• Multimedia file conversion ( OGM, OGG, OGV, MP3, MPEG, AMV, GIF, MP4, WAV, AVI, 3GP, FLV)
• Integrated search for YouTube Videos
• Ability to download flagged videos from YouTube using a registered account
• Ability to transfer videos currently being played using Flash towards your desktop ( Linux only )
• Ability to download an unlimited quantity of videos from YouTube, MyspaceTV, Google Video and Metacafe
• Reconfigured devices support for fast video compatibility on your device ( Apple iPods, Sony PSP, Flip Mino,Others to come )
• Editing tools such as video rotation, video scaling, inserting a custom audio file into a video file, video merging, cellphone ring tone generator.
• Retrieve profile information and contacts from YouTube members
• Share your favorite videos by exporting a list of video links, or import a list from another user with a few clicks
• Cross platform Code.

How to install Pytube?

Follow the below steps:

1. Download Pytube .DEB package from:

   http://www.marcosrodriguez.me/pytube/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=2&func=startdown&id=1

2. Install by typing the following line in terminal:

   sudo dpkg -i pytube_0.0.11.4~getdeb1_all.deb

   That’s all you got Pytube now.

   Enjoy with all shared audio and video available for download from the web.

But one thing, don’t forget is you must have installed all codecs for ffmpeg, mp4 and 3gp prior to installation of Pytube.

See the screen-shot of Pytube:

Any issues leave a comment.

Uget Dwonload Manager for Ubuntu Karmic

I had tried so many download managers that are available in Linux, like Wget, XDownloader and etc. But Uget appears to be very much efficient and useful, since it has the following features,
1. It is free, since it is Open Source software.
2. Simple, easy-to-use and lightweight.
3. supports download resumes.
4. It classifies downloads.
5. Queuing.
6. seamless integration with Firefox (default browser) through Flashgot plug-in.
7. monitor clipboard.
8. Import downloads from HTML file.
9. Can be used from Command Line, apart from these in future there will be more features will be available, since it is under continuous development.

How to install Uget Download Manager?

1. go to website: http://urlget.sourceforge.net/
2. Download .DEB package.
3. install with the help of package manager, (fortunately all dependencies will be satisfied).

How to integrate it with Firefox web browser?
1. go to website: http://flashgot.net/getit,
2. there you can find integrate with firefox power button, press it,

that’s all Mozilla add-on installer starts and do the rest of the work…………..

Enjoy……any problem please leave a comment