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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Google Calendar Indicator 0.2.0 Released With Bug Fixes
Calendar Indicator, an Ubuntu AppIndicator for Google Calendar, was updated to version 0.2.0, receiving some important bug fixes, including a fix for the calendar events not showing up in the indicator menu under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander.
Calendar Indicator is more than just a tool that displays Google Calendar events on the top Ubuntu panel. Besides displaying the next 10 Google Calendar events in the indicator, the application lets you add new events and it comes with a fully-featured calendar that lets you access all your events, edit existing events and so on.
From its preferences, you can select the font and background color used by the full calendar events, time between automatic Google Calendar synchronizations, switch between light and dark AppIndicator icons or set Calendar indicator to start automatically when you log in.
Calendar Indicator 0.2.0 includes the following fixes:
- fixed calendar events not showing up in the indicator menu under Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander;
- fixed bug that prevented events that occur today from being displayed;
- Calendar Indicator now allows selecting which calendars to show - before this release, you could select none or all calendars only;
- fixed calendar size;
- fixed autostart issue.
Install Calendar Indicator in Ubuntu
The latest Calendar Indicator 0.2.0 is only available for Ubuntu 13.10 for now, but an older version is available in the PPA for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04.
To add the Atareao PPA and install Calendar Indicator in Ubuntu, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install calendar-indicatorIf you encounter bugs, report them @ Launchpad.
GTK3 Download Manager `uGet` 2.0 Released
uGet 2.0 was released recently, bringing support for multi-thread downloading and mirrors for the curl plugin, individual download speed limiting, new settings dialog and more.
uGet is an open source download manager which uses aria2 and curl under the hood, available for Linux, BSD, Android and Windows.
The application comes with numerous features such as clipboard monitoring, resumable multi-segment downloads, speed limiting, batch download support, scheduler, download categories, supports multiple protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink and many others.
Changes in uGet 2.0:
- curl plugin: added support for multi-thread downloading and mirrors;
- aria2 plugin:
- better BitTorrent and metalink support;
- support for JSON-RPC batch request to improve remote aria2 downloading;
- support for RPC authorization secret token;
- added "split" option to avoid less connections if user specify mirrors;
- implemented individual download speed limiting;
- reduce start-up time;
- added new items to the tray/appindicator menu which allow enabling or disabling the clipboard monitor, set the clipboard monitor to work quietly (start downloads automatically, skipping the properties popup dialog), skip existing URI and more;
- implemented multiple wildcards in Sequential Batch;
- new settings dialog;
- GTK 3.14 fixes;
- many other changes and bug fixes - a complete changelog can be found HERE.
While the main reason to use a download manager in the past was to accelerate downloads and that's no longer the case because of today's Internet speeds (well, not for everybody and in such cases, uGet can help), uGet can still prove very useful in various situations - for instance, if you encounter slow mirrors, you can use uGet to download from multiple mirrors.
That's just an example but there are many others, like shutting down the computer after a large download finishes, categorizing the downloads, schedule various download tasks and so on.
Tip: uGet doesn't come with monochrome Ubuntu AppIndicator icons but you add icons for Ubuntu's Ambiance and Radiance themes manually - you'll find the icons along with installation instructions HERE.
Download uGet
Alternatively, Ubuntu / Linux Mint (and derivatives) users can install the latest uGet by adding its official stable PPA. Add the PPA and install uGet using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uget aria2* The uGet downloads page doesn't provide the latest uGet 2.0 yet, that's why I've used SourceForge for the download link above.
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