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Install latest Cinnamon in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise and Cinnamon 1.4 in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/Linux Mint 12

Cinnamon is a GTK+-based desktop environment. It originally started as a fork of the GNOME Shell, which is a user interface and was initially developed by (and for) Linux Mint. Cinnamon provides many features, including: Desktop effects, including animations and transition effects; A movable panel equipped with a main menu, launchers, a window list and the system tray; Various extensions; Applets that appear on the panel; Overview with functions similar to that in GNOME Shell; and Settings editor for easy customization. It can customize: The panel, The calendar, Themes, Desktop effects, Applets, Extensions.
Mint team released new version 2.0.x of Cinnamon with new features and bugs fixes, theme improvements, enhancements to the bottom panel, also include cinnamon setting manager. In version 2.0, and similar to MATE or Xfce, Cinnamon is an entire desktop environment built on GNOME technologies. It still uses toolkits and libraries such as GTK or Clutter and it is still compatible with all GNOME applications, but it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed. It now communicates directly with its own backend services, libraries and daemons: cinnamon-desktop, cinnamon-session and cinnamon-settings-daemon.
When Cinnamon reached to version 2.0.x it broke Unity desktop but today Cinnamon team released new update and all conflicts have been fixed with this release.

What's in this version:

Better Edge-Tiling: Windows can now be tiled to corners and resized.
Edge-Snapping: Snapping is the star of the show, almost as good as having multiple monitors.
Sound Effects: Sound effects bring life to Cinnamon and make using it more fun.
Better User Management: System administrators can configure groups again.
Nemo Improvements: It's now trivial to associate applications or commands to MIME types.
Other Nemo improvements: Nemo received a lot of UI, usability and performance improvements.
System tray support for file operations: The File Operations window no longer disappears, it goes to system tray.
Window manager improvements: Displays can be "set as primary".
Better localization, date formats, centralized translations.
Added support for LightDM user-switching and guest user sessions.
Added support for MDM user-switching and MDM integration in the System Settings.
Improved support for systemd/logind.

Screenshots

To install Cinnamon in Ubuntu/other derivatives open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

That's it

Source: Cinnamon

iLinux icons for Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubutnu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/Any Ubuntu version or it's derivatives

iLinux icons are well designed, elegant and this icon set contain icons from different operating system Ubuntu, Windows and Mac. It gives different kind of feel on desktop. This icon set has more than 18,000 different icons and support all Ubuntu/Mint/and Ubuntu derivatives/Debian version. All credit goes to haniahmed who made these icon set. Also check icons collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.

To install iLinux icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ilinux-icons

To install iLinux icons in Debian/Any Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
cd && wget -O iLinux-icons-NoobsLab.deb http://goo.gl/LlBbms
cd && sudo dpkg -i iLinux-icons-NoobsLab.deb
cd && rm iLinux-icons-NoobsLab.deb

That's it

Source: iLinux-icons

Install Buuf and Buuf remix icons in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Buuf icon set and its remix version is based on the buuf icon theme created by Guillermo, and it is originally made by fana-m. This icon set is freely available and with these beautiful icons customize every aspect of your system. The current version 5.1.7.3 of this set brought: LibreOffice, Skype, Brand new Package, mimetype Icon Set, New Distros icons added to places (more coming soon...), Icon theme hardly adapted to Unity, A lot of apps icons added, Some apps icons changed, More and better weather icons, More categories added, UbuntuOne's synchronization icons added, New empathy icons added, New UbuntuOne icons, Some icons added to status, Two or three icons added to devices, Office mimetype Icon Set were changed, Some folders added. Also check icons collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.

Buuf v2.9

To install Buuf Remix v5.1.7.3 icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install buuf-remix-icons

To install Buuf v 2.9 icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install buuf-icons

That's it

Source: Buuf+Remix

Install Playonlinux in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric/11.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/and other Ubuntu derivatives

PlayOnLinux is a piece of software which allows you to easily install and use numerous apps and games designed to run with Microsoft Windows. Few apps and games are compatible with GNU/Linux at the moment and it certainly is a factor preventing the migration to this system. PlayOnLinux brings a cost-free, accessible and efficient solution to this problem.

Many other popular apps are available

Manually install Apps/Games

What are PlayOnLinux's features?

You don't have to own a Windows license to use PlayOnLinux.
PlayOnLinux is based on Wine, and so profits from all its features yet it keeps the user from having to deal with its complexity.
PlayOnLinux is free software.
PlayOnLinux uses Bash and Python.

Nevertheless, PlayOnLinux has some bugs:

Occasional performance decrease (image may be less fluid and graphics less detailed).
Not all apps/games are supported. Nevertheless, you can use our manual installation module.

Fixes in this version:

When removing shortcuts or virtual drives from the Configure window, make sure desktop icons, menu entries, etc. are also removed.
fix Python's Version Lower (infinite source of bugs)
Update © in about box LP
Fix a huge problem in bug reporting I introduced in 4.2... I thought it tested it well, this is depressing. Without testers, without users testing beta versions, it seems there's no way to get bugfree releases.
Huge icons download speedup by reusing a single HTTP connection
Make sure debug mode is disabled when using playonlinux --run; Debug may still be used in playonlinux-bash though
Make sure entered prefix name contains no space or slash during manual installations

Note: PlayonLinux requires winehq in order to work. You can install winehq 1.7, winehq 1.5, or wine 1.4.

To install PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Note for following install method: All dependencies will be install via third command, It will be mess to write dependencies command for each Ubuntu version. So this is easy method for every user and for written Ubuntu versions to install PlayOnLinux.

To install PlayOnLinux in Ubuntu 11.10/11.04/10.04/Linux Mint 12/11/9 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

Terminal Commands:
wget -O playonlinux.deb http://goo.gl/WqJx5
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
sudo dpkg -i playonlinux.deb
sudo apt-get -f install && sudo rm playonlinux.deb

That's it

For other distributions see download page

Install UMPlayer in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9 (with YouTube Search)

UMPlayer is the media player that fills all your needs. With dozens of advanced features and built-in codecs it can handle any media format, and can play Audio CDs, DVDs, (S)VCDs, TV / Radio cards, YouTube™ and SHOUTcast™ streams and even incomplete or damaged media files.
UMPlayer comes packed with dozens of advanced features, such as skinnable interface, built-in subtitles search, audio / subtitles sync, enhanced filter rendering and YouTube™ player / recorder, yet has a simple and intuitive user interface that was designed for ease of use.

Built-in Codecs
With over 270 built-in Audio and Video codecs UMPlayer can handle nearly all media formats, including AAC, AC3, ASF, AVI, DIVX, FLV, H.263, Matroska, MOV, MP3, MP4, MPEG, OGG, QT, RealMedia, VOB, Vorbis, WAV, WMA, WMV, XVID and many more.

Features:

YouTube Search
Audio delay adjustment
Configurable subtitles
Localization (35 different translations)
Remember media position
Remember media settings
SHOUTcast search
Skinnable interface
Subtitles delay adjustment
Subtitles search
YouTube Recorder
See more features here

Here you can find skins for UMPlayer, Also there is info to create custom skin for UMPlayer.

To install UMPlayer in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install umplayer

That's it

Source: UMPlayer

Install Produkt-Gtk moded theme in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Linux Mint 16/15 and other Ubuntu derivatives (GTK + Xfce)

Produkt-Gtk is modified version of zen-gtk themes and adopt colorscheme from produkt KDE. It is dark version with orange color combinations which makes desktop environment more elegant and it offers Gtk + Xfce theme. Theme modifier didn't provide metacity with this package, so I used DustBlue metacity with this theme. FS-icons used in screenshots, also check other themes collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.

To install Produkt-Gtk in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install produkt-theme

That's it

Source: Produkt GTK

Install VokoScreen Caster in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/11.10/10.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/9/Other Ubuntu Based Distro's

Vokoscreen is an easy to use screen-cast creator to record educational videos, live recordings of browser, installation, video-conferences, etc. It is simple screen recorder which is based on ffmpeg. It can record unlimited video length. There is option to choose frame rate of video. It works with all Linux desktops like: Unity, Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Mate and others. This screen caster works perfectly to record games while playing.

Some Features of VokoScreen:

Record whole screen, selection windows, or any area.
Magnification option.
Record video directly from Webcam.
Video settings record in avi & mkv format.
Audio settings record in mp3 format.
Option to show/hide mouse cursor while recording.

To install Vokoscreen caster in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vokoscreen-dev/vokoscreen
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vokoscreen

That's it

Source: vokoscreen

Install XiX Music Player in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

XiX Player is a free easy to use multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS. This media player can handle more than 40,000 audio files, so large audio libraries aren't problem anymore with this player. Track is shown in different tabs like Artist, Albums, Playlists or File Manager. It is easy to create and maintain own playlists. There is an integrated lyric viewer that searches for the lyric of the song currently playing. If the CD Cover is found it is also shown. Developer also mentioned "If you think that something is wrong or you have a great idea to implement, please mail me."

Features:

Supports the following file formats: MP3, OGG, M4A & FLAC
Play & Rip your CD to MP3 or FLAC. CD-Text and CDDB support
Rip DVD tracks to MP3 or FLAC. Needs mplayer (lsdvd is optional and will be removed).
See albums the choosen artist is on and vice versa
Create and use Playlists
Online Radiostations + Presets
Record Online Radiostations
Schedule Radiostation recordings
Listen & Download Podcasts
Play License free audio from the Internet Archive
Show the lyrics of the song being played
Shuffle and Repeat
Reverse Play
Crossfading
Search
Rate your songs
EQ + FXs (Flanger, Echo & Reverb)
Copy, Delete or Rename the file
Change ID3 tag (only for MP3)
Theme support

Changes in this version:

Fixed a bug when an empty year was entered in ripping a CD.
Updated Wizard GUI to follow OS Theme more strictly.
Keep track of the number of times a song has been played
M3U File list should not create an error when changing and saving order of the songs
Next & Previous, EQ & FXs work for podcasts
Added "Internet Archive" as a source of music. 78RPM, Cylinder & Tape recordings. (SCREENSHOT)
Mute works for Podcasts too
ARM: New BASS Libraries: Support for FX (Thanks to JOBnik!) and support for .M4A

To install XiX Music Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xix-media-player

That's it

Source: xixmusicplayer

Install Wine 1.7.6 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Wine lets you run Windows software on other operating systems. With Wine, you can install and run these applications just like you would in Windows. Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows applications without a copy of Microsoft Windows. Wine is free software under constant development. Other platforms may benefit as well.

Changes in this release:

Rewrite of the BiDi algorithm for full Unicode 6.3 support.
Support for Video Mixing Renderer version 7.
Better handling of window resizes in the Mac driver.
Support for registration-free COM using activation contexts.
Improved support for simulated bold fonts.
Unicode data updated to Unicode 6.3.
Better support for typelib registration on 64-bit.
Various bug fixes.

Install Winehq 1.7.6 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

Install Winehq 1.7.6 from source in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Linux Mint 16 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install flex bison qt4-qmake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.6.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*
cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure
cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure --enable-win64
cd tools; ./wineinstall

Install Wine 1.7.6 from source in Ubuntu 12.10/12.04/11.10/Linux Mint 14/13/12/Debian open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.7.6.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf wine-1.7.*
cd wine-1.7.*

>> For 32bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure
cd tools; ./wineinstall

>> For 64bit: Terminal Commands:
./configure --enable-win64
cd tools; ./wineinstall

You can download source of Wine 1.7.6 for other Distributions from Source Forge.
Wine stable versions available: Wine 1.6, Wine 1.5 (PPA, Source) and Wine 1.4
That's it

E-commerce has quickly become one of the most popular uses for the internet, and more sites are utilizing Linux shopping software than ever before. In fact, Forrester projects that online sales will reach 250 billion dollars in 2014, according to Tech Crunch, and online sales will account for 8 percent of all retail sales in the US by then as well. For those planning on building a shop online using Linux, there are several programs that you should be aware of, and we've assembled a few of our favorites here:

Zen Cart

Zen Cart is an open source shopping program offering easy administration and product management, and comes fully ready to run credit cards for your shop. Fast, user-friendly, and sleek, Zen Cart was developed by shop-owners and programmers using Oscommerce code as a base and features built in discount codes, coupons, and gift certificate functions. With hundreds of plug-ins available on the Zen Cart site, it's easy to customize everything from payment modules to buttons and graphics in your online Zen Cart shop. Zen Cart is a popular, user-friendly choice for your Linux-based shop. According to BuiltWith, Zen Cart is currently used by more than 150 thousand sites for their e-commerce needs.

Magento

Magento is an open source web application that offers users powerful control over the functionality, design, and content of their online shop. Magento provides checkout tools to calculate shipping, payment, currency exchange, and order management. One of Magento's more useful features is that it's shops are mobile-ready, and specifically tailored to shoppers using iPhones. Gartner research shows that smartphone sales accounted for more than half of all mobile sales made online in the third-quarter of 2013, so open-source software that is ready to display your shop on consumer's smartphones is practically a must. Magento also offers a powerful suite of marketing and promotion tools that feature multi-tier pricing, search engine optimization, coupons and promotional pricing tools all in one open-source package that is ready to use right out of the box.

VirtueMart

VirtueMart is an open source e-commerce application designed to be used in conjunction with Joomla! or Mambo web content management systems. Formerly known as Mambo-PHPShop, Virtue Mart shopping cart software offers a large collection of merchant services right out of the box. VirtueMart offers registration services for users, allowing shoppers to manage their accounts online, track order confirmations, and review order histories in an easy to use window. Registered and subscribed users to your VirtueMart store can track items that are currently out of stock and receive an automatic email notification when the item is back in inventory. VirtueMart shops come installed with payment software that recognizes popular payment services such as PayPal, Worldpay, PayMate, eWay, and more. Additionally, VirtueMart is easily customized using the wide variety of components, modules and plugins available on the VirtueMart site. Business owners interested in test driving VirtueMart can even visit its virtual demo store, as either a shopper or a site administrator, and see the outer and inner workings of a VirtueMart e-commerce site without installing a thing. Now that's customer service.

Install ExMplayer in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

ExMplayer stands for 'Extended MPlayer', its names describes itself based on MPlayer. ExMplayer main feature video thumbnail seeking, it is front-end GUI with media cutter and flow view. This player has built-in 203 audio codecs and 421 video codecs, which means no need to install codecs additionally and plays most of the formats, these features made it handy and perfect player for desktop. It also support network streaming and other audio, video formats like: dvd (.vob), vcd (.mpg, .dat) and so on... There is also support for subtitles and ass library used to decode subtitles.

It also offers 3D video feature, which makes this player unique. Put 3D glass and turn on 3D using 3D button or using menu. 3D menu is a full featured menu that will fulfill all your 3D needs. If you don't have 3D glasses then this player can covert 3D to 2D and watch video as normal view with just one click.
3D formats supported: Side-by-Side, Side-by-Side Half size, Above-Below, Above-Below Half size

Anther great feature of this player that you can boost volume up to 5000%, which means if a video has low volume then this player can boost volume.
This player offers conversion of 10+ different type of audio files. Extract audio from any video, high quality audio extraction, and media cutter.

Features:

3D video playback support
Volume booster
Seekview
Audio extractor
Audio converter
Media cutter
10 band audio equalizer
video equalizer
Winamp dsp plugins support
8 Audio effect filters
17 Video effect filters
Configurable keyboard shortcuts and mouse
199 audio & 416 video codecs
Seekview
Flow browser
Media cutter / mixer
Audio extractor
Winamp DSP plugins support

Changes in version 3.0.0:

3D video playback
Wide variety of 3D formats supported
Anaglyph/Polarised 3D
Watch 3D video without glass (inbuilt 2D conversion)
Volume booster (Upto 5000% boost)
Added H265/HEVC support
Improved Aqua skin
Improved Seek view
Added Advanced Info
Configurable infobar
Added taglib

Note: This player also has PPA but developer only published this app for Ubuntu 12.04 precise. From our PPA you can install it in Ubuntu 14.04/13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13

To install ExMplayer in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exmplayer

That's it

Source: ExMplayer

Install Marlin File Browser in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Linux Mint 16/15/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Marlin is a lightweight file browser built from the ground-up to be responsive, simply designed and easy to use. It will be the default file browser in the next release of the elementary project’s OS.
Marlin is based on gtk3 and uses Gnome 3 technologies extensively and is built in C and uses vala for interface. Some key features of XFCE file-browser Thunar too are included to give it a certain slickness despite it being a File browser.
Marlin uses 'extended actions' to manage files. This service allows applications to request some extended actions for a list of files depending on their mimetypes and some other constraints. Any user can extend their applications by adding custom actions.

Marlin Features:

Tabbed browsing
Multiple-views
Single-click to open (default)
Configurable toolbars and interface
Plugin framework
networking support (SSH, FTP, Windows share, HTTP and HTTPS)
single click/double click to open file
And Many More

To install Marlin File Manager in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install marlin

That's it

Source: launchpad

Install Ffw-Fast-Forward icon set in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Ffw-Fast-Forward icon theme is based on hydroxygen(discontinued). Creator of this set worked on each icon, so this icon theme is well designed and look elegant with all kind of light and dark theme. It also offers a new dock style icons, with token icons flavor. If you found any missing icon or want to add any other icon just report to creator via source link. Zukitwo theme used in screenshots, also check other themes collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.

To install Ffw-Fast-Forward icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons2
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ffw-icons

To install Ffw-Fast-Forward icons in Debian/Any Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
wget -O ffw-icons.deb http://goo.gl/vcbqmk
sudo dpkg -i ffw-icons.deb; rm ffw-icons.deb

That's it

Source: Ffw-icons

Install SyncDrive 0.9 (Alternative Google Drive) with two Accounts support in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

SyncDrive is front-end cleaned GUI which uses Grive as base. There is no official Google-Drive app for Linux at this moment. SyncDrive is designed by David who is creator of Pear OS.
SyncDrive can be setup easily and synchronize your files stored on your Google Drive in your /home/SyncDrive folder. It can automatically sync files and also shows storage used/remaining. SyncDrive has indicator which is made for easy access to SyncDrive.

Grive:
Grive is written in standard C++. Grive can be considered still beta quality. It simply downloads all the files in your Google Drive into the directory. After you make some changes to the local files, it will sync your changes back to your Google Drive. New files created locally or in Google Drive will be sync respectively. Deleted files will also be "removed". Currently Grive will NOT destroy any of your files: it will only move the files to a directory named .trash or put them in the Google Drive trash. You can always recover them.

Setup Screenshots

Note: To disconnect associated account go to Settings> Select 'Account' to delete

Changes in this release:

New user interface
Fix bug : on wizard setting
Bug fix : reset your accounts individually
Optimize performance
Optimize Syncdrive daemon: Synchronization in the background after every 30 minutes
Bugs Fixed

Note: Before installing this version you must uninstall previous syncdrive and remove syncdrive directory from home folder.

To install SyncDrive in Ubuntu/Linux Mint Open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/pear-apps
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install syncdrive

That's it

Credit: syncdrive

Install Deepin Media Player and Deepin Audio Player in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Deepin Audio Player

Deepin Audio Player are designed by Linux Deepin team and it is default audio player in Linux Deepin. It is completely free and open source with GNU General Public License. Deepin Audio player also offers FM, online audio and it also has minimal interface called mini mode.

Features of Deepin Audio Player:

It can be extensible with add-ons. The DoubanFM and Network Radio add-ons are provided by default and can be enabled in Preferences – Add-ons.
It can be toggled to a minimal interface called mini mode.
Adds playback support for audio CD and lossless formats (WAV, FLAC, APE, etc.).
Supports conversion between different audio formats and Supports multimedia buttons.
Supports playlists and equalizer.
Original music management.
Offers simple mode and full screen mode.
Support multi-engine search lyrics.
Support "panel Lyrics/Window lyrics" display mode.
In both the lyrics you can switch between display modes. Also, you can carry out these two modes lyrics style settings, such as the lyrics display fonts, font, size, alignment, rolling, color schemes and other personalized adjustments.
Fast search function for audio files.
Ability to change custom skins, for color selection, and also supports export custom skin file.
Supports variety of audio file formats.
Minimize to tray.
It can remember play history, support for playback enabled Fade, supports the system tray functions, global hotkeys, etc.
And many more options.

To install Deepin-Audio-Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:noobslab/deepin-sc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deepin-music-player

Deepin Media Player

Deepin Media Player is designed to use in Linux Deepin and it is based on Mplayer2. It can play many different kind of audio and video formats just like Mplayer does support. It is completely free and open source with GNU General Public License. It has ability to change skins and install custom skins.

Features of Deepin Media Player:

Supports variety of audio and video file formats.
Custom skins.
Support the common mp3, avi, wma, wmv, mp4, DVD and other audio and video file formats.
Support video capture.
Support video preview.
When the mouse hovers over the playback progress bar, you can display the video preview screen.
Automatically search and download subtitles.
It support online video streaming.
Support a variety of play modes: support full-screen, standard, simple mode.
And many other features.

To install Deepin-Media-Player in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:noobslab/deepin-sc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install deepin-media-player

That's it

Source: Linux Deepin

Install Nemo file Manager with Extensions in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/other Ubuntu derivatives

Nemo is a complete fork of Nautilus and its goal is to extend the Cinnamon user experience to desktop and file management. Nemo has features like: compact view, all desktop icons, etc.. which are not available in latest nautilus versions, Open in terminal and open as root, File operation progress while copy/move files shows percentage and details, Has nice GTK bookmarks management, up/forward/back and refresh buttons, Nice proper status bar, better search, better widgets and many more.

What Nemo offers:

Built in "Open as root" context menu item
Detachable tabs
Unified, configurable toolbar: you can add/remove the following: up icon, refresh icon, toggle button for the location bar / path bar, home icon, computer icon and search icon.
Option to show the full path in the titlebar and tab bars (Preferences > Display)
Displays an "elevated privileges" banner when running as root
Built in "Open in terminal" context menu item
Added "Set as Wallpaper" to the context menu
Added GTK bookmarks to the MoveTo/CopyTo context menus
Switch view buttons on the toolbar (Grid, List and Compact views)
Collapsable sidebar categories
Drag and drop support for the bookmarks in the sidebar
Sidebar: indicators under each drive, displaying the free/used space
Support for sending files via Thunderbird and xdg-email
Image properties improvements
Press 'F4' to invoke terminal extension in Nemo
Memory leaks fixes
A proper status bar
Better widgets and Better search
and More!

Note:

If you are going to install Cinnamon then first remove this PPA also Nemo because Cinnamon PPA contains Nemo File Manager.
If you have Cinnamon or you are on Linux Mint then don't install Nemo from this PPA. It can create other problems.

To install Nemo File Manager in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/mint
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo

Install Extensions for Nemo File Manager in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04, First add PPA then install:

Install Nemo Preview Extension for Nemo in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10, First add PPA then install(Not available for 12.04):

Nemo creates desktop icons, you can remove them with this command:

Terminal Command:
gsettings set org.nemo.desktop home-icon-visible false; gsettings set org.nemo.desktop trash-icon-visible false; gsettings set org.nemo.desktop computer-icon-visible false; gsettings set org.nemo.desktop volumes-visible false

To remove Nemo and PPA, Enter following commands:

Terminal Commands:
sudo apt-get autoremove nemo nemo-*
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:noobslab/mint
sudo apt-get update

That's it

Credit: Mint Team

Install Clementine Player in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/11.10/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Clementine is a modern music player and library organizer. It is cross-platform audio player available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. This player is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

Features:

Search and play your local music library.
Listen to internet radio from Spotify, Grooveshark, Last.fm, SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, SKY.fm and Digitally Imported, and Icecast.
Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
CUE sheet support.
Play audio CDs.
Visualisations from projectM.
Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
Download missing album cover art from Last.fm and Amazon.
Native desktop notifications on Linux (libnotify) and Mac OS X (Growl).
Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
Queue manager.

What's new in this version:

Major features:

Fix library download in the network remote.
Fix removing songs from playlist in the network remote.
Fix login failures with box.com.
Fix a typo that would prevent the Spotify downloader button from ever being shown.
Add support for indexing and playing music from Box, Dropbox, Skydrive, and Ubuntu One.
Add support for Subsonic.
Remote control support for Android.
Add a Playlist tab to the sidebar. Starred playlists are saved in here when their tabs are closed.

Other features:

Add configurable blur & opacity to album art when used as a playlist background.
Support Opus where available.
Support .mka and .oga file extensions.
Parsing support for WPL playlists.
Sort providers by user preference.
Add year and bitrate to MPRIS2 messages.
Add "not equals" operator to fields in the smart playlist wizard.
Add an option to write ratings, play count and scores to files.
Add options to show the rating and score on the OSD.
Add support for POPM tags.
Add support for FMPS tags in Ogg, FLAC, MP4 and ASF files.
Compile the bundled Taglib with ASF, MP4 and Opus support.
Make it possible to cancel cover searches.
Add an option to resume playback on startup.
Add support for Performer and Grouping tags.
Add Radio GFM.
Add an Apply button to the settings dialog.
Make it possible to mark all episodes of a podcast as new/listened.
Add an option for fading in/out on pause/unpause.
Add stereo balance slider to the equalizer.
Add a --restart-or-previous commandline flag.
Allow files to be transcoded directly from the playlist.
Export downloaded album covers

Bug fixes:

Fix gapless playback!
Detect corrupt FLAC files when parsing tags.
Load tags from local files asynchronously.
Show more than 5 album results at a time from Spotify.
Detect last.fm login failures correctly.
Support x-audio/* mime types for podcasts.
Locale-aware library sorting.
Remove duplicate tracks from Spotify search results.
Do not fetch Magnatune library until the service is expanded.
Sort Magnatune library after refresh.
Make the playlist parser recognise 2 character URL schemes.
Read and write more metadata for MP4 tags.
Translate Unity quicklist actions.
Fix a memory leak when fingerprinting songs.
Preserve user stats when opening the edit tag dialog.
Fix neverending task when a Grooveshark session is invalid.
Elide the fancy sidebar text on the right instead of the middle.
Increase the maximum size of the moodbar cache.
Use a new Amazon access key.
Select the next tab when a playlist tab is closed.
Fix radio playlists in non-English locales.
Fix cursor following playback.
Hide moodbar playlist column by default.
Use native language names in the language selector where available.
Only show a tooltip on sidebar tabs when needed.
Never start playing a background stream (like Hypnotoad) on startup.
Run the moodbar generation at a lower CPU and IO priority.
Pressing space with the seekbar focused now toggles play/pause.
Update tray icon progress immediately on track change.
Don't replace song metadata with blank m3u EXTINF metadata.
Fix a bug when fingerprinting files with non-ascii characters.
Fix occasional freezing analyzers.
Make wheel events on the analyzer change the volume.

To install Clementine in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:me-davidsansome/clementine
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clementine

That's it

Install Windows 7/8 themes and icons in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13 and other Ubuntu derivatives (GTK + Cinnamon)

If you just moved from Windows or want to move from Windows to Linux and you like Windows interface, so here are themes + icons for your Linux desktop to make it like Windows. This pack has Windows 7 and 8 theme and icons, there can be missing icons in this set hopefully creator will add new icons in next update. I have tested these theme in Unity, Mate, and Cinnamon environments, so I can say this pack gives feel of Windows (For best results use Mate desktop). You can report bug and missing icons to creator via source link. Also check themes collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons. (Mate and Cinnamon have their control center to change themes/icons). If you are on Cinnamon you can use these two applets window-list and windows7-style-menu.

Download relevant fonts and change them from tweak tool.

To install Windows themes in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install win-themes

To install Windows icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/icons
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install win-icons

That's it

Source: Win themes

Install Nitrux2, Nitrux, and iNX Icons in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/11.10 Oneiric/11.04/10.10/10.04/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/8/Any Ubuntu Based Distribution

1:Nitrux2 Icons (Version 3.1.7)
Nitrux OS Icons are Simple, Clean & minimal Icon set, these all icons beautifully designed and are great when wanting a minimal look. Using a minimalistic approach to designing these we avoid cluttered desktops.

Nitrux2

Nitrux-Buttons-2

To install Nitrux-icons2 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/nitrux-os
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nitrux-icons2

2: Nitrux-OS Icons
Nitrux-OS Icons are available in different versions, it seems really cool on desktop with any kind of theme. You can checkout other icons collection.

Nitrux

Nitrux-Azure

Nitrux-Buttons

Nitrux-Clear-All

Nitrux-Colors

Nitrux-Dark

Nitrux-Mint

To install Nitrux-OS icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/nitrux-os
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nitrux-icons

3: iNX Icons
iNX is dark icon set which looks perfect with light themes. iNX is an icon set based on the look and feel like iOS icons. These icons are basically inspired by elementary and Matrilineare icons. iNX contains a beautiful set of icons tailored for those that want a good looking work-space.

To install iNX Icons in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/nitrux-os
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inx-icons

That's it

Source: iNX, Nitrux-OS

Install Ambiance-Crunchy themes in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13 (GTK 3 + Gnome Shell)

Ambiance-Crunchy themes are inspired by original Ubuntu Ambiance and Radiance themes. You can apply these themes to Gnome-Shell, GTK, and Cinnamon. Author made these themes with different colors. Ambiance-Crunchy themes set has four different variants and these are compatible with GTK 3.4/3.6/3.8, Gnome Shell 3.6/3.4/, XFCE, Openbox, LXDE and Cinnamon 1.6.
This update brings fixes for cinnamon and GTK themes, Now this theme set is compatible with all Cinnamon and GTK versions.

1) Ambiance-Crunchy-Blue:

2) Ambiance-Crunchy-Green:

3) Ambiance-Crunchy-Gray:

4) Ambiance-Crunchy-Orange:

5) Ambiance-Crunchy-Cinnamon Versions:

Snow Sabre icons used in screenshots.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.

To install Ambiance-Crunchy themes in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/themes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ambiance-crunchy

That's it

Source: Ambiance Crunchy

Cinnamon desktop fixed all issues, Install in Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/other Ubuntu derivatives

iLinux icons v8.7 for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Buuf icon set and Buuf remix icon set available, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

PlayonLinux for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives via PPA

Umplayer available for all Ubuntu/Linux Mint versions/other Ubuntu derivatives

Produkt-Gtk moded theme for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/Linux Mint 16/15 (GTK + Xfce)

Vokoscreen desktop recorder for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

XiX Music Player available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives (via PPA)

Winehq 1.7.6 version released, Available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint via PPA

Tools for Your Linux-Based E-Commerce Website

Zen Cart

Magento

VirtueMart

ExMplayer with thumbnail seek available for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/Linux Mint

Marlin File Manager for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Install Ffw-Fast-Forward icon set in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

SyncDrive (Google Drive) available for Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Updated to version 0.9 with new interface)

Deepin Media and Audio Players for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives (Updated)

Deepin Audio Player

Deepin Media Player

Nemo file Manager with Extensions for Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10/12.04/other Ubuntu derivatives (Updated)

Clementine Player 1.2.1 version released, Install it in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives

Just Moved from Windows, Linux can wear Windows skin for you (GTK + Cinnamon)

Nitrux2, Nitrux, and iNX Icons for Ubuntu/Linux Mint/Ubuntu derivatives [Updated]

Ambiance Crunchy themes updated, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint/other Ubuntu derivatives