Software

Sun released VirtualBox 3.1.2, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
See the Changelog at

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

for a complete list of all changes. You can download the binaries here:

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.2/

Upload of the Linux packages is in progress, it will take some time until every package is in place.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, a tool for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Read here for full introduction to GIMP’s capabilities.

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.10.x. Other dependencies include:
libart2 (required)
gimp-print (recommended)
AA-lib (optional)
libexif (optional)
libmng (optional)
libRSVG (optional)
libwmf (optional)

Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for photo editing and collection management. The goal is to meet most user needs while remaining fast and easy to use.

Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser. Import most camera RAW files and edit with 16-bit color. Save edited images as TIFF-8, TIFF-16, PNG, or JPEG with adjustable compression. Edit the whole image or an area outlined with the mouse with adjustable edge-blending. Edit functions have fast feedback using the whole window. Multiple edit undo/redo. Add tags, dates, and star-ratings to images (using embedded EXIF). Search images (fast) using these criteria or (wildcard) file names.

The GUI has Chinese, English, Galician, German, French, Italian, Spanish. A user guide is available in English and Galician.

Edit functions include:
+ Flatten brightness distribution (frequent quick fix)
+ Brightness and color adjustments using movable curves
+ Trim (crop), Rescale, Rotate any angle, Flip horz./vert.
+ Warp (stretch/distort) image by dragging the mouse
+ Sharpen, Blur, Noise reduction, red-eye removal
+ Panorama / HDR / HDF composites (hand-held camera OK)
+ Artful transformations (simulated drawing, painting)
+ Pixel edit with variable brush and blending

To get a clearer picture, visit the fotoxx gallery using the “screenshots” link above.

Utility functions include:
+ Rename image files using a base name and sequence number
+ Select image area/object for subsequent edits or copy/paste
+ Tag (keyword) editing and searching
+ Slide-show mode
+ Batch convert multiple RAW files to TIFF-16
+ Select images from the navigator and burn a CD or DVD
+ View EXIF data (exposure data from camera)
+ Monitor color check

Hardware: Fotoxx works best on a fast computer with at least a gigabyte of memory. Up to four processor cores are utilized. Netbooks work adequately, but some functions will be slow and a 1024×600 screen is confining.

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.8.x. Other dependencies include:
source build: g++, libgtk2.0-dev, libfreeimage-dev
run time: libfreeimage, exiftool, ufraw, xdg-utils

InvulgoTracker. Simple application to track time usage on your tasks & projects.

Create and maintain a task-tree and keep track of how much time you spend on individual tasks.
Quick month/day summary shown.

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.8.x. Other dependencies include:
libglade-2.0 >= 2.6.0 libxml-2.0 >= 2.0 gnomve-vfs >= 2.4

ZiK is an free audio player.

There is no audio library in ZiK instead you can directly browse your audio files and add then to playlist.

• Play audio files (all formats supported by GStreamer), playlist (spdf, m3u, pls), CDs and webradios.
• Search in current playlist and audio files.

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.14+. Other dependencies include:
ruby, ruby-gtk2, ruby-gstreamer, ruby-taglib, librsvg

CherryTree. A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting.

Features:
- rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, large)
- syntax highlighting (only when the rich text is disabled in the current node)
- images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
- alignment of text and images (left/center/right)
- find a node, find in current node, find in all nodes
- replace in node names, replace in current node, replace in all nodes
- iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
- import from a notecase file, import from a cherrytree file

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.14+. Other dependencies include:
python-gtk2

Pino – twitter client

Pino is Twitter client for Linux desktop. It created to be simple and fast.

Requirements
This application requires GTK+ version 2.12.x. Other dependencies include:
gtk+-2.0 gee-1.0 gio-2.0 libnotify libsoup-2.4 libxml-2.0 webkit-1.0