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Install Ubuntu Applications From Appnr

Appnr is a web-based tool that allows you to install applications on Ubuntu. If you are an Ubuntu user, then you will definitely find it very handy. It’s a web interface for APT, and the package is downloaded and installed from Ubuntu/Third-Party repositories.

How to Install

You’ll need an AptURL protocol handler and a web browser support in order to install packages from Appnr. AptURL is a program that handles special URLs to installing package on APT-based Linux systems. Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10 or higher has AptURL installed by default. You can view the full tutorial here.

Appnr features several applications that are neatly categorized. Each application is rated and you can view the number of users who installed a particular application. The website is very handy and it saves a lot of time for Ubuntu users, especially the new users.

*There is also a site similar to this one which allows you to download tweaks for Mac/OS-X. Check out Secrets.

Tags: Applications, Appnr, Download, linux, ubuntu

Okimok: iPhone Photo Streaming App

Okimok is an online social photo streaming service that allows you to upload photos from your iPhone and share them with everyone. The service is for iPhone users only if you are going to upload photos, but non-iPhone users can also sign-up, follow other users and view their photo streams.

If you are expecting that Okimok is a photo host for your iPhone captured moments, you are mistaken. The service only allows you to stream up to 15 photos in your solo stream. Older photos will automatically be deleted to update your stream. The purpose of this is to see what your friends are doing right now. You can think of it as your most recent 15 photos stream update of your life. There’s also the combo stream, which shows the latest 30 photos of all the friends you’re following. It’s like having a personal home theater of your friend’s adventures.

Okimok is an interesting service for streaming photos and sharing them with your friends through your iPhone. Just be careful on uploading photos because you cannot delete individual photos. However, you can ask them to delete all your photos from your photo stream or just upload more photos to overwrite the previous ones. Have fun streaming.

Tags: app, images, iphone, Photo Streaming, Photos

Lnk.By: Give Meaning to Short URLs

Lnk.By is a new URL shortening service that promises to give URL shrinking a whole new meaning, literally. This is what a link shrinking service should be like. The short link that Lnk.By creates describes the content found inside. A lot of people are hesitant to click on short URLs because they are afraid of what they’ll find on the other side. Lnk.By can be used to create a more transparent description of what’s inside the shrunken URL.

If you’re going to forward link which contains music, you can easily provide a short URL description saying that what’s on the other side of the link contains music by using the lstn.in URL. The watch.it URL can be used for shortening long video URLs, see.it for photos and read.im for text content.

Even with the link description, the service is not fully protected from people who hide mischievous URLs behind link shorteners. If they can detect pages that doesn’t match the link used to shorten it, which would be very cool, they can reduce the usage of misleading content behind shortened URLs.

Additional Info

This service was created in one weekend. This site will be adding new features regularly, and we’ll also be updating our lists of domains, protocols and file extensions that map to either WACH, SEEE, LSTN, or READ.

*The service is still in Alpha stage

Tags: short url, Shortener, URL

iMap Weather: Weather Forecast Meets Google Map

iMap Weather is an easy way to get weather forecasts and current conditions locally and everywhere. It utilizes Google Map to view radar and satellite images. You can even see real-time lightning strikes and get nautical information.

Aside from getting weather local weather forecasts upon landing on the iMap Page and viewing weather conditions on other places by turning on clickcast, you can also share different media using the social networking features of iMap Weather. You can share videos and photos of thunderstorms or give short updates about your life or local weather, share vacations, add friends and share saved iMaps.

The application is pretty useful. You can also get weather updates from other users. This is made possible by their “Jet Stream” feature. iMap Weather provides sophisticated weather data while providing social media services. The next time you think of getting weather updates online, check out iMap Weather.

Tags: iMap Weather, Social Networking, Weather condition, weather report

Photoshop: Remove Unwanted Marks

Here’s another Photoshop tutorial that will teach you how to remove blemishes and other unwanted marks using the clone stamp tool and removing an extra large blemish using the patch tool and following it up with the clonestamp tool.  This is a great tutorial for cleaning up blemishes on images in a very short period of time.

Tags: Blemish, Photoshop, Remove Blemishes, Unwanted Marks

LOLApps: Create FaceBook Apps

LOLApps is a maker of Facebook tools that allows you to create a Facebook application without writing a single code for the app. It’s like a wizard for Facebook apps.

Currently, LOLApps has two products for you to choose from.

Quiz Creator lets you create simple personality quizzes. You know those quizzes that people hate and love on Facebook.

The tool lets you create quizzes to let people figure out which character they are in their favorite movie or TV show, what’s their best quality and basically anything you can think of.

Gift Creator lets you create sets of virtual gifts for your friends to display on their Facebook profiles. You create gifts for any occasion that you can think of.

LOLApps made Facebook app creation very accessible to everyone. Their two main products might not please everybody but if you enjoy quizzes and virtual gifts, this is the tool for you. I am particularly interested on what they’ll come up with next.

Tags: Apps, Create Facebook Apps, Facebook, LolApps