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Embedding Terminal in Nautilus - Nautilus Terminal

Nautilus Terminal is a terminal embedded in Nautilus, the GNOME's file browser. It is always open in the current folder, and follows the navigation (the "cd" command is automatically executed when you move to an other folder).

Nautilus Terminal features:
* It always follows your navigation in your folders.
* It supports Copy/Paste (Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V).
* It supports drag & drop of files and folders.
* It can be hidden/shown when you want (with the F4 key).
* It is resizeable.

Tool to Repair Frequent Boot Problems - Boot-Repair

Boot-Repair is an simple tool to recover access to your Operating Systems.

* Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )
* Free (GPL open-source license)
* Safe (automatic backups)
* Can recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Seven).
* Can recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint...
* Can recover access to any OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux..) if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu or derivative.
* Can repair MBR-locked OEM computer boot if the original boot-sector has been saved by Clean-Ubiquity
* Can repair the boot when you have the "GRUB Recovery" error message
* Options to reinstall GRUB2 boot-loader easily (OS by default, purge, unhidden, kernel options..)
* and much more ! (EFI, SATA, filesystem repair...)

Free Video Editing Tool - LiVES

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

LiVES mixes real-time video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or frame-rates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of real-time effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away.

For the more technically minded, the application is frame and sample accurate, and it can be controlled remotely or scripted for use as a video server. And it supports all of the latest free standards.

Linux System Information and Benchmark tool - HardInfo

Benchmarking means measuring the speed with which a computer system will execute a computing task, in a way that will allow comparison between different hard/software combinations. It does not involve user-friendliness, aesthetic or ergonomic considerations or any other subjective judgment.

HardInfo is a tool which provides the various hardware and software information about the current system and also got the capability to perform some basic level of benchmark tests on Linux systems. It can also generate the reports about various hardware and software information in HTML format.

HardInfo Installation:
Open the terminal and type following command:

sudo apt-get install hardinfo

Manage Ubuntu Boot Loaders (Plymouth, Burg & Grub) - Super Boot Manager

Super Boot Manager is a boot manager to manage the boot loader for Linux systems, boot-loader in particular is a software that allows us to select and boot different operating system on same computer. Super Boot Manager allows you to manage the three most commonly used Boot loader for Linux (Grub, Burg and Plymouth), allowing you to install and remove them safely. You can also customize the splash screen with a certain theme instead of the usual text interface.

Super Boot Manager can be installed from PPA with the below Terminal commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ingalex/super-boot-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install super-boot-manager