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Translate Shell

Translate Shell (formerly Google Translate CLI) is a command-line translator powered by Google Translate (default), Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate and Apertium. It gives you easy access to one of these translation engines in your terminal.

Make Ubuntu 18.04 Look More Like Mac

The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.

Hope the following things work on the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14: all the instructions work on Ubuntu 18.04).

Setup Chinese Input Method in Ubuntu 18.04

The original solution was verified on Ubuntu 17.10. However it’s also verified on Ubuntu 18.04 after the 18.04 version is released.

Ubuntu 17.10 Artful Aardvark is just released. A big change in this release is that it ditches Unity for Gnome. Most likely this will be part of the next LTS version “18.04”(Confirmed on 2018-05-14, the solution below also works on Ubuntu 18.04).

A Video Downloader: you-get

You-Get is a tiny command-line utility to download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web, in case there is no other handy way to do it. From here. And, it’s written in Python.

Git Large File Storage

Git Large File Storage (LFS) replaces large files such as audio samples, videos, datasets, and graphics with text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server like GitHub.com or GitHub Enterprise.

Export Web Page to PDF with Headless Google Chrome

Headless browsers provide automated control of a web page in an environment similar to popular web browsers, but are executed via a command-line interface or using network communication. They are particularly useful for testing web pages as they are able to render and understand HTML the same way a browser would, including styling elements such as page layout, colour, font selection and execution of JavaScript and AJAX which are usually not available when using other testing methods.