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• March 08, 2010
• 14:21

  Conquer Video on Linux with MPlayer

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: MPlayer is not your run-of-the mill video player. It's a multi-platform codec-chewing monster truck of a video player for the connoisseur of video players. It has options galore and has the flexibility to play almost anything under the sun.

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• 12:02

  What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxers.org: While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all, but I was wrong.

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• 10:00

  OpenShot 1.1 Released - Gets New Effects

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  Tags:  software  

  • OpenShot 1.1 Released - Gets Undo/Redo, New effects, in Ubuntu 10.04
  • OpenShot Linux video editor updated

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• 8:13

  Apache bug prompts update advice

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  Tags:  software  

  zdnet.com.au: IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database.

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• 8:11

  Docky and GNOME Do, now separated

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  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: Alex Launi, a GNOME Do developer, has announced that GNOME Do and Docky are now separate applications. GNOME Do was created as a rapid keyboard driven launcher for the GNOME desktop, similar to applications such as QuickSilver for Mac OS X.

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• March 07, 2010
• 18:25

  Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure

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  Tags:  software  

  zdnet.com.au/blogs: Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.

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• March 06, 2010
• 17:58

  A shared object is (not) enough

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.flameeyes.eu: When building shared objects for plugin usage, like the case for NSS I noted, PAM plugins or extensions for languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, Java… you don’t need static libraries at all, so a shared object is enough!

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• 15:58

  FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd

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  Tags:  software  

  freebsdnews.net: Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD.

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• 15:56

  wicd is good stuff

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. I have frustrations with Windows 7 and something like this is just the ticket.

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• 15:52

  Best Twitter and Facebook apps

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  Tags:  software  

  • Post Twitter and Facebook status from the GNOME panel
  • Get the best Twitter app for Linux

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• 13:17

  Oh dear! Qt incompatibility on the horizon

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  Tags:  software  

  kamikazow.wordpress: The Symbian Foundation and Nokia with Maemo (now MeeGo) are building two widget sets on top of QGraphicsView – while both are called Direct UI, they are entirely different. It’s totally braindead to have incompatibe widget sets.

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• March 05, 2010
• 15:25

  Heaven and hell with SyncML (on Nokia's N900)

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  Tags:  software  

  You may recall that on a previous occasion I bitched and moaned about supposed "Linux phones" ignoring the open standard of SyncML and choosing Microsoft Exchange instead.

  Well, I finally got Nokia to loan me an N900 and thanks to a little app called SyncEvolution SyncML works like a dream!

  More here...

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• 15:02

  Swiftfox: a fast Firefox alternative for Linux users

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxcritic.wordpress: In my ongoing search to find the perfect browser, I’ve generally stuck to Opera for the past several years, on Windows and on Linux. Well, today, I’m here to report that this situation might well have changed, due to something called Swiftfox.

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• 11:11

  BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob 'conflated' open source term

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  Tags:  software  

  theregister.co.uk: The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation's quiet switcheroo last week.

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• 8:59

  Linux Video Editing with Openshot

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  Tags:  software  

  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Openshot is a non-linear video editor for the Linux operating system. It is designed to be easy to use, but powerful at the same time.

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• March 04, 2010
• 17:40

  Magnatune sends $614.20 to GNOME Foundation

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.magnatune.com: A long while ago, I pledged Magnatune to pay 10% of its sales due to Rhythmbox (a fantastic music player for Linux), back to the GNOME Foundation. Today, I wrote the check.

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• 11:36

  Getting Loopy: Performance Loopers For Linux Musicians

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: A loop in music is a section of the music that repeats itself continuously until receiving a signal to either stop or move on to the next section. A loop can be assigned to a single instrument or to a group of instruments.

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• 11:30

  Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked

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  Tags:  software  

  tomshardware.com: We've put Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, and Opera through a gauntlet of speed tests and time trials.

  Also: Seven reasons Chrome isn't my default browser

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• March 03, 2010
• 16:52

  Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VII: ragtag.vim

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  Tags:  software  

  catonmat.net: This time I am going to introduce you to a plugin called “ragtag.vim“. A month ago it was still known as “allml.vim” but now it has been renamed to ragtag.vim.

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• 14:46

  Get started with Blender

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.worldlabel.com: The open source 3-D modeler Blender can perform so many different jobs that it can get a little intimidating. In addition to designing three-dimensional objects, Blender can handle rigging, character animation, kinematics, video editing, video game design, and in fact almost the entire tool chain required to produce a 3-D movie.

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• 8:35

  gFTP: The No-Hassle Way to Transfer Files

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxinsider.com: gFTP is typical of most Linux-based software. It does not have to suffer code bloat to be a powerful program. Much like a file management tool, gFTP makes it easy to manage files at either end of the connection.

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• 8:29

  Watching the Sun Set

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  Tags:  software  

  • Watching the Sun Set
  • Thoughts on Jeremy's Sun/Oracle Analysis

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• March 02, 2010
• 14:58

  Keep Your Cloud, I'm a Customer Not a Consumer

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxtoday.com/blog: The cloud hype is getting thicker and smellier every day. All the cloud excitement is coming from those who hope to profit from it, the vendors and breathless tech journalists who can't think of anything worthwhile to write about. They're working very hard to make it sound like a wonderful thing, a miracle of rare device that will transform life as we know it.

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• 14:00

  CrossOver 9.0 Improves Windows Application Support on Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  starryhope.com: CodeWeavers, supporter of the open source Wine project, have released their latest version of CrossOver for Linux and Mac. CrossOver 9.0 is a commercial product that makes installing Windows applications via Wine extremely easy for Linux users.

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• 5:34

  Opera 10.50 for Windows Released

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  Tags:  Opera software  

  After a number of alpha and beta releases, Opera Software has announced the final release of Opera 10.50 for Windows, which they call "the world's fastest browser for Windows". Apart from performance improvements, Opera 10.50 comes packed with other new features, as well as improved integration with Windows 7.

• March 01, 2010
• 16:38

  Yarssr - Panel Applet RSS Reader

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Yarssr (Yet Another RSS Reader) is an RSS reader for the GNOME panel. It displays an icon in the notification area which changes colour to alert you to feed updates. Clicking on the icon give you a drop out menu, clicking the title takes you to the post in your default browser.

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• 14:40

  Five Tools for Measuring and Improving Linux System Performance

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: Out of the box, Linux runs just fine for many uses. But if you find yourself needing to ferret out performance problems or tune the kernel for better performance, Linux has more than enough tools to measure and tweak system performance.

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• 14:39

  Five Free PDF viewers for Ubuntu

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  Tags:  software  

  unixlab.blogspot: Portable document format is one of the most popular file formats on the web. Of course Adobe is the market leader for PDF. However, there are lot of free alternatives around. Here are some free pdf viewers for ubuntu.

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• 14:27

  Linux super-duper admin tools: screen

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  Tags:  software  

  dedoimedo.com: Time to learn about yet another cool little admin application that will change the way you think and work. screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

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• 12:44

  OpenShot — Finally

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  Tags:  software  

  makeuseof.com: Video and photo editing tools are a necessity in today’s world of personal media. We have lots of photographs and videos these days that could look even better when presented nicely.

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• 12:31

  Multimedia Codecs and Moral Quandarie

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  Tags:  software  

  workswithu.com: I wrote recently about legal concerns involving multimedia patents on Ubuntu, and how to obtain licensed codecs without breaking the law. But I didn’t give much thought to the philosophical side of the issue.

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• 11:30

  PostgreSQL Optimizer Bits: Semi and Anti Joins

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  Tags:  software  

  The series “PostgreSQL Optimiser Bits” will introduce the strategies and highlights of the PostgreSQL optimiser. We start today with a new feature of PostgreSQL 8.4: Semi and Anti Joins.

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• 10:43

  ImageMagick Fun

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  Tags:  software  

  purinchu.net: Oe of my professors mailed us a PDF of a scanned document to read (and print out) for the next class. Being that is was scanned in there was a lot of excess black in the picture. I don’t know about you, but printing 2 large blocks of solid black, for 22 pages, doesn’t sound like a wise investment of toner. But ah! Why don’t I just crop off the excess part? This has to be easy, right?

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• February 28, 2010
• 21:33

  13 Linux Twitter Applications Reviewed

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Once upon a time Twitter users had to use a web-browser to update their status and check their tweets. Then came the dawn of the twitter app...

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• 12:46

  KDESC 4.3+: Video, Music, Image and Document Preview in Dolphin

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  Tags:  software  

  mygnulinux.com: In most distributions that come with KDE Software Compilation 4.3 and above, opening Dolphin for browsing the filesystem will give you Preview Mode Button. We will expand on this option.

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• 8:41

  MS and Oracle's big dev tools - who needs 'em?

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  Tags:  software  

  theregister.co.uk: A chunky Visual Studio 2010 releases soon, packing more features and representing perhaps more hours of development than any other single-vendor's development tool. How could you resist? Viva Emacs and Vim.

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• 8:36

  What's Up With PCManFM2?

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  blog.ibeentoubuntu.com: PCManFM has been a popular replacement for the Nautilus file manager on the GNOME desktop because its light and fast, though still featureful enough to handle automatic mounting of hotplugged drives and other modern advantages. Well, Hong Jen Yee has decided that several prominent bugs cannot be solved without a major rewrite of the file manager.

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• 8:33

  Deconstructing Nautilus and rebuilding it better

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  Tags:  software  

  design-by-izo.com: If you’re an avid user of the GNOME Desktop Environment and follow the development of it, you may well be aware of one of the hot topics currently doing the rounds on the internet, and that is: The User Interface Of The Nautilus File Manager And Why Is It So Awful?

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• February 27, 2010
• 16:04

  A for Artha, The Awesome offline Dictionary for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  bigbrovar.aoizora.org: One area that I have always found lacking on Linux is a good Dictionary software. I have tired quite a few free and opensource dictionary software for linux, some very good, but non had the WOW factor, until Artha.

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• 16:01

  VDR as an mp3, DVD player using plugin

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntulandforever.blogspot: VDR (Video Disk Recorder) is an open source application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a digital video recorder, in order to record and replay TV programming using the computer's hard drive.

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• 8:16

  Graphical Diary And Journal RedNotebook

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: A simple text file is sometimes all one needs to put thoughts on virtual paper. But text documents, even advanced ones like Microsoft Word documents, do not cut it when it comes to maintaining a regularly updated diary or journal.

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• February 26, 2010
• 18:00

  A Linux Rubik’s Cube

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.tampakrap.gr: Recently some friends were spending most of their time in solving the Rubik’s Cube (3×3x3), finding new fascinating algorithms and reducing their time to the minimum. But as professional geeks they decided to take it one step further.

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• 17:58

  "Task Pooper" could revolutionize GNOME desktop

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  arstechnica.com: The GNOME community's design and usability experts gathered for a week-long hackfest hosted by Canonical in the UK to shape the next major iteration of the GNOME desktop environment.

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• 15:56

  Two Open Source Tools for Photographers

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  Tags:  software  

  scribblesandsnaps.wordpress: digiKam is a truly versatile and powerful application for managing and tweaking photos, but it’s not the only photographic tool around. In fact, there are a few other nifty open source utilities that can make great additions to your photographic toolbox. Here are a couple.

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• 15:55

  Review: Linux Browsers

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  Tags:  software  

  • Review: Linux Browsers, Part 1
  • Review: Linux Browsers, Part 2
  • Browser Wars: The Sequel

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• 12:49

  Pocketing Police

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  Tags:  software  

  doctormo.wordpress: An odd bit of news from the xorg foundation. During some discussion on their mailing list about missing funds it became apparent that PayPal had simply taken $5k of their money.

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• 12:47

  iPlayer On, iPlayer Off

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: The BBC's iPlayer has long been a thorn in the side of the Open Source community. Since it entered public beta in mid-2007, the BBC has consistently flip-flopped between completely ignoring FOSS users, serving them third-rate pacifier versions.

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• 8:22

  Early peak into Gnome 3’s potential

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  Tags:  software  

  gnome.org/seth: I am stoked to be designing a Gnome that kicks ass for hackers too. McCann is right: the ‘choice‘ between design for office monkeys and hacking monkeys is a false dichotomy.

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• February 25, 2010
• 20:17

  Ogg Theora vs. H.264: head to head comparisons

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  Tags:  software  

  arstechnica.com: Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary functionality to build robust Web media players without having to depend on proprietary plugins, but the browser vendors have not been able to build a consensus around a video codec.

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• 15:56

  Command line calculator for Linux, calculate big with bc

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  Tags:  software  

  mynitor.com: If you’re a command line freak, you’ve probably use expr for common math calculations but did you know that the bc command allows you to do similar math calculations and is more powerful when it comes to bigger calculations?

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• 11:33

  Opera 10.5 Beta Hits the Mac, Beta 2 Hits Windows

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  Tags:  Opera software  

  Windows users were already enjoying the Opera 10.5 beta for a while now, but the Mac and Linux versions weren't yet available. Mac users can now rejoice, as the beta is now available for their platform as well. In the meantime, Windows users can already upgrade to beta 2 if they so desire; Linux users will have to remain patient a while longer.

• 11:13

  9 Free, Open Source Tools for Video and Media Playback and Encoding

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: It wasn't that long ago that it was impossible to find good, free open source tools for working with and viewing video. Now that video runs rampant on the web, though, there are a whole lot of applications worth getting.

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• 11:11

  Applications to make your KDE more powerful and smarter

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  Tags:  software  

  reviewglitz.com: KDE is a nice desktop manager for linux operating systems. KDE usually comes with almost everything you might need. But have you ever dreamed if you could make your kde better, smarter and powerful with more amazing applications? Here are a few.

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• February 24, 2010
• 19:55

  Why Not Mplayer?

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  Tags:  software  

  everyjoe.com: I just read an article about the top five Linux media players. Each media player mentioned in the article has its own strengths and weaknesses. And then when I got to the part of the comments, quite a number them asking the writer why was mplayer not included?

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• 17:36

  When X decides to crash

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  Tags:  software  

  apachelog.blogspot: Yesterday evening at 20:45 (UTC+1) I decide to do a good deed and help Mamarok help a Kubuntu user getting his system fixed. The symptoms sound quite familiar (apparently there also have been quite some cases of this): login doesn't work, get thrown back to KDM. OH MY!

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• 16:26

  Getting to Gno GNU Utilities

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: The GNU Project has provided dozens of useful utilities that you can find on almost every major Linux system, but many new Linux users have no idea where to start to learn these handy utilities.

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• 16:22

  Gnome 3 Will Be Amazing

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  Tags:  software  

  • Gnome 3 Will Be Amazing
  • What's new in Gnome Shell 2.29.0 (w/ screenshots)
  • GNOME Shell 2.29.0 with new notification system
  • GNOME 2.29.91 Beta Available

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• 13:53

  Kate Puts Other Text Editors to Shame

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxinsider.com: Kate is a multi-document editor that grew from a rewritten version of the KWrite editing widget of the KDE desktop. It's runnable on both Gnome and KDE desktops. Kate's feature set goes above and beyond.

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• 13:51

  Codeweavers Crossover Games Rules

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  Tags:  software  

  wine-reviews.net: After being a computer game fiend for almost all of my childhood up until early college, since moving exclusively to using a Macbook, I have been absent from the gaming world for quite some time. I eventually stumbled on the wonder that is Crossover.

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• February 23, 2010
• 15:04

  Better Linux Package Management with Checkinstall

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  Tags:  software  

  maketecheasier.com: If you use Linux in any depth, you’re eventually have to install a program from source code. Normally the process is pretty quick and painless, but it still has some drawbacks. To help resolve this, we’ve got checkinstall.

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• 12:20

  LXDE: Smaller, Faster than KDE or GNOME

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  Tags:  software  

  earthweb.com: Three years ago, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) was a faltering project. However, since then, accounts of LXDE's death have proved greatly exaggerated, and the project is once again flourishing.

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• 12:18

  3 Linux Console File Managers You Should Try

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  Tags:  software  

  webupd8.org: GNU Midnight Commander (MC), Vifm and Last File Manager (Lfm) are 3 visual file manager applications for the Linux console. All of these 3 applications will remind you of Norton Commander, but each has something special.

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• 10:18

  Apache Celebrates 15 Years

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  Tags:  software  

  • Apache Software Foundation Announces the 15th Anniversary
  • Cassandra Database accepted as a Apache Top-Level Project

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• 10:12

  50 Open Source Tools: Desktop Downloads

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  Tags:  software  

  earthweb.com: The universe of open source tools is large and rapidly expanding. If your desktop doesn't look and perform exactly like you want it to, you really have no excuse.

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• February 22, 2010
• 19:25

  Screenshots Gtk Applications for Mono

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntulandforever.blogspot: Mono is a software platform designed to allow developers to easily create cross platform applications.

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• 16:20

  My top 10 Gedit plugins

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  Tags:  software  

  mikethecoder.com: Gedit can be a really awesome editor if you give it a few plugins and an open mind. Here are a few of my favorites.

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• 16:16

  The Five Best Linux Video Players

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: Have some downtime and want to watch a movie or two on your Linux laptop? Linux has plenty of options when it comes to video players.

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• 10:55

  Let My Codecs Go

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  Tags:  software  

  • Let My Codecs Go: Will Google Free VP8?
  • Risks in Google killing Adobe Flash
  • HTML5 looks like broken hackish kludge

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• 6:50

  fun with irc clients

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  Tags:  software  

  scrye.com: So, after having a pretty productive Fedora day yesterday (I cleaned up EPEL buildroot override tags/closed tickets, caught up on all my mailing lists and such, started in on some package reviews, helped people on IRC, etc) I decided to play around with some new IRC clients today.

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• February 21, 2010
• 19:26

  get new wallpaper images every day

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  Tags:  software  

  nancib.wordpress: A couple of weeks ago I was reading somewhere (I can’t recall where now) and someone mentioned Webilder for using Webshots images on GNU/Linux systems. I looked at the software a little more closely and decided to give it a whirl.

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• 16:31

  GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.3 is out

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  Tags:  software  

  • GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.3 is out
  • GNOME Activity Journal 0.3.3 Video

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• February 20, 2010
• 15:48

  The state of (high definition) video editing on Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.thesilentnumber.me: We have extremely promising open source media editing applications for Linux like the Jokosher audio editor and PiTiVi video editor, both built on the powerful GStreamer framework. While things may be looking up, one shortcoming is an ever increasing problem that deserves some more serious attention.

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• February 19, 2010
• 13:03

  Banshee Extensions Getting Easier

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: The Banshee Project is working on making it easier for developers to make extensions and get them to users. Gabriel Burt, who works on the Banshee Project, announced yesterday the Banshee Community Extensions (BCE) sub-project.

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• 6:54

  Create Your Own Avatar for Free on Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  junauza.com: Create Your Own Avatar for Free on Linux: Do you want to create your own avatar? I'm not talking about the Avatar movie but the graphical representation of yourself inside the computer world that you can use as a profile image.

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• February 18, 2010
• 18:56

  CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: CoverGloobus - an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop - quietly released version 1.6 at the beginning of this month.

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• 14:46

  LXDE - the cure for what ails our older PCs

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  Tags:  software  

  education.zdnet: It’s been a while since Ubuntu could be called a leaner alternative to Windows. However, one of the nicer features of Linux (at least for the end user) is the ability to choose the windowing environment with which we interact with the underlying OS.

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• 12:16

  Rhythmbox + Last.fm

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  everyjoe.com: I haven’t used Rhythmbox’s Last.fm to scrobble lately because it doesn’t let me ‘love’ a song. Well, that is until I found this particular Last.fm plugin for Rhythmbox called “New Style Last.fm Scrobbler.”

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• 12:15

  PC-BSD’s graphical firewall manager

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  linuxbsdos.com: The firewall application on PC-BSD is OpenBSD’s Packet Filter. It is a very powerful firewall application with many advanced features and functionalities. This post takes a look at the graphical firewall manager.

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• 9:02

  Two new-mail notification apps for Linux

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  downloadsquad.com: Do you sometimes find yourself desperately checking for new emails, afraid you're going to miss something important? Well, no more! All you need to do is to choose one of these extremely handy panel plug-ins!

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• 9:01

  Issues Within The X.Org Foundation?

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: For the past two weeks elections have been going on by X.Org members to elect five people to serve as board of directors for the X.Org Foundation, the formal 501(c)(3) organization that backs the development of the X.Org project. Since the elections started there has been a rather explosive mailing list discussion.

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• February 17, 2010
• 23:45

  Flinks—Speed-Reading Web Browser

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: I'm always on the lookout for original projects, and this particular application really took me by surprise. According to its Web site, “Flinks is a text-mode flashing word Web browser. It is intended for speed reading.

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• 21:58

  Multimedia Codecs: The Legal Path

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  workswithu.com: If the American government invested as many resources rounding up violators of software licenses as it does fighting “terror,” I’d have been put away long ago, because all of my Ubuntu systems use patented multimedia software that I didn’t pay for.

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• 21:55

  Getting a good grip on Claws - a review for daily use

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  nuxified.org: In 2009 I had written about my experience with Claws Mail. After almost a year with Claws and a few minor releases, I thought it useful to share my experiences after a longer period of time.

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• 20:04

  Guayadeque Music Player: Light, Unique, Awesome?

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: It may have a name like an exotic fruit but Guayadeque music player is a surprisingly powerful new addition to the Linux music player scene. Light on resources and heavy on features.

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• 14:39

  Lucas Rocha Resigns from GNOME Board

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  blogs.gnome.org: So, considering my priorities now, I feel that I would be more useful to the Board by stepping down and letting another person with a lot of energy to take my position.

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• February 16, 2010
• 15:55

  Linux Training Week: Software Availability

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  Tags:  software  

  zath.co.uk: One of the biggest issues when moving away from Windows is software availability; what we do on a computer isn’t defined by the operating system, but the third party software we use on that operating system. Because most of the software written for Linux operating systems is open source, it may be difficult to find a replacement for the everyday software that you use on Windows or Mac OS X.

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• 15:51

  What happens to Sun's open-source software now?

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  blogs.computerworld.com: The deal is done. Oracle now owns Sun. Oracle's main message to Sun's customers seems to be "Don't worry, be happy." That's not easy when Oracle is not explaining in any detail what it will be doing with open-source software offerings like MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris.

  Also: Linux MySQL distros meeting in Brussels

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• 13:26

  10 Cool Firefox Add-Ons

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  linuxplanet.com: This is a must-read for Firefox fans! We'll review 10 cool add-ons that will make your cross-platform Mozilla web browser even better. We'll review add-ons to help fix annoyances, save time, discover advanced functionality, and stay connected.

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• 9:24

  8 Of The Best Linux Dockapps

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  maketecheasier.com: How much functionality can you pack into a 64×64 square? That’s the basic question behind many dockapps – utilities that can be run on the “dock” of many popular desktop environments.

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• February 15, 2010
• 20:11

  Mistelix, DVD authoring and Slideshow creating

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  linuxers.org: Mistelix is an open source DVD authoring application with also Theora slideshow creation capabilities for GNU/Linux systems. So, using this you can create DVD projects with videos and slideshows that can be played on DVD players

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• 16:57

  Gnumeric 1.10 Release Brings Better Tools

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  ostatic.com: It's been just over two years since the last stable release, but the Gnumeric team is still going strong. The project has a new stable series 1.10.x. This release removes the 65,536 row restriction on spreadsheets and includes many new functions, better OpenDocument Format (ODF) support, new statistical analysis tools, and a new utility for searching spreadsheet files.

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• 15:09

  Animated wallpaper pack for Ubuntu

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  • Animated wallpaper pack for Ubuntu
  • Collection of GTK themes for Ubuntu/Gnome | Week7
  • App Of Jaq

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• 5:35

  Top 5 Best Linux Firewalls

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  thegeekstuff.com: As part of the contest we conducted recently, we got 160+ comments from the geeky readers who choose their favorite firewall.

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• February 14, 2010
• 9:46

  Linux Applications:

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  • Linux Applications: Part 3 - Web Browsers
  • Linux applications: Part 2 - Music Players
  • Linux applications: Part 1 - Productivity

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• 9:43

  PHP and Perl crashing the enterprise party

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  news.cnet.com: The enterprise has long favored Java and .Net, but PHP and other dynamic programming languages have left their infancies and are rapidly closing the gap on their more stodgy competitors.

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• 9:40

  Amarok 2.3 - First Look Video

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  amarok.kde.org: Amarok user and enthusiast Abhishek has made a great video, showing off some features of the upcoming Amarok 2.3.

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• February 13, 2010
• 13:39

  Linux super-duper admin tools: OProfile

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  dedoimedo.com: A few weeks ago, we've learned about strace, a simple yet powerful system debugging tool that allows you to trace the system calls during the execution of a process, allowing you to solve many problems quickly and efficiently. It's time to step up the geeky fun a notch and learn about OProfile.

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• 10:56

  Make your Ubuntu smarter than Windows 7

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  reviewglitz.com: I am a linux guy and most of you will be thinking that why I am writing this. Let me say , even though many people are agreeing with the statement Ubuntu is always better than Windows, there are a lot of people how think that Ubuntu has too few applications available for use. I assure you that you can make your ubuntu linux much more better in doing things.

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• 10:50

  ‘freaking awesome’ – 3D support on nouveau

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  happyassassin.net: Nouveau’s 3D support recently became available in Rawhide / Fedora 13 with an update to the mesa-dri-drivers-experimental package. I was impressed when it ran Compiz, really impressed when it ran Neverball, but running Spring is nuts.

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• February 12, 2010
• 18:37

  Hidden Gem in Totem

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  mairin.wordpress: This morning Nicu sent me a video. ‘i wish there was a way to get totem to go frame-by-frame.’ Turns out there is!

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• 13:02

  Download every SI 2010 swimsuit photo with a Perl script

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  downloadsquad.com: Don't you just love random tips? Justin, a Download Squad reader, just pointed out a rather neat Perl script that downloads every Sports Illustrated 2010 swimsuit photo.

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• 7:59

  Winter Olympics on Linux

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  tirania.org/blog: The amazing Moonlight Team lead by Chris Toshok just released Preview 2 of Moonlight 3 just in time for the Winter Olympics' broadcast.

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• February 11, 2010
• 19:29

  The five most popular corporate open-source programs

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.computerworld: We all know that lots of companies use open-source software. Trying to get a handle on what open-source programs they use can be a little harder. That's why OpenLogic, an open-source software support company's recent report on both their growth and what programs businesses are asking for help with is interesting.

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• 17:13

  Still more console chat and messenger apps

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  kmandla.wordpress.com: It seems like every time I scrounge the Internet looking for console applications, I trip over two or three chat clients or an instant messenger or two. They breed like rabbits.

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• 13:04

  AstroGarrobo Beta

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  lizards.opensuse.org: Space, the Final Frontier! This is the tale of one Amateur Astronomer that have found in openSUSE a terrific tool for public outreach, self-learning and teaching platform.

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• 12:29

  Opera 10.5 Beta Released

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  Tags:  Opera software  

  Everybody's favourite Norwegian browser maker has released the beta version of Opera 10.50, the next iteration of the featureful web browser. As Kroc already touched upon late last year, Opera 10.50 comes packed with a lot of improvements across the board, from a new JavaScript engine to an improved address field.

• February 10, 2010
• 18:02

  When you think flash card, think Mnemosyne

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  Tags:  software  

  sourceforge.net/blog: Good students of mythology will remember that Mnemosyne was the personification of memory in Greek mythology, and the mother of the Muses. Weaker students might learn more about mythology – or any topic – by spending time with Mnemosyne.

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• 16:03

  Using Amarok

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  everyjoe.com: Music is one thing I couldn’t live without. Especially while working, music keeps me sane. Whether I am writing a lot of documentation or testing software, background music helps me from going ballistic. And because Amarok was installed when I installed the Kubuntu desktop package, I thought of giving it another try.

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• 13:54

  Xfce Desktop: Less Lard, More Usability

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  linuxplanet.com: This is the first in a series of articles looking at some lightweight, but still fully-functional, desktop alternatives to KDE or Gnome. First up: Xfce.

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• 10:58

  Opera Announces Opera Mini for iPhone

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  As should be common knowledge by now, Apple is very restrictive and sometimes quite arbitrary in managing its App Store. One thing is clear, though: fat chance there's going to be an alternative browser in the App Store (i.e., one that doesn't use WebKit). Mozilla didn't even bother to submit Fennec, but Opera is going head-to-head with Apple: the Norwegian browser maker has announced Opera Mini for the iPhone, but has not yet submitted it for approval.

• 10:37

  Life with Linux: Adding a Mac-like dock

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  sutor.com: One of the nice things about using a Mac is the dock, the area on the bottom of the screen that contains the Finder (file and directory lister) and other applications you use. By default, Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Gnome-based user interfaces do not come with a dock, but it is easy to add.

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• February 09, 2010
• 15:15

  Operating with Opera on Ubuntu

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  workswithu.com: These days–in contrast to ten years ago–the world has plenty more Web browsers than it needs. And yet I can’t find one I’m happy with. My continuing search for a browser I get along with led me recently to try Opera.

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• 15:13

  Serious auditing with Lynis

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  ghacks.net: If you want to do a thorough system security audit on a Linux machine what do you use? Cobble together a few of the pre-installed tools? Search through the numerous locations for a tool that might give you enough information to determine if your system is safe? Or, do you open up a terminal window and use the Lynis security auditing tool?

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• 10:25

  Anjal: GNOME's Evolution for Netbooks

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  earthweb.com: One unforeseen benefit of the rise of netbooks is the rethinking of desktop interfaces. Compared to workstations, netbooks have smaller screens and less memory, and developers generally assume that users do less demanding tasks on them. Few netbook interfaces illustrate this re-examination better than Anjal.

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• February 08, 2010
• 23:17

  KTorrent: KDE’s BitTorrent client

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  maketecheasier.com: In order to download the files associated with torrents, you need a BitTorrent client. KTorrent, a KDE project, is a feature-rich client that is completely self-contained from the moment you start searching for torrents until the last chunk finishes downloading.

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• 20:37

  Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work

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  Tags:  software  

  • Oracle Cuts Affect GNOME Accessibility Work
  • MySQL handler Jacobs walks out on Oracle
  • Ellison puts Screven over mySQL
  • Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?

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• 7:49

  A Few New Features In Gnome-Shell

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: GNOME-Shell needs no introduction. I’m sure many of you all know what it is, have opinions on it and probably you will have tried it out. But have you tried it out lately?

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• 5:01

  15 Remote Desktop Solutions for Linux

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  mynitor.com: There are a wide range of remote desktop applications that are available that can be used to connect to Windows environment but there aren’t too many that can be used to remote desktop from Linux to Linux or Windows to Linux.

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• February 07, 2010
• 16:31

  Oracle loses some MySQL mojo

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  Tags:  software  

  news.cnet.com: Ever since Oracle closed on its acquisition of MySQL, the open-source world has been wondering where the code has gone. Many people searched, fruitlessly, for the formerly available MySQL source code.

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• 13:40

  Introducing Pinta

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  Tags:  software  

  jpobst.blogspot: Over the holiday break, I stumbled upon this article from OSNews stating that there was a need for something like Paint.NET for Gtk. knew that that was a massive task, but after playing around for a few hours, I actually had a working paintbrush and canvas.

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• 13:33

  Manage your money in Linux with HomeBank

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  ghacks.net: For many Linux users one area where Linux needs some improvement is money management. Yes there is the very powerful GnuCash, but many users find GnuCash to be too much power for what they need. There is also the slick KMyMoney, but that depends upon KDE. So what do the non-power, non-KDE users have? One option is HomeBank.

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• February 06, 2010
• 15:57

  The data cruncher rides again

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  Tags:  software  

  thebeezspeaks.blogspot: As you may remember from my previous post, I simply wanted to import three spreadsheets into an MS-Access equivalent, use the "Query By Example" (QBE) mode to create a simple report and export the result to another spreadsheet. Last time we saw how OOo Base 2.4.0 fell through. This time I decided to give Kexi 1.1.3 and Knoda 0.8.3 a go.

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• 12:00

  TestDrive Downloads And Runs The Latest Ubuntu Snapshot

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  webupd8.org: TestDrive is an Ubuntu application that is especially designed for non-technical users to easily download and run the latest Ubuntu development snapshop in a virtual machine.

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• 9:35

  Ubuntu Development: Quickly, Lernid, and Ground Control

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.ibeentoubuntu.com: I've been kind of harping on the development situation in Ubuntu for some time now. The Lucid (10.04) development cycle has some really interesting ... er ... developments with regard to ... uh ... the development landscape.

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• February 05, 2010
• 8:48

  Deluge – An Unappreciated Cross-Platform BitTorrent Client

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  Tags:  software  

  makeuseof.com: There are thousands of BitTorrent clients on the market; that is, thousands of applications you can use to download files using BitTorrent technology. If you’re curious which BitTorrent program is the best I believe is an underappreciated piece of software: Deluge.

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• 8:45

  Alternative Browsers: Beyond Chrome and Firefox

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  linux-mag.com: Looking for a new flavor of Web browser? If the mainstream favorites aren’t doing the trick, or you just want to test drive something new, we take a look at several of the “alternative” Web browsers for the Linux desktop.

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• 8:44

  5 open source office suites to watch

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  computerworld.com.au: The Microsoft Office productivity suite has risen to become the dominant application of its type for business IT management. But there are open source office productivity suites available that may provide a suitable alternative to Office.

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• 8:42

  A fresher Linux desktop

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  mybroadband.co.za: It's been a long time in the coming but this year Linux will get a makeover, thanks to the Gnome project. In September the Gnome team, makers of one of the most popular desktop interfaces for Linux, will release version 3.0 of their desktop environment and they are promising "big user-visible changes".

  Also: Gnome-Shell, I changed my mind

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• February 04, 2010
• 13:39

  KPackageKit woes

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  Tags:  software  

  zekecoma.blogspot: I remember recently trying the latest version of Kubuntu simple because I was getting sick of compiling with Gentoo. Well Kubuntu was fine and dandy. But when it came to install software I had to use the new KPackageKit. What a bloody pain in the arse.

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• 13:36

  Mozilla Sponsors GNOME Accessibility Efforts

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  Tags:  software  

  gnome.org/press/releases: The GNOME Foundation is happy to announce a substantial donation from the Mozilla Corporation to benefit the GNOME Project's accessibility efforts. The donation will help continue the collaborative efforts between GNOME and Mozilla on Accessibility.

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• 13:34

  IBM launches Lotus Symphony 3 beta; Office alternatives pile up

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.zdnet.com: IBM on Thursday rolled out the beta of Lotus Symphony 3.0, its free office productivity suite built on the OpenOffice.org code base. This is a big upgrade as indicated by the jump from version 1.3 to 3. The beta is available for Linux desktops, Mac OS X, and Windows.

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• 11:31

  Lyx – Easy LaTex without Spell Check

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  Tags:  software  

  terminally-incoherent.com/blog: I am a vocal WYSIWYG hater. It is a deeply flawed paradigm and a UI dead end as far as I’m concerned. WYSIWYG will always be quirky, annoying and frustrating by design. This is why I use LaTex. Of course some people just don’t like to learn, and this is why we have Lyx.

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• 9:20

  Free Programs to Create a PDF Document in Linux

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  linux.bihlman.com: Since the invention of PDF format in 1993 PDF documents have become extremely popular tool for exchanging information across the Web. Even now PDF beats more recent DJVU and various e-book formats in terms of popularity.

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• 9:18

  Sun CEO Schwartz resigns on Twitter

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  Tags:  software  

  computerworlduk.com: Jonathan Schwartz announced his resignation as CEO of Sun Microsystems in a message sent via Twitter early Thursday.

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• 9:16

  Get the best virus scanner for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  tuxradar.com: Pretty much every Linux user thinks they're immune to viruses, but they're wrong. Just recently, malware was found hidden inside an innocuous-looking Gnome theme from a reputable site.

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• February 03, 2010
• 15:22

  Two Nifty Features in digiKam 1.1.0

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  Tags:  software  

  scribblesandsnaps.wordpress: Hot on the heels of digiKam 1.0, Gilles Caulier announced the 1.1.0 release of the popular open source photo management application. While the main focus in version 1.0 was on squashing bugs, the new release of digiKam does sport a couple of new nifty features and improvements.

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• 12:59

  Yahoo Search + Ubuntu = Yahoo Messenger for Linux?

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  Tags:  software  

  itlure.com: Rather than bashing the hell out of Canonical for its evil, evil attempt to make more money (SHOCKING, I know!), and given my foolish optimism that Mother Nature threw up on me, I prefer to look at the full half of this whole shenanigan (this word is AWESOME btw) glass thing.

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• 12:57

  Browser Wars – Are You A Casualty?

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  Tags:  software  

  lockergnome.com: Though people use browsers every day now, it was not always so. It is amazing to see how much has changed over the years that the internet has become something that people other than defense contractors and educators use.

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• 12:55

  A data cruncher bites the dust

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  Tags:  software  

  thebeezspeaks.blogspot: I know this post is gonna get me into trouble, but frankly - I don't care. FOSS programs didn't work for me. Ok, now I've said it. But it's the truth.

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• 7:42

  F-Spot: An Able-Bodied All-in-One Image Machine

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxinsider.com: No image editing and organizing application is perfect, but F-Spot can be a solid choice to manage your photo collection.

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• February 02, 2010
• 6:52

  OpenShot – An Easy-to-use Video Editor

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  Tags:  software  

  maketecheasier.com: Video editing in Linux is never an easy stuff. While there are several top-notch video editing software available for Linux users, most of them are not meant for the faint-hearted. Until the release of OpenShot.

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• February 01, 2010
• 11:05

  Blogilo: KDE’s blogging client

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  Tags:  software  

  maketecheasier.com: Social media has taken over the Web in a very big way. It has even been argued that social media is the new Web or “new media”. Two of those popular social media sites are Blogger and Wordpress. There are many advantages to using client software on a local computer, such as the ability to work offline.

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• 8:40

  Video editing in Linux: a look at PiTiVi and Kdenlive

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  Tags:  software  

  arstechnica.com: While Linux still lacks a direct competitor to tools like Apple's iMovie or Final Cut Pro, the current crop of video editing tools are much more capable and easy-to-use. Two tools in particular stand out: PiTiVi and Kdenlive.

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• January 31, 2010
• 18:08

  K3b goes beta!

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  Tags:  software  

  michalm.wordpress: After two months of work I’m pleased to announce the first beta release of K3b. It is the last testing version before stable 2.0. If everything goes fine, the stable version will be ready in the end of February.

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• 10:52

  X@FOSDEM 2010 Is Now A Half-Day Event

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: Well, it was bad enough when X@FOSDEM became a one day event (where for the past several years it has been a highly-populated two-day conference) at the upcoming Free Open Source Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) taking place in Brussels next weekend, but now it's not even a one day event.

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• 10:51

  Review of Xiphos Bible Study Software

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  Tags:  software  

  gabrielforster.com: Xiphos (formerly known as GnomeSword) is a Bible study tool written for Linux, UNIX, and Windows under the GNOME toolkit, offering a rich and featureful environment for reading, study, and research using modules from The SWORD Project and elsewhere.

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• 10:48

  Accessing Freenode IRC Network via SSL

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  Tags:  software  

  • Accessing Freenode IRC Network via SSL Secure Connection
  • Freenode IRC – Connect And Auth Securely
  • Freenode, SSL and SASL Authentication with Irssi
  • My Favorite Irssi Scripts

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• January 30, 2010
• 14:12

  Opera 10.50 snapshot: Return of the penguin

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  opera.com/desktopteam/blog: This snapshot contains a new core update with a large number of fixes for regressions. Many features in 10.50 are more stable or work again like in 10.10. Widgets will also run as standalone applications again as previewed in 10.20 alpha. And finally, linux builds are back!

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• January 29, 2010
• 12:47

  GNOME-Vlc brings GTK interface, Simplicity to VLC

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Gnome-Vlc is a new project designed to provide a simple GTK frontend to the popular Vlc player.

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• 6:33

  Linux super-duper admin tools: Strace

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  dedoimedo.com: Strace is a utility that can trace system calls. If you're wondering what system calls are, they are a translation mechanism that provides interface between a process and the operating system (kernel). These calls can be intercepted and read, allowing for a better understanding of what a process is trying to do at a given runtime.

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• January 28, 2010
• 13:36

  My Own Ten Old-School Linux Programs That I'll Never Forsake

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  penguinpetes.com: Jack Wallen over at Tech Republic just posted 10 old-school Linux tools I refuse to let go of, and this sounds like good meat for a fun meme, so what are the programs that will never be replaced on my menu?

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• January 27, 2010
• 20:40

  Linux Audio Plugin Update

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  linuxjournal.com: Audio processing and synthesis plugins are always a lively topic for musicians. Many contemporary music-makers rely completely upon their plugin collection for all their sound sources and processing routines, and it is not at all uncommon to discover that some of these composers have never learned to play a traditional instrument. However you feel about audio plugins they are a fact of life in modern music production.

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• 16:09

  Oracle reveals strategy

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  • Oracle reveals strategy for GlassFish, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Solaris
  • Oracle will boost MySQL, release Cloud Office suite
  • Scott McNealy signs off in style
  • Farewell To Solaris Express Community Edition
  • OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 RC 4 available
  • OOo: Common Findbar

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• 11:18

  Keep your journal in a RedNotebook

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  sourceforge.net/blog: Writing in a journal or diary, where you may pour your heart out for no one’s eyes but your own, can be an intensely personal experience. Writing longhand in a paper notebook used to be standard practice for journal writing, but most people nowadays type faster than they write. When Jendrik Seipp couldn’t find what he was looking for in a journal app, he began coding his own, and that became RedNotebook.

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• 11:15

  10 useful CD/DVD writing programs/software in Debian

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  blogs.koolwal.net: In this post we will see some CDs/DVDs burning (or writing) software that are available in Debian Lenny.

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• 9:04

  Console news, feed and e-mail readers

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  kmandla.wordpress: Feed readers, news readers and e-mail clients all represent a hazy gray area for me, since many of them do two or even three of those things at the same time. So for fun, I have a lump of applications here that might do one of those things, two of them, or maybe all at once.

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• 9:03

  Screenlets: Eye Candy for Linux Users

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  linuxinsider.com: A Linux desktop screen need not look drab. Linux distro users can get just as much function-rich eye candy through Screenlets, miniature applications that reside on the desktop and provide constant information.

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• 6:23

  Want to chat on Linux? Better have Empathy

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  ghacks.net: The Linux operating system has gone through a number of “default” chat applications. From the earlier text-based chats like zicq, to the later Gaim, then to Pidgen (still in use), and now (and, hopefully, finally) GNOME has settled on Empathy.

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• 6:15

  The Fight to Save MySQL: Interview with Monty Widenius

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  earthweb.com: "I will do everything that is possible to keep MySQL alive," says Michael (Monty) Widenius, the main developer of the well-known open source database. "I just hope it's enough."

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• January 26, 2010
• 17:05

  10 old-school Linux tools I refuse to let go of

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  blogs.techrepublic.com: There are many days when I show my age with Linux. In some instances, I just refuse to embrace some of the more modern applications. I thought it would be fun to list 10 of these old-school Linux tools and then see what other people refuse to let go of (regardless of platform).

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• 17:03

  What should the GNOME Foundation accomplish in 2010?

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  stormyscorner.com: We've been working on the GNOME Foundation's goals for 2010. We distributed them for comment on the Foundation list. I've also created a quick survey if you want to show which goals you like.

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• 16:59

  Enna – A New and Exciting Linux Media Center

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  makeuseof.com: Although Boxee seemed the more obvious choice, it loses the high ground if you lack a decent internet connection. Just when I was about to give up hope, I heard about Enna – an incredible open source Linux media center, developed by the GeeXboX team, and ready for its first public release.

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• 16:48

  Fencing and Tollgating the Internet

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  linuxtoday.com/blog: This story about yet another attempt to raise a tollgate on the Internet deserves having some extra attention called to it.

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• 11:41

  65 Open Source Downloads That Could Change Your Life

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  earthweb.com: We found open source apps that could help you get started in a new hobby, read more, improve your mind, and become more spiritual. And for the (admittedly small) group of people whose New Year's resolution is to try open source for the first time, we assembled a small group of apps for open-source neophytes.

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• 11:39

  Personal Finances on Linux with KMyMoney

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  linuxplanet.com: Linux has several excellent personal finance applications. Today we're going to look at KMyMoney. Though specifically developed with the KDE desktop in mind, KMyMoney works with any Linux desktop.

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• 6:34

  What's new in Banshee 1.5.3?

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Banshee 1.5.3 will be released this coming Wednesday and will see a number of new features introduced, some of which users have longed for!

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• January 25, 2010
• 18:36

  OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually Usable Linux Video Editor

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  lifehacker.com: It's one of the five features we desperately want in Ubuntu: a video editor that the average user can stitch together simple movies with. OpenShot 1.0 is mostly there.

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• 16:02

  Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL

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  blogs.techrepublic.com: When it comes to open source databases, MySQL gets the lion’s share of attention. This is unfortunate, because out of the two, PostgreSQL offers much more security, reliability, and data integrity than MySQL does.

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• 12:15

  auto_inst: the best kept Mandriva’s secret ?

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  brunocornec.wordpress: Have you ever tried to automatically installed your Linux distribution ? Of course, if you’re a long time sysadmin, and Red Hat user, you use kickstart, or FAI if you happen to be a Debian fan. But if you’re a Mandriva user,

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• January 24, 2010
• 9:58

  Go-oo – Better than Plain OO.o

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  everyjoe.com: If you’ve been frustrated with what you can do with OpenOffice.org, then you’re probably looking for more. And that’s what Go-oo can help you with.

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• January 23, 2010
• 18:59

  Open source game engines for Linux

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  sutor.com: My recent post about Linux and video games has gotten quite a few hits, so while I was on a three hour flight today I thought it would useful to later put together a list of free and open source game engines that you and others could use to build said games.

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• 18:57

  gwenview: user friendly

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  aseigo.blogspot: Carla Schroder wrote an editorial piece this week on Linux Today (a website I enjoy and frequent daily via their RSS feeds) entitled Editor's Note: What is User-friendly, Really?. I like tools that fit my hand when I use them.

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• January 22, 2010
• 14:24

  Sun CEO Issues Memo in Wake of Oracle Acquisition Greenlight

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  gigaom.com: After the European Commission approved Oracle’s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun, it only took a few hours for an internal memo to go out from Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s CEO, announcing that he is resigning. discussing the impact that change in control will have on Sun.

  Also: Sun and Oracle's impact on open source acquisitions

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• 8:19

  The WordPress Foundation Is Live

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  readwriteweb.com: WordPress founder and Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg has just announced that his nonprofit, charitable foundation is officially an open shop. The WordPress Foundation is an organization dedicated to supporting and promoting the very mission of WordPress itself.

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• 8:16

  Say CHEESE in Ubuntu

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  mybroadband.co.za/blogs: Want to have some fun using a web-cam on Ubuntu? I suggest you get your hands on the Cheese application. One thing is for sure, your Facebook profile shots will never be the same.

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• January 21, 2010
• 17:59

  Linux Desktop Environment Innovation Nonexistent

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  daniweb.com: As a current GNOME user and former KDE user, I'd like to know when we can expect some new innovations from either of these desktop environments?

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• 15:16

  The importance of awesome

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  shanefagan.com: Im going to plug a bunch of projects and stuff I like in this post so I hope you guys like it.

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• 9:51

  KOffice - Portability in Action

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  ingwa2.blogspot: I have on several occasions been asked "why do you work on KOffice when OpenOffice.org already exists and does everything people need?". Well, there are several reasons.

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• 9:50

  Firefox, Opera downloads surge after IE security scare

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  smh.com.au: Internet browsers Firefox and Opera have experienced a massive surge in downloads since the security flaw in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) was exposed.

  Also: IE is so secure we just had to build an OS out of it

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• 7:12

  Oracle wins unconditional EU approval for Sun buy

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  • Oracle wins unconditional EU approval for Sun buy
  • Mergers: Commission clears Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems (PR)
  • Oracle power couple take Manhattan by billboard

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• January 20, 2010
• 14:31

  A Look At Ubuntu Lucid Plymouth Themes

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  webupd8.org: I've finally got Plymouth up and running on Ubuntu Lucid. Well, up and partially running - I only get to see the new Plymouth at shutdown, but considering I have an Nvidia graphics card and only installed Ubuntu Lucid in VirtualBox so far, I'll take what I can get.

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• 14:28

  Zeitgeist, GNOME Activity Journal Get New Releases

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  • Zeitgeist, GNOME Activity Journal Get New Releases
  • GNOME Activity Journal, and installing it on Ubuntu

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• 9:20

  Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 – Making life easier in Ubuntu

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  duncsweb.com: today i want to tell you about an application for Ubuntu, it’s an application that i would recommend to every Ubuntu user, newbie or pro because it makes life in Ubuntu a lot easier. It’s called Ubuntu tweak.

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• 9:11

  Fun with Boxee for Linux (Beta)

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  extremetech.com: Back in 2008, I looked at Boxee on the Apple TV. I thought this was a good time to take a look at Linux.

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• January 19, 2010
• 15:24

  KDE vs. GNOME: Email Readers

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  earthweb.com: Aside from perhaps the web browser, an email reader is likely to be the first application configured on a new computer installation. And, if you are using a desktop, the default choice is likely to be KMail if you are using KDE, or Evolution if you are using GNOME.

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• 12:33

  From Gtk to Qt: Amarok, Knetworkmanager, and Kopete

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  celettu.wordpress: I’ve blogged before how I think Gtk applications are superior to their Qt counterparts, but since I’m using KDE pretty much exclusively since October last year, I’m always on the lookout for good Qt apps.

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• 9:33

  5 Multimedia Apps For Ubuntu You Can't Live Without

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  techdrivein.blogspot: When I first started using Ubuntu some 3 years ago, I found it really hard to get applications similar to the ones I used in Windows. After browsing for a long time, I made this amazing discovery. You don't have to look for "similar" apps, you can have even better apps here in Ubuntu/Linux.

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• 6:36

  Nautilus Elementary: A Simplified Nautilus For Ubuntu

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  webupd8.org: Remember the Simplified Nautilus? At some point, it used to be maintained in the Gloobus PPA. The Gloobus PPA no longer maintains this simplified Nautilus (for quite some time), but a recent post on the Gloobus blog points out to a new "simplified" Nautilus called Nautilus Elementary.

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• 6:33

  Manage your photo collection with F-Spot

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  ghacks.net: There are tons of applications out there that help you manage your photo collections. Some of these applications are nothing more than glorified file managers, some are more in-line with image editors. Stuck in the middle of this vast gray area are tools like F-Spot which serve a very specific purpose – manage your photo collections.

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• 6:31

  Monty releases MySQL fork MariaDB RC

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  theregister.co.uk: A fully completed first version of MySQL fork MariaDB has come a step closer, with a release candidate delivered by Monty Widenius on Monday.

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• January 18, 2010
• 16:51

  Opera 10.50 Alpha

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  lockergnome.com: The people at Opera Labs are being very careful with this release, and taking much time before going so far as to call a delivered product a beta. Another build, 3199, has been released as alpha, dropping the pre- from the moniker.

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• 12:10

  Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim

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  catonmat.net: This is the sixth post in the article series “Vim Plugins You Should Know About“. This time I am going to introduce you to a vim plugin called “nerd_tree.vim“. It’s so useful that I can’t imagine working without it in vim.

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• 9:07

  Health Check: Moonlight

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  h-online.com: Moonlight was written in three weeks in June of 2007 by a group of Mono developers working round the clock to fulfil a promise made by Miguel de Icaza. Their aim: to demonstrate Silverlight running on Linux at Microsoft's ReMIX conference show in Paris in the summer of that year.

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• January 17, 2010
• 19:50

  Why autoconf is not getting any friendlier

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  blog.flameeyes.eu: I’m an “autotools lover” in the sense that i prefer having to deal with autotools-based buildsystem that most custom build-system that are as broken as they can possibly be. Or with cmake.

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• 14:07

  MySQL founder turns to China, Russia to halt Oracle

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  reuters.com: Michael Widenius, the creator of the MySQL database, said he is turning his vocal campaign against Oracle's planned takeover of Sun Microsystems to China and Russia because the European Commission appears set to clear the deal.

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• 11:00

  Gnome Shell - One desktop to bind them all

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  dedoimedo.com: Gnome Shell is the future window manager for UNIX-like operating systems running the Gnome desktop environment. It is slated to be part of the Gnome 3.0, which will probably be released sometime next year. However, this does not mean you cannot try Gnome Shell now and get the first impression of what it ought to be.

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• 10:58

  Comparing gtk+ and Qt applications

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  blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph: I've been on the hunt for Qt/KDE applications that do the job of the gtk+ equivalents I use. That's a tall order.

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• January 16, 2010
• 13:39

  OpenGL vs DirectX - Benchmark Comparison

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  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Unigine is a cross-platform real-time 3D engine, I stumbled across awhile back on some message boards I am a part of. Since it is cross platform it offers the benchmark rendering in both OpenGL and DirectX APIs, as such I was curious as to which offered better performance.

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• 13:37

  5 Linux music players you did not know about

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  ghabuntu.com: Below are 5 music players for the Linux platform (Ubuntu being my base) you probably did not know about.

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• January 15, 2010
• 15:26

  Wine Is a Long Shot at Solving the Windows-Apps-on-Linux Problem

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  eweek.com: The open-source Wine project is less a solution and more a workaround when it comes to the issue of running Windows applications on Linux.

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• 13:28

  GNOME Shell tryout

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  • GNOME Shell tryout
  • Dispelling GNOME 3 Myths

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• 13:26

  5 powerful open source applications for businesses

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  ghabuntu.com: A significant part of the IT expense of most businesses comprises the cost of acquiring and running enterprise applications. Would it not be better to have the same applications your business relies on at a much reduced cost but with higher productivity?

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• January 14, 2010
• 12:26

  Testing OpenShot Video Editor

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  workswithu.com: When Lucid Lynx ships in April, it will come with a video editor installed by default, which will be a first for Ubuntu. With this in mind, I decided to test drive OpenShot, an open-source, nonlinear editor that reached its 1.0 release very recently.

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• 7:40

  Three calculators for the Linux desktop

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  ghacks.net: To many, geek = math && nerd = math. To others school = math && math = calculator. During my stint as a computer science major, the very idea of differential had me running scared back to my calculator. It was a must, and for many a symbol of intellect and power.

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• 4:59

  Hands on: Boxee beta is brilliant, still not quite stable

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  arstechnica.com: Ars takes a hands-on look at the latest beta release of Boxee, a popular media center application that is ideal for HTPCs. The improved user interface is profoundly impressive, but the application still needs more work.

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• 4:52

  Watching TV and Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  azerthoth.blogspot: This all started a couple of weeks ago when I finally got around to putting the tv capture card I had picked up a year or two ago into my computer. Happily like most things in Linux, it just worked. Sadly the software packages in existence that I ran across were either too much or too little.

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• January 13, 2010
• 14:10

  7 Best Linux Apps for Ripping CDs and DVDs

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  Tags:  software  

  maximumpc.com: Ripping a CD or DVD is one of the most basic tasks for a PC user. But you need the right tools if you want to automate the process.

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• 12:15

  Amarok Brings Labels, Lyrics, and a Little Bit of Mood

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: When it comes to playing music, there is no shortage of software options, both open and closed. The race to gain users is a race to add features, and if KDE is your thing, then Amarok may be running your way.

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• 8:11

  Free and Open Source Encryption Software for Linux

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  junauza.com: One of the best ways to protect sensitive computer data like credit card numbers and social security information is to use encryption software.

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• 8:08

  Yet Another Sudoku Puzzle Solver Using AWK

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  thegeekstuff.com: awk is a superb language for testing algorithms and applications with some complexity, especially where the problem can be broken into chunks which can streamed as part of a pipe. Many problems dealing with text, log lines or symbol tables are handily solved or at the very least prototyped with awk.

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• 8:05

  Opera Using GStreamer, Pushing Ogg

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  • Opera Using GStreamer, Pushing Ogg
  • TinyOgg project liberates Flash videos

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• January 12, 2010
• 22:42

  KDE vs. GNOME: Photo and Music Management

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  Tags:  software  

  earthweb.com: Most comparisons of the KDE and GNOME desktops focus on usability and productivity apps. However, they often neglect what might be called the leisure apps -- specifically, those used for image and music management.

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• 22:38

  Testing Chromium on Ubuntu

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  workswithu.com: I’ve read a lot about Google’s Chrome browser in the blogosphere, but have yet to see it being used in the wild. Given this observation, and my increasingly strained relationship with Firefox, I decided to give Chromium, the open-source browser on which Chrome is based, another try.

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• 18:38

  15 Fantastic Looking Dark GDM Themes

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  maketecheasier.com: One of the coolest things about being a Linux user can be showing off your slick custom interface to your friends. With the maturing of Grub 2 and kernel mode setting, we’ll soon all have a beautiful boot from start to finish. The step we’re covering today is customizing GDM.

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• January 11, 2010
• 20:01

  The Gifting Season: Linux Audio For The Holidays

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: During the final months of 2009 Linux audio developers and users were working overtime. If you feel that you didn't get enough goodies in your holiday stocking perhaps you'll find a few more stuffers listed here as another year closes in the world of Linux sound and music software.

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• 18:02

  Xephyr - Multiple nested X sessions

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  Tags:  software  

  dedoimedo.com: If the title of this article sounds like something from Star Trek, you're not far off. It's a very geeky thing, which allows you to export X (GUI) applications as separate entities on top of your desktop. Indeed, Xephyr is an X server utility. As such, it allows you to manage your virtual consoles, without leaving the safety and comfort of your desktop.

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• 16:00

  In an ideal world…

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.fsfe.org: … every Free Software project should not only have developers, but also:

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• 14:01

  Invoicing with GnuCash

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: I get a lot of businesses asking me about running their businesses with open source software. Many assume there are not packages that Linux and open source has no offerings for the SMB. And even though many users know of GnuCash, few know of it’s wealth of tools.

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• January 10, 2010
• 11:39

  The FreeType License

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.fsfe.org: The FreeType library is released under a dual license: you can choose either the FTL (FreeType License) or the GPL, version 2. That means that a software stack that uses FreeType has to be license-compatible with one or the other (or both).

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• January 09, 2010
• 12:32

  Searching and Filtering Photos in digiKam — Part 2

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  Tags:  software  

  scribblesandsnaps.wordpress: Besides the quick search and filtering tools at the bottom of the main window, digiKam offers more advanced search features accessible via the left sidebar. Here, you’ll find a variety of search options.

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• 8:49

  e-Book Collection Management on Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  penguininside.blogspot: Having trouble sorting out hundreds of e-Books? If the collection is too big, its really not friendlier to find a book by file name. We need something like Book Shelf to keep them in order, that is what e-Book Collection Managers are, but they are a lot flexible than our real life Book Shelves.

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• January 08, 2010
• 12:22

  Pino, a Simple Twitter Client for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  learningubuntu.com: Even though in the world of Twitter there are a lot of fantastic, feature-full programs for the Twitter power user, that's not exactly what I, a simple Twitter user, is looking for.

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• 9:58

  The best Linux desktop search tools

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  Tags:  software  

  tuxradar.com: We picked out the best desktop search tools for Linux and put them through their paces - read on to find out how they fared!

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• January 07, 2010
• 19:50

  Boxee Beta Goes Public – Now Works With TV.com, Blip.TV, and IGN

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  Tags:  software  

  thenextweb.com: Boxee, the popular media center application, is now in public beta following an extensive pre-beta period. The new release comes for OS X, Windows, and Ubuntu.

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• 14:04

  Create flow charts with Kivio

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: Some people choose to draw their flow charts with the help of graphing paper. But others prefer to map out their flow charts with software like Dia. But like Dia is to GNOME, so Kivio is to KDE.

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• 10:16

  The State of PostgreSQL: Not So Easy to Kill

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: One of Monty Widenius' arguments about the vulnerability of PostgreSQL has caught the attention of the PostgreSQL community. In a comment on OStatic, Widenius says that "PostgreSQL can also be killed" by a company like Oracle.

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• January 06, 2010
• 15:53

  WebKitGTK+ hackfest improves HTML renderer for GNOME apps

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  Tags:  software  

  arstechnica.com: Contributors to the WebKitGTK+ project recently gathered for a hackfest to improve the open source HTML renderer's integration with the GTK+ toolkit. They added some cache control APIs, improved support for HTML5 video, form persistence, and other features.

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• 11:39

  What Programming Language Should You Learn?

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  Tags:  software  

  penguinpetes.com: I'm going to attempt to answer the number-one most common technology question on the web, and hopefully do it so I can just link people here. Wish me luck, I'll need it!

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• 11:33

  OpenMovieEditor And Blender: More NLE Delights

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: We're getting close to the last stops on our tour of NLEs for Linux. This week I've focused my attention on two editors, both of which surprised me in many ways.

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• 8:51

  Emesene 1.6 Released, What’s New?

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Instant Messaging client ‘Emesene’ slipped a new release out on Monday but what’s new in it?

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• 8:49

  Flock 2.5.6 addresses security issues

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  Tags:  software  

  • Flock 2.5.6 addresses security issues
  • Firefox 3.6 finally hits the release candidate phase
  • Firefox 3.7 to feel need for speed with multicore boost
  • Iron Browser (Chromium with all the required add-ons)

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• January 05, 2010
• 21:36

  MySQL: decision time is nigh

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  Tags:  software  

  • MySQL: decision time is nigh
  • Why MySQL's creator thinks IBM could acquire the database
  • Monty Widenius wants another billion dollars, should we help him?

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• 16:10

  A Bushel of Free FOSS Resources

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.

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• 16:06

  Get to Know rsync

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  linux.com: One of the handiest tools you'll ever have on Linux (and other *nix systems) is rsync. As the name implies, rsync is used to sync files on remote and local machines. You can use rsync to copy files to remote systems and back again, or to make backups to locally mounted hard drives.

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• 12:02

  Change default applications easily in GNOME

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.techrepublic.com: Vincent Danen walks you through the easy steps for changing the application defaults associated with certain file types in the Gnome desktop.

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• 7:50

  Opera Software CEO steps down

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  mybroadband.co.za: Opera Software ASA announced Tuesday that co-founder and CEO Jon von Tetzchner has stepped down following 15 years at the helm of the Norwegian software developer.

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• January 04, 2010
• 21:05

  Sneak Peek at Opera 10.5

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  linux-mag.com: If at first you don’t succeed, try again. Opera hasn’t cracked double digits in the desktop browser market, but that doesn’t mean the company is giving up. A few days ago, Opera released alpha builds of Opera 10.5 and made them available for download.

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• 18:00

  What's your vision of GNOME?

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  Tags:  software  

  stormyscorner.com: The GNOME Foundation's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone. Accessible regardless of their ability to pay, their physical ability or the language they speak.

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• 17:57

  Arora web browser review

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxuser.co.uk: Arora is a simple and lightweight cross-platform web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine, which has a small memory footprint. It can do some things that the more sophisticated web browsers can do.

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• 17:55

  Three console audio mixers

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: I mentioned byobu the other day, and a few days before I mentioned a slew of audio players for the console. Here’s a mis-mash of those ideas, with three audio mixers running inside the Ubuntu version of byobu.

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• 12:23

  Bangarang: The new KDE media player

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxcrunch.com: Most KDE4 users know the default KDE media player Dragon player. It is simple and easy. In this post I will introduce you a new media player for KDE4 which intends to be simple in stylish way, more integration with KDE4 technologies like phonon and Nepomuk, and has more features than Dragon player. It is Banarang.

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• 9:16

  Six office alternatives

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  Tags:  software  

  mybroadband.co.za: In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives. And they are free.

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• 9:13

  Monty's 'Save MySQL' gets 15,000 backers

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  Tags:  software  

  theregister.co.uk: A petition to stop Oracle taking over MySQL has garnered support from more than 15,000 people, after Michael ‘Monty’ Widenius launched his last gasp web campaign in December.

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• January 02, 2010
• 7:52

  Task managers for the console

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: I’ve already pointed out a few note-taking, organizer-type applications — hnb is my favorite, probably followed by vimwiki; but that’s certainly not the end of the list. You’ll need a list, just to keep track of all the programs you can use to make lists.

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• 7:49

  SpamAssassin's new year hangover

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  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: A rule in SpamAssassin is scoring email sent in 2010 as "grossly in the future" increasing the chances of false positives. A fix has been pushed into the update channel.

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• January 01, 2010
• 16:06

  Make Your Own Sheet Music with LilyPond

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  Tags:  software  

  makeuseof.com: LilyPond is a very special application. You see, LilyPond doesn’t have a GUI – Graphical User Interface. In other words, it’s completely text-based. Please stop screaming, and allow me to explain.

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• 13:27

  Organize and listen to your music with Aqualung

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: I’ve used a lot of music players over the years. Pretty much they all take the same tact on organizing your music – you have a library and you have playlists. Pretty cut and dry. But today I came across a music player, Aqualung, that went about things a bit differently.

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• 10:26

  Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release "Led Zepplin".

  Also: Opera 10.5 Released for Linux, Is Faster Than Chrome!

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• 9:36

  (Re-)Introducing HTML5 Video

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  Tags:  Opera software  

  HTML5 Video is coming to Opera 10.5. Yesterday (or technically, last year--happy new year readers!) Opera released a new alpha build containing a preview of their HTML5 Video support. There's a number of details to note, not least that this is still an early alpha...

• December 31, 2009
• 18:20

  Some GNOME Activity Journal (Zeitgeist) Screenshots

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  Tags:  software  

  geekyogre.com: So after some cleanup we decided to upload these pics before new years starts. Development is going very fast thanks to the Zeitgeist Framework 0.3 series.

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• 15:40

  Ubuntu Tweak Gets New Website, New Release

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  • Ubuntu Tweak Gets New User-based Website, New Release
  • Ubuntu Tweak 0.5: An Early Look

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• 10:28

  A Look Back At Docky in 2009

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: As with a few other of my favourite Linux applications, Docky has an incredibly insightful and focused team who hare a passion for making Docky awesome – as proven by its breathtakingly fast development speed! So, to Docky – my favourite application of 2009!

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• 8:22

  GNOME needs to get its act together

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  Tags:  software  

  itwire.com: As the year ends, it is fair to say there have been many free and open source software organisations that have made rapid strides, not merely in 2009 but right through the noughties. But one organisation badly needs to get its act together.

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• December 30, 2009
• 19:56

  Learning is Childsplay

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: After I finished my recent articles on Teaching with Tux and Learning with Gcompris, I received a couple of suggestions from readers that I take a look at Childsplay. I spent some time looking at Childsplay and if you have small children, I think you should too.

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• December 29, 2009
• 20:58

  WiiCan: Easy Wii remote control on Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.gnome.org: Félix Ontañón has just released a new versión of a systray application which help to configure and manage the Wii remote control on Linux.

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• 20:51

  New Exposure Blending Tool for digiKam

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  Tags:  software  

  digikam.org: ExpoBlending is the name of a new tool that i implement currently for next kipi-plugins 1.1 release planed to end of January. This plugin use 2 command line tools available under Linux, Windows, and Mac : align_image_stack from Huggin project and enfuse from Enblend project

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• 17:36

  Byobu shows me next meeting

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.nixternal.com: Have I ever told you all how much I love byobu? I have always used screen, though I really never tweaked it all crazy like many did. Recently I typed screen at the command line and I was presented with this thing called byobu.

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• 10:03

  XBMC 9.11 makes your open source home theater look shinier

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  Tags:  software  

  arstechnica.com: The developers behind the XBMC project have released a new version of the popular open source media player. It comes with an impressive new user interface theme.

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• December 28, 2009
• 5:55

  12 Awesome KDM Themes For Your Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  • 12 Awesome KDM Themes For Your Linux
  • 2 Gorgeous New Docky Skins

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• December 27, 2009
• 14:35

  An analog clock for the console

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  Tags:  software  

  • An analog clock for the console
  • No, terminal apps are not dying

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• 4:51

  Where is Samba going?

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  Tags:  software  

  Every few months the Samba developers have started releasing a status and direction report called "The Samba Team Blog".

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• December 26, 2009
• 16:31

  OpenTumblr Goes QT

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: OpenTumblr is a desktop application for posting and uploading files, photos, etc, to your Tumbr account.

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• 16:30

  Decent Office Suite in Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  pclinuxos2007.blogspot: Ashampoo Office a a tiny humble suite that consisted of a word processor (textmaker), a spreadsheet program (planmaker) and a presentation software (presentation). This suite takes just 39.77MB of install space, and 33.25MB of memory.

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• 14:26

  An early look at VLMC

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxcrunch.com: VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a free video editing software, offering features to realize semi-professional quality movies, but with the aim to stay simple and user-friendly.

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• December 24, 2009
• 21:03

  To-Do Applications Reviewed

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: To-Do applications may seem over-kill to some (“what’s wrong with pen and paper?”) but I, personally, find they really help my workflow. Linux has a fair old selection of task applications, but are they any good?

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• 19:10

  Organize Holiday Photos with digiKam 1.0

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: Just in time for the holiday break, and all those holiday photos, the digiKam team has put the finishing touches on the 1.0 release and Kipi-plugins 1.0 as well.

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• 15:16

  GnoMenu – A Customizable, Good-Looking Application Menu

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  Tags:  software  

  makeuseof.com: One of the great things about Linux is that there are a number of options for almost everything that you can hope to achieve. A very slick application menu is the GnoMenu. GnoMenu is a highly customizable application launcher. Let us see what all it can do.

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• 15:14

  10 Greatest Open Source Software Of 2009

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  Tags:  software  

  cyberciti.biz: These are full-featured cross-platform softwares, free as in beer and speech. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2009.

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• 15:13

  Emacs: a tutorial for beginners

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  Tags:  software  

  tuxradar.com: We're all set to put our feet up and wait for Santa to deliver nice presents, but before we do that we have a present for you: an all-encompassing Emacs tutorial that takes you from getting started all the way through customisation and how to use it for different purposes.

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• 15:11

  GNOME 2.29.4 released

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  lwn.net: Version 2.29.4 of GNOME, a development release, has been announced. "And here comes 2.29.4, just in time for the holiday season."

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• 10:23

  The future of Wine sound

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  Tags:  software  

  yokozar.org/blog: Sound in Wine has been a big issue. From a user’s perspective, it didn’t work well. From a technical user’s perspective, there were 3 different drivers to choose from and none of them worked well. From a developer’s perspective, no sound driver would ever work well.

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• 5:21

  Predict the Possibility of Earthquakes Anywhere With OpenHazards

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: A new tool released by earth studies organization Open Hazards, Inc. aims to put the power of earthquake prediction in the hands of the public.

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• December 23, 2009
• 16:32

  Opera 10.5 For Linux: What We Know

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  Tags:  software  

  techie-buzz.com: Yesterday, Opera 10.5 pre-alpha (codenamed Evenes) was released as a special gift to the small but dedicated fan base. It definitely had everyone talking, leaving Linux users high and dry.

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• 16:30

  With iterpipes, python is ready to replace bash for scripting. Really.

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  Tags:  software  

  lateral.netmanagers.com.ar: This has been a pet peeve of mine for years: programming shell scripts suck. They are ugly and error prone. The only reason why we still do it? There is no real replacement. Or at least that was the case, until today.

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• 12:27

  A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof

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  Tags:  software  

  catonmat.net: In this post I will take you through the useful lsof tool. If netcat was called the Swiss Army Knife of Network Connections, then I’d call lsof the Swiss Army Knife of Unix debugging.

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• December 22, 2009
• 19:36

  VLC Are Going To Release A Video Editor

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  Tags:  software  

  learningubuntu.com: I don't normally get excited for a new release of a video editor program on Linux. There are many already there already and they mostly don't work so well.

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• 16:44

  MySQL 6 Features Roll Into MySQL 5.5

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  Tags:  software  

  • MySQL 6 Features Roll Into MySQL 5.5 Milestone
  • Sun Reductions Will Hit Open Source Efforts

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• 13:50

  Opera 10.5 Pre-Alpha -- Now That's More Like It!

   » ‎ OSNews

  Tags:  Opera software  

  This is old news, but only just crossed my radar! Opera have made available a pre-alpha version of Opera 10.5. There's a massive amount of change under the hood, and I caught wind via taranfx.com.

• 9:33

  Open Source Downloads: the Monster List

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  Tags:  software  

  earthweb.com: Open source software has benefited from an explosion of creativity in the last several years. Indeed, the first decade of the 21st century could be called “the Decade of Open Source.”

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• 6:01

  Opera 10.50 Pre-Alpha Beats Firefox, Chrome

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: The Opera developer’s told us recently that they would release a pre-alpha of Opera 10.50 on December 22 and that this release would all be about speed. No one but the inner circle of developers knew what they meant at that time but speculations centered around Opera’s new JavaScript engine Carakan.

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• 6:00

  10 best free applications

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  Tags:  software  

  mybroadband.co.za: Software can cost you a fortune but there are also hundreds of applications that are essential to have on your desktop and are free. We look at ten of the best free applications.

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• December 21, 2009
• 23:24

  12 Days of Xmas

   » ‎ tuxmachines.org

  Tags:  software  

  • 12 Days of Xmas: Day Five - ViewNior
  • 12 Days of Xmas: Day Four - Shutter

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• 23:12

  Inkscape 0.47 Totally Solid with Lots of New Tools

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.worldlabel.com: The free open source vector graphics editor Inkscape has released an update packing several new features, new tools, effects, and improved SVG compliance.

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• December 20, 2009
• 18:47

  Banshee Control, Zeitgeist & Pidgin Support Come to Docky

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Over the last few days Docky has gained some new features and additions. Notably a 3-D mode and Extensions support. In this post we'll be taking a peek at Dockys' "new" extensions.

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• December 19, 2009
• 17:05

  GNOME Panel tips and tricks

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: GNOME is one of the more stable and user-friendly desktops around. And of course, like most of the Linux-verse, with a little tweaking you can make it even more user-friendly. The GNOME panel is one aspect of the GNOME desktop that certainly does not escape possible tweaks.

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• 15:53

  Proposed Photo managers for Ubuntu 10.04

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxers.org: All of you would know by now that Ubuntu Devels are planning to remove GIMP as a default program. This has led to a lot of discussions among them about the default photo manager for Ubuntu Lucid that will compensate for it. In this article, we will look into the 3 top competitors F-Spot, Shotwell and Solang.

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• 13:51

  The unknown network monitor

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: One of them I took a stab at today though, mostly because it’s tiny, but also because the output is rather promising. The problem is, I’m not really sure what to call it. Take a look for yourself.

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• December 18, 2009
• 19:32

  Linux Easter Eggs - Part 1

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxers.org: I don't know about you, but I get the occasional pun from Windozers, saying "Dude, what's the fun in linux?". I believe it's a wasted effort trying make them see the beauty of the linux command line, or the innumerable other things that make linux the life of a Linuxer. So lets set the record straight... the fun way.

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• 17:21

  Hands on: Moonlight 2

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  Tags:  software  

  • Hands on: Moonlight 2 brings Silverlight 2, bits of 3, to Linux
  • Moonlight 2 released; no Microsoft codecs unless you get it from Novell

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• 17:19

  Mild enthusiasm for conky-cli

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: Duly informed of the joys of conky-cli and the much-needed watch command, I decided to try out both of them this evening, and came up with this.

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• 15:10

  DVD::Rip

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  Tags:  software  

  raiden.net: DVD::Rip is one of my favorite programs, I have a 6TB rack and tons of DVDs so I use it all the time to rip DVDs to AVI format and store them on my PC, it also cuts down on allot of disk wear.

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• 15:07

  Has Transgaming Abandoned Cedega

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  Tags:  software  

  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Pretty much anyone who has used Linux for at least a short while is aware of Wine technology and what it does. The topic of commercial Wine software has been known to cause many heated discussions over the years on various Linux message boards. It appears at long last that perhaps this seemingly eternal argument may finally be coming to an end.

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• December 17, 2009
• 19:26

  GNOME board member denies Icaza post caused furore

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  Tags:  software  

  itwire.com: A member of the GNOME Foundation board has denied that a post by GNOME co-founder Miguel de Icaza led to a discussion on the Foundation mailing list which resulted in a call for the project to cut its ties with the GNU Project.

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• 17:04

  6 Applets You Never Used (But Should Be Using)

   » ‎ tuxmachines.org

  Tags:  software  

  learningubuntu.com: How many applets are currently on your panel? Only the default ones that Ubuntu brought? Yes, well, I have to tell you something.

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• 14:58

  Moonlight 2 hot on the heels of Silverlight

   » ‎ tuxmachines.org

  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: Version 2 of Moonlight is now available to download as a Firefox plug-in from Novell's Mono project website. The software allows WMA files and multimedia content implemented using Microsoft's rich internet Silverlight technology to be replayed in Linux.

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• 10:42

  Banshee Gets Grid View

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  Tags:  software  

  • Banshee Gets Grid View
  • Rhythmbox – Useful for iPod Users

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• 8:25

  Minitube Streams YouTube Videos Right to Your Desktop -- No Flash Required

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: Minitube is a solid open source YouTube viewing client that gives users a way to search and watch videos without all the visual distractions.

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• December 16, 2009
• 20:37

  NVIDIA Releases New X.Org DDX Driver

   » ‎ tuxmachines.org

  Tags:  software  

  • NVIDIA Releases New X.Org DDX Driver
  • Radeon HDMI Audio Set For Linux 2.6.33 Kernel
  • Nouveau Makes Its Own NV40 Firmware Replacement

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• 17:30

  Split-View Nautilus Coming To Gnome-Shell?

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  Tags:  software  

  • Split-View Nautilus Coming To Gnome-Shell?
  • 12 Days Of Xmas: Best Apps of 2009 - Day Two
  • AWN 0.4-Beta for Ubuntu is Back, Quick Review and Installation

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• 15:07

  TurboPrint for Linux Saves the Day-- Again

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  linuxplanet.com: Printing in Linux, even in this glorious year 2009--almost 2010--of the new millennium, the 21st century, is still fraught with vexations. I have always liked CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System once you figure out your way around it. But there are still some gaps.

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• 12:35

  Linux: Install a million games in one click

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  dedoimedo.com: Today, we will talk about two extremely useful applications that allow to you search for hundreds of games that run on Linux, sorted by category, popularity, license, or price, read game synopses, check out the screenshots, and then, should you decide that you like some of them, install them with a single mouse click.

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• December 15, 2009
• 15:14

  Nine Months Later: Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2

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  Tags:  software  

  tirania.org/blog: About nine months ago we released MonoDevelop 2.0 and Mono 2.4. Today we are releasing the much anticipated upgrades to both. Mono 2.6 and MonoDevelop 2.2.

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• 5:30

  A quick look at prerelease mc 4.7.0

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  kmandla.wordpress: I decided to go wild the other day, and build a brand-spanking-new version of Midnight Commander, pulling down a prerelease version of 4.7.0. mc is one of those programs that make life at the console an utter joy, just because of the sheer beauty and perfect convenience of it.

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• 5:27

  Gwenview the best image viewer

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  linuxcrunch.com: KDE4 users know Gwenview the default image viewer for KDE, but may not know that Gwenview is one of the best image viewers ever existed.

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• December 14, 2009
• 16:57

  KDE TimeVault Progress Update

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.chatonka.com: TimeVault is alive! Ok, so maybe it was never really dead. But I’ve found some time to work it and after reworking most of the internals I’ve finally gotten it to back up again.

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• 14:56

  Review: Moovida Media Center

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  Tags:  software  

  raiden.net: Moovida, formerly called Elisa, is a cross-platform (Windows and Linux) media suite sponsored by Fluendo. The test installation used version 1.0.9. The program has promise, notably in its elegant design. But it faltered in some areas of performance, and could use some polishing.

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• 5:29

  Watch out Microsoft: GNOME is poised to have a killer 2010

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  networkworld.com: The GNOME Foundation has been slowly and quietly growing in marketing sophistication, arming itself to do battle with proprietary desktop leaders Microsoft and Apple. For instance, yesterday the foundation announced that it was raising its 2010 advisory board membership fees to $20,000 apiece for large companies and $10,000 for small ones.

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• 5:26

  Opera 10 thoughts

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  linuxuser.co.uk: In the earlier days of open source desktop development, a discussion broke out amongst some developers about the fact that the GNU/Linux version of Netscape was crashing a lot. This was from people who had long ago realised that Internet Explorer was not an option due to Microsoft’s lack of interest in W3C compliance. It was thought that some other browser should be produced.

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• December 13, 2009
• 17:04

  Why Use GNote When There’s Tomboy?

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  Tags:  software  

  everyjoe.com: GNote is interesting is an interesting application because it is a sticky notes application which allows wiki-like syntax, linking, and so on. And it looks very much like Tomboy, as it’s a re-write of that application.

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• December 12, 2009
• 18:50

  Manage your network with the new KNetwork Manager

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: KDE 4.3 is out now and the KNetwork Manager has matured quite a bit. Now this KDE tool has reached a point where it not only works consistently, it’s also quite easy to use – almost surpassing the GNOME Network Manager in user-friendliness.

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• 16:30

  Comparing torrent clients

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  kmandla.wordpress: I talk big about rtorrent a lot, and it’s for a good reason. I still prefer it to any other torrent client, and yes, occasionally, I do try others. Usually my motivation is to isolate “torrent slave” as a role for underpowered or out-of-date hardware. But what about something with a little more guts?

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• 12:18

  Songbird - The finest music player ever

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  dedoimedo.com: Discovering new applications is fun - discovering great new applications is sublime. For people with old, acquired taste, finding new thrills is not easy. But every now and then, you stumble upon a remarkable piece of engineering, which simply blows you away. Songbird is one such piece.

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• 12:14

  Getting GTG 0.2 released

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  • Getting GTG 0.2 released - Done !
  • The new Getting Things GNOME! 0.2 "Gorignak" has landed!

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• December 11, 2009
• 18:40

  What Will Happen To xf86-video-nv In 2010?

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: Thanks to the surprise push this morning of the Nouveau driver for the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, this free software, reverse-engineered NVIDIA driver stack is on its way to being used in a lot more Linux systems and distributions. The xf86-video-nv driver just doesn't have any future compared to the Nouveau driver. A few months back when we interviewed NVIDIA's Andy Ritger we asked him about the situation for this driver:

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• 11:55

  Uget My best Download Manager

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  linuxcrunch.com: I have been using GNU/Linux for two years so far. Over this period, I have tested a lot of download manager applications; unfortunately, I can't find the one that suits best for me, because what I have in mind was a program which more or less is simple, lightweight and practical. But when I tried Uget.

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• 11:49

  Docky Feature Mock-Ups

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’.

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• December 10, 2009
• 22:42

  Make Linux look awesome!

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  tuxradar.com: It's now fair to say that the Linux desktop is at the forefront of visual effects, a cornucopia of eye-candy overflowing on to your desktop. And with a few tweaks, it can look even better.

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• December 09, 2009
• 20:20

  Two task organizers

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  kmandla.wordpress: I came across two organizers of sorts the other day, one for the console and one for the QT toolkit. One is rather impressive, while the other has the potential.

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• 20:18

  Review: Thunderbird 3 with tabs, enhanced search

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  arstechnica.com: Mozilla Messaging has announced the official release of Thunderbird 3. Ars takes a hands-on look at the improvements in the new version—including tabbed messaging and enhanced search—and finds a lot to be excited about.

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• 17:53

  Is There Any Good Screencasting in Ubuntu?

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  ubuntulinuxhelp.com: One of the things I've personally found frustrating in Linux is the development status of screencasting applications, or lack thereof. I think many of us are aware of some of the commonly mentioned packages, but, I just wanted something that will work.

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• 17:50

  Linux, Windows, or Mac: You need to patch Adobe Flash

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  itworld.com: I don't think about Adobe Flash much. I just use it. I think that's the case for most of us. Almost all the video on the Web is in Flash, and we just take it for granted. That's a mistake. Like any other popular application, it can be an easy way for a cracker to hack into your computer.

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• 15:46

  Two Minimalist Linux Text Editors That Make Writing Easy

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  makeuseof.com: It took decades of writing, but I’ve come to a realisation: word processors do way more than what I need. And so I started to wonder: why should I be doing my writing with software designed to make it easy to arrange text for being printed out on letter-sized pieces of paper? Why can’t I find software that just lets me write?

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• 9:04

  Time to look at the Linux GUI?

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  raiden.net: Graphical interfaces have come a long way since the fertile minds at Palo Alto came up with a way to make the nowadays plague proportions of plastic rodents useful. While GUI's look very pretty and are so full of eye candy I am surprised that our eyeballs don't have cavities, the current GUI's seem to be lacking in user efficiency.

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• 9:02

  Wally: A Cross Platform Wallpaper Changer

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  maketecheasier.com: Wallpapers breathe life into a desktop. But the same wallpaper can be boring after some days. if you want to automatically rotate wallpapers in your desktop, Wally is just the tool you need.

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• 4:59

  GNOME 3: The Future of the Linux Desktop Revealed

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  linuxplanet.com: For many Linux desktop users, GNOME is their home. But it's a home that's in the process of a major renovation.

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• December 08, 2009
• 20:59

  Malware Hidden Inside Screensaver On Gnome-Look

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Malware has been found hidden inside an innocuous 'waterfall' screensaver .deb file made available on popular artwork sharing site Gnome-Look.org.

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• 15:55

  Avoiding Mono

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  linuxcanuck.wordpress: Mono is a trap. It is a divisive topic if ever there was one in the Linux community. There are anti-Mono and anti-Novell sites and there is no shortage of strong opinion. This distracts us from what we have traditionally done which is to lead and set our own course.

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• 13:17

  Free and Open Source CAD Software for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  junauza.com: Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computer technology for the design of objects whether 2D or 3D, real or virtual. Here are some of the best free and open source CAD software for Linux that you may want to check out:

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• 13:13

  Google Chrome for Mac and Linux: They're Here

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  • Google Chrome for Mac and Linux: They're Here
  • Google Chrome browser hits Mac and Linux
  • Google releases beta of Chrome for Mac and Linux

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• 10:30

  Empathy ... best voice and video chat

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  Tags:  software  

  Making chats and even video calls using Empathy

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• 5:53

  Appreciating Rhythmbox Again

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  everyjoe.com: I haven’t used Rhythmbox for the longest time because Listen met my needs. Well, it was Listen, Sound Juicer and Ex Falso.

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• December 07, 2009
• 12:12

  Opera 10.10 Smashes Download Records

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  Tags:  software  

  eweek.com: Opera Software has announced that within one week of its release, more than 12 million people downloaded Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite.

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• 10:11

  Review: Crossover Games (Linux) 8.1.3

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  raiden.net: Now gamers can play the games they want, on whatever platform they want! With CrossOver Games, you can run many popular Windows games on your Intel, OSX Mac or Linux PC.

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• 8:47

  Personal Financial Management Software for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  zdnet.co.uk/blog: One of the few things which still require me to use Windows is my personal financial management program - I have been a Quicken user for a very long time. This seems like a good time to reconsider the alternatives available for Linux, so I spent some time looking at a few of the possibilities.

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• December 06, 2009
• 19:46

  Sushi Huh? Helps You Download Packages

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  everyjoe.com: If you’re someone with limited internet access and you need packages, you could try this script called “Sushi Huh?” It’s written in Python and you don’t have to install it or anything. Just run it from the command line.

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• 12:52

  What Kind Of People Use X.Org's VESA Driver?

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  phoronix.com: Yesterday we shared the first numbers from our 2009 Linux Graphics Survey that showed the open-source ATI driver is now more popular than ATI's official Catalyst driver. The full results from this survey that concluded last month will be published tomorrow, but in yesterday's graph that we showed there was also something else interesting:

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• 12:11

  Best 4 Antivirus Software for Your Ubuntu OS

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  crenk.com: As we already know, Linux is immune to viruses and other nasty malware. However, there are still a lot of other reasons to install an antivirus program on your Linux computer.

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• December 05, 2009
• 18:23

  Quick AWN 0.4 Overview

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: AWN 0.4. is the next major version due for release and is currently in beta for people desperate to try it out. The point-four series has reworked AWN from a bottom-bound dock into something much more powerful and flexible and adding a slew of new features.

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• 14:04

  some software stuff

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  • Cricket Score applet for Gnome desktop
  • Emesene Gets A New Preferences Window, Adds Easy Theme Install
  • uzbl – a terminal for the web – in gentoo
  • Open ATI Driver More Popular Than Catalyst
  • KDE 4.4 Beta 1 – Tabbed Windows Review

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• December 04, 2009
• 17:02

  From the archives: the best graphics tools of 2001

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  Tags:  software  

  tuxradar.com: With The Gimp not being bundled as standard with Ubuntu 10.04, we thought it was time to get out the shovel, chainsaw and fork-lift truck and do some digging through the archives of the world's best Linux magazine to see how far The Gimp - and its competitors - have come.

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• 15:07

  Network Manager Docklet Coming To AWN

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Avant Window Navigator, a popular dock for Linux, is going to be getting a shiny new network manager docklet.

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• 15:04

  Sabayon and Gnome Shell

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  wolf911.us: This is my first look at gnome shell. I guess this is going to be the big thing for gnome when gnome 3 comes out in 2010. Gnome shell is in it’s early stages yet, but I miss having the ability to place things on the panel.

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• 12:55

  Top 10 killer apps for Linux Nerds

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  • Top 10 killer apps for Linux Nerds
  • Comix: A Digital Comic Book Reader for Linux
  • Shutter is a State of Art Screenshot Tool for Ubuntu
  • Maximus – A Tool to Reclaim Desktop Space in Linux
  • SugarCRM 5.5: New Views and Interface
  • Manage your fonts in Linux with Fonty Python

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• 12:29

  Will Sun Pull MySQL's Teeth?

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  • Will Sun Pull MySQL's Teeth?
  • Survey shows open source users split over MySQL
  • SFLC Submits Opinion to EC on Oracle/Sun Merger

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• December 03, 2009
• 12:15

  Linux & OSS Apps

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  Tags:  software  

  • 5 Essential Linux Apps for Guitarists
  • 51 Open Source Tools to Protect Your Identity
  • Audacity 1.3.10 Beta Inches to Next Major Release

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• December 02, 2009
• 17:42

  The X.Org Plans For Moving Away From HAL

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: To address the questions that have been coming up frequently regarding the X.Org Server and the plans to stop using HAL, Sun's Alan Coopersmith has created a new Wiki page called XorgHAL.

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• 12:23

  Ubuntu System Panel: Simple? Is it heck…

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: Ubuntu System Panel is a panel applet designed to simplify launching, managing and just generally using your Ubuntu system.

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• December 01, 2009
• 16:41

  Linux Desktop Search Engines Compared

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: I have a large electronic library (over 15,000 books) and I was looking for a way to cope with this mass of information. I didn't like the idea of a special catalog, since it would take a lot of manual work to enter the metadata. These files lack metadata way too often and I thought a local indexing service with a full-text search might solve my problem.

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• 16:39

  Ubuntu Forensic

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  Tags:  software  

  forensiccop.blogspot: Ubuntu Forensic is the use of Ubuntu for digital forensic purposes. As it provides a wide range of forensic tools as well as anti-forensic and cracking tools, so it is reliable to investigate a computer crime and analyse digital evidence on it.

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• 16:37

  NoSQL: Not Going Anywhere For a While?

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  Tags:  software  

  redmonk.com/sogrady: Everyone seems to have their own problems with the NoSQL term, so here’s mine: it doesn’t mean anything. Not that terms have to be specific to be useful: is the term database really that descriptive?

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• 9:20

  Organize your life with Osmo

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.techrepublic.com: Everyone needs a way to organize both their work and personal life, but not everyone needs the same solution. For something fast and lightweight that covers all the basics, Vincent Danen recommends Osmo.

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• 7:47

  An Open Source Tool for Every Task

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  Tags:  software  

  schoollibraryjournal.com: For the last several years, I’ve organized sessions on open source software (OSS) at ed-tech conferences. But this year was markedly different, with an awareness of these tools among educators that I’d never seen.

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• November 30, 2009
• 18:20

  GNOME Community Announces Dates GUADEC 2010

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: The GNOME Foundation has announced its annual conference, GUADEC, will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, July 24-30, 2010.

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• 8:02

  Alternative Linux web browsers

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: You know Firefox like the back of your hand. You’ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser. In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side. Browsers, the lot of them.

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• November 29, 2009
• 12:55

  Top 2 iPod management tools for Ubuntu.

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  Tags:  software  

  ghabuntu.com: If you have an Apple iPod and running Ubuntu on your computer, the following 2 applications that are readily available in the Ubuntu Software Center should be of interest to you.

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• November 28, 2009
• 14:27

  Plymouth Gets Tighter Integration With GDM, X

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: While Plymouth already does a great job at mode-setting to the display's native resolution and then showing the selected Plymouth plug-in and then to switch over to GNOME's GDM quite smoothly as the X.Org Server starts up, this process is getting even smoother now.

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• November 27, 2009
• 14:28

  Manage your bibliographic database with Bibus

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: If you are a student, teacher, writer, or anyone who has a need for a bibligraphy then you need to do yourself a favor and make use of a bibliographic manager.

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• 14:24

  Easy Imageshack Uploading In Ubuntu

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Imageshack.us is a popular way to host images for free without needing to login and create an account. There are various ways to upload to Imageshack in Ubuntu.

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• 14:22

  Interstellar overdrive - Linux and astronomy

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  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: Desktop astronomy has become more accessible over the last few years as hardware and software have come down in price. For an outlay not much greater than a top of the range PC it is possible to put together a CCD powered telescope that is more than adequate for hunting comets or prospecting for asteroids which are still popular pastimes among amateur astronomers.

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• 10:40

  Review: Gnome Shell

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  Tags:  software  

  raiden.net: Gnome Shell is a redesign to the way the gnome desktop looks and works. I find it very interesting, because it stops trying to base itself on windows' functionality and design, and instead it consists of an original design and functionality.

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• 7:58

  GTG – A Productivity Tool for GNOME Desktop

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxandfriends.com: Getting Things GNOME! also known as GTG aims to be a simple, powerful and flexible organization tool to the GNOME desktop environment. It is a productivity tool which aids you in organizing your work flow into tasks and sub-tasks, uniquely tagging them so as to get things done in a more efficient manner.

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• 7:54

  5 of the Best Free and Open Source CD/DVD Writing Software for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  junauza.com: If you are using Linux, there are plenty of optical disc-authoring programs to choose from. Here are some of those that I like:

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• November 26, 2009
• 17:02

  Predict is an open-source, multi-user satellite tracking and orbital prediction program

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntulandforever.blogspot: PREDICT is an open-source, multi-user satellite tracking and orbital prediction program written under the Linux operating system by John A. Magliacane, KD2BD.

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• 10:55

  Is The New gThumb A Potential F-Spot Killer?

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop that allows users to manage, tag, sort, view and edit their photo collection from the one application. It can import photos directly from digital cameras and export them to web albums and more.

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• 9:02

  The Ubuntu Desktop Consumer Product

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  Tags:  software  

  doctormo.wordpress: Is the direction of Ubuntu gearing it’s self for simple consumer grade computing? A clue is in the recent planned removal of Gimp from the Lucid CD.

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• 8:59

  A reflection: How we made Amarok 2.2.1

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  Tags:  software  

  amarok.kde.org: With Amarok 2.2.1 we have tried a new approach in release management, which meant a rather radical departure for us: The whole release cycle of 2.2.1 was pretty exactly 6 weeks long. While six weeks can be a lot of time, or very little time, in our case it was very little time, as we had set a goal of achieving three things with this release.

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• November 25, 2009
• 12:49

  Blender 2.5 Alpha Brings Major Changes

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  Tags:  software  

  phoronix.com: For those interested in 3D modeling and graphics, you will want to check out the first alpha release of Blender 2.5. Blender 2.5 is bringing major changes to this free software 3D graphics application.

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• 10:48

  KOffice 2.1 released, ups Microsoft Office compatibility

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  Tags:  software  

  computerworld.com.au: KOffice, a cross-platform open source office suite, has reached version 2.1 with the import and export of Microsoft Office on the list of big improvements.

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• 10:47

  Spatial Desktop: One Script, Ultimate Minimalist Desktop

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  Tags:  software  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: Spatial Desktop is a theming script that transforms your GNOME desktop into a minimal and uncluttered space.

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• 6:25

  The proprietary sins of an average GNU/Linux user

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  Tags:  software  

  mygnulinux.com: New distros seem to pop-up every day in the GNU/Linux world. The majority of them try to be as FREE as possible, however when attempting to install a distribution on a new PC of a common next door user, you will probably find (I sure did) that you can’t avoid falling into these two proprietary sins:

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• 6:22

  Inkscape 0.47 Released With a Batch of Cool Improvements

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: After a long wait, the community around Inkscape, an open source vector graphics editor, are excited about a great new release with loads of improvements and tweaks.

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• November 24, 2009
• 13:51

  Latest OpenShot Release Gains Enhancements

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  Tags:  software  

  • Latest OpenShot Release Gains Super Timeline Enhancements
  • OpenShot Users Website Launched

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• 13:49

  A review of GNOME Do

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  thelinuxexperiment.com: GNOME Do is a fantastic little program that makes Linux Mint a very comfortable experience. At first glance, GNOME Do just looks like a collection of launchers that can be docked to your window, with a search function attached for completeness.

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• 6:36

  Using F/OSS for Your Broadcasting Needs

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  everyjoe.com: In Asia Source 3, we had a track focused on broadcasting your information. Throughout the camp the participants were discussing communications strategies and tools that they use as well as learn tools that help us with our broadcasting needs.

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• 6:33

  15 Power tools for Linux that you cant afford to miss

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  penguininside.blogspot: I'm talking about some tools, which comes in very handy while you are in trouble or save you from future trouble or even help you to do things fast.

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• November 23, 2009
• 18:16

  Linux is Best for PHP Development

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  linuxplanet.com: It's been a few years since I echo'd my first HELLO WORLD script. PHP has developed and evolved and yes. . In this article we'll discuss the two most important things we should try to remember when developing in PHP.

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• 18:14

  video & sound

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  • Nouveau To Enter The Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Kernel
  • PulseAudio 0.9.21 Arrives With Device Manager

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• 18:02

  Opra 10.10 Released, Includes Unite

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  The Opera team has released version 10.10 of their feature-rich browser. This is the first Opera release to come with Opera Unite, which combines the web browser with a web server, so that users can share data directly between one another, without the need for a third party.
• 18:02

  Opera 10.10 Released, Includes Unite

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  Tags:  Opera software  

  The Opera team has released version 10.10 of their feature-rich browser. This is the first Opera release to come with Opera Unite, which combines the web browser with a web server, so that users can share data directly between one another, without the need for a third party.

• 15:23

  GNOME Journal November 2009

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  • The Un-Scary Screwdriver
  • Where are they now? Participants 2006 Women's Summer Outreach Program
  • Telepathy Overview
  • Easy Breezy Beautiful GNOME Shell
  • Telepathy, Empathy and Mission Control 5 in GNOME 2.28
  • GNOME desktop testing automation and how to use Mago
  • Epiphany from a - not so experienced - user perspective
  • An Interview with Leslie Hawthorn

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• 13:39

  Up Close and Personal with LXDE

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  linuxcritic.wordpress: Fluxbox’s biggest drawbacks are that customization is somewhat less intuitive and significantly more labor-intensive than the full-featured environments’, and that the interface as a whole is foreign and unintuitive. After evaluating several environments and window managers, the testers and I agreed that LXDE provided the best balance.

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• 11:29

  Opera 10.10 goes final

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  • Opera 10.10 goes final
  • Opera 10.10 Arrives!
  • Opera 10.10 closes "extremely severe" hole

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• November 22, 2009
• 18:14

  The GStreamer, Cairo Video Hackfest Results

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  phoronix.com: Last month we talked about a hackfest to improve Linux video playback that came about after a GNOME developer began work on using Cairo/Pixman for raw video in GStreamer and looking at other ways to leverage hardware acceleration within this major open-source multimedia framework.

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• 18:12

  Novell Strips BitTorrent DHT Technology from openSUSE

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  torrentfreak.com: The Pirate Bay’s tracker closure has spurred several discussions about DHT, BitTorrent’s fallback technology for when central trackers are unavailable. According to some, DHT has some problems of its own. Novell, for example, decided to ship openSUSE with the BitTorrent client Transmission, but not before stripping DHT support.

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• 8:42

  Docky & AWN

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  • Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More
  • Hidden Linux : AWN

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• 8:37

  A Quick Chat With OpenShot Creator Jonathan Thomas

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: I took a few minutes to chat with Jonathan Thomas, creator and all round nice guy from OpenShot (better known as “iMovie for Linux” around these parts!), to find out what the application is up to, what their plans are for the future and when we can expect a stable release…

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• 8:35

  mpreaper: keep your temp files under control

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  debaday.debian.net: The tmpreaper utility will clean out your temporary file directories by recursively removing files that haven’t been accessed in some amount of time.

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• November 20, 2009
• 18:00

  Opera 10.10 Just A Smidgeon Away

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  • Opera 10.10 Just A Smidgeon Away
  • Quirks with Opera

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• November 19, 2009
• 13:50

  Timed downloads

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  For quite some time I've been looking for a tool to download a list of files (stored in a text file) at a certain time and, if possible, shutdown after completion. Unfortunately there is no know Linux-application that can perform these tasks. Then I got the idea to combine the use of Wget with that of a scheduler.

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• 7:01

  7 Google Chrome Extensions You Must Have

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  clickonf5.org: Google Chrome Extensions are here and really doing great. There are loads of extensions released by different parties but here we are going to take 7 extensions which you should install on your google chrome to make your life much easier.

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• November 18, 2009
• 19:51

  PulseAudio Revisited

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  tycheent.wordpress: Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) has come out now, and I’m still getting 70 hits a week on my original article concerning PulseAudio. The situation has changed radically, and so that people will get correct information concerning it, I felt it necessary to revise my previous findings.

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• 19:49

  5 More Free Linux Apps You Can't Do Without

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  pcauthority.com.au: More digital Swiss Army knife software, including Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them.

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• 15:18

  7 cool applications to improve your Karmic Koala experience

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  • 7 cool applications to improve your Karmic Koala experience
  • Fewer Games To Be Included In Lucid
  • GIMP To Be Removed From Lucid; F-Spot Has Challengers
  • How The X Stack In Ubuntu 10.04 LTS May Look

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• 13:08

  Introducing OpenShot

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  linuxjournal.com: As promised, I've continued to research and test desktop video editors for Linux. This week we'll look at OpenShot, a GTK-based project.

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• 5:00

  Samsung Sponsors The Development Of Enlightenment

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  phoronix.com: Back in June Enlightenment E16 reached version 1.0.0 and then a few weeks later there was an E17 development snapshot released, but there hasn't been a whole lot of news out of the Enlightenment camp over the past year. Fortunately though it now has the backing of a major electronics manufacturer.

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• November 17, 2009
• 14:06

  Kismet – vital Linux wifi security tool

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  linux.bihlman.com: Kismet is a network detector, packet sniffer, and intrusion detection system for 802.11 wireless LANs. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring mode, and can sniff 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g traffic.

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• 14:02

  Amarok Refreshed: Better, Stronger, Faster!

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  ostatic.com: Even though it's a point release, the latest Amarok comes with some major new features and all the benefits of the 2.2.0 release. Dubbed "Weightless," the 2.2.1 release is full of bug fixes and polishing as well as improvements.

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• 12:00

  Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta For Linux

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  phoronix.com: Last night Adobe pushed out their first beta release for Adobe Flash Player 10.1. Alongside the Windows and Mac OS X beta releases was a 32-bit Linux build.

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• 5:43

  What’s GNU in Virtualization

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  linux-mag.com: Taking a new operating system for a spin is easier than ever before with virtualization software but when that software is free, it’s even better.

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• November 16, 2009
• 12:27

  This I call fun

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  • fe and dehtml: This I call fun
  • Tablet Note-taking Made Easy with Xournal
  • A couple of apps to note
  • Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 Further Expands Linux Benchmarking
  • 8 steps for Drupal 8
  • Meet the GIMP: Inkscape and other graphical software

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• November 15, 2009
• 16:26

  Chromium bookmark sync now cross-platform, lands on Linux

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  downloadsquad.com: Jay posted yesterday about the arrival of bookmark sync on Chromium for Mac, and it appears as though Linux users have been invited to the dance as well.

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• 12:48

  NetworkManager in Mandriva

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  artipc10.vub.ac.be: Already for some time, I experience some annoyances in Mandriva’s wifi configuration tools especially when moving my laptop from one to another location with a different wifi network where I connect to.

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• November 14, 2009
• 12:20

  GwenView ReView - The Linux killer application?

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  dedoimedo.com: I do not know who Gwen is or what she looks like, but GwenView looks good and it's a great application. When it comes to working with images, GwenView offers the right balance.

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• 7:43

  Software ahead of the curve

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  • Software ahead of the curve: Gwibber 2.0
  • Kopete – The KDE Messenger for Linux
  • FreeOrion Is A Science Fiction Strategy Game

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• November 13, 2009
• 14:18

  The best Linux collection managers compared

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  tuxradar.com: Collecting things is human nature. The things we collect change over time, but the process never stops. That's where collection mangers come in.

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• 11:59

  Top 10 Conky Designs

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  online-blogger.net: This is a collection of Top 10 Conky designs in a random order, that I really like. Something a bit different from the basic setup.

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• November 12, 2009
• 19:05

  Introducing Testdrive

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  blog.dustinkirkland.com: Testdrive makes it simple to run any Ubuntu release in a virtual machine, safely, and without affecting your current Ubuntu installation.

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• 16:24

  Reviewed: Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux

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  tuxradar.com: After conquering the desktop virtualisation space on the Mac, Parallels has decided to take the fight to VMware with a client for Windows and Linux desktops. So, what does Parallels Desktop 4 for Linux (let's just call it PD4) have over the competition?

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• 16:22

  Unigine Heaven For Linux Status Update

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  phoronix.com: Heaven is the most-impressive tech demo / benchmark yet, but when released in October it only came out for Windows with its DirectX 11 renderer. However, as we exclusively shared, Unigine Heaven is coming out to Linux. What pushed back their Linux release was waiting on functional Linux drivers from AMD.

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• 16:16

  Read your RSS feeds on your Linux desktop with Liferea

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  ghacks.net: RSS has become such a common source of information for us information junkies. Whether you are following Ghacks via RSS, your favorite news site, or your favorite blog, it’s nice to be able to get all of those feeds centralized on your desktop.

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• 13:33

  Why oh why did Epiphany have to ditch Gecko?

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  nancib.wordpress: If you read my review of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” you probably noticed that GNOME’s Epiphany web browser has ditched it’s Gecko rendering engine for the WebKit engine.

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• 10:33

  Painting with cadubi

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  kmandla.wordpress: Cadubi, which I happen to like as a vaguely artistic and somewhat amusing way of “painting” text for the console, is basically a stamp-painting program, with a few simple hot-wirings that make it more usable.

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• November 11, 2009
• 13:34

  Tabu Audio Player

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  blogs.gentoo.org: This morning I found an interesting media app: Tabu Audio Player. It had only a single configure option, "debug," and a very short list of dependencies, so I figured it'd be a simple ebuild to write, right?

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• 13:32

  GNOME Office: Is it a viable office suite?

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  ghacks.net: When you think about office suites, two names come to mind: Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Although the vast majority of Linux users depend upon OpenOffice for their office needs, the alternatives should not be overlooked.

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• 9:05

  Screencasting Software Applications for Linux

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  junauza.com: A screencast (also known as video screen capture) is a digital recording of computer screen output. If you are using Linux and are looking for a screencasting tool that would suit you needs, then you are in luck because there are plenty to choose from. Here are some.

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• November 10, 2009
• 20:27

  Go: new open source programming language from Google

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  arstechnica.com: Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation. What it won't do, however, is liberate the coding masses from bracist tyranny. Google's Go is yet another take on C.

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• 20:25

  Visual Tour of GNOME 3 Shell in Ubuntu

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  digitizor.com: GNOME 3 is the much talked about next generation GNOME that was supposed to come in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. It introduces a radical shift from the interface found in GNOME 2.x. In this article we will give you a quick visual tour of GNOME 3 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Kola.

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• 20:22

  All my eggs in one Basket

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  linux-magazine.com: One application I am always looking for is a better desktop wiki. Not for collaboration, but for dumping various pieces of information into as I research and organize them. For a time, I used Basket Note Pads, but I drifted away when it didn't run on KDE 4.x and the original maintainer quit. Happily, the project has overcome both those setbacks and is moving slowly towards a new major release.

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• November 09, 2009
• 16:36

  Free online multimedia conversion tools

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  dedoimedo.com: Have a lot of multimedia files in all sorts of formats? Would you like some of the less known ones converted into friendly, popular formats that everyone can play? Do not really know where to start?

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• 16:33

  Banshee Gets "Digital Library" integration

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: If you use the Banshee Daily PPA you may have recently noticed* a new entry in the left hand menu panel: Internet Archive.

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• 10:49

  Open Source CMS market share report 2009

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  buytaert.net: The 2009 Open Source CMS market share report was released a couple of weeks ago. The report concludes that WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal maintain a large lead on the rest of the pack.

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• November 08, 2009
• 15:07

  Plugins aren't always a good choice

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  blog.flameeyes.eu: I used to be an enthusiast about plugin interfaces; with time, though, I started having more and more doubts about their actual usefulness.

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• 12:37

  Like GetDeb? Now you can get their packages from a repo

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  nancib.wordpress: One of the best ways to get updated software for Debian-based distros, is from GetDeb.net. They’ve recently launched an updated site for users of Ubuntu 9.04 and newer, and one of the great new benefits is that they now have a repository you can add to your sources.list.

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• November 07, 2009
• 15:50

  5 New Chrome Extensions Worth Trying

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  Tags:  software  

  It’s been a while since my last pick of the best Chrome extensions and to celebrate Chromium finally supporting extension “tool tips” here are 5 new “toolbar” extensions to enjoy!

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• 11:15

  Contextual Playlists in Amarok

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  liveblue.wordpress: We propose a system for displaying music libraries in a more intuitive way for the music player Amarok, through a 2D representation (two dimensions), in order to organize the songs by the similarity between them.

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• 8:33

  Making Multi-Channel Firewire Music With Linux

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  linuxtoday.com: This column is a bit premature because I haven't had time to set things up and test them yet. But I'm excited about getting started, so here are some preliminary notes on multi-track recording in Linux using a Firewire device.

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• November 06, 2009
• 11:59

  Conky has now cairo support embedded

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  norsetto.890m.com: A great feature is in the pipeline for the next release of Conky. Not happy to have included built-in lua support, Brenden and co. have now included bindings for Cairo and Imlib2 as well. This will allow us to use the whole Cairo API within Conky!

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• 10:03

  Amaya: A Simple, Yet Useful Alternative to Dreamweaver

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  maketecheasier.com: While on a project, where money was scarce, we were scrambling around looking for a free or open source HTML editor that can provide us the same functionality as Adobe Dreamweaver. During my analysis of the different HTML editor out there, I came across Amaya.

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• 10:01

  Perl far from dead, more popular than you think

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  royal.pingdom.com: Perl has been around since 1987 and became an early darling of web developers. These days, however, you don’t hear much about Perl. Everyone seems to be talking about trendier languages like PHP, Python and Ruby, with Perl left in the back as a neglected, not-so-hip cousin.

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• November 04, 2009
• 19:49

  Current State of Intel Video, Ubuntu, and Composited Desktops

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  redmonk.com/sogrady: I’ve had persistent issues with Intel Video since the Jaunty release of Ubuntu. The short version is that the fancy effects that I eventually came to depend on stopped working after the Intrepid release of the distribution. Both Jaunty and Karmic include Intel video drivers – and I’ve tried every bleeding edge PPA version I can find – that simply don’t work with Compiz.

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• 13:26

  Apache Software Foundation: 10 years and still open to innovation

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  networkworld.com: It's been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation hung out its feather, creating what has become a series of communities filled with focused project entrepreneurs working on a laundry list of innovative efforts, one of which landed in the White House just a few weeks ago.

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• 11:24

  Faster booting with Upstart

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  h-online.com: A good portion of the boot time on current Linux systems is spent on system initialisation and starting dozens of daemons sequentially. The Ubuntu 9.10 development team have started to parallelise and accelerate the boot process through the large scale use of Upstart.

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• 11:19

  GNOME Keyring

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  Tags:  software  

  mdeslaur.blogspot: For the past week or so, people have been talking about a “security issue” in Seahorse. This sums up my opinion on the matter: This isn't a security issue, and there is no good way to fix it.

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• November 03, 2009
• 21:04

  Blender Game Competition 2010

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  Tags:  software  

  freegamer.blogspot: Blender (everyones favorite GPL 3D modeling application) also has a build in game engine. And what would be nicer than having a nice competition for game creation?

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• 21:02

  Linux gets its own version of Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery

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  Tags:  software  

  techtarget.com.au: Symantec has released a new version of its bare-metal restore software that adds support for Linux servers and tightens integration for centralized management of server backups.

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• 18:36

  Moovida: A Music Player for the Masses

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  ostatic.com: If you're like most computer users, your hard drive is probably stuffed to the gills with movies, pictures, music, and media files you want to hang on to. If you're trying to figure out a good way to manage them all, have a look at Moovida.

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• 18:31

  GNOME 3.0 May Not Come Until September 2010

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  phoronix.com: Back in July of 2008 we learned of GNOME 3.0 as plans were laid out during the GUADEC '08 conference to make the GNOME 2.30 release their "3.0" version in March of 2010. However, it looks like GNOME 3.0 may not hit in H1'2010 but rather September of next year.

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• 15:24

  Head to Head: Google Chrome 4 Beta vs. Firefox 3.6

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  Tags:  software  

  pcmag.com: In the last couple of days, both Google's Chrome browser and Mozilla's Firefox have come out with new betas claiming improved performance. Why not compare these new betas head-to-head?

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• 9:10

  Previewing Gnome Shell in Ubuntu

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  Tags:  software  

  workswithu.com: In order get a taste of what this desktop of the future will look like, I’ve spent the last few days using the development version. Here’s what I’ve found.

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• 6:47

  Free and Open Source Bioinformatics Software for Linux

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  Tags:  software  

  junauza.com: Bioinformatics s the field of science in which biology, computer science, and information technology merge into a single discipline. I have a here a list of some of the most capable free and open source Bioinformatics software for Linux:

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• November 02, 2009
• 13:37

  GNOME Cleartext Passwords: Bug or Feature?

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntu-user.com: The current discussion in the Ubuntu forums is about a possible security hole in GNOME, specifically about GNOME registered users having their passwords appear as cleartext on the keyring. Not a bug, say its defenders, but the security concept behind the GNOME keyring.

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• 13:35

  Chrome and others nibble away IE usage

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  Tags:  software  

  news.cnet.com: Google's Chrome is still the fourth-place browser in terms of usage, but it gained more than others in October when it comes to stealing usage away from the dominant Internet Explorer.

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• 11:35

  3 recent OpenOffice.org extensions

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxjournal.com: Although I do most of my professional writing in Bluefish, I usually use OpenOffice.org at least once a day. Consequently, I keep a close eye on the OpenOffice.org Extensions page.

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• 11:34

  Do The Banshee Shuffle

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: My family has a couple of those tiny little audio players called the iPod Shuffle. Of course we needed an iTunes replacement and Banshee turned out to have all the features we need.

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• 9:15

  Ubuntu 9.10 Software Center: For better or worse

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  Tags:  software  

  blogs.techrepublic.com: One of the new features in Ubuntu 9.10 is the Ubuntu Software Center. In a rather bold move Canonical has migrated away from the standard Add/Remove Software tool and (in the future) plans to drop Synaptic and Gdebi as well. Is this a move just for “moves” sake?

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• 5:13

  5 Free Linux Apps You Can't Do Without

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  Tags:  software  

  pcauthority.com.au: Like a digital Swiss Army knife, these are the Linux utilities and tools that are so useful you won't know how you ever did without them

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• November 01, 2009
• 5:01

  Rapid Photo Downloader: making your life easier

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  Tags:  software  

  jcornuz.wordpress: Have you ever had a couple (or more) memory cards full of images that you quickly want to download to your hard drive while making an extra backup copy and rename all files according to a certain pattern?

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• 4:59

  New tiny project: lddsafe

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  rg03.wordpress: Some days ago we could all read that “ldd”, a tool which prints shared library dependencies, should not be run on untrusted binaries. So I spent a few hours writing and tweaking a small script called lddsafe.

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• October 31, 2009
• 12:01

  Gedit: Don't Get Tricked by Its Simple Looks

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  softpedia.com: Every Linux user that has used the GNOME desktop environment must have had at least an encounter with its default text editor, Gedit. You start it up, and it looks like a simple notepad type application with a toolbar added on top. However, don't let yourself fooled by that simple appearance.

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• October 30, 2009
• 15:34

  First GNOME 3.0 Development Release Available

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  phoronix.com: The much anticipated GNOME 3.0 release is coming in March, but the first development release (v2.29.1) for GNOME 3.0 (a.k.a. 2.30) is now available this week.

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• 5:45

  Measuring performance of GTK theme

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  penguininside.blogspot: Does GTK theme make any noticeable change in performance? Yes. Here is a way to figure out how much does it matter. If you are interested in creating GTK themes you should know how to check performance of theme..

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• October 29, 2009
• 8:38

  Gnome Lets Anyone See Your Keyring Passwords

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  omgubuntu.co.uk: A security hole in Gnome allows anyone to see your keyring passwords without needing to enter so much as a password.

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• 6:19

  Debunking the ‘compiz is so bloated’ myth

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  smspillaz.wordpress: I’ve got a Google Alerts hint set on compiz. A recent trend I’ve noticed is this myth that compiz is bloated.

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• October 28, 2009
• 15:59

  Opera 10.01 released

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  • Opera 10.01 Release Annoucement
  • eWeek Slideshow: Opera 10 Still an Innovative Web Browser

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• 12:09

  Opera browser dinged by code execution flaw

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  blogs.zdnet.com: Mozilla isn’t the only alternative browser maker struggling with serious security problems.

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• 12:08

  Slick Linux Virtual Terminal: aterm

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  suseblog.com: In the search for a full weight loss program for my window manager (I’m switching from KDE 3.5 to XFCE4), it became clear that another terminal would have to replace Konsole. After 11 full minutes of considerable thought, agonizing contemplation, deliberation and extensive research, aterm became the obvious choice.

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• 10:06

  AbiWord 2.8.0 Released, Loaded With New Features

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  ostatic.com: Open source word processing program AbiWord has a new release this week that sports several new features and a slew of bugfixes. AbiWord, long overshadowed by OpenOffice.org, is a fine multi-platform application in its own right and the new goodies in version 2.8.0 bring even more to the table.

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• October 27, 2009
• 17:40

  An office suite for people :)

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  opera.com/it-s: Recently I came across a very curious application and it fascinated me so that I decided to share my experience with you guys. The application is in a nutshell an OpenOffice derivative, created by a Chinese company responsible for RedFlag Linux distro. The application suite is called: RedOffice and you can get an experimental Linux version.

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• 12:30

  X.Org 7.5 released

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  • X.Org 7.5 released
  • X.Org 7.5 Now Released
  • X11 R7.5 Released

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• 8:51

  Complete and Utter (Linux Desktop) Apps

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  earthweb.com: The first time I saw Linux was in the back of a computer shop while a tech was fixing my computer. An enthusiast had brought his machine in, and was boasting about how much more complete its applications were than anything on Windows.

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• October 26, 2009
• 17:26

  CrossOver To Receive Profiles Support, Left 4 Dead 2

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  phoronix.com: When it comes to CrossOver Games Zombie Mallard (we imagine it will be marketed as CrossOver Games 8.1) will feature support for new games, including the Left 4 Dead 2 game that is expected to be extremely popular.

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• 9:09

  49 Hot New Open Source Applications

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  earthweb.com: What's new in the open source world? We've put together a list of software that was first released (or first made open source) in the last couple of years. While many of these apps are still early in the development process, they're all usable, and in fact, have all acquired fairly substantial user bases in a short time.

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• October 25, 2009
• 16:07

  MythTV 0.22 & the database problem

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  cardoe.com: Shortly everyone will start seeing MythTV 0.22 Release Candidate packages. Gentoo users need to know that the upgrade path won’t be smooth sailing. Unfortunately, the MythTV developers incorrectly use MySQL which results in data corruption which must be manually fixed.

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• 16:01

  NetworkManager

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  invalidmagic.wordpress: network management on linux differs from distro to distro. trying various of these i liked what SuSE did over the year. they included a network manager like applet ‘knetwork’ with kde 3 which even included isdn (ppp) links. but NM does a very bad job if things don’t work. there is no debugging possible.

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• October 24, 2009
• 16:31

  Create Greetings Using Kreeting Kard

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  everyjoe.com: Wondering how on earth to create a quick greeting card or postcard without having to go through using Scribus or some other software? I grew up in the 80s so I was used to Print Master. Unfortunately I haven’t found anything like this yet. So far, the only one I saw that’s close enough is Kreeting Kard.

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• 11:44

  Reviewed: Gnome 2.28

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  tuxradar.com: The Gnome project's latest release, comes just in time to be bolted on to Karmic Koala. But with KDE making big strides forward with each point release of KDE 4, are the Gnome team doing enough to keep up? Only just... read on to find out more!

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• October 23, 2009
• 17:31

  Why Adobe likes open source

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  h-online.com: He’s the man who brought open source to Silicon Graphics and NEC and advisor to Warburg Pincus on how to make money investing in open source. "At one point I got the title of open source's undercover agent," recalls Dave McAllister. He was recruited by Adobe as Director of open source and standards with a specific mission:

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• 12:54

  Five Power Tools for Pidgin

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  ostatic.com/blogs: Pidgin is a great GTK2-based instant messenger application that supports a bevy of protocols, including ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, and AIM. It's a terrific app in its own right, but when you add some of these power tools, Pidgin is even better.

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• 12:53

  Linux firewalls for newbies

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  penguininside.blogspot: Not everyone can use iptables because its huge, and very confusing for newbies. Here are some easy to use firewalls for Linux..

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• 10:29

  Amarok 2.2.0: Back on Track

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  itnewstoday.com: Back in June, I reviewed Amarok 2.1 and was far from impressed. Amarok 2.2 has been released recently, and it’s a definite improvement, and may even be the best music player released this year.

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• October 22, 2009
• 9:12

  Oracle fails to convince MySQL doubters

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  • Oracle fails to convince MySQL doubters
  • Stallman correct about Oracle's database business erosion
  • EU to Oracle: MySQL is sore point in Sun deal

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• October 21, 2009
• 19:09

  Reasons I Believe the Community Should Support the Oracle-Sun Deal

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  Tags:  software  

  groklaw.net: Monty Widenius has posted a press release, urging Oracle to sell MySQL to a third party, and there is a link to the materials that he and Florian Mueller, who is working with him, provided to the EU Commission, which appears to have influenced it to delay approval. I'd like to tell you why I think the community should support the Oracle deal.

  Also: And now the s★★t hits the (MySQL) fans…

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• 17:01

  Laptop Survival With GKrellM

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  linux.com: Late at night, when all was quiet, the fan on the Asus laptop seemed to be running a little more than usual. I started GKrellM and checked the chip temperature.

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• 16:58

  Teaching with Tux

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  linuxjournal.com: As a homeschooling family, my wife and I are very involved in our children's education and since we're both a couple of nerds, much of our children's education is done on the computer. I was a bit curious to see if there were any good children's educational programs for Linux; it turns out that there are some very good ones and I'm going to discuss 3 of them today.

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• 14:19

  Cedega vs Crossover Games - Hands on Review

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  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Most people who use Linux for desktop use are well aware of the one of the largest issues facing the platform: Lack of commercial software. Which brings me to my topic at hand - Cedega & Codeweavers. What are Cedega and Codeweavers? Designed to help you get your Windows games working with ease on Linux.

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• 10:50

  Why things are the way they are w/ Compiz++

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  smspillaz.wordpress: Someone in the comments asked me to address the issue as to why we don’t yet have commonly requested functionality such as minimized window previews and input redirection. This post will address this and some of the solutions that we may have in the future.

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• 8:43

  AbiWord is a Free Word Processor

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  howtogeek.com: Sometimes you need a word processing application but not an entire office suite. Today we take a look at AbiWord which is a free word processor for all three major OS platforms.

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• October 20, 2009
• 14:24

  The Road to Compiz++ Part One: Plugin-Plugins

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  smspillaz.wordpress: Compiz 0.9 is a complete re-thinking of Compiz 0.8. It’s like KDE4 was to KDE3. Totally new frameworks. Totally new buildsystem. Totally new API. It’s supposed to clear the ground from major architectural flaws that were in older versions of compiz to make development far easier and faster even for future version of compiz.

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• 12:13

  Stallman opposes Oracle's takeover of MySQL

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  • Stallman opposes Oracle's takeover of MySQL
  • Richard Stallman joins call for Oracle to divest MySQL
  • RMS says GPLv2 isn’t good enough to protect MySQL (but it is)

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• 8:20

  Hulu desktop for Linux

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  ghacks.net: I’m sure by now everyone here knows about Hulu. If not, Hulu is a rather huge collection of television programs that can be viewed on line, for free, with few commercial interruptions. It’s brilliant.

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• October 19, 2009
• 17:56

  10 years of Ximian

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  tirania.org/blog: Today is the ten year anniversary of the incorporation of Ximian, Inc. A company founded by Nat Friedman and myself whose goal was to advance the state of the Linux desktop.

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• 7:28

  Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Communications Apps

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  tomshardware.com: In this segment, we will be focusing on communications applications. While these apps still rely on Internet access to function, their focus is to allow the user to communicate with other individuals using the Internet simply as a transit medium.

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• October 18, 2009
• 6:39

  coupla file recovery apps

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  • Toolbox: Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier
  • Recover deleted files with Magic Rescue

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• October 17, 2009
• 17:05

  How To: Virtualize Any OS For Free

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  gizmodo.com: Syncing your Zune in Mac OS X, running Word in Linux, giving Linux a go within Windows 7: just a few of the things you can do with virtual machines. And setting one up isn't just easy—it's free.

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• 14:47

  Batch Process Photos with Phatch

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  blog.worldlabel.com: Virtually any photo manager out there lets you perform mundane tasks. But even the most powerful applications can’t really help you when you need to perform the same action on dozens or hundreds of photos. For those tasks you need Phatch.

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• 14:44

  Five handy secure shell tips and tricks

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  ghacks.net: I use secure shell a LOT, every day. So much so that I often take for granted how important this tool is. In this article you will learn five different (and handy) secure shell tips to make sure your ssh usage is as good as it can be.

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• October 16, 2009
• 18:00

  Java: The Good Parts

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  kev009.com: When Java first started gaining popularity, it was loudly hyped as the end all language. It was expected that Java would take the “rich client” by storm, and applets would be the go to solution for enhancing web pages. What happened was a bit different.

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• 17:58

  Conky is a good example of a simple Linux tool

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  computoredge.com: Linux (and indeed Unix) has long held the philosophy of "one tool for each job, and one job for each tool." This can lead to quite a paradox for newcomers to Linux: Why are there so many tools that do similar things?

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• 15:58

  Tasks and To-Dos with Glista 0.4

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  itlure.com: If the memory of humans could be measured in removable media and the best would be a BluRay disc, mine would be somewhere around a floppy. Needless to say, I use my phone's reminder function a lot, especially for important stuff with set deadlines. For other "things-to-do-sometime-in-the-future" I want to use a Task manager application that is as simple as possible.

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• 14:10

  Scare Up Some Spooky Halloween Fun for Your Computer

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  ostatic.com/blog: Even if you're not dressing up in costume this Halloween, you can still get in the spirit of the holiday. Trick out your computer with some creepy skins and plugins or treat yourself to a few ghoulish movies and desktop themes.

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• 11:38

  Hulu Desktop for Linux beta a big resource hog

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  arstechnica.com: Hulu Desktop is now available for Linux. Ars puts it to the test on Ubuntu 9.04. Although it's extremely resource intensive, it's reasonably acceptable for a beta.

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• October 15, 2009
• 16:10

  Linux equivalents to popular Mac apps

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  ghacks.net: In my most recent article (”Five tips to help ease the migration from Mac to Linux“) I outlined ways to help end-users transfer from the Mac operating system to the Linux operating system. It was suggested to me that I should cover applications that could serve as replacements for popular Mac apps.

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• 13:27

  3 Tools to Discover & Install Awesome Linux Games

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  makeuseof.com: Linux has always had an impression of being a geek’s toolbox. Today however we are going to look at the gaming side of the spectrum and particularly at applications and resources you can use to find and install Linux games on your box.

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• 13:24

  Kdenlive Meets Studio Dave

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  linuxjournal.com: Over the past few months I've been drifting into the world of Linux video applications and development. ecently a reader asked if I'd tried a recent version of Kdenlive. I started looking into it and I liked what I saw.

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• 9:32

  Amarok 2.2.1 - We're getting there!

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  amarok.kde.org: Here's a little teaser article, showing off some of the work we're doing for the upcoming Amarok 2.2.1.

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• 5:54

  Monomania

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  tuxdeluxe.org: There has been a lot of press recently about the Open Source "Mono" project, arguing about whether it is safe to use by the Free Software community, and even comparing it to the project I work on, Samba. Given all this controversy I thought I might as well write down my own thoughts on the matter, and even try and change a few minds into the bargain.

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• October 14, 2009
• 17:10

  Banshee 1.5.1 Released

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  digitizor.com: Banshee 1.5.1 is finally here! And it has brought with it some new features. Here is a brief rundown of some of the new features in Banshee 1..5.1.

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• 17:01

  Opera 10.10 Beta released

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  • It's out!
  • Opera Turns Your Computer Into a Server
  • New Opera browser turns any PC into a server
  • Opera Unite to be Integrated with Opera Beta Builds
  • Opera Unite Puts a Web Server in Your Web Browser

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• 12:55

  XFCE: A Bitch Session

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  thelinuxexperiment.com: After a full day of using XFCE as my new desktop environment, I have just a few complaints, handily summarized in the following ordered list:

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• October 13, 2009
• 18:57

  Designing Labels and Cards with Scribus

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.worldlabel.com: Scribus is free software page-layout tool applicable to designing all sort of documents: from newspaper ads to fliers to whole books. Because it can precisely position both images and text, it is also the preferred type of tool for designing mailing labels and business cards.

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• 15:11

  Six Top Screen Capture Tools for Linux

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  ostatic.com/blog: Basic screenshot software is really handy to have on hand, even if you don't use it often. If you rely on screengrab tools often, however, you know how important it is to have software with lots of tools and features.

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• 12:53

  Gpager 0.3 "Scenes From a Memory - Finally Free"

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  ploum.frimouvy.org: Gpager is a GPLv2 libwnck pager that just float on your desktop, allowing you to do anything you were doing with you panel pager but bigger and stronger.

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• 9:36

  RPM New Features

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  linux-magazine.com: A few RPM developers from Red Hat and Novell met at the openSUSE Conference 2009 in September. The results of the meeting are now online.

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• 9:35

  Performous: A Challenging and Fun Karaoke Software for Linux

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  junauza.com: I found another cool and fun karaoke software for Linux that I would like to share to everyone. It is called Performous and it's so far one of the best karaoke program that I've tried.

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• 9:31

  7 Reasons Why I Have NOT Switched To Google Chrome

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  pthree.org: I just finished reading 7 Reasons Why I Switched to Google Chrome from Firefox. I found the article a bit on the fanboy side, and I’ll address each of his points here, while also saying my reasons why I’m still holding on to the Firefox browser as my default browser.

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• 7:35

  What's behind Web browser choices

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  Tags:  software  

  • What's behind Web browser choices
  • Browser wars redux: The top 5 contenders duke it out

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• October 12, 2009
• 15:46

  Chromium: It really shines

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  amarok.kde.org: Have you tried it yet? I'm running the Chromium "Daily Builds" on Kubuntu 9.10. At first, not very long ago, I was quite skeptical about Chromium. It looked unfamiliar, it seemed to lack features. Then, about a week ago, I gave it another try. And boy, has it improved!

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• 13:27

  How to use Amarok to manage your iPod

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  howtogeek.com: Sometimes it can be difficult to manage your iPod in Linux without hacking iTunes on your Ubuntu machine. Today we take a look at using the popular music player Amarok to mange your iPod on Ubuntu.

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• 5:22

  The Two Elephant Problem

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  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: When an open source project wants to make major changes in its core code, such as revamping a user interface library, it faces the two elephant problem. The difficulty is moving the second elephant into the room without disturbing the first or just filling the room completely with elephant.

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• 5:20

  Nero Linux 4 - Still the Best Burning Tool for Linux?

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  techgage.com: One of the best features of Linux is its sheer number of free available applications. But once in a while, certain commercial offerings deliver enough features and an ease-of-use that makes it worthy of consideration. Nero Linux is one of those.

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• October 11, 2009
• 17:57

  Gnome is Rapidly Becoming My Least Favorite Desktop

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  Tags:  software  

  penguinpetes.com: Part of my motivation when I made the big switch from Slackware to Ubuntu was a desire to step out of my comfort zone and give something different a try. And while I've warmed up to Ubuntu - heck, I even like it at times! - I'm still cold on Gnome.

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• October 10, 2009
• 8:47

  Gnome 3.0 Reviews – Coming on Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13

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  Tags:  software  

  icewalkerz.blogspot: Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 13 will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’.

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• October 09, 2009
• 13:30

  Desktop Environments

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  Tags:  software  

  elevenislouder.blogspot: The GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME) and the K Desktop Environment (KDE) have long been the Linux/UNIX options for fully graphical environments. Long ago, it seemed that these two were truly all we needed. Aside from KDE and GNOME we have:

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• 13:29

  Are Linux distros downplaying the Gnome 3.0 preview?

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  linuxnewstoday.org: Lately, there has been some obervers in the Linux community that have been wondering if some Linux distributions might be sort of downplaying the Gnome 3.0 Stealth Preview.

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• 13:27

  Bazaar 2.0.0: interview with Martin Pool

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.launchpad.net: The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally.

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• 11:32

  Simple gui backup tool backerupper

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: In my last article I covered the backup GUI Flyback (”Quick and easy backups with Flyback“.) There are far better GUI tools for easy desktop backup. One of those tools is Backerupper.

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• October 08, 2009
• 17:20

  10 Reasons Why Chrome Should be Your Browser

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntugeek.com: An official version of Google Chrome has been available to try out for several months. Below are 10 reasons why i think it should be your default browser.

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• 11:00

  Interview: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering

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  Tags:  software  

  cio.com.au: Lennart Poettering checks in from this year's Linux Plumbers Conference to detail the latest PulseAudio developments.

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• 5:13

  Bangarang – A KDE media player

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  Tags:  software  

  bangarangkde.wordpress: Over last few months I started work on a media player and, inspired by Aaron’s recent blog on continuous communication, it seemed appropriate to share my dabblings so far.

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• 5:11

  Rock The wbar Dock

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  Tags:  software  

  ubuntumini.com: wbar is a quick launch bar similar to the OSX dock. It's a lightweight and fast piece of useful eyecandy written in c++ using imlib2. While it isn't as full featured as Gnome-Do or Avant Window Manager, wbar's low overhead, speed, and efficient dependencies make it an ideal for netbooks.

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• 5:10

  Beautify the Terminal

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  gauravlive.com: The linux terminal can get boring at times owing to lack of colors & a rigid black background. Hardcore Linux enthusiasts won’t think about the appearance of the terminal but normal users will surely get bored of the monochrome terminal sooner or later. Surprisingly beautifying the terminal is pretty simple.

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• October 07, 2009
• 15:03

  KGet gets some love :)

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  kdedevelopers.org: I want to talk but about a great coding team doing a great job with a very promising application. That application is.. imagine.. you already know since it was in the title.. It's KGet.

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• 15:01

  K3b 2.0 Alpha 2: Review and Screenshots

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  kabatology.com: K3b, the popular open source full-featured CD, DVD, Blu-Ray burning and ripping application gathers momentum and heads towards version 2.0 after a year or so of no-growth. The last stable release, version 1.05 was out in late May 27, 2008. The good news is K3b 2.0 has been ported KDE 4 thanks to two developers from the Mandriva project.

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• October 06, 2009
• 12:54

  Gmail Notifier Applets for Ubuntu

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  workswithu.com: Given the popularity of Gmail, it’s not surprising that a score of desktop applets have emerged for notifying users of new messages. I recently set out on a quest to find the best one. Here are the results.

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• 10:46

  A Free Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Visio

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  makeuseof.com: Do you diagram? Chart? Maybe you sketch room layouts or wiring schematics? How about flow charts? Well I think we have a solution!

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• 10:44

  learning a new shell: zsh

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  xylld.wordpress: So I’ve decided to start learning a new shell. I see so much talk about zsh and finally, I’m going to attempt to learn to use it. I installed it and started using it and a few things are immediately different.

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• 7:00

  Top 10 Google Chrome Artist Themes

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  junauza.com: Adding to the list of Google Chrome themes, Google recently introduced a new set of themes that are created by well-known artists, illustrators, architects, musicians, filmmakers, and fashion and interior designers from around the world resulting in a colorful combination of art and technology. Here are some of my favorites:

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• 5:07

  Exaile 0.3.0 is a Music Player for Ubuntu

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  howtogeek.com: Exaile is a solid choice for Ubuntu users to manage their music collections. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling.

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• October 05, 2009
• 21:05

  Linux Software Picks: Six Alternatives to Photoshop

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  maximumpc.com: Although many graphics professionals turn to Windows or Mac OS to execute their designs, Linux is far from helpless in this area. While it helps that Adobe Photoshop, the undisputed gold-standard program that most professionals use for raster graphics, runs on Linux through Wine, there are several native Linux programs that offer some of the same functionality.

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• 12:59

  Flash Player becomes runtime environment for any platform

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  h-online.com: The new version is the first to be based on the runtime environment developed by the Open Screen Project and works with the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X desktop operating systems as well as with the Windows Mobile and Palm webOS.

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• October 03, 2009
• 12:05

  Eyes on the Skies

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  barrons.com: AS THE DAYS GROW SHORTER AND THE NIGHT skies clearer (if also colder), gazing at the heavens through a telescope or binoculars can again be a delight. But it's much more fun if you know what you are looking at -- and the best thing for that is a good computer astronomy program.

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• October 02, 2009
• 6:31

  Teaching Kids Programming with Free Programming Languages

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  junauza.com: Teaching young students or even your own kids to learn or be interested in programming can be really daunting. However, there are free programming languages that are designed to teach children the basic concepts and elements required in traditional programming that you can use to get the job done quite easily.

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• October 01, 2009
• 19:52

  Amarok 2.2 "Sunjammer" released

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  kdenews.org: The Amarok team is excited to announce the release of Amarok 2.2. In three and a half months, Amarok has made a huge leap forward, gaining many new features and a lot of old features from 1.4 have returned.

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• 19:45

  Top Video Editing Apps for Linux

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  intranetjournal.com: In this article, I'll highlighting existing video editing software for the Linux platform, in addition to also making sure that you understand the benefits and hurdles of each software title included in this round up.

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• 13:59

  3 great educational apps for Linux newbies

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  sinaisix.blogspot.com: One of the greatest things about Linux is that there is never a shortage of applications to meet virtually every need. Below are 3 very great educational applications that most newbie Linux users will find very useful.

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• 10:59

  Putting Linux on Parental Control

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  earthweb.com: Over the years I’ve witnessed desktop Linux distros evolve dramatically – change the very core of the way we look at how an operating system interacts with its users. However, I still find plenty of forum posts on the Web stating that Linux as a platform still lacks suitable parental controls.

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• 8:38

  Celestia 3D Space Simulation Software For Linux

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  cyberciti.biz: Celestia is a real-time visual space simulation astronomy program. NASA and ESA have used Celestia in their educational and for interfacing to trajectory analysis software.

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• 6:05

  Chromium test (two days without Firefox)

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  linuxtidbits.wordpress: With Firefox becoming fully-fledged, I wasn’t on the look-out to try another browser. Curiousity, however, creeped in short of my expectations and I have been taken quick glimpses of Chromium the last two months.

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• September 30, 2009
• 18:28

  AMD R600/700 2D Performance: Open vs. Closed Drivers

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  phoronix.com: While the ATI Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards were introduced last week, the open-source support for the Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 series is finally maturing. In this article we have benchmarks showing the 2D performance between these two driver options with both an R600 and R700 graphics card.

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• 18:26

  Power searching Linux with SearchMonkey

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  ghacks.net: There are search tools and then there are SEARCH TOOLS. Any Linux user that has ever needed real power for their searches generally has to resort to the command line. But what if you could have a GUI tool that could also handle regular expressions?

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• 16:31

  Can You Boycott a Boycott?

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  ostatic.com/blog: From the things-that-should-never-happen-but-you-knew-they-would-eventually department, comes more flamage in the Mono advocates vs. anti-Mono advocates vs. the now anti-anti-Mono advocates.

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• 16:29

  Evince: Speed and Functionality Combined

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  softpedia.com: In the heterogeneous computing world of today, documents are encapsulated in a variety of formats, from the mundane PDF to the high-resolution tiffs needed in typography. To be able to view all of them you could use four or five different applications, or you could just employ Evince.

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• 14:15

  Free, Native Linux Plug-ins for energyXT for Linux

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  createdigitalmusic.com: It’s simply stunning some of the terrific instrument and effect plug-ins available that are now free and open source – yes, free as in freedom, not just freeware. I had commented in the past something along the lines of, “boy, wouldn’t it be great if this now meant, say, a Linux port?”

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• 14:10

  Openshot Video Editor Gets HUGE Update

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  d0od.blogspot.com: OpenShot - one of the best video editor available for Linux - finally has a PPA! That's news enough in-itself as it means pain free installation but the even better news is it now comes complete with effects!

  Also: Openshot : The magic has arrived

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• 12:14

  There Are Now NO POVRay Modelers For Linux?

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  penguinpetes.com: NONE? Zero, zip, swabbo, nothing? Empty, the opposite of full?

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• September 29, 2009
• 22:24

  On Mono, Miguel, Stallman and Fusion with Microsoft

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  groklaw.net: Jason Perlow has written an article about Richard Stallman, Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman. There are some factual errors in the article, so let me step up to the plate and fix them.

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• September 28, 2009
• 9:56

  50 Open Source Apps for Small Biz/Home Office

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  earthweb.com: When it comes to businesses using open source software, medium and large enterprises seem to get most of the press. However, small office/home office (SOHO) setups with 10 employees or less may see even greater benefit from switching to open source applications.

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• 9:54

  Gnome Shell… Meh

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  v00d00.net: Now with any major new release of GNOME you are going to get alot of “omg totally awesome new stuff in gnome!” posts. The real question is do you want it to do something new?

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• 7:56

  Apache Holds Steady in a Changing Web Server Landscape

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  computerworlduk.com: Once upon a time, the monthly Netcraft Web server survey was nice and boring. Regular as clockwork, it showed the complete dominance of Apache in this sector.

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• September 27, 2009
• 14:48

  5 alternative image manipualtion apps for Linux newbies

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  sinaisix.blogspot: One of the drawbacks to most people who want to migrate to Linux is that it lacks some really good image manipulation applications. Below are five.

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• 8:36

  6 of the best media burners for Linux

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  techradar.com: Despite all the glitz, the same age-old tools are chugging away at the back-end, giving the front-end apps approximately equal powers. So, how do the various disc burning apps stack up against each other and which one should you trust with your data?

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• September 26, 2009
• 13:16

  Clipboard management with Linux

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  penguininside.blogspot: Why do you even need it? Clipboard management is not just for content editors. In fact you will always need one on your Linux box. So, Here are some clipboard management applications for Linux desktop.

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• 13:14

  Proposed Process Changes For X Server 1.8

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  phoronix.com: While the X.Org developers are responsible for a lot of critical code and much of it is quite old and massive. Concerns about the degrading quality of releases have been voiced for years. Fortunately, this situation may finally turn around.

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• September 25, 2009
• 21:15

  Helpful Tools for Software Developers

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  linux-mag.com: Coding is often just a small part of software development. There are lots of other tasks to attend to. Here are some tools to help with all aspects of the job.

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• 18:07

  Nintendo Emulation w/ Linux! – All you need to know!

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  openbytes.wordpress: Many users without experience of Linux will not know how well catered for Nintendo, (or indeed most system) emulation is. The is one of a few articles I will be writing on the subject as I think a barrier that prevents people from running Linux will be area’s like this.

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• 15:48

  Does Silverlight on Linux matter?

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  blog.internetnews.com: During the Intel Developer Forum this week, Microsoft announced that it was planning on delivering its Silverlight media for Intel's Moblin Linux. What's the point of replicating what Novell already does?

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• 9:45

  Mandriva: net_monitor lives again

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  dodonov.net/blog: Working on Mandriva network tools, I looked on one of the most essential ones the network monitor (net_monitor). It was introduced a couple of releases before, and was mostly doing its job. However, it has a number of flaws and lack of features that motivated us to look closer at it.

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• 9:40

  New LinuxDSP Plugins

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  arthursucks.com: I’ve been a huge fan of Ardour. I talk about this program constantly. I was overjoyed when I read about the LinuxDSP plugin kit.

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• September 24, 2009
• 20:17

  Minimal Window Managers: Day 1

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  ubuntu-tutorials.com: After getting a lot of feedback from the crowd regarding window managers I’ve decided to try a few out.

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• 18:26

  First impressions of gnome-shell

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  deansas.org/blog: GNOME Shell is the proposed interface for Gnome 3, it replaces the window manager, the panels at the top and bottom of the screen and everything that sits on them.

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• 16:15

  Linux garden gets a new GNOME with version 2.28

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  arstechnica.com: A new version of the GNOME desktop environment has arrived with a new Bluetooth management tool, a WebKit-based browser, and a number of other noteworthy improvements.

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• 9:16

  Free and Open Source 2D Animation Software for Linux

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  junauza.com: These free 2D animation software is as capable as those that are commercially available so do take time to try them first before emptying your wallet.

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• 7:03

  First Look: GNOME 2.28.0

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  softpedia.com: If you're an Ubuntu buff, you'll have a pretty good idea about the subject of this article, since you already know that the Ubuntu releases are in sync with a certain graphical environment's development cycle.

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• September 23, 2009
• 20:12

  Mono: A modest proposal

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  linux-magazine.com: OK, I'm conflicted. Last Saturday at the Software Freedom Day event in Boston, Richard Stallman called Miguel de Icaza “a traitor to the Free Software community" because of de Icaza's involvement with Microsoft-based technologies like Mono and Moonlight.

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• 17:39

  Five Resources for Open Source Fonts

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  ostatic.com/blog: There are plenty of Web sites to download fonts that are low- or no-cost, but finding free and open source fonts is a little more difficult. Here are five resources to check out the next time you need something with just the perfect slope or serif.

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• 17:24

  GNOME 2.28 - the dawn of a new era

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  h-online.com: Version 2.28 sees the team behind the GNOME desktop environment for Linux and Unix warming up for version 3.0, scheduled for a March 2010 release. The current release continues the tradition of dotting lots of i's and crossing plenty of t's, but also brings a new broom to a few nooks and crannies.

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• 9:24

  BIND is not just legacy freeware

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  blogs.zdnet.com: In pushing his SaaS DNS offering, Skye, general manager John Shalowitz has his marketing department partying like it’s 1999.

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• 4:54

  Tux Paint – A Great Image Program for Your Children

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  howtogeek.com: Looking for a wonderful image program for your children (or inner child)? Tux Paint makes a terrific addition to your family’s computer whether you are using Windows, Linux, or Mac.

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• September 22, 2009
• 20:10

  Dropping Compiz for Mutter (Metacity 3) compositing?

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  blog.thesilentnumber.me: I'd like to ask the Ubuntu developer community to consider freeing up valuable CD space by removing Compiz and just using Mutter (Metacity 3) compositing in the default installation for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Lucid Lynx.

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• 17:40

  A Quick Look At Gnome 3’s Desktop Sidebar

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  d0od.blogspot: Continuing our look at Gnome 3’s Gnome-Shell, we land upon the oft unnoticed desktop sidebar!

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• 11:41

  Replacing KDE applications

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  linuxcritic.wordpress: I’ve been on an app-hunt to replace some of the applications to which I’ve grown used to in KDE, mostly so that I can break my ties with that desktop and move forward completely without it.

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• September 21, 2009
• 20:48

  GNOME and KDE: In Search of the Perfect Menu

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  earthweb.com: If you believe that desktop features can be intuitive, then a survey of the available menus in free and open source (FOSS) desktops should disabuse you of the notion.

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• 6:35

  The path to GNOME 3.0

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  h-online.com: GNOME release manager Vincent Untz talks to heise open about the projects future plans for the popular desktop manager.

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• 6:34

  From the archives: the best text editors of 2000

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  tuxradar.com: War. In our world, people get into conflicts about all sorts of matters, from religion and belief through to money and oil. And, in the Linux world, tensions can build up and overspill into flame wars on many subjects too. The most popular of these is text editors.

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• 4:39

  Remuco as Remote for Your Media Player

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  everyjoe.com: Those with bluetooth or wifi on their machines will most likely enjoy using Remuco, an application to let you use your mobile phone as a remote control. Right now, Remuco can be used with the following media players:

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• September 17, 2009
• 5:35

  On Using Chromium

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  everyjoe.com: I recently blogged about two guides on installing Chromium for Ubuntu and I included links to articles that talked about the proper way of installing it as well as enabling the support for Flash. This recent experience with Chromium seems so much better compared to my first attempt at installing it.

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• 5:32

  How GNOME and KDE spend their money

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  linux-magazine.com: Quarterly reports are the stuff of business. In most people's minds, they are as far from the spirit of free and open source software (FOSS) as anyone can imagine. All the same, as non-profit organizations, many FOSS projects issue them. And while your first reaction may be to avoid quarterly reports, they can give some insights into projects, especially if you read between the lines.

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• September 16, 2009
• 16:33

  5 free Linux Kids Games + 1 extra

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  osrevolution.com: Here's a short list of some games that could be played by your toddler and you can find in your friendly package manager.

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• 14:28

  Free Desktop Publishing with Scribus (Open Source)

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  blog.worldlabel.com: Scribus is the leading open source solution for desktop publishing (DTP); it supports professional features like press-ready color separations and PDF output, as well as every media file type under the sun. With Scribus you can design high-end documents with a separate workflow for authors, photographers, and graphic designers in an office environment, but it is easy enough for single-user work, too.

  Also: Scribus is a an Art Desktop Publishing Tool for Linux

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• 5:07

  Surfing The Forge: Sound & MIDI Projects On SourceForge

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  linuxjournal.com: SourceForge is one of those long-lived services that have remained relevant to my searches for new and interesting sound and music applications, so I decided to surf the Forge to find recent and maybe some not-so-recent developments in the world of Linux audio.

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• September 15, 2009
• 21:02

  Great Blender Tutorial

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  ostatic.com/blog: The web, and the Blender.org site both abound with Blender tutorials, and the free online book "Blender Basics" is a good place to start learning the application, but Free Software Magazine alerted me to what may be the best free way to master Blender of all: Tufts University's Blender 3D Design online class.

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• 21:00

  KOffice 2.1 Beta 2 Released

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  kdenews.org: The KOffice team today announced the second beta of the upcoming 2.1 release. The KOffice community has now switched from adding new features to only fix the remaining bugs, and that is obvious from this release.

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• 20:57

  Google Chrome 3.0 Sees Stable Release

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  eweek.com: Google's Chrome team released a new stable build of the Web browser that boasts the speed bumps and features the company introduced in its 3.0.195.4 beta release last month.

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• 18:23

  Linus is always right

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  elcuco2.blogspot: Linus is always right: SVN users are stupids, GIT is superior. I am now starting to move my personal projects from SVN to GIT.

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• 13:54

  GNOME Foundation releases first quarterly report

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  h-online.com: The GNOME Foundation, which coordinates development of the GNOME platform, has announced the release of its first quarterly report.

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• 13:52

  Firestarter: Simple to use, powerful desktop firewall

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  Tags:  software  

  ghacks.net: Every PC needs protection. Now with the Linux operating system you have a lot of choices for protection. But one of the easiest to use is Firestarter. Firestarter is one of the easiest-to-use firewalls I have used.

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• 9:30

  Pidgin vs. Empathy: Feature Comparison

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  workswithu.com: The decision to replace Pidgin with Empathy in Ubuntu 9.10 has not been without controversy, or second thoughts on the part of Ubuntu developers. Much of the discontent centers around concerns that Empathy does not yet offer the features to compete with Pidgin.

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• 5:26

  15 "Really" Awesome Conky Configurations

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  junauza.com: After showing you how to install and configure conky, and then gave you the idea that you can display Twitter statuses on it, it's time for me to share to you some of the most highly-customized, unique, and awe-inspiring conky configurations.

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• September 14, 2009
• 21:03

  Best of both worlds: twin

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: I have mentioned a lot of console applications over the past few weeks, but usually either in conjunction with screen-vs, or with something running under X, like Musca. There is a middle ground, so to speak.

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• 21:02

  OpenGoo Review - DIY Web Office

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  eweekeurope.co.uk: Available in DIY or "with tech support" versions OpenGoo lacks some functionality, it has limited file formats, but, frees users from being tied to a web app provider.

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• 20:59

  Getting Started with Money Manager Ex

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  Tags:  software  

  bytesandsuch.com: While I have some knowledge of double entry accounting, GnuCash is simply too complex for managing a checkbook and performing simple budgeting. In June, I published a post on HomeBank criticizing its inability to support split categories. At that time I installed Money Manager Ex. For a few weeks I ran it side by side with AceMoney. It is now the only money manager I use.

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• 18:01

  New & Improved Last.FM Plugin For Banshee

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  Tags:  software  

  d0od.blogspot.com: An updated version of Banshee’s Last.FM plugin provides better scrobble support and “instant” now listening updates on Last.FM.

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• 14:01

  Five Open Source Flash Card Apps to Make Rote Learning Easier

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  Tags:  software  

  ostatic.com/blog: Chances are, when you've needed to learn something by rote memorization you've turned to flash cards (multiplication tables, anyone?). There are plenty of ways to learn things that require instant recall but few are as effective as flash cards. The next time you need to memorize a bunch of facts, give one of these desktop and mobile open source flash cards applications a try.

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• 14:00

  4 Children’s Linux Applications To Keep Your Kids Ahead of the Game

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  Tags:  software  

  makeuseof.com: Today we’re going to continue our journey through the Ubuntu software repository looking for more children’s Linux educational software. As more and more parents allow their children to use the computer, setting up your kids with a Linux distribution makes even more sense:

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• September 13, 2009
• 14:08

  Midori Lightweight Web Browser Alternative

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  ghacks.net: Midori’s approach is the lightweight but still comfortable web browser. The portable web browser is based on WebKit which is also used by Google Chrome and Safari. This guarantees great page rendering speeds. One of the greatest benefits of the web browser is its low resource usage.

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• 14:06

  6 Unique Features That Make Opera 10 Stand Out

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  makeuseof.com: Being an Opera long-time fan (back to the days of Netscape vs. IE), I’m also curious about what goodies Opera 10 has to offer. So I gave Opera 10 – Mac version for me – a test drive, and here is my Opera browser review with several nice features that I like.

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• September 12, 2009
• 16:23

  Opera 10 is NOT Friendly to Bloggers

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  bytesandsuch.com: Although Firefox is my preferred browser, it is wise to have another available. As a blogger, I thought my page actually looked better in Opera than in Firefox. Unfortunately there was a “regression” in the final release.

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• 6:22

  Open Source Load Balancer for Linux

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  junauza.com: I know this topic is somewhat advanced for some of you, but for others hopefully this will be useful. So what is a load balancer?

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• September 11, 2009
• 9:10

  Go-oo - OpenOffice with a twist

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  dedoimedo.com: All your friends and business partners run Microsoft Office and you cannot afford to have any blunders when reading their documents. Likewise, you don't want to have your presentations all garbled up when you import them from Impress to PowerPoint. What about Office 2007? What about macros in your Excel sheets?

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• 9:08

  CAD Programs for Linux

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  ghacks.net: Often, when I ask why users don’t adopt Linux, I am met with the response “There are no CAD (Computer Aided Design) applications. Now I will confess that I know next to nothing about CAD, so I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the CAD applications available for the Linux operating system.

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• September 10, 2009
• 21:00

  Get Decked: A Look at TweetDeck

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  linux-mag.com: Having trouble keeping up with your social media? The TweetDeck crew released a major update to the “social dashboard” this week that adds support for Facebook and MySpace. Now you can update several major services and bring order to your social media universe.

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• 15:00

  No MySQL, no Java in oracle developing plans?

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  • No MySQL, no Java in oracle developing plans ?
  • Oracle tries to stop Sun's bleeding: Is it too late?
  • Oracle overtures to Sun customers mum on MySQL

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• 12:34

  Gnome Shell – Your Next Desktop Environment

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  maketecheasier.com: There’s been some grumbling among the Gnome community about if and when Gnome would have a major overhaul. Well with Gnome 3 we’ll have it in the form of Gnome Shell. It pretty much replaces the panel and window manager in a normal Gnome installation with a fully composited environment with some great new functionality.

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• September 09, 2009
• 15:51

  Synergy: A software KVM switch (without the “V”)

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  linuxcritic.wordpress: Because I’m constantly doing things on both machines, I’m always switching between my regular keyboard for my desktop machine and my laptop’s keyboard, and likewise with the two mice. Synergy eliminates that switching.

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• 13:59

  3 Software Applications For Chemistry Students

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  makeuseof.com: An often overlooked aspect when compared with other more popular operating systems, Ubuntu enables students of various ages and topics to access a wealth of educational software.

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• 9:48

  GNOME Journal Issue 16 Released!

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  • Putting the Network back into G(N)OME - An Interview with John Palmieri
  • Writing Open Source Conference
  • Behind the Scenes with Lucas Rocha

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• 7:21

  Mono Survey Time!

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  tirania.org/blog: In this survey, I want to know how much people are willing to pay for (or not pay) for Mono commercial support on a variety of platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Solaris on a variety of architectures.

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• 4:54

  Replacing X11

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  elevenislouder.blogspot: MicroXwin is a kernel module Xlib compatible graphics system, but it isn't client/server oriented and is not network oriented. It is binary compatible but uses only 1 to 2 mb of RAM.

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• September 08, 2009
• 15:03

  Openbox: A fun and lightweight window manager

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  linuxcritic.wordpress: I am always on the lookout for a new way of doing things when it comes to personal computing, and one of the best ways to do so is to experiment with different window managers for Linux.

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• 13:16

  Opera 10 tops 10 million downloads

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  techradar.com: Opera 10 was downloaded 10 million times in the first week of its release, breaking the company's download record for the popular browser.

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• September 07, 2009
• 18:47

  Apache Web Log Analyzer

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  ghacks.net: Webmasters have a few log file analysis options. Many web hosting companies provide pre-installed scripts like Webalizer that automatically perform an Apache log file analysis and display the results in a web browser.

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• 13:25

  On the question of MySQL’s state of health

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  blogs.the451group: Matt Asay has written an interesting post speculating that Oracle might use the delay caused by the European Commission investigation into its acquisition of Sun to drive the price down. Sounds reasonable enough to me.

  Also: Why the EU should block Oracle/Sun

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• September 06, 2009
• 18:32

  Is Spicebird The Best Desktop E-Mail Client?

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  d0od.blogspot: SpiceBird is a desktop E-Mail application that combines E-Mail, Instant Messaging, Calendar, Task management and an iGoogle gadgets in one application.

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• 15:40

  Review: Ubuntu Tweak

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  ardchoille42.blogspot: I was browsing the Get Deb site and happened to find an application called Ubuntu Tweak which piqued my interest. I never install anything outside of the official Ubuntu software repositories unless I am able to audit the source code - this is one of the benefits of open-source software.

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• 15:35

  Wine, Linux and Multimedia Software (Part 1)

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  linuxlinks.com: I have been an unashamed Windows user for longer than I care to remember. However, I took a big step about six months ago when I commenced my adventure with Linux. There remained one significant barrier to becoming productive under Linux.

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• 15:33

  Ubuntu 9.10 Gets Unreleased Catalyst 9.10 Driver

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  phoronix.com: Last year Canonical resorted to publishing an unreleased Catalyst driver within Ubuntu 8.10 so that there would be a ATI driver available to provide proper 3D support to its user. This happened again with Ubuntu 9.04. Well, now we have it a third time.

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• September 05, 2009
• 18:10

  uzbl: a browser that adheres to the unix philosophy

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  tuxtraining.com: Like Vimperator for Firefox? Want something a bit smaller? Easier to config from plain text files? Well meet Uzbl.

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• 18:07

  Tucan Manager

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  meanmachine.wordpress: Tucan Manager is a free and open source software designed for automatic management of downloads and uploads at hosting sites like rapidshare or megaupload.

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• 15:50

  Amarok 2.2 – Reloaded, revamped, rethinked, reeverything!

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  kdenews.org: The Amarok team is getting ready for the release of Amarok 2.2 and is proud to release the first beta version of Amarok 2.2.

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• 13:28

  Best Google Desktop Applications for Linux

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  junauza.com: Google has already released several desktop applications that works on different operating systems. As a Linux user, I'm grateful that all of my preferred Google desktop apps are well supported and can be easily installed on my favorite distro.

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• September 04, 2009
• 15:08

  EU fears Oracle will kill MySQL, but is that even possible?

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  arstechnica.com: Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun has hit a snag. The European Commission is concerned that Oracle's will terminate the open source MySQL project, a move that would have a detrimental impact on competition in the database market. In light of the resilience inherent in open source software, it's unclear if such a maneuver would even be possible.

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• September 02, 2009
• 19:47

  CrossOver Games 8.0, Now With Zombie-Plague Protection

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  ostatic.com/blog: It's been a while since CodeWeavers updated CrossOver Games and today's release of version 8.0 is a doozy.

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• 17:46

  10 Linux file managers worth checking out

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  blogs.techrepublic.com: If you’ve never given your file manager much thought, maybe it’s time to look at the wide range of features offered by Linux file management tools.

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• 15:17

  Opera 10 – Finally a browser that is NOT sluggish

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  * Opera 10 – Finally a browser for linux that is NOT sluggish
  * Opera 10 - A First Look At This Fabulous Web Browser
  * Fun and games with Opera 10 widgets

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• 13:21

  Open Source Karaoke Game Hits the Right Notes

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  ostatic.com/blog: Though Performous is a really fun open source karaoke game, I'll spare you the sound bite of me singing along with my favorite tune (trust me, you don't want to hear). Instead, you'll want to go download this cool cross-platform app and spend the day crooning into your hairbrush and pretending you're Elvis.

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• 11:23

  Simple, Fast, and Geeky Console-based Audio Players for Linux

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  junauza.com: To those of you who are new to Linux, you may not know that you can use the shell terminal to do some fun stuff like play games, watch Star Wars, and even browse the web. You can even blast your favorite music with it.

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• 6:52

  The Best Image Viewers For Linux

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  d0od.blogspot: Below are a selection of Image Viewers that provide more features than the default application and how they compare against it.

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• 6:51

  How to be anonymous online with Incognito

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  tuxradar.com: At first glance Incognito may seem suited only for the extremely paranoid, because of the totality of tools it offers to hide your online presence. This 430MB-ish live CD has many faithful users, but I can't quote any on its usefulness since their identities couldn't be confirmed. Yes, Incognito is that good.

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