Social networking, micro-blogging and other such buzzwords abound across web development these days, and the "public" is a fickle as ever.
Read more »Identi.ca: How free software can drive a social networking revolution
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YouTube / Ogg/Theora comparison
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Unfortunately, open video formats have been subjected to FUD so frequently that people are willing to believe bold claims like these without demanding substantiation.
In this comparison I will demonstrate that this claim was unfair and unreasonable. Using a simple test case I show that Theora is competitive and even superior to some of the files that Google is distributing today on YouTube.
Hands-on: new single-window mode makes GIMP less gimpy
http://arstechnica.com –
The venerable GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is undergoing a significant transformation. The next major release, version 2.8, will introduce an improved user interface with an optional single-window mode.
Read more »Watch Video…without Flash
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"Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to free video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here..."
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Tomboy ported from Mono to C++
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The announce came on April 1st, but was NOT an April fool. Ubuntu PPA available !
Read more »5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple
http://www.cracked.com –
Let's just say it: Nobody has changed the way we interact with technology like Apple has over the last 10 years. Even if the iPad turns out to be the disaster that many are anticipating, Steve Jobs will still be seen as the hero who turns top-end technology into friendly little gadgets even your grandma can use.
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Open Office 3.2.0 Final Released
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Open Office 3.2.0 Final has been released and is currently distributed to mirror ftp servers worldwide to ensure a smooth delivery once the release notifications will be added to the project’s homepage.
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TinyOgg: convert Youtube videos to Ogg
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Sometimes many of us have problems with the Flash player. It just doesn't work. TinyOgg is the solution for this problem specially if you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Opera.
Read more »Key Quests for KDE in 2010 - The Introduction
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What will follow are not promises or even predictions about what KDE is going to do in 2010. Instead, I'll be writing about things that we should probably put thought and attention to in the coming year. Some of these things are already getting attention and effort, some of them aren't. Some are outright challenges we face, some are simply opportunities.
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Theora 1.1 is released – what you should know
http://hacks.mozilla.org –
Less than a year after the release of Theora 1.0, the wonderful people at Xiph have released Theora 1.1. The 1.1 release is a software-only release of the Theora encoder and decoder. It does not include any changes to the Theora format.
Read more »Gimp - No more multi-windows?
http://www.learningubuntu.com –
Gimp has been know for two very important things, being a pretty good image editor and having one of the most controversial UI with the use of multi-windows, but that might change very soon.
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Open Clip Art Library 2.0 released
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The Open Clip Art Library team is proud to announce the
release of Open Clip Art Library 2.0. Open Clip Art Library now has over 26,000 original and remixed high quality scalable vector graphic (SVG) files that have been produced by over 1,200 creative artists!
Why Compile a New Kernel?
http://www.hotaboutlinux.com –
I lost count of the number of times someone told me I was nuts for wanting to compile a new kernel Why not get a new different distro of Linux that works on a specific machine? What is wrong with the kernel that comes with the distro? There are reasons for compiling a new kernel.
Read more »Countdown to KDE 4.4 and the new KDE website
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I like dabbling in web development and design and so I was quite happy to be able to participate in the redesign of the new KDE.org website due to release in conjunction with KDE SC 4.4 on February 9th.
Read more »Bypassing corporate firewall with reverse ssh port forwarding
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Probably lots of you are behind some sort of very restrictive corporate firewall. Unable to access your office pc from home because of firewall policies. In normal cases this scenario is more than welcomed. No outsiders should be allowed to access internal parts of secure network!
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