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Firefox 3: Site Identification button

http://www.dria.org

Ensuring that users are safe, secure, and protected while they browse the Web is one of the greatest challenges facing browser makers. Browser security involves a delicate balance between protecting the user from the dangers that exist on the Web and overly restricting the user’s freedom to go where she wants and see what she wants while surfing.

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Created by greengrass 2 days 13 hours ago – Made popular 1 day 21 hours ago
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"Cooking" a DVD with Cinelerra and DVDStyler.

http://akiradproject.net

On this tutorial, we will learn how to make a dvd using dvdstyler and cinelerra.

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Created by electronichouse 3 days 18 hours ago – Made popular 2 days 23 hours ago
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Howto Remove Compiz Fusion Including config files

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

If you want to uninstall Compiz Fusion for some reason follow these steps...

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Howto: Set up Hardy for speed, v1.0

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This guide is a collection of tips and tweaks for Ubuntu Linux 8.04. The content comes from tutorials and speed suggestions found on the Ubuntu Forums and elsewhere. The material has been collated and narrated, and arranged with links to external resources or supplemental information.

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Indexing offline CD-ROM archives

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Suppose you’ve been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything? I solved this problem today by making an index of all the files stored on these disks using a few simple GNU command line tools.

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Howto: Restore All Installed packages in Ubuntu Hardy Heron and to a New machine

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com

Ever forget what you had installed and find yourself at a fresh ubuntu install thinking to yourself... Damn now I gotta open up synaptic and search for everything I had... Well fortunately you dont need to do that. With this easy howto you can also restore all your packages that were installed by simply creating a package list and uninstalling every application installed after the list was made.

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Created by giantrobot 1 week 2 days ago – Made popular 1 week 1 day ago
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Disabling the GMail spam filter and handling it yourself using SpamAssassin

http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz

I've been using GMail ever since they decided to allow users to download their mail using POP. I was happy reading my email as usual in mutt. The only problem was that I had to log onto the website once in a while to clear out my spam folder and fish out the false positives.

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The Ultimate Guide to KDE Session Management and Autostarting

http://jucato.org

One of the most frequently asked questions (FAQ) about KDE is how to start applications when the user logs into a KDE session. The answer is not always as straightforward as one would hope, and sometimes quite scattered across several sources.

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Filing good X bug reports

http://bryceharrington.org

For Ubuntu, a *lot* of time and effort goes into triaging X bugs. Mostly, this work consists of helping bug reporters get enough data to actually begin troubleshooting the problem. Sadly, a lot of bugs go uninvestigated due to lack of enough info.

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How to install Ubuntu Linux from USB Stick

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.

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Have your own OpenID URL without becoming a provider

http://fosswire.com

Many services, such as AOL and myOpenID, provide OpenID accounts to use on whatever site that accepts them. You simply type in your OpenID url and hit Enter. But what if your given ID was randomly generated, or the username you wanted wasn’t available?

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Created by giantrobot 3 weeks 5 days ago – Made popular 3 weeks 4 days ago
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Howto: Install awesome Music Visualizations for Rythmbox and XMMS In Ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com

I absolutely love visualizations while listening to music, its unfortunate that Ubuntu does not currently have many presets, Fortunately here is a quick way to enjoy a few other visualizations in Ubuntu, personally I think these visualizations should have been installed by default with Rythmbox!

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Created by extra 3 weeks 6 days ago – Made popular 3 weeks 5 days ago
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Install OpenSuse Tutorial in Video

http://tuxtraining.com

A video tutorial about installing opensuse.

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Created by extra 3 weeks 6 days ago – Made popular 3 weeks 5 days ago
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Howto: Vectorize images in Inkscape

http://kmandla.wordpress.com

I know you’re looking at it. I know because I can track links through Wordpress, and two hours after I posted that last screenshot, I had double-digit clickthroughs. It is a rather interesting image, don’t you think?

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Howto Crack Zip Files Password

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

If you want to crack zip file passwords use fcrackzip.fcrackzip is a fast password cracker partly written in assembler. It is able to crack password protected zip files with brute force or dictionary based attacks, optionally testing with unzip its results.

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