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How To Manage An iPod From A Linux Desktop With Amarok

http://www.howtoforge.com

This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with Amarok. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod, download MP3 files from your iPod to your desktop, and how you can delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux.

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Inkscape Tutorial - Web 2.0 Logos

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Bleah! More glossy crystal buttons and mirrored text!

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Howto: Verify Downloaded Linux / BSD DVD or CD ISO images for integrity

http://www.cyberciti.biz

You need to verify that that downloaded Linux DVD or ISO images are intact before you burn and use them. This is security feature. But how do you verify ISO images?

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Building the ultimate Linux-based music server

http://www.linuxdevices.com

This article describes how to build your own silent, fast, eco-friendly Linux-based PC for use in a digital music listening system. The PC is based on a high-end Via mini-ITX board, passively cooled case with heatpipe technology, Debian Linux, and a little creative embedded elbow grease.

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Inkscape Tutorial - Trees

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Fractals have a long history of fascinating computer and math geek alike, but this time we're going to take the way a fractal simulates natural ordered chaos and apply it to the practical purpose of drawing a natural object! However, this isn't going to be a very realistic tree, just a drawing good enough for an icon or a game sprite.

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Emacs editing environment, Part 4: Options, registers, and bookmarks

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Take charge of your editing session within Emacs and use it to your advantage. This tutorial is the fourth in a series, and shows you three areas of Emacs that control some aspect of the editing session: various command-line options, the register, and bookmark facilities for setting and saving positions and data.

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GIMP Tutorial: Creating a Navigation Button

http://jozmak.blogspot.com

Navigation buttons are essential features of both web pages and application interfaces. In the following tutorial, we create an attractive navigation button in a few simple steps that can be followed even with limited Gimp knowledge.

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Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

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This is the first install of what will be a periodic, ongoing series on how migrate from Microsoft's Windows to other Operating systems. This first article provides insight in the much discussed Ubuntu Linux.

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Removing KDE icons in gnome / remove gnome icons in KDE

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com

This tutorial is for those people that like to run gnome and KDE side by side. This will allow you to only show the native apps in the menus within each desktop environment instead of showing everything.

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Getting Started with MySQL Proxy

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The launch of MySQL Proxy has caused quite a commotion in the community. And with reason. For feature-hungry people, this is undeniably the most exciting addition to MySQL set of tools.

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Gimp Tutorial - Pebbles

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Here's a topic I don't see a tutorial on anywhere. While Gimp is NOT a 3D ray-tracer, it does have some plug-ins that perform simple 3D functions. We're going to exploit the "Map Object" plug-in for all it's worth, here. Then we'll look at a more common method.

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Screen: Tips & Tricks

http://polishlinux.org

In this article I will describe a very useful program: GNU Screen. Usually this program is used by people who have a shell account on a Unix server. But it can be also helpful to people who haven’t yet started to use a terminal or even Linux/Unix at all. Screen — simply — is a program which enables users to create more system shells without the need of logging in multiple times.

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Gimp Tutorial - Metallic Text

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I figured the old chrome-text tutorial over at the Gimp User Group site could use both an update and an enhancement of technique. Mine is done on Gimp version 2.2.13.

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Using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu and any other operating system

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

A virtual machine creates a virtual hard drive as well as a virtual computer, so you can install and run it from within another operating system. If you want to get rid of the virtualized (also known as the guest) operating system, just delete the virtual hard disk from the real (host) computer’s hard drive.

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Configure GMail in Evolution, Thunderbird or KMail

http://www.debianadmin.com

Many of us would like to use our GMail accounts in Evolution, and to a lesser degree Thunderbird and KMail. Here is a step by step guide on how to configure Evolution, Thunderbird and KMail to access you GMail account.

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