digiKam offers several features that can improve photos containing under- or overexposed areas. For example, the Exposure Blending tool lets you merge multiple shots with different exposures into one perfectly exposed photo. But what if you have just a single image?
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Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension
Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere.
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Ubuntu Maverick changes
Every six months Ubuntu releases a new version. October's proposed release includes a few key changes
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Tutorial: Cloning With Linux 3 Ways
Making an image copy of your system disk is a great way to create a backup. With the cost of portable USB drives at all time lows, you could keep a couple around for rotation purposes. If your main drive does crash, you could be back up and running in a matter of minutes. Now all that's left is making the actual image copy.
Read more »Mozilla releases Thunderbird 3.0.5
Mozilla has released version 3.0.5 of its popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, closing more than 60 bugs and improving message indexing performance
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Exploring Fedora - The LXDE and Xfce spins are on my radar
Sure, Ubuntu Lucid is running OK on my aging 2002-era Toshiba Satellite 1100-S101 laptop. But I feel the strain of all that gwibber-service/desktop-couch activity in the Ubuntu LTS. So I've been looking around for my next distro. I'm running Fedora 13's LXDE spin from the live image right now, and I have the Xfce spin ready to test.
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Improving The Linux Desktop? Why, It’s Elementary
The Linux desktop has come a long way, but are there still improvements to be made? At least one group of dedicated hackers thinks so, and is working with Ubuntu to improve it.
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A Review Of MeeGo v1.0: Is It Good Enough For Your Netbook?
When I first set out to try MeeGo, I had hoped to boot up the live USB image on my netbook. What I soon discovered, however, is that it would not work.
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ntris: an idea taken a step too far
About nine months ago, I lost a lot of free time to a little applet called Pentris. The addition of pentomino pieces made the gameplay quite different from the original falling block game, but I couldn’t help but think that Pentris didn’t go far enough.
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Redshift Keeps Your Eyes Sharp & Helps You Sleep
If you spend a lot of time looking at your computer – and if you read this blog I’m betting you do – you might notice that after a while your eyes start to hurt, and that you have trouble going to sleep at night. There’s a good reason for this:
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Ubuntu 10.04 Upgrade: Best Practices Checklist
Have you been thinking about upgrading your computer to Ubuntu 10.04? I recently made the leap, at the prompting of my Update Manager. The process went fairly smoothly, but I did have to deal with a couple of minor annoyances. Here are a few tips.
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Serve Up Your Music with Zeya
Have you always wanted to set up your own music station to stream your latest music collection to your friends or colleagues? Have you been thinking lately of setting up an always-on music streaming server so that you can just open up your web browser and listen to your favorite tracks?
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Heroes of Newerth - Charge!
Linux games are many and varied. You can find pretty much anything you need, from simple arcades via racing all the way to expansive and elaborate tactical shooters. Still, one aspect of the Linux gaming scene is underplayed, this being the Real Time Strategy (RTS). However, that is about to change.
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openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available
Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing for the release of openSUSE 11.3 on July 15, 2010. Let’s polish and fine-tune openSUSE 11.3 now. Get the RC1 from our software portal right now!
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Scenari – A powerful application to create and publish documents
scenari is making it easy, understand take care of most of the tech stuff and I can concentrate on the course content, the outline, the exercises or tests I wish student to perform etc. On the teaching method and pedagogy, basically.
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