Using a purpose-built diary application can have some advantages over merely typing daily journal entries into a simple text editor. A specialized diary app takes care of the basic file management chores so you can open the file and make an entry without getting bogged down in the process of record-keeping. RedNotebook and Alamanah diary are two worthy options.
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Flock 3 Beta drops Firefox, switches to Chromium
The Flock developers have released a public beta for version 3.0 of their social web browser, switching from Mozilla's Firefox 3 browser to Google's open source Chromium platform
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Reset system wide cursor theme
If you installed KDE in ubuntu (GNOME based), you may have noticed that when you log back into GNOME, you keep the KDE cursor theme. To fix this, use update-alternatives like so:
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More Rebuttals to Latest GNU/Linux Security FUD
Linux backdoor? Not so fast, say people who are familiar with the issue
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Mono Cleanup
Ubuntu GNU/Linux follows the footsteps of projects like Fedora and sweeps Novell's Mono aside
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Presenting squid-deb-proxy! Speed up your update downloads!
Are you like me and have multiple Ubuntu machines under one roof? Are you tired of downloading the same update multiple times? Sick of what seems to be duplicate work? Let me introduce you to my little friend... squid-deb-proxy.
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AWN 4 is fine
Occasionally I decide that someone has made such an impressive application that I have to give it its own review. This is one of those times.
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Wine 1.2-rc4 Released
The Wine development release 1.2-rc4 is now available. Whats new in this release. Many translation updates. And A lot of bug fixes.
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Mozilla tracking a week in the life of a Firefox browser
From the 'Mozilla Test Pilot' files: How many add-ons do you have in Firefox? How much time did you spend in Firefox last week?
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Firefox 4 sneak peek flaunts Google open video codec
Mozilla has turned out a Firefox 4 prototype that includes Google's newly open sourced WebM video format, while Opera has rolled the format into a developer build of its own.
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Using Gnome-Shell
Okay, day one, I have a feeling of trepidation – using a beta product for doing real work is risky. I realize I do this at my own risk, and SAVE OFTEN.
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Download Free Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) PDF Guide
The Ubuntu Karmic Koala Bible is a guide that's both great for Linux initiates, and invariably useful for Linux intermediates. With over fifty pages of copy-paste tutorials, this guide belongs in the virtual library of every Linux user.
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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5 developer preview
Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4.0 development preview , labelled Firefox 3.7 Alpha 5, based on the latest Gecko web rendering platform. This alpha adds support for the WebM video format, and there are 64-bit builds for Linux and Mac OS X
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5 Best Linux Software Packages for Kids
Even when computers were first being introduced, engineers realized how useful they could be to teach children. Today we’ve gathered together some of the best Linux software applications for kids.
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winetricks 20100618 released
Dan Kegel released winetricks 20100618 today: new verbs dxsdk_nov2006, windowscodecs. There are also some small bug fixes in this release.
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