The Miro developers have released version 2.0 of their open source Miro Video Converter video transcoding utility, making it the first converter to support the new open WebM / VP8 video format introduced by Google with the WebM Project
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Google open sources My Tracks GPS app for Android
Google has released the source code for its My Tracks application for Android powered devices that lets users record their GPS coordinates, visualise the routes they've taken and view live statistics
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Slackware Linux 13.1 screenshots
If you've grown tired of all the hand-holding utilities in Ubuntu or Fedora, then look no further than Slackware.
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REVIEW: Puppy Arcade 8
Puppy Arcade is one of the few Linux distro’s that Openbytes tries to keep following. Since version 5, Puppy Arcade has not only been a favorite with friends and colleagues, but also has a home on a few of my machines around the house that would otherwise be obsolete.
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Just how popular is Chrome/ium on Linux?
Google Chrome for Linux will be one year old on Friday 4th June. To mark this relatively minor milestone I’ve decided to take a look at how Google Chrome’s growth on Linux has, well, grown in that time. I can only base my findings on my blog as a whole with some outside context provided by net statistic providers.
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Community Counts: Another Advantage to Linux Mint
A few months back I listed five reasons I thought Linux Mint is a better choice than Ubuntu for a Linux distro. Today I would like to add another reason to that list.
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Download YouTube Videos in Ubuntu Without Any Dedicated Application
How to download YouTube videos in Ubuntu is probably among the first things a newbie Ubuntu user will ask for. There are simply a number of application to do the same, but there is an even better way. Downloading YouTube videos is Ubuntu is not the right keyword, you can actually copy-paste the YouTube video.
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Install Linux Mint Main Menu (MintMenu, A Slab Fork) In Ubuntu From A PPA
If you ever used or seen some screenshots of Linux Mint, I'm sure you noticed how amazing it's menu is. Here is how to install it in Ubuntu from a PPA (and stay up to date with the latest MintMenu versions).
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: Lucid Lynx Benchmarked And Reviewed
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pinning its hopes of OEM acceptance on the Lucid Lynx. We've put the screws to this new Long Term Support (LTS) release, comparing it to Canonical's previous LTS release, 8.04 Hardy Heron, to look for progress.
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Ubuntu Tweak: released support for Ubuntu 10.04
The last Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 doesn’t work under the Xfce and KDE, so this is mainly a bug-fixed release for people who use Xubuntu, Kubuntu.
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In news of an actual feature
Today I actually added a feature to the 0.9 branch. Well, not so much of a feature, but a framework to fix a long-time annoyance to do with loading and unloading plugins.
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Xfce 4.6.2 Released
The second bugfix-release of xfce 4.6 has been released. This release features a lot of updated translations and fixes some bugs or regressions with new GTK+ versions.
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Nigori: Storing Secrets in the Cloud
Nigori is a protocol for storing secrets in the cloud such that the storage need not be trusted and only a single password is required to access secrets.
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The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2]
This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.5 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
Read more »How to Recover Important Data after your System is Crashed
Suppose your computer commits suicide by inviting the latest virus and you are not able to get it back up and running. As a last resort you decide to backup your important documents, photos that you took of your girl friend and the ASCII text file containing your passwords. Today I will show how to do this very easily.
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