There are a few tutorials for this in Photoshop and Illustrator, but I haven't found any for the GIMP, so I attempted it myself! It is a fairly simple method and easily done with great results!
Read more »Kubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS Review
Alas, I was not nearly as pleased with Kubuntu as I was with Ubuntu. While there have definitely been some improvements in Kubuntu 10.04, it lacks some of the important things that defined Ubuntu 10.04.
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Could Android run on the iPad?
There has been some debate about which platform represents the sweet spot for Android? Is it best suited as a smart-phone? Can Android dominate the netbook market? Maybe it can excel in the mid-market as a flexible and capable touch-tablet?
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Google: Android 2.1 is catching up
According to Google, the number of devices running version 2.1 of its Android mobile operating system is on the rise - at the expense of 2.0.1 and 1.6 based devices
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Exaile – The First Linux Media Player I Don’t Hate
There seem to be two types of music players out there: the tiny ones that don’t get in your way but often lack important playlist features or format support, and the monstrous software beasts that drag your system to a halt.
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Rocking Starcraft 2 on Linux
I was clicking through the website as quick as I could so I could get the game downloading, when reality came crashing down on top of me as I hit the downloads page and was asked to choose between a Windows and an OSX client. What is a Linux user to do?
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Using sidux with the newly updated KDE SC 4.4.3
The Debian KDE team has not been releasing KDE updates with each monthly incremental version, and so there have been no snapshots between KDE SC 4.3.4 and KDE SC 4.4.3. As of yesterday, however, the Sid repositories began to be populated with KDE SC 4.4.3, and as of today, we now have Sid (and sidux) implementations of KDE SC 4.4.3 available. I am using it now.
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EasyPeasy 1.6 final released
One week after the arrival of the release candidate, the EasyPeasy developers have released version 1.6 of their Ubuntu-based Linux distribution aimed at netbooks, adding a brand new interface and the open source Nouveau driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware
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Peppermint: Ask and they deliver
Wow, got a lot of traffic on the review I posted Monday about the new Peppermint OS!
I wanted to post a quick update to that review, because things move fast in the new Linux distro world, and the Peppermint OS team is already moving on some of the relatively minor things I brought up.
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How To Build A Standalone File Server With Nexenta 3.0 Beta2
Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem. In the resulting setup every user can have his/her own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol or NFS with read-/write access.
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Hardware drivers, the only Linux problem?
I have read many articles dealing with that Linux is better or worse off than Windows. After researching the topic a bit, I think I have something to say in the matter.
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Multitasking the Android Way
Android is fairly unique in the ways it allows multiple applications to run at the same time. Developers coming from a different platform may find the way it operates surprising.
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openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6 released
Milestone 6 (of 7), a snapshot of the Factory “work in progress” build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download.
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Nice themes for ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) users
We have already posted some time ago about Nice Ubuntu themes for karmic Users and this is updated for Lucid Lynx users now.
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Krusader File Manager Team Celebrates 10th Birthday
Ten years ago a simple twin panel file manager was released. In spite of many bugs, it was sort of usable for everyday work. Krusader started on the path to becoming a top file manager for a large range of operating systems and users. For today's anniversary the first beta for version 2.2.0 is released.
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