The WordPress developers have released version 1.1 of their WordPress for Android application. The first major point update features user interface improvements and changes to the home and comments view
Read more »Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 released
Red Hat has announced the release of version 5.5 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a distribution aimed at enterprise customers. In addition to bug fixes released since RHEL 5.4, the latest release of RHEL includes enhancements to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor
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How to Install QtCurve in KDE
In a previous MTE article, you learned how to create a unified desktop using the KDE 4 Oxygen themes for KDE, GTK, and Firefox. Oxygen is clean, simple, and visually pleasing, but some people want a little more flexibility. QtCurve is a theming system that gives you the configuring power to have varieties of themes, from downright plain to shiny eye candy.
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How To Switch To ALSA Or OSS Instead Of PulseAudio In A Few Seconds
I couldn't get PulseAudio to work on one of my computers no matter what I do. But removing PulseAudio can be tricky and besides, there is a very easy way to "fix" it (if you're using GStreamer as a backend for music and videos). This is very useful for applications which use GStreamer but do not let you select the sound output module like: Rhythmbox, Totem and so on.
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Cool portable linux music studio
Making music on Linux used to be something for masochists. Luckily this is long something of the past, as nowadays lot's of cool Linux software and compatible hardware is available to musicians.
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How to install ATI Radeon HD 2600 drivers in Ubuntu
This tutorial will explain how to install ATI Radeon HD 2600 in Ubuntu
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‘Additional buttons’ concept
Reader Platinrabe sent over his concept for how best to use the free space on window borders that we’ve seen so much of recently: from gesture based controls and intelligent helpers to workflow-enhancing menu-thingy-majiggies)
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Wine 1.1.42 Released
The Wine development release 1.1.42 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- Support for shared 32/64-bit setups.
- Dwarf debug info support for better backtraces.
- More standard actions supported in MSI.
- Support for TIFF image format in WinCodecs.
- A number of Direct3D improvements.
- Shell fixes for better Internet Explorer support.
- Various bug fixes.
10 Alternative Web Browsers for Linux
While Firefox is arguably still the champion of Linux web browsers, it can sometimes be slow and get bogged down by sites like Facebook. As a result (and just because it’s fun), some people have started to search for alternatives. Here are 10.
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SimplyMEPIS 8.5 Goes Gold!
MEPIS LLC has announced the availability of SimplyMEPIS 8.5 from MEPIS and public mirrors.
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Quake2 ported to GWT, running on HTML5 + WebGL
The GWT team has developed something that truly shows off this engine in their port of Quake2 to GWT. Seeing the game run with amazing fps in a browser, with online multiplayer network support via WebSockets, is something to truly behold.
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Creating Plasmoids
We take a peek at how to create your own plasmoids for the latest KDE desktop, giving you the power to build the perfect active desktop environment.
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KDE SC 4.4.2 arrives with various bug fixes
The KDE developers have released version 4.4.2 of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC), the latest bug fix release for the popular Linux desktop
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More Right Window Button Ideas For Ubuntu 10.10
Since Mark Shuttleworth said that moving the Metacity window buttons to the left "opens up the space on the right nicely", lots of button ideas came out. The most controverted one is probably Esfera, an idea which Mark forwarded to the Ayatana mailing list. A recent idea by Izo makes a lot more sense than all the previous ideas. Have a look (it's called "The Workflow Button")...
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Set up a Personal Blog in 5 Minutes with Tonido Thots
While there are quite a few services that offer free blog hosting, there are situations when you’d want to run a blog on your own server. This approach has its advantages, but setting up a server and then installing and configuring a blog system can be a daunting proposition – unless you choose to use Tonido, that is.
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