SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply "just works" with no required configuration.
Read more »How to install sopcast player in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)
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Finding Geotagged Photos in digiKam
Need to find all the photos you took in France? You can use the Map Searches sidebar to do just that, provided your photos have been geotagged.
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Atmospheric Scattering Created Using the Blender Game Engine
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Windows 7 Versus Linux
I went to a Win7 party, the host agreed to install copies of Win7, Fedora, openSUSE, and OSX. And yes, they were more impressed by how fast and how many programs that were ready to run, but because it didn't run Photoshop - they were willing to pay the $320 for Windows.
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Review: Parted Magic 4.5
Every so often there comes a distribution that sets itself apart from all others in ways far beyond mention. Parted Magic is one of those. It is *the* defacto distribution for all hard drive maintenance. And the more it grows, the better it gets.
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10,000 hours: Track your practice with gnuplot and wordpress
Here's how to set up a system with pretty graphs to track your practice time and display it at your Wordpress site! I'm using mine to track the time I spend each day on four different categories of practice, and also show my progress toward the goal of 10,000 hours of total practice.
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Bright OpenOffice.org Future, ODF News, and Antagonisers Spotted
A lump of news about OpenOffice.org, ODF adoption and events, and the usual resistance from Microsoft (through partners and ecosystem)
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Open Source "Napster" Resurrected After 8-Year Dormancy
A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off.
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Review: 3 free Linux alternatives for your netbook
If you're buying a new netbook for this holiday season, odds are that it will be loaded with Windows 7 Starter Edition. While many users will be happy with Microsoft's new OS, others might balk at the limitations that this version includes -- for example, you won't be able to change your desktop background, and it doesn't include Windows Media Center.
Read more »5 Reasons why Ubuntu 9.10 is better than Windows 7
OK, I'm a Linux guy you already know I'm going to come down in favor of Ubuntu 9.10.. But, I actually like Windows 7 as well. Which lead me to the question, why do I still prefer Linux?
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Fix for VLC doesn’t play video after ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade
After completing the upgrade to Karmic every time if youtry to play any sort of video in VLC none of them work
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Moovida: A Music Player for the Masses
If you're like most computer users, your hard drive is probably stuffed to the gills with movies, pictures, music, and media files you want to hang on to. If you're trying to figure out a good way to manage them all, have a look at Moovida.
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Triple Boot Mac OS, XP, and Linux on a Mac
The newest Macs allow you to boot up from Windows or Mac OS X using the included Boot Camp disk-partitioning software. However, with some steps and a little elbow grease, you can add Linux to the mix and get the best of all worlds.
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Internet Explorer 8 on Linux with Wine
This is a Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 on Linux with Wine howto. This guide shows you how to install and run IE 8 on Linux with wine. The guide also has code samples and screenshots and step by step instructions. Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the long running Internet Explorer browser series.
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Google wheels out Chrome, Wave updates
Google's developers clearly missed all the Halloween fun, with both the Chrome and Wave teams slinging out updates yesterday. The Wave team has pushed out a "developer instance" of the messaging everything platform.
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