Developer Kovid Goyal introduced many new features in version 0.6.0 of his Calibre e-book suite. With the 0.6.1 update, he also fixed numerous bugs.
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How to have a lightweight, beautiful, functional terminal
I've done a lot over the past few months to make my time spent on the command line a bit more enjoyable and easier to use. Hopefully you'll find these steps useful as well
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GNOME, KDE, and Xfce: Which Desktop is Right for You?
How do you choose which GNU/Linux desktop to use? No easy answer exists, because the choice is so full of difficulties.
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Review: New Linux Mint a Desktop Lightweight at Best
Linux was making good strides in the desktop PC market before Windows 7 came out with the free-for-one-year Try Before You Buy RC1. So, can Linux hold on to the market share it easily took from Windows?
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OpenGoo: An Open Source Answer To Google Apps
What's not to like about Google Apps? It has a ton of features, it's incredibly easy to collaborate with other people, and it's free. Well, how about the fact that your data is only as accessible as Google decides to make it?
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VLC 1.0.1 is out!
VideoLAN is pleased to announce the release of the second version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.1!
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Active Media Products Introduces Penguin Bootable Linux USB Drive
Active Media Products (AMP), manufacturer of SSDs and WWF series USB drives, today announced immediate availability of a bootable Linux USB (BLU) drive that is compatible with Windows® 7 and benefits WWF. These new penguin BLU drives are preloaded with the full installation of Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4.
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CrunchBang Linux 9.04 MiniReview
CrunchBang Linux 9.04 is an Open-Box distro based on Ubuntu with Gnome packages. CrunchBang promises performance and ultimate customization options. Version 9.04.01 was released a couple weeks ago, and we decided to give it a test drive.
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Graffiti Tutorial (Gimp Howto)
Today we are going to create some realistic graffiti in the Gimp. This tutorial is partially inspired off of Photoshop tutorial by DreamDealer v5.0 at DreamDealer.nl Let's get started!
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AntiX MEPIS 8.2 Released
The team behind the AntiX project recently announced, on July 24th, the final release of AntiX MEPIS 8.2, a fast and lightweight Linux distribution based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing, including some features of sidux as well.
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Google tosses Android a Donut
Three months after Google released an "early look" at version 1.5 of its Android mobile operating system, a newer version has made its way into the eager hands of developers. Dubbed Donut, the new alpha version brings a raft of new features to 'Droiders.
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Linux is a fantastic platform for audio production. Find out how to build the perfect production environment.
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How to Layout a Book with OpenOffice.org: Part 3
In this final part of our series on laying out a book with OpenOffice.org, you will learn how to position illustrations in your book, how to use paragraph styles, and how to export in different formats. What you will take away from this is one method that has worked for me and many other people. At the end of this post, I will provide links for further study on the subject.
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Speed Up Flash and Firefox in Ubuntu Jaunty [Tips & Tricks]
The post describes 2 tricks for optimizing Firefox and Flash. Read on for details...
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Download Avidemux 2.5.0: (For: Ubuntu - .deb Files, Windows)
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
What's new in Avidemux 2.5.0:
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