I’ve always been a PIM junkie. A PIM is a Personal Information Manager, and what has interested me are systems that help you organise information, not those little calendar and contacts programs that are often called “PIMs”.
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Conkeror: Emacs insprired browser
http://www.schnuckelig.eu –
"...When I started Conkeror, I was a bit surprised. The browser is stripped down to the very basics and you have to configure it yourself. It comes with a brief tutorial on how to do the very basic things and you can find a lot of configuration tips at the Conkeror Wiki.
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PCLinuxOS: Big update coming
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Once again, we do apologize for the long wait and size of this update, but many hiccups along the way conspired against us. The Rippers have been working for months on this to make it as trouble free as humanly possible. We're hoping there won't be too many problems.
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Gnome vs KDE in Ubuntu - 2009
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I believe the best way to summarize the difference is a few words is hard, but I'll give it a try :
- Gnome is very user friendly , easy to use , and very intuitive
- KDE is for advance user, it's different, it's eye candy
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Brilliant Brainstorms #44 - Organize your Desktops
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Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site. This week: easily tracking all the stuff on your desktop; disabling screensavers during video playback; correctly and easily detect and configure external monitors; one interface for customization options.
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Dreamlinux 3.5 Review
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Dreamlinux is excellent for laptop users who only have wireless internet and want to run a Linux Live CD. It's also a dream-come-true for Linux beginners who don't want to or can't install the drivers.
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KDE 4.2 installation/upgrade on Debian/Kbuntu and OpenSuse
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January 27, 2009. The KDE Community announced the immediate availability of "The Answer", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.0), readying the Free Desktop for end users. KDE 4.2 builds on the technology introduced with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. After the release of KDE 4.1, which was aimed at casual users, the KDE Community is now confident we have a compelling offering for the majority of end users.
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3 ways to turbocharge your Linux desktop
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Manufacturers and PC vendors would have you believe that there's only one way to speed up your machine: buy new kit. And then, in 18 months, buy new kit again. However, it's usually our software that's the real bottleneck.
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How to Turn Linux into a PS3 or Xbox 360 Media Server
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Turning your personal computer into a media server means that you will be able to play video (AVI, MPEG, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, MKV, WMV, MP4 or even DVD ISOs or VIDEO_TS folders) and audio files (MP3, OGG, FLAC or WMA) or view your favorite photos (JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) stored on your PC's hard drive on a big screen TV set or LCD/Plasma high-definition display, via a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 console
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Straight from KDE 4.2.60 (KDE 4.3 trunk)
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Kontact came back with KDE 4.1 (it didn't make it on time for KDE 4.0). I can't truly comment on how much it improve, since I didn't use Kontact in KDE 3.5.x, however, what I can say is I'm completely amazed by it. It works well, it has a overall good interface (with some, from my point of view, little mistakes here and there).
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3 Hacks for Firefox That Will Double Your Internet Browsing Speed
http://gnoted.com –
There are many people out there complaining about the Firefox RAM Memory Bug. Lets get it straight. It’s not a bug. It’s part of the cache feature. This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment.
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Top 10 Linux Games (FPS)
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Being an avid Linux user I hear lots of people complain that there are no good games for our operating system, so I have put together a top 10 list of the best FPS games in the spirit of proving them wrong.
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Five Applications for Netbook Bliss
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Want to beef up the software bundle that comes with your Linux-based Netbook? Here are five nifty applications and tools that are worth a closer look.
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KDE 4.2.0 "The Answer" Released
http://www.kde.org –
January 27, 2009. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of "The Answer", (a.k.a KDE 4.2.0), readying the Free Desktop for end users. KDE 4.2 builds on the technology introduced with KDE 4.0 in January 2008. After the release of KDE 4.1, which was aimed at early adopters, the KDE Community is now confident we have a compelling offering for the majority of end users.
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PlayOnLinux 3.3 released
http://www.wine-reviews.net –
Here's the First version of PlayOnlinux for the year 2009 !
It is a major change in WineVersion's behavior, not about the graphics or the script implementation but on the internal code
This change allows the use of wine packages that have been intended for PlayOnLinux.
