PCLinuxOS Magazine, September 2008 (Issue 25) is available to download.
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PulseAudio Fixes & System-Wide Equalizer Support in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)
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This guide is specially designed to fix certain issues present with Ubuntu Hardy’s current implementation of PulseAudio and to enable equalized output.
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Lancelot reaches Holy Grail of KDE menu
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KDE 4 is barely eight months old, and already it has three options for a main menu. Until now, users have either used the default Kickoff, which makes for awkward navigation of the menu tree, or reverted to the familiar but unwieldy classic menu.
Read more »Control your Desktop with Mouse Gestures
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It's easy to set up and use your own own mouse or pen gestures with Easystroke, which can execute custom predefined actions when it recognizes gestures on the screen.
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Boxee aims to shake up the home theater
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Boxee is a new entrant into the increasingly crowded open source media center space. The company's eponymous application is billed as a "social media center" -- melding a smorgasbord of social networking services into an XBMC-based media center designed for the couch-centric user.
Read more »Writer's World Maker aims at wannabe writers
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The splash screen for Writer's World Maker (WWM) announces that the program is designed to "help you to summon your imaginary worlds to the printed page." And, considering its flexibility and thoroughness in some areas -- especially defining characters -- at times it almost realizes this goal.
Read more »SMPlayer: A high quality wrapper
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Loosely speaking, in software terms, a wrapper is something that provides an alternate interface to another object. SMPlayer is an advanced multimedia player wrapped around MPlayer that provides a friendlier and more powerful front end to the underlying application. SMPlayer can play practically anything -- you can watch DVDs and VCDs, stream videos from a URL, or play audio CDs or MP3s.
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Test Drive OpenOffice 3 Release Candidate 1
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OpenOffice 3 should be released in time to be included in Ubuntu 8.10, but you can try the recent release candidate right now in Ubuntu 8.04 (or another Debian-based distribution) without disturbing your existing version of OpenOffice (you can even run both versions at the same time).
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SongBird - free iTunes like Media player and web browser
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Songbird is a free opensource customizable media player and web browse powered by Mozilla. Songbird runs on Mozilla’s XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux. On the Windows and Macintosh platforms, Songbird utilizes the VideoLAN Client for media playback.
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Fix for all PulseAudio-related issues
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By doing this procedure you will get the following: Fully functional audio in all applications, including those currently incompatible with PulseAudio (e.g. Audacity, Blender, Skype, Second Life + voice chat, Flash)
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Faster application launching with GNOME-Do and GNOME Deskbar
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GNOME enthusiasts have a couple of good options when it comes to searching, launching, and otherwise manipulating and accessing files, applications, and information right from the desktop: GNOME-Do, and the GNOME Deskbar applet.
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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Announced
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Now that the feature freeze for Ubuntu 8.10 is on, planning has begun for the next version: Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”.
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5 Best Free and Open-source Real-time Strategy Games for Linux
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StarCraft and Red Alert are two of my favorite real-time strategy (RTS) games. Though these games are closed-source, they are still playable in Linux through Wine. Recently, I have tried a few free and open-source RTS games and was really impressed with some of them.
Read more »8 Essential Applications Included by Default in Kubuntu 8.04
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This article intends to select and briefly review 8 of the most useful applications which come by default with Kubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' (the LTS release which comes with KDE 3.5.9), as included on the Live CD. The first which I include is Amarok, the default audio player in Kubuntu and also one of the most popular (if not the most popular) player for Linux.
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Citadel: A Bastion of Groupware Functionality
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The FOSS (Free/Open Source) world has inspired a large number of excellent groupware and messaging servers. These offer nice, large feature sets: shared calendars and contacts, meeting planners, e-mail, file sharing, instant messaging, and lots more.
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