This is a simple tool I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone’s favourite multi-client Instant Messenger (works with gtalk, msn, yahoo, aim etc), into a customized answering machine (and more) when you are away from your computer.

Boxee is an open, connected and social media center for Linux and OSX (Windows not supported yet).

I recently got a PlayStation 3 from my wonderful girlfriend, and one of the reasons I wanted one was for its great possibilities of being a media center. I installed MediaTomb on my Linux machine (Gentoo) and after half an hour of configurations, it was ready to stream content to the PS3.

This is the 3rd tutorial in this series, trying to show how effective KDE photography applications can be for fixing and/or improving your photographs overall. In the first and second tutorials we addressed light exposure issues. Ie, we addressed photos that had regions gone too dark or too bright, and we showed how to fix them using either the levels tool or the curves tool.

For those of us who don't have 300 bucks to drop on the full-featured Adobe Acrobat, there are a few less-costly -- and sometimes free -- ways to create .pdf documents, writes Lou Dolinar, technology columnist for Newsday.

Deluge is a full-featured free opensource BitTorrent client for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It uses libtorrent in it’s backend and PyGTK for it’s user interface. Deluge was created with the intention of being lightweight and unobtrusive. Deluge features a rich plugin collection; in fact, most of Deluge’s functionality is available in the form of plugins.

Web scrapping is a clever idea, but extracting data from a Web page manually can be a real chore. The new OutWit extension for Firefox provides a solution to this problem. Better yet, it allows you to save and export the scrapped data, which makes it a great research tool.