Nowadays, most households have multiple computers and media devices, and sharing files and media between them all can be extremely messy. The best solution would be a home server of course! Over the next few weeks, I will be posting how to guides on how to create the ultimate home server.
Read more »Commands you might have missed
There are a lot of articles upon this site, and it appears that many of the most popular are those that are written with the complete beginner in mind. After realizing this I've got a decided to introduce a miniseries covering a few easily-overlooked tools and commands over the next week.
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New tab switching added for Firefox 3.1
As announced before, tab switching is getting a dramatic update for Firefox 3.1 in both visual and behavior. Press Ctrl + Tab (or Shift + Ctrl + Tab) and you are presented with tab thumbnails and titles with the most recently visited ones first so you can more easily determine which tab you want to go
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Exaile Music Player Review - A Good Choice for the GTK Fans
Exaile is an audio player built in GTK, and although it's not as popular as Banshee, Rhythmbox or Audacious, it's feature-complete and offers a unique concept by using multiple tabs for showing several playlists, each one in its own tab, and other dozens of good features which an audiophile will definitely find useful.
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Xfe Review - Wonderful File Manager
The first impression Xfe gave me was of a solid, full-featured, powerful and good-looking file manager. I have to admit, I was really impressed by this application, and I've never used it before. Since I'm a KDE guy, my file manager of choice was always Konqueror and I was never able to get used to Nautilus, Krusader, Thunar or ROX-Filer. But Xfe is a completely new and pleasant experience.
Read more »OpenDomain.org owner: Selfless FOSS helper or domain squatter?
OpenDomain.org is an organization that offers to provide free use of certain domain names to worthwhile open source projects. Ric Johnson, the leader of OpenDomain.org and the owner of dozens of domain names, says he has spent thousands of dollars registering those domains in order to prevent "squatters and phishers" from snapping them up.
Read more »Shuttleworth has some nice words for KDE
Is Mr Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, slowly warming towards KDE? Or is the man merely trying to keep the KDE folk onside, after a whole host of "technical writers" have attacked the new release of that desktop environment?
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta goes live
The OpenOffice.org development team has released the second beta of the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite. The latest beta includes a number of new features that will make the wait for 3.0 worth it. The final version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected to be released in September.
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More productive “Open With” method
In switching from Mac OS Leopard to Ubuntu Linux there was one Mac feature I seriously missed—the ability to drag-and-drop a file onto any application icon to open it. In Ubuntu I experienced a reduction in productivity as I tried to find a way to get this file to open with that application when that application was not the default for that file type.
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Open Source in the Cloud
I have always been a big fan of web (or cloud) applications, because they make it easy to switch freely between computers and between platforms. With web applications, your applications don’t tie you to any platform, leaving you free to choose whichever platform suits you best.
Read more »List of Download Managers Available in Ubuntu
A download manager is a computer program designed to download files from the Internet,unlike a web browser, which is mainly intended to browse web pages on the World Wide Web (with file downloading being of secondary importance).
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Gnickr - Access Flickr through your Filesystem
What Gnickr does is that it gives you access to Flickr through your filesystem, so you can drag and drop files between your desktop and Flickr through Nautilus.
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Software Testing FAQ
A complete FAQ on Software Testing, Includes definations, descriptions and much more details.
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Create Your Own Linux Distro!
One thing that I would probably have on my “50 Things I Should Do Before I Die” list (remind me to compile that), is create my own distro. And of course all of us Linux geeks would immediately think Linux From Scratch!
Read more »Open source laptop recovery
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.
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