Do you struggle to keep tabs on your Thunderbird inbox? The SIMILE Seek extension might be the answer to your problems. The extension adds faceted browsing to Thunderbird, which allows you to search and manage your email messages in a radically different way than you are used to.
Read more »Add faceted search to Thunderbird with Seek
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Sitebar: centralized bookmarking
Sitebar is an easy way store your bookmarks in one place. It has support for many browsers and platforms. It comes both as a service, or self installed software. The latter is my preference. The great news is that sitebar comes as a package in Debian. All you need is apache, mysql and php.
Read more »Two Weeks with Fedora 9
Recently, I came across a blog post about how to install a LiveCD version of Red Hat's upcoming Fedora 9 release onto a USB stick, leaving space on the stick for data to persist between reboots.
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Review: Dream Linux 3.0 - Is It Really A Dream?
Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind that rock I'm back with a long awaited review. It's true to say the pace here has slowed in the last month or two but I'm getting back at it now and I'm even contemplating another distro tour, this time on my Dell m1330 laptop. Today's victim...
Read more »The Perfect Desktop - Mandriva One 2008 Spring (Mandriva 2008.1) With KDE
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Mandriva One 2008 Spring (Mandriva 2008.1) desktop (with the KDE desktop environment) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops.
Read more »Synchronizing Google Calendar with your Nokia phones on bluetooth
A step-by-step guide to synchronizing google Calendar with your Nokia phones using opensync on bluetooth. A hack for phones that don't support internet/wifi. The same method also works for thunderbird and other calendars.
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$549 Eee PC 900 to hit U.S. May 12
Users who purchase an Eee PC 900 with Linux...receive a laptop that boasts 20GB of flash memory-based storage space. Customers who opt for Windows XP, meanwhile, end up with a machine equipped with only 12GB of solid-state storage.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #87
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 87 for the weeks April 13th - April 19th, 2008.
Read more »Customize the GNOME clock [Google French translation]
This article explain how you can custizme the GNome Clock with html code. To use it, launch the tow gconftool command line in your favorite terminal.
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Keeping two Amarok installations in sync
Okay, so I have two machines running Amarok, the kick-ass audio player for linux. These machines are in separate locations, connected by a VPN link (the excellent and free Hamachi zero-conf VPN). I want to keep the back-end database and music in sync without expending a lot of effort. Scripts ahoy!
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20 Coolest Linux Distro-themed Wallpapers
Since my list of 25 Coolest Linux Wallpapers unexpectedly became a huge hit, I’m going to share to you some more to keep the Linux pride alive. This time, I have collected some of the coolest, high quality distro-themed wallpapers. I know that you are excited already, so let’s cut to the chase and just present to you the "20 Coolest Linux Distro-themed Wallpapers" in no particular order.
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A little visit from the Wallpaper Fairy
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HP offers Linux home server
HP has unveiled a Linux-based home media server at half the price of its Microsoft-based MediaSmart model.
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A Lightweight WebKit-based Browser
Midori is a GTK web browser that uses the WebKit rendering engine. It’s nowhere near as polished, feature-rich, or stable as browsers like Firefox and Konqueror, but Midori is certainly usable. It is renders most websites perfectly, and even works with Gmail.
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OpenOffice.org Storms Away – on the Continent
Some people get sniffy about OpenOffice.org, calling it mickey mouse in comparison to the “serious” and “grown-up” Microsoft Office. That may have been a vaguely plausible jibe for version 1, but I've found version 2 to be incredibly fast and powerful – it really does everything I need in an office suite, and it does it well. And yet OpenOffice.org rarely gets the respect it deserves.
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