TeX and LaTeX produce impeccably laid-out documents, and are the only practical way to show some mathematical equations. This GUI tool acts as an "integrated development environment" for the command-line document preparation tools.
Read more »35+ keyboard shortcuts that save you time in Mozilla Thunderbird
"Knowing the most useful keyboard and mouse shortcuts for your e-mail client can cut down on writing time and increase productivity. But for shortcuts to make your job easier, you’ll need to commit them to memory.
Read more »OpenCyc and DBpedia
"OpenCyc is now linked with DBpedia. DBpedia is a “community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia.” It mostly looks at infoboxes in the Wikipedia dumps and makes that into a structured query-able system...
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FlickrSave: Upload your photos to Flickr from within GIMP
FlickrSave is a GIMP plugin which adds an option to directly upload a picture to Flickr. It uses Christophe Beauregard's flickr_upload tool as a backend. The plugin supports setting title, description, tags and privacy, and works in both GIMP-2.2 and GIMP-2.4RC under Linux.
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Sharing a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
Synergy is an open source project that allows you to share a keyboard and a mouse among several different computers, each connected to some sort of monitor, without any extra hardware (i.e. KVM switches). Synergy runs over the network and can be used with several different operating systems.
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Why Bittorrent Matters
Ubuntu Gutsy came out today, which you should know unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last week. Digg’s front page has been plastered with stories in anticipation of the big day, and I’m guilty of the hype, too, by writing a silly post earlier this week that made it to the front page without much merit.
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Font Management in Linux, Part 1
Fonts in Linux are crazy. Most Linux distributions ship with a big blob of serif, sans serif, and monospaced fonts, and there's barely a pixel's worth of difference between them.
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Battle of the Titans: Mandriva 2008 vs openSUSE 10.3
Susan Linton compares Mandriva Linux 2008 and openSUSE 10.3 in installation, visual appeal, included software, software management, hardware support, stability and performance.
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Mandriva Linux 2008 « The Tech Journal
Another review of Mandriva Linux 2008, this time from a blog called The Tech Journal. It has a reasonably in-depth look at the GNOME and KDE versions of the One single-CD edition, and comes out with an 8.5 rating: "For ease of use, package availability and being just a cool system to work and play on you cant go wrong with Mandriva."
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No Linux Love for New iPods: Why You Shouldn't Care
Newsflash for those of you who believe that we lost iPod support - we never had it in the first place. It's true, and frankly, the fact that Apple has decided to make themselves even more isolated in their own world is fine by me. In this article, I will show you a couple of cool options that not only work in Linux, but they openly support us as their users.
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Dell to ship Ubuntu 7.10 on desktops and laptops
Ubuntu 7.10 arrives Oct. 18, and not long after that Dell will start shipping that version of the Ubuntu Linux desktop on its laptops and desktops.
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In case you didn't know... Ubuntu 7.10 released
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.10 of the Ubuntu family of
distributions. I have also posted the torrent link in the comments.
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How gNewSense Sneaked Back Onto My Laptop
In the wee hours of the morning, while I was sleeping soundly, all snuggled up next to my wife...
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Flock: Great Ambitions
"...Flock is preparing for a very important milestone in our company’s history. We are on the cusp of completing Flock 1.0, which integrates your friends from your favorite social services into the browser, paving the way for easy communication and sharing with people you care about, no matter where you are on the Web. This is by no means a modest ambition..."
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How to turn on Compiz Fusion and get great custom effects in Ubuntu’s Gutsy Gibbon
So you want to get extra cool effects using Compiz Fusion as it’s built into your new Ubuntu 7.1o install but you’re unsure how to get more than a few wobbly windows or how to even turn on wobbly windows? Here’s the quick way to do it.
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