If you're interested in the latest GNOME 2.20 at work on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 you can have a look to this Photo Gallery.
Read more »Photo gallery: KDE 4 beta2
A screenshots gallery about KDE 4 beta 2 and some other nice features.
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Tunneling Bittorrent over SSH
Tutorial to learn how to tunnel your Bittorrent traffic over SSH, using Putty.
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Songbird: Firefox-based Media Player
"The Songbird media player is a cross-platform media player that is based on the gecko browser engine. Songbird enables you to use add-ons and skins feathers just like you can in your Firefox web browser, and combines the the most useful parts of the browser into a fully-featured music player.
Read more »Apt-Get It or For-get It
If you cannot install a package using apt-get then you should forget about it. If the author doesn’t provide it so it can be installed with apt-get, then it’s not yet ready for serious consideration, so you shouldn’t waste your time on it if you have to use another package manager.
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Regular expressions and search patterns
Every Unix system offers several useful commands for finding files and searching them for strings. Together with programming techniques such as streams, pipes, redirections, and regular expressions they comprise very powerful tools ideal for administrative tasks.
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OpenOffice.org Base primer
Of all four OpenOffice.org applications, Base is probably the most complicated one. It is a powerful tool that allows you to build complex databases, but this power comes at a price: if you've never worked with database applications, you might find Base a bit overwhelming.
Read more »Ubuntu Black Screen Recovery
Updating Ubuntu only to discover that the kernel update has brought you to a black screen - never fun.
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KWin improvements
I first wanted to blog about KWin changes after returning from aKademy but then I never got to doing it. After that I've thought something like "once I'll complete this feature, I'll blog" a few times but then another interesting thing came up...
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GIMP tricks: Snooker ball as a pseudo 3d object
I don’t really remeber when and where, but I have read once about that GIMP isn’t suitable to create pseudo 3D graphics. Nothing more fallible. I will try to show you that it’s wrong.
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Fedora's new theme: Nodoka
Clearlooks has been the default theme in a number of distros thanks to its place as Gnome's default. Aiming to give Fedora its own distinct and modern appearance is Nodoka: based on its own theme engine it's extremely fast, and when seen in combination with the rest of the artwork for Fedora 8 is beautiful.
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How to setup file-sharings/FTP for machines by newbie in 5 minutes
Lacking of good GUI tool, it is often a headache for newbies to setup the FTP service to transfer files among windows/linux/mac machines. Here we introduce a new powerful GUI server/client tool for you to easily solve this problem. You can use it on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, the same approach.
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How to: set up MySQL Database in Amarok
I found myself complaining about the slow speed of Amarok. Everything would lag, from playing a song to adding a song to the playlist. Then i remembered when I was setting up Amarok that it let me chose a database...
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OpenOffice.org documents within Firefox
"If you are running OpenOffice.org and Firefox at the same time you can view OpenDocument and other OpenOffice.org supported file formats using the provided Mozilla plug-in..."
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There is Love and Hate for AdBlock Plus
"I have to admit it: I love AdBlock Plus. If all of my extensions (15 in number) were taken and I was left with the choice of one to keep, it would be ABP. I love not seeing annoying ads, and I love how much faster my browsing is because of the lack of junk. I love the safety and security that it provides through its ability to block things that like to track me..."
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