GNOME and KDE may be the first desktops that come to mind when you think of the Linux desktop, but they're not the only ones.
Read more »Lightweight Linux Desktop Alternative: Xfce
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Making a Starry Filter Effect in GIMP
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Photographers use Star Filters sometimes to really make the highlights stand out, but if you do not have one you can use GIMP to reproduce the effect.
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7 Sources of Free Sounds for Multimedia Projects
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In my posts 11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year and How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year I mentioned podcasting and video creation. When creating podcasts and videos adding music and other sounds can enhance your students' presentations.
Read more »Is Oracle Taking OpenOffice.org Closed-Source?
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Today I downloaded and installed the latest stable version of OpenOffice, version 3.2.1. There were a few things that I noticed that gave me great reason for concern. Based on what I saw, I have serious doubts as to whether OpenOffice.org will continue to be free software/open source.
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Where to Download Free VirtualBox Images (.vdi) and How to Use it
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If you are always in the mood to try other Linux distros or operating systems, you may find this a time-consuming process.So what should you do to save some of your precious time? You may download a VirtualBox disk image (.vdi) file of your preferred operating system. Now, where can you download free VirtualBox images?
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Google adds Linux support to voice and video chat
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Google has announced that it has now officially added Linux support to its voice and video chat service, which was originally introduced in November of 2008
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PlayOnLinux 3.8 is out! Major new features : Record games, wine import, Cedega import, Offline wine
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PlayOnLInux 3.8 is now available ! This new version comes with a lot of new features and fixed many bugs, some plugins are now integrated in this software, adding a lot of features like for example: Capture - a new feature that allow you to record your games while playing, Other new features are wine import, Cedega import, Offline wine and more.
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How to install Mint Style Gnome Menu in Ubuntu
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For those of you who ave ever tried Linux Mint, a distro which is run off the back of Ubuntu, you will have noticed that it has it's own special and somewhat unique gnome menu to select your applications to run, folders to browse etc
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Ubuntu One – The KDE Way
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Over the past couple of months I had the great opportunity of taking part in this year’s Google Summer of Code. I moved out to bring Ubuntu One to the KDE desktop and I think I was rather successful with it.
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PlayOnLinux 3.8 has been released
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PlayOnLinux 3.8 is now out!
A lot of bugs have been fixed,
- Fixed Bug #22,
- Ukranian file should be called uk.po instead ua.po,
- PlayOnLinux can no longer run in its own environement,
- The program does not alert the user that 3D acceleration is not present when mesa-utils packet is not installed,
- Fixed a bug in libraries loading,
Convert eBooks in Linux
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Say you just bought an Amazon Kindle or a Barnes and Noble Nook. You want to convert your eBook collection to .EPUB or .MOBI format. For this, install Calibre. The application not only provides you with a graphical way to manage your eBook collection, but also comes with a set of useful command-line tools. One of these is ebook-convert.
Read more »GNOME 2.32 Beta 1 Is Here
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The first beta of the upcoming GNOME 2.32 has landed to give early adopters, distro builders, developers and generally curious people a taste of things to come.
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Android 3.2 Honeycomb to Follow Gingerbread 3?
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The next iteration of Google's mobile operating system Android, following Gingerbread 3.0 due out later this year, is expected to be an incremental update to version 3.1 or 3.2 and dubbed "Honeycomb," according to reports.
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Fedora 14 Alpha is go
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As John posted last night, Fedora 14 Alpha was declared ready for release next week. Although there was a one-week slip to handle the fact that our blocker list wasn’t clear, Fedora developers and testers in the community have worked hard together both to resolve the remaining issues and make sure that our Alpha would pass the release criteria.
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The KDE 4.5 Notification Area
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With KDE 4.5 came a lot of updates and changes. From the bottom to the top, nothing was immune from an update or two. One tool that received a nice overhaul is the Notification Area.
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