Kazam is a brand new screencasting application for Linux which records both the audio and video in an .mkv format and you can either save it to your computer or directly upload it to YouTube.
Read more »Try Kazam, A New Screencasting Application For Linux
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Linpus Lite 1.4 review
Linpus Lite is the distribution for netbooks and smartbooks developed and maintained by Linpus Technologies, Inc. of Taipei, Taiwan. The company’s flagship Linux distribution used to be Linpus Desktop until it decided to focus on the Lite and QuickOS line.
Read more »Reflection: KDE 4.5
I've been using KDE 4.5 for the last 2 weeks (since I reviewed it), and though I generally like what I see, I think my first experiences with Linux (i.e. with a GNOME desktop) have already biased me against fully accepting KDE 4.5.
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Demystifying OpenGL Desktop Effects
My last blog post about the driver situation in the KDE Plasma Workspaces in version 4.5 caused quite some discussion. This is great and really required. But it also showed that there are quite some incorrect information about the current and future OpenGL compositing.
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Turn Ubuntu into a Karaoke Player
If you are looking for nice application that displays the lyrics as the song plays and if you love to sing along then there is a really nice application that can turn your system into a karaoke machine.
OSD lyrics displays lyrics of any song that you play through your music player. It automatically downloads the required lyrics from different sources. Just turn it on and you are ready to go.
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TuxArena All-Time Top 20 Articles
This is the list of all-time top 20 articles published at TuxArena (by number of visitors).
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Windows or Linux: Which is easier to fix?
I like to break stuff. Why? It means I get to find things out about what I’ve broken and it means I get to repair what I have broken. And operating systems are no exception.
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6 of the Best Free Linux Archive Managers
A file archiver is computer software which brings together a group of files into a single archive file. An archive file is therefore a collection of files and directories that are stored in one file. There are many advantages of storing multiple files this way. For example, an archive is a great way to store backup data, transfer files to another directory, or to a different computer.
Read more »Nautilus Terminal - An integrated terminal for Nautilus
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Adding Disclaimers To Outgoing Emails With alterMIME (Postfix On Debian Lenny)
This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter on Debian Lenny.
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This week at LWN: A licensing change for syslog-ng
Many have criticized syslog-ng, a replacement for the syslog logging daemon with many additional features, for not being open enough. Syslog-ng has a closed-source commercial version and keeps the entire code base under a single copyright by requiring copyright transfer for contributions, which has been a sore spot in the eyes of many people.
Read more »Fun with FFmpeg
A how-to on using FFmpeg to copy audio and video streams from one container to another without re-encoding them. Downloading a video from YouTube is pretty easy these days thanks to various browser extensions; and if the downloaded video is in a .mp4 container, I don’t have do anything since just about any video player, including my 1st generation PopcornHour reads them just fine.
Read more »I frag better than you, and I do it in Linux*
I learned two things today: 1. People are still having LAN parties, even the Internet-disconnected kind. 2. They're doing it on Linux.
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Why Google Will Dominate the Browser Wars
There can be no question that Google is the strong favorite to win the browser wars, and for Chrome to become the dominant web browser. Here’s 4 big reasons why.
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Manage your digital camera in Linux with DigiKam
For those of you who thought managing external devices like digital cameras in Linux was a challenge, I give you DigiKam.
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