A type of application software that functions as a personal organizer is called personal information manager (PIM).
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HowTo: Lightning Speed Big Claws
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Who gets tired of Thunderbird and Evolution mail client software? How about, "You've Got Claws Mail!"
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Creating a shared home partition between Linux and Mac OS X
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Dual-booting operating systems can be very convenient, but with it brings the troubles of trying to keep data synchronized between the operating systems. Sure, in most cases Linux can read/write to partitions, but something even more convenient than that is a partition that both operating systems use for userdata. This guide overviews the procedure on how to set this up between Mac OS X and Linux.
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Adobe AIR on Linux with Wine
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Adobe hasn't officially ported Adobe AIR to Linux yet, but Ubuntu Unleashed figured out that you can install AIR using the WINE windows emulation layer for Linux. Installation isn't exactly painless, and when all is said and done, there are a bunch of AIR applications that won't run. But some will.
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Astounded in Arahuay
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I recently returned from a grueling three-week stay in Peru, where I worked with the serious Ministry of Education team entrusted with the country’s 260-thousand laptop OLPC implementation.
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Fast, flexible, calculating from the command line
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GUI calculators may be user-friendly, but they don't offer much comfort for a command-line power user. Fortunately, console-based tools such as bc, Genius, and Calc offer distinct advantages over their GUI counterparts.
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The Debian server -- a non-expert tries to roll his own
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I decided to start from scratch with my Debian server project. Last time I was too hasty in adding the open-source version of Movable Type to my installation and intermingling files before I was ready.
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How to read e-mails from more than one e-mail address from one place (including different e-mail accounts, like gmail, yahoo, et
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You’ll be needing a gmail.com account. Then go to Settings, Accounts and if you want to add a gmail account, at the first thing in the list, click on “Add another email address”. If the other e-mail account is on… let’s say: yahoo, you’ll have to look a little lower at “Get mail from other accounts:” and
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Bad Wine
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Ok, so I got Ubuntu Linux on my desktop running without too much trouble - but I gotta say if they REALLY want the masses to move away from Windows they are going to have to step up their game regarding "ease of use."
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Water researchers dive into EnterpriseDB
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South Africa’s nTier has completed a migration of the Water Research Commission’s Compiere ERP system from Oracle to the PostgreSQL-based EnterpriseDB. The commission made the move from the Oracle database to EnterpriseDB because the EnterpriseDB relational database was a more affordable option, nTier said in a statement today.
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Desktop Linux goes retail
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Desktop Linux systems have been available from vendors both small -- such as NorhTec -- and large -- such as Dell -- for some time now. But, until recently, users who feel more comfortable buying from a retailer have had few choices other than some low-end systems from Wal-Mart. Things are changing.
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GNOME 2.22: A Truly Amazing Desktop!
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very six months, the GNOME team prepares a new and revolutionary release of the ever popular GNOME desktop environment. Today, we are proud to introduce you to the latest and greatest features of an 100% FREE and open source desktop.
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Wal-Mart Giving Up on Linux Too Soon
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After around 5 months of stocking the gPC in stores, Wal-Mart has decided to stop stocking Linux-based computers in their stores, although they will continue to sell them on their website, according to the AP.
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Why I will not by a Linksys product ever again.
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I'm going to take a pause from my usual blog topics and discuss something very dear to everyone's heart, wifi.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow Of Chernobyl with PlayOnLinux
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If you ever wanted to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow Of Chernobyl on your Linux box it's now possible thanks to PlayOnLinux and Wine 0.9.54
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