While it's unclear what Maka stands for, the "giga" part of Makagiga most likely refers to the number of tools this application has on offer. It comes with a to-do manager, RSS reader, a basic photo viewer/editor, a text editor, miscellaneous widgets, and much more. Makagiga is written in Java, so it runs on any platform with Java Runtime Environment.
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Planet Future-of-CSS
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"Inspired by Richard Ishida's Planet i18n, the WHATWG Blog, css3.info, complaints by bloggers that they don't want to subscribe to www-style, and my own trouble keeping up with the times, we've set up as a joint project with css3.info an aggregate feed on the w3.org site: The Future of Style..."
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Emacs editing environment, Part 7: Let Emacs help you out
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"This tutorial shows you how to obtain help from Emacs in various ways. After working through this tutorial, you'll know how to get descriptions of keystrokes, commands, functions, and read and browse through the many documentation resources that come with this world-famous open source editor. [...]
Read more »The Matrix strikes back, or: the return of AIGLX
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The lastest update of Mitch Meyran's 3D graphics card drivers matrix.
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Local Fellowship Meeting in Berlin on 13. November & OpenMoko presentation
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"Yesterday we had a local Fellowship meeting at the Newthinking Store in Berlin. It was a very nice meeting. In the beginning Fellow Robert Schuster gave a presentation about relevance of OpenMoko for the Free Software community..."
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Filtering P2P network traffic with ipp2p
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"Large and medium size corporate institutional networks suffer now a days from "smart" users who try to get their latest Movie/soft/Music/TVShow downloaded in their office.
Read more »The hack of the year (used Tor)
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A Swedish hacker tells how he infiltrated a global communications network used by scores of embassies over the world, using tools freely available on the internet (Tor).
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ATI's New Drivers: Did The Paradise Come?
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It's been nearly seven months since I wrote my first article about ATI drivers and how they literally crippled my computer and my daily life (An Outcry For Improved ATI Linux Drivers). Last month, ATI had finally released their latest drivers which contains the new OpenGL component and AIGLX support (AMD 8.42 Linux Display Driver).
Read more »Any CIO not using open source "should be fired": a conversation with CIOs
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I'm reading through the transcript from an excellent CIO event, the CIO Survival Guide for Web 2.0... The conversation is wide-ranging and insightful. Here are a few of the gems as they relate to open source
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Paris on Rails 2007
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"...this is the second Paris on Rails conference, and last year's was a tremendous success. Expect another year of great presentations from leading Ruby on Rails developers. It all takes place December 10th at the Grand auditorium de la Cité des Sciences, Paris La Villette..."
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Paris Web 2007 - The French Web Connection
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"...Paris Web 2007 is coming. Bigger, sexier and this time for 3 days. Put that in your calendar. 15, 16 and 17 November 2007, the French Web Connection is meeting to talk about the Web, quality in development, design, accessibility..."
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Wed Nov 14th: NYLUG Presents James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center
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"Please join us on Wednesday evening, for a presentation by James Vasile of the Free Software Law Center on several legal topics of interest to users of Free and Open Source Software.
Read more »Miro: An important new world
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"An important advance in the life of the network happened today. Miro 1.0 was released. Think about the history of computing technology -- from the bottom of the stack up, the movement has been from proprietary to free. The hardware became a commodity, then the OS, then many apps. Miro represents the commodifying the content protocol layer..."
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Linux Preloaded–an Insider’s View
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There is a story today that WalMart’s $200 Linux machine running Ubuntu with Enlightenment is sold out and selling like hotcakes. The article links to WalMart’s product page, where it is listed as sold out and filled with glowing reviews. It feels good to see that. I’ve always felt that Linux was ready for general consumption.
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Enabling Compiz Fusion On A Fedora 8 GNOME Desktop (ATI Mobility Radeon 9200)
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This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 8 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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