If Google does not sign up to the User Generated Content guidelines created by the big players in the movie and video entertainment business, could this mean the start of the end of YouTube? And of free video sharing services as we know them?
Read more »Google fails to sign industry User Generated Content guidelines
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35+ keyboard shortcuts that save you time in Mozilla Thunderbird
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"Knowing the most useful keyboard and mouse shortcuts for your e-mail client can cut down on writing time and increase productivity. But for shortcuts to make your job easier, you’ll need to commit them to memory.
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Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 Screenshots and Review
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Ubuntu Gutsy has just been released after 6 months of development and testing. Although Ubuntu is known to be as user-friendly as possible and this is not a LTS release, Canonical made a lot of progress for this release on the server side too.
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Browser extensions using XUL, Part 2: Build powerful, flexible Mozilla browser extensions
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"XUL is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform browser extensions or even stand-alone applications. Discover how to build powerful, flexible Mozilla browser extensions that go beyond the capabilities of other tools..."
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From Microformats to RDF
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"...microformats are not an alternative for RDF, not even a “poor man’s version”. But that was not a design goal at any time. What’s more: microformats are no first class semantic web objects in any way either. Rather, they are the simplest imaginable solution for semantically correct markup, limited to the most common data formats out there..."
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OpenCyc and DBpedia
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"OpenCyc is now linked with DBpedia. DBpedia is a “community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia.” It mostly looks at infoboxes in the Wikipedia dumps and makes that into a structured query-able system...
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Gobuntu has already failed
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What’s the point of Gobuntu’s existence if it still contains non-free components? Apparently, Canonical even went to the trouble of removing everything except the copyrighted-all-rights-reserved image files. i’m left scratching my head, wondering why they bothered with this farce if they weren’t prepared to go all the way?
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Dumping Vista - A divorce with a happy ending
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I have many colleagues and friends who have been through messy divorces. In each case, these poor guys have gone from having the good life, to having issues, to losing half of their assets (or more). I just filed my divorce papers for Microsoft's Vista. In my case, my relationship with Vista never went through the good life period.
Read more »Enlightenment - An easy-to-use Linux GUI
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In the 10 years I've been using Linux, I've run the gamut of window managers and desktop environments: FvWM, FvWM95, ICEWM, AfterStep, BlackBox, KDE, GNOME, Beryl, Fluxbox, CDE, XFCE, Windowmaker, Sawfish, Metacity, WM2, as well as Compiz. But it seems that no matter how many times I try another Linux GUI, I always go back to Enlightenment.
Read more »States ask for Microsoft oversight until 2012
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A group of state attorneys general urged a federal judge on Tuesday to hold Microsoft Corp. to a 2002 antitrust settlement another five years so that the company can't stymie embryonic Web 2.0 rivals of its Windows operating system.
Read more »FSF to host online GPLv3 pow-wow
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"What's up with GPLv3? Hoping to clear up both confusion and FUD, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Compliance Lab will hold a public Q&A session on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 2 PM (ET)..."
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FlickrSave: Upload your photos to Flickr from within GIMP
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FlickrSave is a GIMP plugin which adds an option to directly upload a picture to Flickr. It uses Christophe Beauregard's flickr_upload tool as a backend. The plugin supports setting title, description, tags and privacy, and works in both GIMP-2.2 and GIMP-2.4RC under Linux.
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Sharing a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
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Synergy is an open source project that allows you to share a keyboard and a mouse among several different computers, each connected to some sort of monitor, without any extra hardware (i.e. KVM switches). Synergy runs over the network and can be used with several different operating systems.
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Why Bittorrent Matters
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Ubuntu Gutsy came out today, which you should know unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last week. Digg’s front page has been plastered with stories in anticipation of the big day, and I’m guilty of the hype, too, by writing a silly post earlier this week that made it to the front page without much merit.
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How to create your own Debian/Ubuntu packages
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This really quick and dirty way to create your own Debian or Ubuntu packages can be done by anyone with little previous package creation experience. Even if you've never even compiled an application, I'll show you just how easy it is to download source code, compile the program and bundle everything up in a .deb package you can share with anyone.
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