Bluecherry released an open source driver for version 2 of its Linux-based compression card for MPEG-4 digital video recording. Redesigned around the Linux kernel's API for Video (Video4Linux) and Audio (ALSA), the GPL-licensed driver primarily targets the Bluecherry compression cards and related Ubuntu-based video surveillance software, but can be used for a variety of video applications.
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Google Releases Command-Line Tool For Linux
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Google has announced the availability of a new tool called GoogleCL that will allow users to interact with the company's popular Web services directly from the command line.
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Ubuntu v iTunes: the music playoff for Applephobes
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With Ubuntu 10.04, Canonical delivered a good-looking Linux distro that just works. Mark Shuttleworth's outfit has put together an impressive user interface to solve its famous bug number one - luring people away from Windows.
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Comparing Linux Photo Managers…Which Is The Best For Your Everyday Use?
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When you work with large amounts of photos, it can get tiresome to have to manually manage the file and directory structures. To help resolve this, many people use photo managers.
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Using Gnome Shell – Day 5
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I discovered something really neat, Gnome-Shell lets you record .ogg video of your desktop! I decided to end my fifth day with Gnome-Shell with some video of basic things I have blogged about in the previous days.
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Configure Conky with ConkyWizard
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If fiddling with configuration files is not your cup of tea, you'll appreciate the ConkyWizard utility which lets you configure Conky's settings using a user-friendly graphical interface.
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Canonical's (Possibly) Excellent Adventure
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Is Canonical taking on Red Hat with its new commercial support service? Canonical's move "is not as much a competition as an expansion into a growing market," Pogson opined. "GNU/Linux has taken about all it can from Unix operating systems; now it is time to kick M$ out of servers."
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Market Share
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I consistently find myself looking up statistics for OS market share around this time every year. Every year numbers change. Every website reports different numbers from the last, and the only thing that one can assuredly deduce is that it is impossible to accurately gauge how many systems are running a specific OS. With that said, market share does matter.
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Zorin 3 - Distro Review
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I recently came across Zorin, an Ubuntu based distro that focuses on easing a Windows user's transition to Linux by theming it's interface to look like Microsoft's operating system.
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Google opens up VP8 for Web video tweaks
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One month after releasing its open-source, royalty-free VP8 video compression technology, the company already is working on significant revisions to the technology.
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Install Brand New Wine 1.2 RC3 in Ubuntu Using PPA
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I don't know how vital is Wine software for you anymore. I mean, I haven't used it for ages. May be because I am not a gamer of sorts and I don't use iPod. In case of applications, I have good alternatives for most of the windows specific applications. But for those who still can't live without Wine, here is the good news. Wine 1.2 RC3 is released with a lot of major bug fixes and improvements.
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Editing PDFs On Ubuntu
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It would be great if all PDF files could be easily manipulated without relying on bloated, proprietary, update-obsessive applications (I'm looking at you, Adobe). But the fact that that's not the case doesn't mean Ubuntu users are out of luck when it comes to editing PDFs. Here's a look at some of the PDF editors available for Linux, and how well they work.
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Luckybackup 0.4.1 released
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Fedora 13 Goddard. Bah. Meh. Hmm? Ok.
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Testing Fedora is like stuffing a badger down your trousers; you don't really know when it's going to bite.
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Ubuntu One is not a “proprietary” service
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Ever since Canonical started with Ubuntu One (or “U1″), people have been crying and whining about it being a proprietary pile of goo. For someone who has been active in the free software world for a long time, and still has his brains about him, this makes no sense whatsoever.
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