Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately need a copy of a font for something you’re working on, but you can only seem to find a copy in the wrong format? Often this can happen, and you have the font elsewhere, but it’s not in the standard .ttf format you expect.
Read more »Extract Mac Font Files (.dfont) into .ttf Files
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Manage your personal accounts at home with homebank in Ubuntu
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HomeBank is free software. Use it to manage your personal accounts. It is designed to easy to use. Analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
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Grandmom’s Guide to the Asus Eee PC
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Well, my itsy bitsy teeny weenie seven inch Asus Eee PC finally arrived with the relatives visiting for fiesta season. I had bought it in the US six months ago, but it was back-ordered and not delivered on time. So my grandson Luke has been using it in the meanwhile.
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Tweak photos with Fotox
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Compared to powerful and feature-rich photo applications like F-Spot and digiKam, Fotox looks decidedly underpowered. But while Fotox is no match to those powerhouses featurewise, this lightweight tool can come in handy when you have to perform basic photo editing fast and with minimum fuss.
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Mandriva 2008.1 Review: The Breath Of Fresh Air
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Check out the comprehensive review of Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition/
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New Ubuntu Version Fixes A Lot of Linux Problems
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Hardy Hero, a new version of Ubuntu, was announced a little while ago, and the features for this release of Ubuntu are actually rather compelling to me. Because Gutsy only wowed me on two levels - a better wireless stack and the inclusion of tracker by default, here’s some of what I would like to see with Heron.
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What's the "Linux Tax" Worth to You?
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In When Do You Trade in Your Gibbon for a Heron?, I mentioned that I’m considering upgrading my System76 laptop from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. A commenter named Scummy suggested that a similarly configured Dell system is cheaper: "Dude - you just paid a $350 ‘Linux Tax’ by NOT going mainstream in your hardware…" Maybe so, but I think not. It depends on what you value.
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How To Run Linux From A USB Flash Drive
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Want to run Linux any time, any place? Here's what to do with popular distributions like Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, and Fedora, so you can boot up directly from your thumb drive.
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Dual-booting Fedora 9 and Xubuntu 8.04 on Macbook Pro
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I wrote a preview of Fedora 9 "Sulphur" during its release day and said that I'm going to post an update soon. Now that I have tried and tested F-9 on my 4th gen. Macbook Pro (Penryn), it's time for me to give you a concise summary of the Sulphur experience and how it compares to that of Hardy Heron.
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Free/Open-source Statistical Software
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If you are looking for a computer program that can help you get the results of standard statistical procedures and statistical significance tests without the need for low-level numerical programming, then a statistical package is what you need.
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Watch Your Inbox with CheckGmail
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Always have a browser tab open to your Gmail account? heckGmail is an application that can monitor your Gmail account for you. It's unobtrusive, feature-rich, and easy to configure.
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CuteFlow - Document circulation and workflow system Setup in Ubuntu
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CuteFlow is a web based open source document circulation and workflow system. Users are able to define "documents" which are send step by step to every station/user in a list. It's an electronical way for doing (i.e. internal) document circulations. A document can be assembled from input fields of different types.
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Things went as scheduled. Fedora 9, code-named "Sulphur" has just been released. Fedora 9 promises some significant improvements over its "Werewolf" predecessor. Though this is a major release version of this Red Hat-sponsored distribution, the excitement is less compared to the flight of the "Heron".
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Flipping the Linux switch: Switching, literally, with Ulteo Virtual Desktop
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We are a little bit disturbed. Not in a "We just watched a David Lynch movie" sort of way, but still, it is a little unnerving to think that our last post on Ulteo hinted at a world domination plot... and now it seems that goal is within their reach.
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No is Ark verdict
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Ark Linux is a distribution developed primarily for new Linux users, although its developers say experienced users should find it powerful enough to use as well. I've tested it before and found the later claim a bit overstated. Would version 2008.1, released this month, be a change for the better?
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