Today I decided to review Rhythmbox 0.11.5, the GNOME audio player. At first glance, Rhythmbox made me a good impression: the layout is simple and clean, similar in many ways to many other players for GNOME, like Banshee, Listen or Exaile.
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Change Firefox 3's URL bar behavior
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Mozilla, makers of Firefox, a popular alternative to Safari on many users' machines, will very shortly release Firefox 3--the product is currently at release candidate stage, which typically means a final release is imminent. The latest version of Mozilla's browser includes a number of new features to make browsing faster, easier, and perhaps even more fun.
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Firefox Or Flock? Or Both?
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With a release candidate of Firefox 3 upon us and the final version set to drop sometime in June, I'm finding myself a bit torn: Do I upgrade to FF3 once it's fully baked, or stay with my current browser?
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The New Default Plasma Desktop Theme for KDE 4.1
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the brand new shiny Plasma theme that will be used for KDE 4.1. You can see the new applet and KRunner backgrounds, the new panel, our brand-new carbon fiber clock and some items that once upon a time weren't themed at all, like the pager and the taskbar. The theming support is now even more extensive.
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The Ebox from ASUS: Looks great, costs little, runs Linux
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From the rumor/leak mill comes ASUS' move of its eee platform to the desktop. Just look at this thing. Yes, it's cooler than a Mac. And way cheaper.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #93
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #93 for the week May 25th - May 31st, 2008. In this issue we cover: new Ubuntu Membership approval process, new Ubuntu Members, new LoCo approval process, LinuxTag 2008, Launchpad 1.2.5, Launchpod episode #3, Forum Tutorial of the week, Ubuntu UK Podcast #6, Full Circle Magazine #13, Team Reports, and much, much more!
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Screencast Presenting Some of the New Features in KDE 4.1
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A video which shows you how much KDE 4.1 is different from 4.0. Too many things are going on and it is impossible to make a screencast that shows all the new features and all the stuff. This one will give you an idea of how things are going, and how KDE 4.1 currently looks like.
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Wine 1.0 RC2 Review
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A review on Wine 1.0 RC2 testing World of WarCraft, DC++ and mIRC.
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3 GTK Applications I Need on a Daily Basis
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was never a fan of GTK applications, at least not since I have switched to KDE (over 2 years now). But there are at least three GTK applications that I need on a day-to-day basis.
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JOE Joe’s own editor: a really usable text editor
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"Back in the day, when I was new to [GNU/Linux], joe was the first text editor that I managed to quit without having to reboot my machine. That I am still using it today, many years later, goes to show just how simple yet powerful joe is.
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How-to + Benchmark: Playing Prey in Linux with Wine!
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In Prey players enter a living spaceship which enslaves alien races and devours humans for lunch. Prey turns the first person shooter genre upside-down with awesome new gameplay features like wall-walking and gravity flipping, making for intense singe-player and multi-player experiences. Prey How-to, Benchmarks, Screenshots and a Gameplay Video...
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IBM Lotus Symphony 1 on Ubuntu
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At the beginning of the year I wrote about IBM Lotus Symphony Beta 3, IBM's closed source OpenOffice-based free office suite. Now the final release, Lotus Symphony 1 is out. I wasn't impressed last time, but I installed the final release on Ubuntu 8.04 to test it out.
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SUSE Studio : Create your own Linux OS
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* Create a tuned server appliance, containing your application and just enough operating system components
* Spin a live CD or DVD with just the packages and software you need
* Create a ready-to-run VMware or Xen virtual server appliance
* Create a live USB key and carry your Linux system with you wherever you go
* Build a hard disk image for preloading onto hardware
aiSee helps create graphs with complex layouts
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If you need robust graphing software, consider aiSee, a cross-platform graph package that supports nested graphs, exports to many bitmap and vector formats, and handles graphs with as many as a million nodes. aiSee is free for noncommercial use under its own license.
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Wow! It's PINK!
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Where computers are concerned, I like to think of myself as cool, calm, and technically proficient. I got my first microcomputer (a Color Computer with 16K RAM) in 1983, and before I moved on to a bigger and better machine I'd learned to program it in assembly language. I've given up on learning assembly since then (the chipsets keep changing) but I still build my desktop computers from scratch.
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