I’ve been struggling with various mail clients to deal with my huge IMAP mailbox which contains about 200k messages. I didn’t want to split it into more than one. It’s not my job but an e-mail client’s job; see what GMail does!
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Introducing Snowl
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Conversing (a.k.a. messaging) is a common online activity, and a number of desktop and web applications enable it. But with an increasing variety of protocols and providers, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all your conversations.
Could the web browser help you follow and participate in online discussions? Snowl is an experiment to answer that question..."
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Cairo-Dock - Desktop dock for openSUSE Linux
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Cairo-Dock is a simple but effective feature rich dock for your openSUSE Linux.
Read more »5 Cool Firefox Alternatives for GNU/Linux (with Screenshots)
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I still use Firefox (well, Iceweasel) on Debian, but sometimes I just don’t have the time or the nerves to wait for this add-on-packed conglomerate to load. While there is a noticeable speed improvement with Firefox 3, you still need some time for it to load. So, when I’m in a hurry, I sometimes fire-up an alternative browser.
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Desktop search comparison: Beagle vs. Tracker
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Beagle and Tracker are projects that allow you to index your files so you can quickly search filesystems. Both projects started out with the intention of being used with the GNOME desktop, but have recently made a push to be desktop-independent and work with KDE and other desktop environments. Over two days, we'll compare their usability and performance.
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OpenOffice.org 2.4.0
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OpenOffice.org 2.4.0 is a free, open source alternative to Microsoft's Office application suite. It is fantastic if you need basic office applications — such as a word processor or spreadsheet — at no cost. However, large organisations and power users may be disappointed by its lack of features and support.
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Musix 1.0 R2R5 released!
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"The brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges tells us that he has finished the last Musix GNU+Linux 1.0 stable version on CD, a 100% free operating system for artists focused on music production, based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix..." --
* What is Musix GNU+Linux?
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Linux laptop, make or buy?
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My recent call for a Linux laptop drew a lot of response and several kind e-mails. Several vendors were said to be shipping such laptops. Lenovo, with SUSE Linux on it. Everex. Dell. Asus. A desktop “shootout” is planned this week at LinuxWorld.
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How To Install The Zimbra Desktop Email Client On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
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This article shows how you can install the Zimbra Desktop email client on an Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. Zimbra Desktop is a full-fledged replacement for email clients such as Outlook or Evolution, offering email, contacts, calendar, documents, tasks, etc. You can use it in conjunction with the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) or any other email account that supports POP3 or IMAP.
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Record your desktop with Linux tools
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You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux's many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.
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Upgrading VirtualBox and Virtualizing the Ubuntu 8.10 Alphas
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If you're upgrading from the version of VirtualBox you get from Ubuntu 8.04's repository to the latest version from Sun, there are a few issues that could trip you up. I was doing this recently in order to run the latest Ubuntu alpha releases in a virtual machine, more on that in the second half of this post.
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Howto Check Wireless link quality in Ubuntu Linux
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Iwspy is used to set a list of addresses to monitor in a wireless network interface and to read back quality of link information for each of those. This information is the same as the one available in /proc/net/wireless : quality of the link, signal strength and noise level.
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Desktop search comparison: Beagle vs. Tracker, part 2
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Yesterday I discussed Beagle and Tracker with regards to their preferences settings, the time to index a collection of both HTML and PDF files, and how to extract information from individual files. In this article I'll go over the interfaces used to submit queries and the syntax used for complex queries for both projects.
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Spotlight on FireFTP, an FTP client for Firefox
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Boasting over 6,800,000 downloads and counting, this add-on creates a full featured FTP client within Firefox that rivals standalone applications such as Filezilla or SmartFTP. This add-on is maintained regularly, with a few critical bug fixes released just last week.
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Create an Encrypted Private Directory with eCryptfs
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eCryptfs is a kernel-native crypographic filesystem. It's also a stacked filesystem, eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. This means that you don't need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add files to it.
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