Nettops are gaining popularity following the success of the popular Netbooks. Linutop is introducing their new Nettop the Linutop 3.
Read more »First Impression: Zenwalk 6.2
I have a Dell Latitude c600 laptop that I like to use for light work or when I’m on the go. Between overall awkwardness and to age of the laptop I have found it hard to find a Linux distribution that runs well without too much configuration.
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Four Nifty Blogging Clients for KDE
When you sit down to put together a blog post, the last thing you want getting in your way is a finicky blogging client. This week, we'll take a look at open source blogging software designed for the Linux operating system.
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DesktopBSD 1.7 – last and final version
This is the last and final release of the DesktopBSD project I find myself having less and less time to spare lately and no longer desire to keep developing and maintaining this project.
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Enchance aMSN with nice skins and Plugins
Amsn come with many features, but always you can enchance it by adding more plugins and you can also change the look by adding new skins. I will give an example of some plugins and skins and will show you how to install/activate them (With screenshots for newbies)
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Karmic Netbook Remixes: Kubuntu 1, Ubuntu 0
Karmic Koala will see the release of TWO official Netbook Remixes – Ubuntu NBR and Kubuntu NBR. LEt’s take a look at both as of Alpha 5…
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Slitaz 2 - 30MB of joy
Slitaz has grown fat. By whole 5MB. The last time I've tried Slitaz, it was around 25MB. Version 1.0 was an interesting project. Obviously, the minuscule distro could not possibly offer everything fully fledged operating systems normally do, but it still delivered a reasonable compromise.
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Battle of the Apps: Android v Apple
Is Android ever going to be able to compete with Apple and the iPhone on the software front? The figures do not make for great reading if you are an Android fan.
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How do Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu fit in?
In addition to the highly popular Ubuntu operating system, Canonical also sponsors several "official" derivatives of Ubuntu, aimed at different types of hardware, different user preferences, and different use cases.
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Wally: Best Automatic Wallpaper Changer Application I've Seen
We wrote about different automatic wallpaper changer applications either for Windows, Linux and / or Mac OSX but Wally is special. Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. Not only that, but it also works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.
Read more »Handbrake - Converting Videos For Mobile Devices
HandBrake is a free, open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. I have used Handbrake to convert several types of video files to work on my various gadgets including the Sidekick and g1 mobile phones.
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Get Thunderbird to minimizing to tray instead of closing
one thing i have always wished for is the ability to run thunderbird in the background so that if i close is i want it to minimize to the system-tray/notification area and inform me real time when i have a new mail.
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Stay safe when using a Linux PC
In some ways Linux can be easier to manage than Windows, but security remains important. We show you how to stay safe.
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OpenOffice.org: The Limits of Readability and Grammar Extensions
Novel-plotting databases, daily word counters, character generators -- if you can imagine the software, you can probably find at least one example. I am fascinated by all the ingenuity...
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Nice GDM themes for Ubuntu and Gnome
Changing the loging screen theme in ubuntu is not a difficult matter, what we need is a GDM themes that we can find thousends of them aroud the net...
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