Microsoft will release Office 2010 in June but until then there are some great alternatives. In June Microsoft will release a final version of its Office 2010 productivity suite. Naturally many users will upgrade, at substantial cost, to the latest version of the popular Office suite, but for those not so eager to hand over their money to Microsoft there are still many great alternatives.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Review
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It’s been a couple of months since the release of the latest and greatest of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala and while we’ve been busy building servers based on the this release we can say with out a doubt it just keeps getting better.
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sidux 2009-04 Brings KDE SC 4.3.4 and Linux Kernel 2.6.32.2
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On the last day of 2009, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann uploaded and released the latest version of the sidux Linux-based operating system (codename "Moros").
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5 Fresh Gnome GTK Themes To Start 2010 With A New Look
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Time to spice up your Gnome desktop with a fresh new theme and start of a new year is a perfect time for that. Below is a small list of fresh new themes. This time it looks like they’re all on the darker side – purely by coincidence.
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Designing Pages in OpenOffice.org Writer
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I'm sure that most people hardly think about page options in OpenOffice.org Writer. The average person may change the paper orientation from portrait to landscape, or narrow the margins to squeeze more words into a page, but not much else.
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Arora web browser review
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Arora is a simple and lightweight cross-platform web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine, which has a small memory footprint. It can do some things that the more sophisticated web browsers can do.
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Three console audio mixers
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I mentioned byobu the other day, and a few days before I mentioned a slew of audio players for the console. Here’s a mis-mash of those ideas, with three audio mixers running inside the Ubuntu version of byobu.
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The Ultimate Distro Showdown: Ubuntu 9.10 vs openSUSE 11.2 vs Mandriva 2010
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We laid our hands on all the three biggies—Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva 2010 and openSUSE 11.2—and pitted them against each other. What followed was the battle of the century, as each distro pulled off one unique trick after another to stay on top of the game.
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What's your vision of GNOME?
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The GNOME Foundation's mission is to provide a free desktop accessible to everyone. Accessible regardless of their ability to pay, their physical ability or the language they speak.
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Smoother Compiz Performance In 3 Simple Steps
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If you have enabled the "Visual Effects" on Ubuntu, there's a chance you might have noticed some video tearing or rather chalky Compiz performance which makes the experience not so smooth.
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Easily Create A Custom Ubuntu Live CD With Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK)
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Ubuntu Customization Kit is a GUI tool that helps you customizing official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your needs. You can add any package to the live system, for example language packs, or applications.
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MP3 And FLAC Metadata Information (ID3 Tags) In Nautilus List View
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If your music files aren't named properly or simply want to see the MP3 and FLAC metadata information (ID3 tags) in Nautilus List View, you can't by default.
But I found a python script (which also comes as a .deb file) on the Ubuntu Forums called "Nautilus Columns" which adds new columns to Nautilus, so you can view such metadata information.
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Upgrade your GIMP version to 2.7 in Ubuntu karmic/Jaunty
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This is an unstable development version of the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Please realize that this is just a snapshot of the development tree. We are working hard towards GIMP 2.8, the next stable release. GIMP 2.7 is in no way a final product. A lot of new features are incomplete and some things may even be completely broken.
Read more »35 Google open-source projects that you probably don't know
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Google is one of the biggest companies supporting OpenSource movement, they released more than 500 open source projects(most of them are samples showing how to use their API). In this article I will try to write about most interesting and free releases from Google, some of them might be abandoned.
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ASTRO - Android file manager
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The ASTRO File Manager helps you get the most out of your Android-powered phone. The Android operating system is designed to be very open and flexible, giving its users the chance to do more things on their phone than ever before. ASTRO helps your phone reach its full potential by giving you the tools to manage your phone.
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