Why are many Linux advocates excited about Android 2.0's built-in support for Microsoft Exchange?
Read more »Does Android 2.0 Really Have MS Exchange Support?
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Transcoding 50 fps Interlaced AVCHD to 50 fps Progressive x264 with MEncoder..
Have you ever wondered how much quality your HD camera can deliver? This script helps you to find it out if you have a camera that encodes interlaced video. It uses special filters to calculate 50 whole frames out of the half frames, which makes motions seem extremely fluent. You could play the file at half speed slow motion and still have a full 25 frames per second.
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How To Make Firefox Look Good in KDE Plasma Desktop (Part II)
In the first blog post in this series, we outlined a few steps to take to start to get Firefox behaving in a more "KDE-like" manner, as well as looking more at home in KDE. While this was successful, there have been changes already even in these two months since that original post that can help us with this mission even further. We will discuss those here.
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SimplyMEPIS 8.5 beta4 Greets a New Year
Warren Woodford has announced that SimplyMEPIS 8.4.96, the beta4 of MEPIS 8.5, is available from MEPIS and public mirrors.
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2 More Gnome Themes from Bisigi Now Takes The Total Count to 12, Pure Awesomeness!
Bisigi themes had always been my favorite. Initially they started of with 9 themes and now the full set includes 12 mind blowing themes for Ubuntu gnome. And the most interesting part is that, you can download these themes directly from Synaptic.
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Debian GNU/Linux Milestones
Debian 5.0, "Lenny" was released on 14 February 2009 after nearly two years of development. It includes more than 25 000 packages including many security enhancements such as SELinux included with all new installs (although it is disabled by default) and PHP's Suhosin system.
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A Bushel of Free FOSS Resources
On a regular basis, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.
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Hulu Desktop for Linux
Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there’s also another way to watch Hulu and that’s to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux.
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How to install Enna Media Center in Ubuntu 9.10
Enna is a lightweight XBMC concurrent, developped by the GeeXboX team as its distribution brand new user interface. Enna allows you to listen to your favorite music, watch your movies and TV shows, browse through your personnal photos and read comics and mangas from over the Internet.
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Nice New Feature in Google’s Linux Phone (VIdeo)
A look at voice recognition in Google's new Android (Linux) phone
Read more »Four Open Source Apps for Your iPhone
There aren't a ton of open source apps available for the iPhone, but the ones that are out there are real gems. Here's four of our favorites..
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Reviewing Pino, a Simple Twitter Client for Linux
Even though in the world of Twitter there are a lot of fantastic, feature-full programs for the Twitter power user, that's not exactly what I, a simple Twitter user, is looking for.
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Linux-based media center Enna ready for its close up
It's here! Enna, a media center application made for Linux is finally ready for public release. Yay?
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Linux Gaming Are We There Yet?
Over the past few years, there has been a common question on the Linux vs. Windows desktop front: does the Linux desktop have the ability to play various major release games, and if so what is the performance difference between the two? Linux is commonly overlooked as a viable gaming platform in most communities.
Read more »Wine 1.1.36 Released
The Wine development release 1.1.36 is now available.
What's new in this release:
* Completion of the 16-bit separation.
* Improved Shader Model 4 support.
* A ton of memory leak fixes.
* Improved debugging support for MinGW.
* A number of MSHTML fixes.
* Various bug fixes.




