RockBox is an open source firmware available for several different digital audio players from Apple, Archos, Cowon, iRiver, Olympus, SanDisk, and Toshiba.
Read more »A few more games for the console
In my large list of console applications to mention, I have two or three games, plus a pack of classic games that are worth revisiting. But so long as I am looking over console goodies, it would be a shame to leave them out.
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How to run Windows apps and games with Wine on OS X
There are many options for running Windows programs on the Mac. Boot Camp, for instance is included with OS X for installing Windows on a separate partition. Parallels VMware and Sun offer virtualization software that let you run your Windows programs without logging out of OS X. And then there's Wine.
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Five useful extensions for Openoffice.org
As you know ,you can adjust Openoffice.org to your needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. In this article is listed five useful extensions for Openoffice.org with installation guide.
1- Sun Weblog Publisher : The Sun Weblog Publisher allows you to quickly create, edit and publish weblog entries on many popular Blog servers.
Read more »Ubuntu v. Macintosh and Windows
I'm not bowled over by the Macintosh. It's a great OS with some great tools and like a friend said on Facebook when I first got it, it is Linux with great multi-media.
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CodeWeavers CrossOver 9.0 coming soon
CrossOver 9.0. CodeWeavers CrossOver 9.0 is slated for launch sometime towards the end of January beginning of February 2010 and represents a major step forward for the CrossOver product. At this time no definite release date is scheduled, but it should be within the next month or so. Screenshots of 9.0 pre builds are included in this article. :)
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Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring Alpha 1 released
The Mandriva developers have announced the availability of the first alpha of what will become Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (2010.1)
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Mozilla Starts to Follow a New Drumbeat
As Firefox gets closer and closer to that 50% market share around the world (it's already there in some countries), the question is: what next? The answer is Mozilla Drumbeat, an ambitious project to "make sure the internet is still open, participatory 100 years from now."
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Managing Bibliographies with OpenOffice.org and Zotero
If OpenOffice.org’s own bibliography feature doesn’t really cut it for you, you have several choices. One popular bibliography solution is Bibus, a cross-platform tool that integrates nicely with OpenOffice.org. It is, however, not the only bibliographical tool out there. In fact, there is another nifty tool called Zotero.
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Download "Undo / Redo" Patched Nautilus [Ubuntu .deb Packages]
I've recently found some patched (by mriya3) Nautilus packages for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic (Nautilus 2.28.1) which has "Undo" and "Redo" actions integrated - a really important feature missing in Nautilus. I've been using it for a while and it works great!
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Mozilla preparing to ditch Firefox add-ons
One of the features that attract geeks and power users to Firefox is add-ons. these simple browser extensions allow you to customize pretty much everything about the browser, from the page being displayed to the browser itself. Extensions are powerful stuff, but Mozilla is working on a project that could see add-ons as we know them disappear.
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How to Install GNOME 3 (GNOME-Shell) in ubuntu 9.10Karmic Koala
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a desktop environment created for the operating system
Read more »The best Linux desktop search tools
Compared with their internet brethren, today's desktop search tools can be used not only to look for the names of files on your disk, but can also perform context-sensitive searches within email archives, images, videos and music.
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Sidux 2009.04
Sidux is a distro I’ve never tried before. Its a Debian unstable based system with a rolling release. Basically, its based upon Debian ‘unstable’, and instead of having one big release that everyone works on, it just updates certain packages everytime a new version is released.
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How to install cairo-dock in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
A light and eye-candy dock to launch your programs .It uses Cairo / OpenGL to render graphics (many in correlation with Compiz) with full hardware acceleration. It’s fully configurable and fully customisable and can be used as a taskbar too. You can easily add applets in the dock or as a desklet.
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