Previews of Firefox 3.7, which will in time become 4.0, are now available. The Firefox developers have released a new preview version of Firefox 3.7 which includes many of the features planned for Firefox 4.0. The preview release includes special protection against rogue third-party processes that could crash the browser.
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Turn Firefox into an Ebook Reader with EPUBReader
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You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension.
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Ubuntu Art: March
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One of my many jobs in the community is to bring you lovely Ubuntu planet readers some of the wonderful art works that are created using Ubuntu and the FOSS tools we have in the repositories, all these works come from the Ubuntu deviantArt group. These are my picks for the month of march...
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How to correctly create ODF documents using zip
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One of the great advantages of the OpenDocument format is that it is simply a zip file. You can unzip it with any archiver and take a look at the contents (which is a set of XML documents and associated data), change it, re-zip it and you have a new document. But, the OpenDocument Format specification, section has one little extra restriction when it comes to zip containers.
Read more »Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Ubuntu 9.10)
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This article shows how you can build your own video community using lighttpd with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Ubuntu 9.10.
Read more »Amarok 2.3.0 "Clear Light" Released
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Team Amarok is proud to announce Amarok 2.3.0. It contains many improvements and bugfixes over Amarok 2.2.2 as well as many new features. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass storage devices (including generic MP3 players).
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Canonical’s design team responds to theme criticisms
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Canonical is burying Ubuntu's traditional brown theme and is adopting a new visual style for version 10.04, which is scheduled for release in April. The new theme was revealed last week as part of Canonical's broader effort to overhaul Ubuntu's branding and visual identity.
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Essential guide to picking an open source operating system
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There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article is intended to help you pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level.
Read more »Use Linux to Scan Unusable Windows Drives for Viruses
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Often, even if we do catch a virus, it's not so difficult to eradicate it using installed anti-virus—but if your system has been crippled, try using Linux to scan the drive for viruses instead. As any Linux veteran knows, one of Linux's greatest uses is fixing unbootable drives—recovering files, deleting files, and even killing viruses.
Read more »Docky: Another OS X-like Doc
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OS X users love their Dock..and with good reason. Not only is it a handy way to launch applications, it’s also rather stylish. I have covered a tool that had a similar look and feel before and although that tool served it’s purpose well, at times it could be a bit buggy. Docky is a little bit different.
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Alternative browsers shine
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As far as I'm concerned, Microsoft ought to get out of the browser business. There are four non-Microsoft browsers that are much better, and they're all free. The company should simply package all four of them with Windows and let PC buyers choose the one they like best.
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Ubuntu Without a Human Face
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The big news out of the Ubuntu world this month is the radically refurbished look introduced to accompany Lucid when it's released in April, replacing the orange-brown "Human: theme that Ubuntu users have known and loved - or not - since 2004. Here's a look at the new face of Ubuntu, with an attempt at abstract thoughts related to it.
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Humanity Icon Theme Updated To Match The New Ubuntu Branding
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The Humanity Icon Theme got a really nice update in Ubuntu Lucid today which brings integration with the new branding (purple that is)
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winetricks 20100316 released
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New winetricks 20100316 new verbs steam, adobeair, 7zip, d3dxof and win7. Todays winetricks was brought to you by the letters W and S and the number 7. Their has also been allot of bug fixes and tweaks in this release.
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Radience Osliner - New Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Proposed theme
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This is a theme pack which was inspired after Radiance Light-theme proposition. All the metacity and the gtk is available.
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