Since I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 64b some video files had no thumbs preview in Nautilus. After 3 months I decided to fix this, and it's a very easy and fast fix.
Read more »How-to solve the lack of video thumbs in Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop
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Jolicloud 1.0 netbook OS to include touchscreen support
The Jolicloud developers have confirmed that the upcoming major 1.0 release of their Linux-based netbook operating system will include support for some touchscreen displays out of the box
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3 Amazing Firefox Hacks
What good is a browser unless you can tweak it, hack it and bend it to your will? No good at all. The more you can hack it, the better it is. And that means that Firefox must be a great browser as when ever you feel that you know everything about it you come across a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser.
Read more »How to Tether Using Your Android Phone
Unless you are one of the few who have upgraded to Froyo, or you have rooted your Android phone, chances are, you are still not able to tether using your Android phone. Those who are seeking a solution, PdaNet is the easiest way available to provide tethering to your Mac or PC.
Read more »An introduction to Peppermint OS
Earlier this year a pair of developers put out a new distribution called Peppermint OS. The new distro, which has close family ties to Ubuntu, is an experiment in combining the traditional desktop computing model with cloud-based application
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Introducing Your KDE Software Labels
A while ago, the KDE promo team organized a competition to choose a design for labels that producers of software within our community can use to show that they are part of KDE. Today we are happy to announce the winning designs:
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Firefox 3.6.4 adds crash protection, fixes vulnerabilities
Following several delays, Mozilla has released version 3.6.4 of its open source Firefox web browser, adding crash protection and addressing four critical vulnerabilities
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An introduction to CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris
CrossOver for Solaris is a commercial variant of Wine released by CodeWeavers with (currently) limited support for many of todays most popular office application and games. CrossOver Office and Games for Solaris has been compiled on Solaris 10 and tested for performance and stability
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HP linux netbook
This is the HP Mini 100e, a netbook which looks are fully customizable. There's an option for SUSE Linux as the operating system. It's nice to see something different in operating system options, too bad the other 2 options are windows versions (XP and 7)
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Get the Most Out of Bash History
Type history at the Bash command prompt, and you'll get a list of your previous commands. You can navigate through these with the up and down arrows, but there are other ways of interacting with them that I've been investigating this week.
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Open Season : Maverick
It’s back and it’s bigger than ever! It’s that time of the year again, time to start hunting down those nasty trivial Papercut bugs.
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Text editing with Nano made easy
Nano supports syntax highlighting. Nano supports text justification. And yet, Nano is so much easier than Emacs or Vim. Discover the hidden power of this versatile command line text editor - you may never want to go back to the GUI again!
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Become a typeface pro with Fontmatrix
Casual computer users often give little thought to fonts, but once you starting working on design, you soon begin to appreciate the positive effects a good typeface can have on branding and marketing. The trouble comes when you start to collect more fonts on your system than you can keep track of in your head. The solution is a good font manager, like the open source Fontmatrix.
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Thunderbird 3.1 is available
Thunderbird 3.1 -- free software email client, based on the Gecko 1.9.2 platform, was built by a community of passionate contributors, experienced developers, security experts, localization and support communities, and thousands of active testers. Thunderbird, as a messaging system, is uniquely positioned as the tool that users can use to integrate as many of their communications as they want.
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Install Latest Empathy in Ubuntu From PPA [Lucid, Karmic]
Empathy is the default IM client in Ubuntu starting from Ubuntu version 9.10 Karmic Koala. Though Pidgin was in many ways a favorite for a lot of people, Empathy has always been the better alternative for me. And it is good to have Empathy by default in Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx".
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