Plug your camera into your computer and it should automatically organize those pictures in such a way that you can easily find them later. This is the idea behind photo album managers, but not everyone agrees about which ones are best for the job.
Read more »The 4 Best Photo Album Managers For Linux
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Better multimedia support for OpenOffice.org on Unix systems
Playing back audio and video content on Unix system was and is still a matter of choices. A few years ago, we created a flexible multimedia solution for OOo that offers the chance to extend the set of supported external frameworks in an easy way and with only little development effort.
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Installing PowerDNS (With MySQL Backend) And Poweradmin On Debian Lenny
This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well.
Read more »5 Little Linux Computers
This month we take a look at a number of small form factor PCs that either come with Linux or would make a perfect fit for your favorite Linux distro. Each of the computers mentioned takes up very little space, but all deliver plenty of computing performance to handle everything from basic web browsing to watching videos.
Read more »Turning a Photograph into a Polka Dot Image in GIMP
This a very quick simple tutorial and a bit of fun! I have made a range of different sizes - 50px, 75px, 100px, 150px patterns so you can easily apply the effect in seconds.
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Wine 1.2-rc7 Released
The Wine development release 1.2-rc7 is now available. Barring any last minute problems, this should be the last release candidate before the final 1.2. Please give it a good testing.
Whats new in this release:
* Translation updates.
* Various bug fixes.
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Moving Firefox Fourwards
Firefox finds itself at an interesting juncture: not only is Google's Chrome managing to gain some serious market share, but even Microsoft Internet Explorer is starting to fight back
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Firefox meets Pidgin = InstantBird
InstantBird is one of the more interesting applications I’ve tried in a while a while. It's a messaging client that is a curious hybrid of both Firefox & Pidgin.
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Install Linux Without Burning An ISO To CD/DVD
I am describing here a method to install Linux without using a DVD ROM or CD Drive; I have checked it myself. There are many ways to do so. You can install Linux by 1) booting from the network; 2) having an ISO image on your hard disk; 3) booting from USB; 4) installing a linux system from scratch by building your own.
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One Stop Shop for Ubuntu Customizations
There are a lot of things that make people switch to Ubuntu. But with all of the resources we have available in free software and the ability to dig into the open source and change for our own tastes, we all occasionally run into a wall of lack of inspiration of just what to customize, or what new usability tweak to try out.
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Meet Guake - Quake Style Terminal Emulator For Gnome
Quake is a first person shooter game and design inspiration for Guake Terminal Emulator came from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again. Guake is originally inspired from KDE's Yakuake.
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8 of the Best Linux Flashcard Software
A flashcard stores information on a set of cards, with the information being typically portrayed as words and numbers. The purpose of flashcards is to enable individuals to store verbal and visual information, often as a learning drill by way of spaced repetition. The Leitner system is a popular method of studying with flashcards using spaced repetition.
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Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Customization Guide
This step-by-step tutorial was created for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system and it will teach you how to change the looks of your Linux desktop into an eye-candy, practical, simple and modern one. In other words, to pimp your desktop and change its looks:
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WonderWebWare Sitemap Generator on Linux with Wine
A couple days back I was looking for a tool to create a sitemap of our sites so I could send the sitemap to Google and Yahoo to help improve our site listings and page rank. After allot of waisted time trying to create a decent sitemap with the free online SiteMap Generators.
Read more »100 % free Linux distributions
On this, July 4, 2010, the day the United States celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I thought I would take a moment to celebrate that same day with a toast to those Linux distributions that shirk all non-free software. This means EVERYTHING on these distributions is protected under, at least, the GPL.
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