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Top Ten Apps That Make Linux Fun To Use
Many Linux enthusiasts associate desktop Linux with their repetitive daily routine. Same old, same old. Linux is more than a mere efficient platform. It can also provide a great deal of entertainment as well.
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Finding Free Fonts for Linux
Getting a bit tired of the font selection your distribution ships with? Want a bit more variety for presentations or publications? Tons of fonts are available under open licenses, but only if you know where to look
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HandBrake: The Best Beginner DVD Ripper
What if you wanted to adopt digital media on your own terms, using free software? Well, Handbrake is here to take care of digitizing your DVD collection.
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Nip2 spreadsheet-like graphical image manipulation tool
Nip2 is a graphical front end to the VIPS package. VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind.
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Re-conquer Konqueror with Rekonq
How many browsers does an operating system really need? If you are looking from the outside in at the Linux operating system you would think it needed plenty. Rekonq will be the new default browser for Kubuntu 10.10. We will take a look.
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Create image for your hard drive the easy way with Redo Backup and Recovery
Redo is an easy point-and-click GUI tool for full system backup and recovery from bare metal, it allows fast cloning of hard disk images to and from local or network-shared drives. Extremely user friendly interface boots from CD or USB.
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Google SketchUp in Linux with Wine
Well, it turns out you can have Google SketchUp in Linux. It requires Wine. Overall, the installation is very simple and you will get a decent experience. It wont be a perfect one, mind you, but its a great beginning. There's hope.
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Winamp for Mac OS X
Well since Nullsoft does not provide any support for other then Microsoft Windows OS it could be tricky somehow to get it running on another OS like Mac OS X or even another *nix system…but it is not impossible. The thing you need is Wine to get it running on your *nix system or if you own a Mac like me you can use your copy of Crossover as well.
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Want Your Privacy Back? Install and Run Tor in Ubuntu
Have you ever felt that you are being watched in whatever you do online? Websites seem to know who you are and can greet you with your name when you visit them. Google always seems to know what you are searching, even before you started the search. Getting scared? Perhaps it’s time to turn your privacy filter on.
Read more »Flexnet License Monitoring With rrdtool
Some of you may know the commercial Flexnet Licencing Application. It's a client-server based solution for managing the usage of socalled Flexnet-enabled applications. You can hold licenses of more than one product on one license-server.
Read more »Desktop Virtualization Tools for Ubuntu
A few days ago, we published an overview of virtualization from the desktop user’s perspective. As a follow-up, we'll use this post to discuss some of the most popular virtualization tools for Ubuntu workstations and laptops.
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Four Great Gnome Panel Applets
While there are a good number of gnome applets to choose from by default, there are piles of other applets you can find online to install. The following are a list of four of my favorites I use on my various Linux systems around my house.
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4 Linux Games You Probably Have Not Played
maketecheasier.com: It is no secret that Linux is not a popular gaming platform. Despite that stigma, however, the open nature of Linux makes it easy, even for relatively inexperienced developers, to produce quality games.
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Bordeaux 50% off sale in celebration of the Wine 1.2 release
The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a one month sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenSolaris. With the release of Wine 1.2 it marks the first stable Wine release in nearly two years. And with this release we would like to celebrate and show our appreciation for all the hard work that has gone into the Wine 1.2 release.
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