Even though most Android users are still waiting for Android 2.2, details about the next version Android 3.0, or Gingerbread are starting to emerge. Android 3.0 release date is looking like Q4 of this year, possibly around October. And Gingerbread may already be in some testers' hands - Phandroid has shown an unverified photo of a test build of Android 3.0 running in the wild.
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New GNOME Shell Mockups
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Since GNOME 3.0 has been delayed until March, 2011, it seems there's enough time to rethink the way GNOME Shell looks, especially since a lot of people don't like it (especially from the usability point of view).
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KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour
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KDE 4.5 is coming out in August but I simply couldn’t wait to try it out a few days before the release. Hence, I got my hands on the Release Candidate v2.
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10 reasons why your kids should be using Linux
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In this article, I will give you 10 good reasons why you should do just this. In the end, you can decide for yourself whether they’re reason enough to migrate those young users away from other operating systems.
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What’s new in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been scheduled to be released 10 October 2010 (10/10/10) and most of the changes have been already implemented as it is heading for the 3rd Alpha release in August 5th.
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Mozilla's Tab Candy is the first step to sweeter browsing
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Tabbed browsing has arguably had a significant impact on the way that people use the Web, but the feature hasn't really scaled to accommodate the increasing complexity of the average surfing session.
Read more »The Bizarre Cathedral - 76
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Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc & crimperman
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How to make a see-through to image text effect in GIMP
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A really simple little trick to adding normal text to an image and making it look interesting! This technique can be used for nearly any photograph, however it is a lot easier to see the text with less detailed and contrasty photographs.
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Device support in Windows vs. Linux
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One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system.
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Banish Flash cookies forever under Linux
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LINUX USERS can banish forever Adobe's Flash Player cookies, which can be a good idea because, for one thing, as a plugin Flash doesn't observe web browsers' Private Browsing modes.
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Android Wallpaper Apps Falsely Accused of Stealing Sensitive User Data [FUD]
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A recent VentureBeat article put the blogosphere and smartphone industry on its heels when a reported score of wallpaper Android apps were accused of being malicious by mobile security software maker Lookout at a Blackhat 2010 hackers conference. We had a chance to talk with the developer of the wallpaper apps in an exclusive interview, his name is Jackeey Wu.
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BAR - Backup application
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BAR is backup archiver program. I developed this program after I could not find a simple to use archiver program to create compressed and encrypted archives of my files which can be stored on a cd or dvd. While I devoped the program - development is still not finished - I added some more useful features.
Read more »gdocs mount GTK- Access and edit Google DOCS from Nautilus the easy way
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Thanks to DoctorMos it is possible to mount google docs as a folder on your computer using gdocs mount GTK. Now instead of uploading your documents to google docs using a web browser, you can edit them in your favorite word processor and save them to a virtual drive in Nautilus.
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HOWTO: Starcraft 2 under Linux with Wine
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Okie dokie - so I've mentioned before that I play Starcraft 2 under my Linux install with no issues. Since the game's official release a few days ago I have been getting a good bit of traffic on those two pages - so I figured I would put together a quick HOWTO for getting Starcraft 2 working on your Linux distro of choice.
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8 of the best web browsers for Linux
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The way we chose which applications to include in this Roundup was quite simple – they're the most popular Linux browsers.
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