Clementine is a port of Amarok 1.4 to QT 4, giving users an application that fits in well with KDE 4 while still resembling the previous version of the library-based music player.
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xVideoServiceThief- Download and convert your favorites videos from more than 76 websites
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xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is a tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites (currently supports 76 websites and increasing!). xVideoServiceThief also provide you the ability to convert each video in most popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats. xVideoServicethief is across platform, it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
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Why is Linux Email Stuck in the 90s?
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Email, love it or loathe it, there's no getting away from it. On an average day I process hundreds of emails, but haven't yet found an open source mail user agent (MUA) that I really like. Ten years ago this wasn't surprising, but today?
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Ubuntu makeover paying off
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Ubuntu's focus on improving the desktop experience for users is starting to take hold. Clearly nothing happens overnight. More than two years ago, Ubuntu chief Mark Shuttleworth went out on a limb and said that his ambition was to make the Ubuntu desktop better than Apple's famously good-looking desktop.
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50 Fantastic Free Android Apps
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A free Android app is a wonderful thing. The problem is, the Android App Marketplace is a bit freewheeling, and it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Lucky for you, we've done the job for you.
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Get organized with Getting Things GNOME
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Getting Things GNOME is a GNOME tool that takes the task list to the next level. GTG allows for tag-able task, add sub tasks, includes a plugin systems (with plenty of included plugins), and more.
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The Linux Sweet Spot
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To be successful on the next wave of Internet devices, the Linux price point has to go lower. Imagine the seventy-five dollar touch screen Linux tablet that does one thing, browse the web.
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Get Hotot , A New Stylish Twitter Client for Ubuntu [From PPA]
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Hotot is a new Twitter client that comes with all the basic features a Twitter client has, that is support for status updates, retweets, directs, search etc., plus some really interesting features.
Hotot is extensible through a number of extensions, three as of now. For image uploading, inline image previews and geolocation.
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Give A Speed Boost To Your Ubuntu NetBook
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Many times we face a situation when our Ubuntu Netbook becomes pretty slow. And when we check out our RAM, we find that only half of our RAM is used and the SWAP memory usage is gone upto 25% or 50% or even more. Confused??
Read more »Time for some Enlightenment.
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In the interests of efficiency I eventually settled on XFCE as my desktop environment to give me a balance of eye candy and resource efficiency. It did everything quite well and I had no trouble watching videos. Until...
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X File Explorer (Xfe) - A lightweight file manager for X11
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X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander, originally developed by Maxim Baranov.Xfe is developed since 2002 by Roland Baudin, a french Linux enthusiast.
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How to Synchronize Dropbox and Ubuntu One Online Backup Services
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How to Synchronize Dropbox and Ubuntu One Online Backup Services: Dropbox and Ubuntu One are two of my favorite online backup services. They both provide safe, reliable, and easy-to-use cloud storage solutions.
Read more »More Free Guides on Essential Open Source Topics
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Although the actual documentation you get with many open source applications and platforms can feel paltry compared to what you get with proprietary alternatives, many book authors have served up free, online books on open source topics. We round these up on a regular basis here at OStatic, and in this post you'll find seven online books that you can get comfortable with quickly.
Read more »Ubuntu announces application review process
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The community manager for Ubuntu has announced that there is a new process in trial for application developers submitting their applications for inclusion in the Ubuntu's Software Center
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Lifesaver for Maverick
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I think that enough of the planets have aligned in the shape of a failboat that I have been able to successfully upload a source package of Lifesaver to its PPA for Maverick.
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