"...One of my favorite Emacs packages, which I frequently load at startup and leave running is the color-theme package..."
Read more »Customizations of the color-theme Emacs add-on package
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Top 10 Mozilla Firefox keyboard shortcuts you should use!
Mozilla Firefox is my no. 1 web browser and I also must to admit that it is the most used application on my desktop. I’m using it on daily basis and as I like to do things fast and in a comfortable way I’m using keyboard shortcuts. I thought that they could help to many of my readers too, so I’d love to share them with you
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Mutiny aboard the good ship TheOpenCD
As of today I’m stepping down from TheOpenCD development, of which for the last eighteen months I’ve been the sole developer and general caretaker for the project. It’s not all bad news though - I’m leaving the project to pursue my own open source disc, which I believe will resolve the issues I’ve experienced in my time at the helm1.
Read more »Mythbuntu has seen the light!
I’m leading the Mythbuntu effort, and for our next alpha we are switching over to Xfce for our base. We were previously doing an openbox/feh/idesk method, but Xfce is much prettier.
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Novell's Linux business spikes since Microsoft deal
Novell's Linux business has soared 243 percent since last November when the company signed its controversial deal with Microsoft.
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Plain Black? WebGUI you can't afford to miss!
I stumbled upon a Content management system that was shockingly one of the best I have ever seen, and the cost?
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Ohio LinuxFest - Friday Night
I have managed to check in from my hotel room in Columbus, OH. If you're not here, you're missing out!
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OLPC Peru/Arahuay
"OLPC Peru/Arahuay. A fascinating case study of the introduction of the XO to a school in Peru. It’s really exciting to see the project starting to make an impact."
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Peru/Arahuay
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WebRunner
"A new piece of software has come to my attention today, a Mozilla project called WebRunner that aims to provide an easy way to create site-specific browsers (SSBs). The project is basically an extension on the XULRunner software, which itself is standalone version of the XUL engine that underpins the big Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Seamonkey)..."
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Songbird audio player has potential, needs work
Songbird is a cross-platform, Mozilla-based music player with high ambitions. The app is still undergoing heavy development, but it has come a long way since we looked at the 0.1 release in 2006. Songbird today can sing a pretty sweet tune, but to push its way into the big leagues, it needs to get over its own interface.
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Shortest Tutorial for Firefox Extension/Toolbar Development!
"The example covered with this tutorial is a toolbar with just one feature: Google Search! And lets call it: GoogBar! "
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Change Ctrl+Enter Behavior in Firefox
My good friend Daniel asked me yesterday how to change Firefox so that Shift+Enter auto-completes *.org instead of *.net. After about a 2 minute google session, I had the answer to share with everybody.
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Amarok: Playing with the Playlist
Since the new playlist for Amarok 2 is basically built using a QGraphicsView, we can do some realy interesting stuff with it. One of the things I have been thinking about was a way to group tracks from the same albums together to take up less space and avoid having the same cover shown over and over again.
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Firefox: The problems ahead
One of the reigning mass market champions of open source software appears to have hit choppy waters. With Firefox 3 on the horizon, IT PRO finds out what's happening with the world's favourite non-Microsoft browser.
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Essential Firefox web developer / designer plugins
"I've been taking a few Firefox plug-ins for granted, so here's a little nod to some excellent add-ons which have made my life easier *nods*. The plug-ins I'm talking about are Firebug, Web Developer Toolbar and Dummy Lipsum."
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