Back in 2003, Minnesota developer Brian Langenberger began creating a set of labor-saving audio tools to convert FLAC files to MP3 files, MP3 files to WAV files, and other simple operations that were tiresome to do by hand. “
Read more »Python Audio Tools, for the audio perfectionist
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Installing (and reinstalling) Linux on your desktop
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Yesterday I set up a laptop with a Linux distribution, including everything I needed for work. Today, I’m doing it again.
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The Lost Tribes of RadioShack: Tinkerers Search for New Spiritual Home
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"In a single generation, the American who built, repaired, and tinkered with technology has evolved into an entirely new species: the American who prefers to slip that technology out of his pocket and show off its killer apps. Once, we were makers. Now most of us are users." --
I guess this is exactly what is happening in software now.
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Web Browser Grand Prix 2: The Top 5 Tested And Ranked
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Since the time our first Web Browser Grand Prix debuted, the already-raging browser wars have become heated indeed. In case you haven't been keeping tabs on the browser news, let's begin by getting up to speed on the latest:
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Tablets: The Next Big Open Source Opportunity?
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All of a sudden, tablet computers are all the rage, with Apple's iPad stoking the fire. But Apple is hardly going to compete unchallenged in the tablet space. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer claims that his company is "hardcore" about tablets, and is working with Asus, Dell, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony before the end of the year.
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O'Reilly open source awards 2010
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Tuesday night saw the O'Reilly Open Source Awards. The awards are given to those who have made significant contribution to the open source community. Our thanks and congratulations to all the recipients.
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Unity, Ubuntu Software Center And Sound Indicator Video And Screenshots
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Unity received yet another update in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 Maverick Meerkat yesterday. This version partially fixes the application search in the Unity application launcher and file browser - also known as Dash (the file search actually looks completely fixed).
Read more »New Releases Of GTK+, Mutter, GNOME Shell
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In preparation for the latest GNOME 3.0 development snapshot due to arrive on Wednesday (tagged as GNOME 2.31.5), a wealth of GNOME packages are being checked-in for this unstable milestone.
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Linux supercomputer, worth £2m, sought by University of Warwick
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The University of Warwick is tendering for a new Linux-based High Performance Computing facility for its research Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC).
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Speed up your Ubuntu machine boot time
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Are you desperately searching for ways to finally reach that elusive 10 second boot time? You certainly heard that Ubuntu 10.04 has the capability of doing just that right? It can…but you have to help it along.
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Minimalist Linux distro rev'd to version 3.0
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Team Tiny Core announced the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its small-footprint, in-memory Linux desktop distribution. Tiny Core Linux 3.0 RC1 advances to Linux 2.6.33.3, and offers improved compressed swap in RAM, a 64-bit version, enhanced virtualization, and the Ext4 file-system, says the project.
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Linux Market Share At A Record High
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The W3S stats for last month (June) show the Linux market share at 4.8%. Sure, it's not 100% accurate but it's nevertheless impressive.
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Sanity From the 1st Post-Bilski Decision from BPAI: In Re Proudler
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Look at this, will you? The first decision from the Board of Patents Appeals and Interferences post-Bilski to reference that US Supreme Court decision, in In Re Proudler [PDF], a ruling rejecting HP's application for a software patent, setting forth a rule stating, as I read it, as saying software is not patentable because it's an abstraction...
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Unigine Is Working On A Strategy Game
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Earlier this month the developers behind the Unigine Engine shared their latest update on this advanced 3D engine that's fully supported under Linux.
Read more »Music sharing app sounds out Linux
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Spotify yesterday released a preview version of its peer-to-peer (P2P) music application for desktop Linux, packaged as Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 10.04. The software shares most of the features of the Windows and Mac OS X versions of Spotify, but requires Spotify Premium membership.
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