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Business Card Tutorial in Inkscape.org

http://blog.worldlabel.com

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a print ready business card template and design using Inkscape.org. The steps in this tutorial will work for Inkscape versions 0.46 and 0.47.

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FEL: Emacs, Verilog-mode, dinotrace

http://clunixchit.blogspot.com

"I have just pushed dinotrace to Fedora stable repositories. This will elevate the digital design experience for Emacs users..."

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Created by can.axis 16 years 35 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 35 weeks ago
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Visual Polish in the Firefox 3.5 Themes

http://blog.mozilla.com

We are now in the process of landing a few refreshed icons for the Firefox 3.5 themes. Across all 4 platforms roughly 25 of the icons are either being tweaked or are entirely new (there were some last minute feature additions, like geolocation). Here are a few highlights.

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Created by ooviaa 16 years 35 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 35 weeks ago
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Gimp FX Foundry: 115 Scripts Ready for Gimp 2.6

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

There are lots of scripts to the Gimp, which simplifies your image editing. Gimp FX Foundry has merged a whole lot of different scripts to a collection and where you will find the most you will ever need for your image editing.

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Created by nilarimogard 16 years 35 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 35 weeks ago
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Pyjama for Linux: Listen to Free Music

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

"Python Jamendo Audio" or Pyjama is a python / GTK audio streaming application, which is thought to bring the free Jamendo - music on your PC. You can browse through artists and albums, mark your favorite songs and create playlists.

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Created by nilarimogard 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Fast Forward: VLC 1.0.0 Media Player RC1

http://www.linuxpromagazine.com

May 13 VideoLAN announced and made ready for download the release candidate of its VLC Media Player 1.0. The new version supports more codecs and provides numerous enhancements.

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Created by electronichouse 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Fedora 11 Screenshot Tour

http://fedoraproject.org

A screenshot tour of Fedora 11 .

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Created by bluecheese 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Kpackagekit - First Impressions and Troubleshoots

http://www.mygnulinux.com

Kpackagekit is the default package manager on Kubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)..These are some first impressions and troubleshoots..

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Created by tetris4 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Limit CPU Usage By Process [Linux]

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

cpulimit is a simple program that attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in cpu time). This is useful to control batch jobs, when you don't want them to eat too much cpu. It does not act on the nice value or other scheduling priority stuff, but on the real cpu usage. Also, it is able to adapt itself to the overall system load, dynamically and quickly.

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Created by nilarimogard 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Up close and personal with Debian 5.0

http://www.techradar.com

The latest Debian version – 5.0, codenamed Lenny – was released on 14 February. To mark the release, Linux Format magazine talked to some of the developers involved and took a look at the new stuff on offer.

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Created by oshea 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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The KDE 4.3 beta: KDE Returns to Incremental Releases

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com

With the release of the KDE 4.3 beta, the project is returning to incremental releases, and concentrating on customization and ease of use on the desktop, the panel, and system settings.

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Created by john.brubrick 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Tomboy, Gnote, and the limits of forks

http://lwn.net

Your editor has long been a user of the Tomboy note-taking tool. Tomboy makes it easy to gather thoughts, organize them, and pull them up on demand; it is, beyond doubt, a useful productivity tool. But all is not perfect with Tomboy. Some people have complained about its faults for a while; Hubert Figuiere, instead, chose to do something about it in the form of the Gnote utility.

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Created by extra 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Embed a Terminal into Your Desktop using Compiz [Howto]

http://webupd8.blogspot.com

I guess you could use a screenlet or something similar to embed a terminal into your desktop, but I want to have it transparent, with no titlebar or border and basically to look like my wallpaper has a terminal. For that, i used Compiz and this is what it looks like:

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Created by nilarimogard 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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Intro to AwesomeWM

http://tuxtraining.com

The Awesome Window Manager, is well... awesome. A tiling window manager that handles multi-head setups better than the rest. Here's how to get started..

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Created by devnull 16 years 36 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 36 weeks ago
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12 of the Best Free Linux News Aggregators

http://www.linuxlinks.com

A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing. With the range of news sources available on the internet, news aggregators play an essential role in helping users to quickly locate breaking news.

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Created by tony 16 years 37 weeks ago – Made popular 16 years 37 weeks ago
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