Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI.
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Howto setup Voice chat with Google talk user using Empathy
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MythTV made easy
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MythTV is an incredibly ambitious suite of applications designed to sit at the heart of your home entertainment centre. It records, pauses and rewinds television, plays music and videos, catalogues your photo and DVD collections, browses the internet, makes phone calls, delivers the news and the weather and plays games - and it does all this thanks to the power of Linux.
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Mozilla rethinks the behavior of new browser tabs
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A few months ago Mozilla embarked on a quest to determine a way to make new browser tabs more useful. Today Mozilla's Aza Raskin shared some of the team's conclusions, based on user feedback.
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Shutter, screenshots grabber with cool features
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Shutter seems to do quite everything. Full screen screenshots, single window's, even part of the windows. Image editing, automatic upload, basic effects. Quite cool.
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How to Design a Dramatic Winged Dragon with Gimp
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Create a fantasy image with the Gimp. In this tutorial, we will be taking a picture of a baby iguana and another picture of a bat and we will combine them to be a full-fledged dragon. This
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7 Ways to Stop Uncle Sam from Spying On You
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You say you have no secrets. Your life's an open book. You have nothing to hide. But still, do you really want to make it easy for Uncle Sam -- or anyone else for that matter -- to rifle through your contact lists, read your e-mails or monitor your cash flow? Probably not.
But privacy advocates say it's never been easier for the government to collect information about you.
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Linux tips every geek should know
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What separates average Linux users from the super-geeks? Simple: years spent learning the kinds of hacks, tricks, tips and techniques that turn long jobs into a moment's work. If you want to get up to speed without having to put in all that leg-work, we've rounded up over 50 easy-to-learn Linux tips to help you work smarter and get the most from your computer. Enjoy!
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Migrating to Linux in 5 Steps
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Migrating to Linux doesn’t have to be difficult. All you have to do is, get a fresh copy of your favorite distro, backup your data, find out what hardware is compatible, identify essential programs, and have a fresh hard drive or partition ready to go.
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Ubuntu 9.10 Release Schedule
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Announced by Mark Shuttleworth, on the 20th of February, Ubuntu 9.10 (codename Karmic Koala) will be released this year on October 29th. Without any further introduction, let's have a look at the release schedule...
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5 Minutes of SimplyMepis 8.0.00
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When I installed Fedora from the Live CD and found it to be incredibly slow, then I booted the Knoppix 6.0.1 CD, and it was outrageously fast. But now after trying SimplyMepis, I am forced to conclude that the Fedora really does suck.
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10 reasons why Linux isn't triumphing over Windows
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In a recent article, Jack Wallen built a case for the ascendancy of Linux over Windows. Now Kris Littlejohn steps up to argue the converse.
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CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for both Mac and Linux Released
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Jeremy White the CEO of CodeWeavers announced the release of CrossOver Games 7.2.0 for Mac and Linux. Below is the message Jeremy sent to their announce mailing list.
Hi Folks,
I am happy to announce that we have now released version 7.2.0 of CrossOver Games, for both the Mac and for Linux.
Read more »Seven Must-Have Firefox Security Add-Ons
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A list of firefox addons that help give you bette security.
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Qt 4.5 & Qt Creator 1.0 Released
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Trolltech, company behind popular C++ programming toolkit Qt announced the availability of Qt 4.5 and Qt Creator 1.0
Read more »Linux works out of the box
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One of good things said about OS X is that OS X works out of the box. But it doesn't work out of the box on any hardware - it works out of the box *on mac hardware*. I believe same can be just as well said about Linux.
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