You know Firefox like the back of your hand. You’ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser. In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side. Browsers, the lot of them.
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Music Album Covers And Picture Previews As Folder Thumbnails In Nautilus
Cover thumbnailer is a small Python script which displays music album covers in nautilus, preview of pictures which are in a folder and more. The script fits in nautilus like any other thumbnailer of the GNOME thumbnail factory; so you don't have to run it manually to generate thumbnails.
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Linux Mint 8 final released
Just 2 weeks after Release Candidate 1 was released, Linux Mint 8 final dubbed Helena version is available.
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KDE releases Software Compilation 4.3.4
KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.3 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates
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KDE 4.4 dev: What’s new?
I have managed to find some time to cover the recent changes in the development version of KDE 4.4. The number of changes is not impressive but they are interesting enough to write an article.
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Finding files and documents with Recoll
Desktop search engines are all the rage these days. While Beagle may be the most popular desktop search engine for Linux, there are alternatives. If you are looking for a light-weight and easy-to-use yet powerful desktop search engine, you might want to try Recoll.
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Linux Mint 8 Helena Screenshots
Besides its outstanding mint green graphical setup, the Ubuntu-based Linux Mint includes Mint specific tools such as MintInstall, MintBackup, MintUpdate and others. Linux Mint 8 was just released yesterday and it includes some great new features worth looking into.
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UbuntuSun – Ubuntu 10.4 (Lucid) Proposed Artwork (Updated)
We have already posted about ubuntusun and now we have updated artwork from the author.
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TouchFreeze – Tray icon that disables your touchpad while typing
TouchFreeze docks in your system tray (KDE/Gnome) and disables button click events while typing.It's similar to ksynaptics if you know that but more simple. touchfreeze is a program that disables your touchpad when you are typing. This prevents unintended click and scroll events when part of your hand touches the touchpad while you are typing.
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Virtual computers in a virtual world
The method I like the best for evaluating different operating systems, whether they are different Linux distributions, BSD, MacOS or the latest windows offering, is to use virtual machines.
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Tiny Core Linux 2.6 arrives
Tiny Core lead developer Robert Shingledecker has announced the availability of version 2.6 of Tiny Core Linux. Tiny Core is a minimal Linux distribution that's only about 10 MB in size and is based on the 2.6 Linux kernel. The latest release includes several bug fixes, changes and updates.
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F-Spot (Mono) Can Still be Removed from Next Ubuntu
Canonical at a crossroad after deciding to remove GIMP from the CD-ROM; potential replacements not finalised yet
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Manage your bibliographic database with Bibus
If you are a student, teacher, writer, or anyone who has a need for a bibligraphy then you need to do yourself a favor and make use of a bibliographic manager.
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Battery improvements in kde plasma 4.4
The battery applet in KDE Plasma 4.4 has gotten some nice improvements. First of all, I wasn’t really happy with the layout of its popup dialog. It looked messy and didn’t scale well with bigger fonts. During Tokamak3 in September, I started improving this.
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The Legend of Edgar 0.41
The Legend of Edgar has been updated to 0.41. Changes include the fixing of the Golem Boss, the Library map and arrows not falling through the lift after the first Maggot encounter.
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