Blue GNU caught up with Chris Debenham, the primary developer behind Lyricue, to learn how the program upholds his IT philosophy.

If you are looking for nice application that displays the lyrics as the song plays and if you love to sing along then there is a really nice application that can turn your system into a karaoke machine.

OSD lyrics displays lyrics of any song that you play through your music player. It automatically downloads the required lyrics from different sources. Just turn it on and you are ready to go.

If you read the lyrics of the song "Looking for Freedom" with an imaginative mindset you could find that it could have been written by a windows developer trying to escape the control of and dependance on MS.

I have rewritten the text to reflect those who are using Linux and Open Source.

An image viewer (also known as image browser) is a desktop application that can quickly display or handle stored graphical images in different graphics file formats. It can render images according to properties of the display such as display resolution, color depth, and color profile. Other image viewers have advanced features like editing and web publishing.

The Java vulnerability disclosed at the weekend is already being actively exploited to spread malware. A web site for downloading song lyrics is among the sites infected. A Java update which fixes the vulnerability is available

The CVOB-E72 is not only Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g) capable but also runs on Linux 2.6.10
The projector comes with a wireless keyboard,a mini tripod and a remote control. This is a portable mini Linux computer with a projector instead of a screen!

"GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor. It is used to create, display, modify and otherwise manipulate text files, both interactively and via shell scripts. A restricted version of ed, red, can only edit files in the current directory and cannot execute shell commands. Ed is the "standard" text editor in the sense that it is the original editor for Unix, and thus widely available.

A great tool for doing this is 'Phatch', a free and open source platform that will allow editing of images in bulk and easily. The properties that we can change are size, resolution,size limit, transpose images, watermarks, borders, shadows, text ..

One of the tools I needed was a text editor, because, let's face it, with a "mini computer" in your pocket you'll need a way of creating and editing text files. After testing several text editors I found that Text Edit was the best.