Minitube is a solid open source YouTube viewing client that gives users a way to search and watch videos without all the visual distractions.
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Most Windows users know about the utility of the Ctrl + Alt + Del keys when dealing with an unresponsive application. A program is said to be unresponsive when it doesn’t respond to any user interaction and neither does it perform its intended actions.
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In April Ubuntu Lucid Lynx will be released. We look at what can be expected.
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TurboPrint for Linux Saves the Day-- Again
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Printing in Linux, even in this glorious year 2009--almost 2010--of the new millennium, the 21st century, is still fraught with vexations. I have always liked CUPS, the Common Unix Printing System once you figure out your way around it. But there are still some gaps.
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Openoffice.org extensions- Personal/Family Budget Spreadsheet
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This spreadsheet will allow you to set a yearly budgeted amount for numerous categories and then track your spending in all of them comparing it to your budgeted amount, just like a business. It will track your income (monthly and yearly) and compare that with your monthly and yearly expenses.
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Avant Window Navigator is Back, Quick Review and Installation in Ubuntu
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Avant Window Navigator(AWN) has always been my favorite dock application. It was by far the most easy to use and far better looking dock application when compared to Gnome-Do or Cairo-Dock. But that was some years ago.
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Hands On Review of Thunderbird 3
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After a long wait, Mozilla finally releases version 3.0 of Thunderbird. This latest version of Thunderbird brings much changes and makes it even more powerful than its ancestor. In this article, we take a look at the Thunderbird 3.0 and show you what you are going to expect in this great software.
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My experience with FreeBsd 8
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Freebsd is really a great distro. FreeBsd can be also considered the mother or father of all the other BSD derivatives you can find over at Distrowatch. Classified as the unknown giant among free operating systems, Freebsd 8, which was recently released, is really a great and stable operating system.
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Firefox 3.5.6 and 3.0.16 Officially Released
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As part of Mozilla’s ongoing stability and security update process, Firefox 3.5.6 and Firefox 3.0.16 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads...
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Day of Conky
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A minimalist Conky configuration that changes color to match the Day of Ubuntu transitioning wallpaper.
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Review - MEPIS 8.5 Beta1
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MEPIS Linux, the KDE based Linux distribution, released the beta1 of MEPIS 8.5. MEPIS Linux was one of the easy to use Linux distributions besides PCLinuxOS, before Ubuntu arrived. The users who wanted to use the latest Debian's snapshot, but afraid of all those text mode configuration tricks found MEPIS as the Debian for the masses
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Command Line Basics: Bulk Rename Files With rename
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Sometimes you get a bunch of files that are named in an annoying way and you’d like to change the naming convention for all of them. Maybe you forgot to change the settings on your CD ripping software and it ended up creating a bunch of long file names that you don’t like.
The aptly named "rename" terminal command comes to the rescue and allows you to bulk rename files from the command line.
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What Ubuntu needs is a good GUI backup utility - could Luckybackup be that app?
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Don't get me wrong, there's a lot about Ubuntu to like — a lot I like — but I tend to write fairly critically about what seems to be the world's most popular free, open-source desktop operating system because not just I - but the rest of the user and developer communities - hold it up to a higher standard. And Ubuntu doesn't always measure up.
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15 Minimalist Linux Wallpapers for a Distraction-free Desktop
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I always keep my desktop workspace clean and without distraction.
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Why you should not pay for extended warranty if you use Linux
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I have read a rather sad story today. Apparently the Best Buy Geeks squad refused to service the machine of someone who had purchased an $80 extended warranty for its netbook just because he had installed Ubuntu Linux.
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