As many of you already know, Shotwell will replace F-Spot in the next Ubuntu release, Maverick Meerkat, which is scheduled for October 10. Shotwell is a GTK photo management application which organizes your photos in a collection, allows them to be tagged and rated, and more.
Read more »First MeeGo Linux tablet ships
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Neofonie-owned WeTab GmbH has shipped what appears to be the first MeeGo-based tablet, the 11.6-inch, Intel Atom N450-based WeTab
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Clementine 0.5 - New and Improved KDE4 Port of Amarok 1.4
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Clementine is a port to KDE4 of one of the most beloved music players on Linux, Amarok 1.4. The latest release brings several new features, including iPod, MTP and USB mass storage disks support, queue manager, support for Wii Remote to control it, and numerous bug fixes to already existing features.
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Listen to Text and Instant Messages with Gespeaker 'Text To Speech' Utility
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Gespeaker 'Text to Speech' utility is a GTK+ frontend for Espeak , that allows you to listen to text in many different languages. The utility also allows you to listen received messages from Empathy and others instant messengers.
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Krita - The KDE Answer to GIMP
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I was recently browsing through various Linux news sites and bumped into this article, a taste of a comic done in Krita, the KDE painting and image editor application, which is part of the KOffice suite. Now I rarely use image editors, and I'm totally untalented at it, but when I do, I use GIMP for basic cropping, coloring or other simple stuff.
Read more »Abstract Logix: Changing the music experience for everyone with the open source way
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Abstract Logix is changing the music industry experience for musicians, fans, and retailers. How? By embracing the open source way and using a community-focused and collaborative approach.
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Open social networking: A look at the Diaspora pre-alpha code
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Last week Wednesday the Diaspora team released the source code for their social networking system to the world. The distributed, open source, so-called Facebook competitor released its code to the public recently but there seems to be some misunderstandings about what the release is all about
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KDE Science: Thomas Friedrichsmeier on RKWard, Toolkits and the KDE Platform
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As reported a few months ago, KDE software has plenty of use among scientists, who may use Plasma workspaces for their daily jobs or develop applications on top of the KDE Platform. We interviewed Thomas Friedrichsmeier, the lead developer of RKWard, a KDE Integrated Development Environment for the statistical programming language R.
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Setting Up A Mail Server Using Exim4, Clamav, Dovecot, SpamAssassin On Debian
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This howto describes one way to build a scalable, secure, full-featured mail platform. It offers virtual hosting of mailboxes in maildir format with support for quotas and server-side filtering, domain aliasing, address aliasing, address forwarding, catchall addresses. Relaying is secured with STARTTLS and SMTP-AUTH.
Read more »Firefox 4 gets fast
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Mozilla adds hardware acceleration to its latest beta release. It's not entirely a surprise but Mozilla has included hardware acceleration in its latest beta release, beta 5. It's not a surprise because the previous beta had the capability built-in but it wasn't enabled.
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pywo - Python Window Organizer
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PyWO allows you to easily organize windows on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts. It's inspired by Quicktile, Compiz plugins: Grid, Put, and Maximumize.
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10 useful video Tutorials for Gimp users
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One of the best thing about Gimp is that you can do a wide range of things with It. Today I’ve collected 10 useful GIMP video tutorials, so If you are a fan of Gimp this is the right post for you.
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OpenShot Video Editor 1.2.2 Released with New Effects, 3d Titles and Netbook Optimizations
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OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way.
The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:
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OpenStreetMap reaches 300,000 contributors
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The OpenStreetMap Project has announced that it has surpassed more than 300,000 registered contributors and that it is now accepting venue suggestions for next year's State of the Map conference
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Direct3D 10 and 11 Is Now Natively Implemented On Linux
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Luca Barbieri made a rather significant commit today that adds a state tracker dubbed "d3d1x", which implements the Direct3D 10/11 COM API in Gallium3D. Luca says this is just the initial version, but its already working and can run a few DirectX 10/11 texturing demos on Linux at the moment.
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