"Known as a company that innovates in many fields, IBM dishes out an interesting Web 2.0-ish gem every now and then. The latest is CoScripter, which launches today; it’s a Firefox plugin that lets you automate various mundane tasks which you regularly do online..."
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Free embedded browser rev's up, goes FLTK2
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The Dillo project has achieved an alpha release of a next-generation version of its ultra-lightweight CGI forms-capable HTML browser for embedded systems. Dillo-f15f is built against FLTK2 (fast light toolkit, aka "full tick") rather than GTK, and adds support for anti-aliased international UTF-8 text, among other new features.
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Howto Install Freecom Musicpal in Ubuntu Feisty
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Freecom just brought a brand new product to the Dutch market called the “Musicpal“. On the box it says it’s supported for Windows and Mac, although its software is based on Linux Kernel. Stubborn and Windows/Mac hater as I am, I decided to buy this nice product convinced of managing to make it work somehow in Ubuntu (Linux geek as I am!). Two days later I managed to make it work!
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Schedule Streaming Audio Recordings in Ubuntu
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If you're like me, your bosses actually expect you to work while on the job, and not sit listening to your favorite radio show like you might want to. In this instructable, I'll show how to record any audio stream automatically using mplayer, lame and cron to schedule the job.
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Howto Fix RSSOwl Internal Browser
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Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or “aggregators.” RSSOwl is such an application. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more.
Read more »Vamp the Linux LAMP through PHP part 2
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Last time we showed how anyone can get started writing, or reading, web pages coded with PHP, the “P” in “LAMP” (the rest being Linux, Apache and MySQL.) We received kind reader feedback that this was the friendliest and simplest PHP introduction they’d seen.
Read more »Using FileZilla on Linux
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Recently, the open source FileZilla FTP client became available for Mac OS X and Linux. Previous versions of FileZilla were only available for Windows.
Using the wxWidgets cross-platform user interface, FileZilla now can be used with a consistent look-and-feel on multiple operating systems. The only prerequisite is to have the wxWidgets package installed.
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I'll take PCLinuxOS (PSLinOS) Please
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Well ladies & gentlemen…it has been nearly 6 months since I installed & began working with PCLinuxOS, and I must say I am nothing but impressed. Since that time, my article on PCLinuxOS vs Ubuntu has quickly become my most read article on eJabs. The article has surpassed other very popular articles in a short amount of time.
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Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer's Tools
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The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an online dictionary lookup tool, email backup, remote backup to an FTP server and more directly into OO.org.
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Backing up and restoring your DSL configuration
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Damn Small Linux (DSL) is primarily a live CD, or emulation thereof, which means that the base system is read-only. So how do you save your settings?
Read more »Lightweight Browser Rundown
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Most of modern browsers tend to eating up to tons of your memory, and think nothing of it. So here are some browsers designed for fast action, and minimal operating footprint. These are perfect for your old decrepit little computer that you have raised from the dead using some lightweight linux distro.
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Turbolinux Couples Online Storage With Portable Device
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Turbolinux, one of the first-generation Linux vendors to enter the business arena, on Monday announced a new online storage service for its Wizpy device, which was first introduced in June. The Wizpy, which behaves as a Linux operating system as well as media player, now provides an online storage service from Omnidrive, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based storage services provider.
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Upgrading an operating system is easy
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Yesterday I decided to take the ultimate test of my badly mangled edgy Linux installation. Instead of the tried and true reformat and reload method I wanted to try the distribution upgrade that the automatic update kept on nagging me about. So jumping off of the deep end to see if I would sink or swim I just went ahead and gave permission to the upgrade tool to bump me up to feeling feisty.
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Can Linux save the UMPC from extinction?
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The UMPC has not set the world on fire, but can bringing an open source Linux based development platform into the hardware equation finally fan the flames?
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars Coming Soon To Linux
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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the long-awaited title by id Software and Splash Damage, launched today in North America. While a Linux-native client of this game isn't available today, it will be available shortly.
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