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GNOME File Manager Gets Tabbed Browsing and Column View Support

Friday, May 30, 2008

For GNOME fans out there that love the UI polish but are less than happy about the lack of tabbed browser in the file manager and sometimes obsessive use of the “spatial” paradigm, rejoice! It looks like GNOME developer Christian Neumair has been working on adding tabbed browsing to Nautilus (the GNOME file manager); which ended [...]

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

Monday, January 28, 2008

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Nokia has agreed to purchase Trolltech (creators of the QT cross platform GUI Toolkit that KDE is based on, as well as the Qtopia cell phone platform) for $150 million. This is an interesting move as all the hub-bub surrounding Google’s announcement of the Open Handset Alliance and the new cell platform, Android, was surprisingly devoid [...]

KDE 4.0 Released

Friday, January 11, 2008

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KDE 4 has been released. This release includes… well… a rewrite of KDE. The entirely new desktop shell is called Plasma and includes Mac-esque additions with includes the 3D desktop effects that have been around as well as widgets for the desktop: The file manager was rewritten as well and is now known as Dolphin. This looks [...]

OLPC Isn’t For Giant-Handed People

Monday, January 7, 2008

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Preston Lee blogs about Marc Chung’s newest toy: An OLPC. Notice from the picture above that Marc has been cursed with a disease that makes his hands roughly the size of Christmas hams… or the OLPC might just be a lot smaller than I expected (more shots here of Marc’s OLPC, thanks Preston!) Below is Marc’s full [...]

Linux “Time Machine” Clone: FlyBack

Monday, January 7, 2008

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For the folks on Linux that are hankering for the Time Machine functionality in Leopard FlyBack might be what you were looking for. FlyBack works by creating snapshots of the filesystem using rsync and provides a UI to manage those snapshots and optimizes disk space usage by linking unchanged files back to the last known changed [...]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 Theme: Gelatin

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

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The snapshot above is of the new “Geltin” mockup theme that is being proposed as the default theme for Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and all releases after that until the next LTS (long term support) release (I believe they are on a 18 month or 2 year cycle for every LTS release. I don’t think it [...]

GNOME Murrine Theme Gets Transparent Widgets

Thursday, December 13, 2007

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Andrea Cimitan, GNOME theme designer and author of the Murrine GTK theme engine, has implement transparent widget support to GTK, allowing for Vista-like transparencies for windows, buttons, etc. Ars explains that the implementation was done by adding RGBA maps to the theme engine and Andrea asserts that similar support for transparency can be added to other [...]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Theme Work Begins

Monday, December 10, 2007

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Work has begun on designing and developing the new theme for Ubuntu’s next release: Hardy Heron. The Ubuntu desktop has used the “Human” theme for quite a while now, and while it’s been quiet attractive, there is work to use a redesigned theme with the upcoming release to really mark the next LTS version (long [...]

Ubuntu Dev Gets MPAA Univ “Toolkit” Taken Down

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

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Ok for those that didn’t know about this, the MPAA released what they were calling the “University Toolkit” a few weeks ago. It was a customized version of Ubuntu, that sits on your network, sniffs all your traffic and reports all the information it finds using a standard Apache install with logs, charts, diagrams, etc. [...]

Technology Reviews

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Welcome to the Technology Reviews section. Below you will find reviews for computer software, hardware, online services and anything else related to technology. Hardware Dell 3008 WFP 30″ LCD Review OLPC (On Laptop Per Child) Laptop Review Onkyo DS-A2 iPod Dock Review Software Adobe Captivate Review and Screencasting Alternatives Blu-ray Profile 1.1 Features & Functionality Review Box.net: Great setup, huge let down Vongo [...]

Guides

Friday, November 16, 2007

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General Choosing a Toilet General - Technology Choosing a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo Laptop Choosing a Hard Drive & Should You Use RAID? Apple Recording a Podcast on your Mac using Skype and Audio Hijack Pro Removing iTunes DRM Google Setting up Palm Versamail with Gmail Home Theater / HDTV Home Theater Audio (Part 1, Part 2) Home Theater Start-to-Finish Building a NAS for [...]

“Real” 3D Desktop with Compiz Fusion

Friday, November 2, 2007

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This is pretty slick, it looks like Wondor hacked up an anaglyph plugin for Compiz Fusion to actually re-render the desktop pulling apart R/G/B to give it that 3D effect. The trick is you have to have a pair of 3D glasses laying around to see it in action. And yes, Compiz Fusion is what Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu Power Saver Settings Could Damage Hard Drive

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

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It seems that the default ACPI (power saving) settings for hard drives while running on battery power mode could be causing your hard drive to run an insane amount of load cycles, manifesting itself in “clicking” sounds and also the hard drive’s mechanical portions to be stressed quite a bit more than normal and life [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) To Get New Theme

Monday, October 29, 2007

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Covered in brief detail (yet to be filled out) the Ubuntu Wiki describes that every LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu, next of which will be the 8.04 release next year) should have a fresh theme to it. All previous releases of Ubuntu have had the very nicely done Human theme, but it looks like [...]

Unreal Tournament 3 (UT3) Linux Support

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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How cool is this… Phoronix is reporting that Epic’s Linux/Mac guy, Ryan Gordon, has confirmed that there will infact be a Linux client for Unreal Tournament 3 at launch. It won’t be on the media in the box, but it can be downloaded from their site for free and you just pop the Windows version [...]

Vista to Ubuntu Migration Superguide

Monday, October 22, 2007

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NOTE: Ashton’s guide is for Ubuntu 6.06, a lot of things he disliked in the guide have been taken care of in either 7.04 or 7.10, the newest release. While the guide has some good information in it, please keep in mind that some of the “wtf” gripes he may have may not exist any [...]

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GNOME File Manager Gets Tabbed Browsing and Column View Support

Nokia Buys Trolltech, Snubs Google’s Open Handset Alliance

KDE 4.0 Released

OLPC Isn’t For Giant-Handed People

Linux “Time Machine” Clone: FlyBack

Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 Theme: Gelatin

GNOME Murrine Theme Gets Transparent Widgets

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Theme Work Begins

Ubuntu Dev Gets MPAA Univ “Toolkit” Taken Down

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