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Yahoo search Becomes Default Search for firefox In Ubuntu 10.04

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

The default search engine in Firefox for Lucid will be changing from Google to Yahoo!. Rick Spencer from Canonical, who posted the announcement earlier today on the Ubuntu developer mailing list, assured users that this won’t affect their ability to … Continue reading

Bye bye Sun Microsystems- Commission clears Oracle’s proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News

europa.eu : The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. by Oracle Corporation, a US enterprise software company. After an in-depth examination, launched in September 2009 … Continue reading

Chromium OS Zero – First screenshots and .vmdk (Virtual image) download link

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

I compiled a VMware image of Chromium OS Zero for testing out in your virtual machine environment: This is a Chromium OS Zero image converted to VMware .vmdk file. So If you still diden`t tested Chromium OS Zero, you can … Continue reading

Radio Tray- An online radio streaming player

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Radio Tray is an online radio streaming  player that runs on a Linux system tray. Its goal is to have the minimum interface possible, making it very straightforward to use. Radio  Tray  is not a full featured music player, there … Continue reading

Five useful extensions for Openoffice

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OpenOffice.org 3.x is the leading open-source open software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.  You can adjust openoffice to your needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. In this article we chosed for … Continue reading

Chromium OS Zero has arrived !! |With Installation instructions for Linux|.vmdk image download

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Chromium OS Zero is released , is what announced today Hexxeh in his blog, The new update comes with many improvements , newer version of ChromiumOS code, Major speed improvements for many users ,reduced Broadcom delay ,new artwork for the … Continue reading

Five useful plugins for Gimp

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One of the big advantages of The GIMP is the fact that it can be easily extended with new functionality. So with sufficient addons (particularly plugins), you can achieve a lot of functionality found in other editors. Today i will … Continue reading

Firefox3.6 RC1 is available

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Firefox 3.6 release condidate is available  for download, this beta release has been under development for several months and contains many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers and users. This version is also faster and more responsive than previous versions. … Continue reading

Do you know which more things VLC media player can do?

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials, opensource, Software

VLC is the favorite media player for most people because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. so lets see together which more … Continue reading

Timing wallpaper: A new way to switch your GNOME desktop background

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in News

Timing wallpaper is a new way to switch your GNOME desktop background. The script proposes to user to use more then just one background, switching each one after N minutes sequentially or randomly. The latest version is 0.2 and was … Continue reading