Amarok 2.3.0 “Clear Light” is released, the new version comes with many improvements, new features and many bugs has been fixed. Areas such as podcast support and saved playlists have seen huge improvements, as has the support for USB mass … Continue reading →

Imagemagick is a set of programs to manipulate various image formats (JPEG, TIFF, PhotoCD, PBM, XPM, etc…). All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands as well as through a X11 graphical interface (display). Possible effects: colormap manipulation, channel operations, … Continue reading →

PiTiVi 0.13.4 codename “Cabernet d’Anjou” is released, the new release comes with many new features like video mixing/transparency support , icon view in source list , smoother scrolling, modeless splitting and more.  

After Twitter and digg, now is Reddit who announced yesterday that they switched their database to NoSQL Cassandra database; this is the second big social bookmark  that switch to cassandra in two days. As i mentioned in my previous article, … Continue reading →

After twitter, now is Digg who decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an opensource project that develops a highly scalable second-generation … Continue reading →

Banshee 1.5.5 was just released, the new release comes with many new features and improvements, more than 26 bugs were fixed since the last release. The new features included in this version are gapless playback, a grid album browser, and … Continue reading →

Tar 1.23 is released, the new release fixed many bugs and comes with new commad line and improvements. In the new version we will find for example that the record size auto detection has been improved also improved behavior if … Continue reading →

Banshee 1.5.4 is released. The new release comes  with several new features and many fixes, including equalizer presets, Nokia N900 support, opt-in/anonymous usage-data collection, and support for the new Banshee Community Extensions sub-project.This last one  it already contains 9 extensions, … Continue reading →

While the ioquake3-powered OpenArena game is not as advanced or popular as say Nexuiz, it is a fairly popular free software game amongst those using an open-source Mesa3D driver stack. It’s not too graphically rich yet provides competitive and fun … Continue reading →

OpenShot is now officially included in the Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) repository. If you have an alpha version of Lucid, you can already find it in the Software Center. Just search for “openshot”. I consider this as a good news … Continue reading →