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Conky_7 and Conky_8- Just Another 2 Stunning themes for Conky

In my previous posts, we saw together many nice themes for conky (Conky Lua, Conky_2, conky_5 and more). Recently was released 2 new conky...

Oracle Vs Google: The issue of copyrighting ideas

The issue of Oracle challenging Google on the use of Java APIs may, on the surface, appear to be a case of IT corporate establishing themselves...

Gimp 2.8 is out! | PPA Ubuntu

Gimp is one of the most important tools we Linux users have in our hands being a powerful application that covers the specialized needs...

The Text-based Web Browser: The Alternative

We live in a flashy world when it comes to the world-wide-web. With most websites carrying a lot of flashy graphics, banners and advertisements....

Blender 2.63 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Blender 2.63 has been released, The 2.6x series is being targeted at including all work that happened in branches or patches past years. According...

GNOME's Application Menu. Smart or Dummy?

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot...

Banshee vs Clementine vs Tomahawk | Reviews

Computers have always been used as music playing devices. Big collections with thousand of songs coming from hundreds of different artists are easily organized...

GNOME 3.6 is getting serious with Initial System Setup

GNOME 3.4.1 released a few days ago, but its progress didn't stop. The releasing cycle for 3.6 has already begun. To be honest, I...

The Banner Saga arrives for Linux

Stoic is an independent Studio, which has used the skills and talent of a trio of ex-BioWare developers, Alex Thomas, Arnie Jorgensen and John Watson, to build...

Pebble. The smartwatch with Linux at its heart!

Do you think the wrist watch era is over and soon the wrist watches will be doomed to the graveyard of floppy disks, cassettes,...

Cairo-Dock 3.0 has been released!

Cairo-Dock 3.0 has been released, the new version comes with many new features and improvements, so the taskbar has been greatly enhanced, the Log...

Howto- Install Python 3.x in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & Centos

Question: How to install Python 3.x in Ubuntu, Fedora &  Centos? Answer: 1- To be able to compile Python Source, you will need few packages. Open...

Wine 1.5.2 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Wine 1.5.2 has been released, this is a bi-weekly Wine development build that comes with some improvements and bug fixes. What's new in this beta...

Is Steam coming to Linux ?

Valve Corporation, the developer of Steam looks all set to bring to the Linux platform, believe indie game players and developers. While there are...

Linux. Do it your way!

I like to think that Linux is about a flexible an operating system as you can find. But it can be easy to forget...

Useful Extensions for LibreOffice

LibreOffice is one of the popular office suite software like Open Office and is an excellent alternative to the expensive MS Office. Most of...

The Linux Foundation points out Microsoft as one of the Top...

The latest report by The Linux Foundation, for the year 2012, holds lots of surprises. The top surprise is of course, is that of the most...

VirtualBox 4.1.12 has been released! PPA Ubuntu12.04 LTS

VirtualBox 4.1.12 has been released, this is a maintenance release that comes to fix several bugs, added support to the new Kernel 3.4. As...