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GNOME Women in Open Source Project

The GNOME Outreach Program for Women

28.06.2013

The GNOME Outreach Program for Women has seen success that other programs set up to encourage women in FOSS have not. We look at some of the reasons why.

Community , Gnome , outreach , women
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7 Improvements needed in LibreOffice templates and styles

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

11.06.2013
Templates and styles would be less of a mystery to users if a few simple changes were made.
floss , free software , libreoffice , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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LibreOffice 4.0 tested

REVIEWS: Happy Birthday free

LibreOffice celebrates its birthday with the release of the first version with a 4 in front of the dot. All modules offer substantial improvements and the kinds of changes that warrant a major version. We look at some features worth celebrating.

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Access data from a weather station with the Raspberry Pi

KNOW-HOW: Weather Watch free

If you have a weather station that allows you to access data via a USB port, you can use your Raspberry Pi to analyze the data and publish the results via a web application.

Desktop , Raspberry Pi , webapps
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Luminance HDR offers top-notch high dynamic range imaging

LINUXUSER: More Light free

Processing images with a high dynamic range – that is, an image with a wide range of values between its bright and dark areas – is possible with open source Luminance HDR.

Community , images , Photos
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Nepomuk-KDE and the quest for the semantic desktop

COVER STORIES: Embedded Knowledge free

Nepomuk extends the tools of the semantic web to desktop applications and files. We look under the hood at this exciting technology and show you what Nepomuk is doing right now on the new KDE desktop.

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Caledonia: Art Suite for the KDE Desktop

Productivity Sauce

28.04.2013
Tired of the default KDE themes, color schemes, and wallpapers? Then try Caledonia, a bundle containing everything you need to spice up your desktop.
Desktop , KDE
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Trojita: a Lightweight IMAP Email Client

Productivity Sauce

25.04.2013
Looking for a lightweight desktop email client for managing an IMAP-based account? Say hello to Trojita, a nimble Qt-based email application that provides full support for the IMAP protocol.
Email , IMAP
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Type Zebra App for Google Chrome and Chromium

Productivity Sauce

24.04.2013
Thanks to Google Web Fonts, you now have access to hundreds of high-quality open source fonts, and using a simple Bash shell script, you can easily install all of them on your Linux machine. But how can you find the font you like among the hundreds of typefaces installed on your system? The Type Zebra app provides an elegant solution to the conundrum.
Chrome , fonts
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Gnote Now Supports Synchronization

Productivity Sauce

23.04.2013
Gnote has always been an excellent Mono-free alternative to the popular Tomboy note-taking application, but it lacked one crucial feature: the ability to synchronize notes across multiple machines. Fortunately, the latest developer release of the application fills the gap and introduces syncing functionality.
Administration , Desktop
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