Desktop News and Articles

NEWS: TECH TOOLS

Professional users are always searching for an edge. Whether you work with Linux as a webmaster, programmer, system administrator, or security consultant, you know the best solution depends on finding the right tool for the job. We thought you might be interested in the following new products and updates.

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KDE Akademy 2008

COMMUNITY NOTEBOOK: Community Congregation

About 300 attendees gathered at this year's annual KDE desktop developer event in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium.

aKademy , Events , Gnome , KDE , Programming
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Sync Files with Dropbox

Productivity Sauce

15.09.2008
Looking for an easy-to-use file sharing and synchronization solution that works with Linux? You might want to give Dropbox a try.
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Groklaw Explains Spammer Case First Amendment Issues

ROSE Blog: Rikki's Open Source Exchange

15.09.2008
Virginia anti-spam law struck down.
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Unison's Unified Communications Server Ready

15.09.2008

Unison is offering the first commercial version of it's software product combining telephony, e-mail, address book, calendar and instant messaging.

IMAP , Linux , Operating Systems , Red Hat Enterpr... , Windows
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Canonical Now Hiring Designers and Usability Visionaries

15.09.2008

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, wants a more elegant and user-friendly Linux-Desktop for it's users. In a full blown statement at this year’s OSCON, Ubuntu grounder Mark Shuttleworth proclaimed: ‘'The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, into something that is art'’.

Community , Gnome , images , KDE , Software , Ubuntu , Ubuntu Linux
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Poppler PDF library learns Javascript

12.09.2008

Poppler, a library for rendering PDF data, was released in its developer version as 0.9.0. For the first time it enables interactive documents using Javascript.

Desktop , JavaScript
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Beta 1: Opera 9.6 with RSS preview

11.09.2008

RSS preview, Atom-feeds and improved bookmarking facilities are the new features in the upcoming version 9.6 of the Opera Web Browser.

Browser , IMAP , Opera
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OpenOffice.org on Puppy Linux

Productivity Sauce

11.09.2008
Puppy Linux is an excellent Linux distro for all occasions, but to turn it into a real productivity workhorse, you might want to install OpenOffice.org on it. Unfortunately, the Puppy software repository holds an older version of OpenOffice.org, but you can install the latest release of the productivity suite manually.
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Five Useful Extensions for OpenOffice.org

Productivity Sauce

08.09.2008
Want to expand OpenOffice.org's default functionality? The official extension repository has quite a few extensions you can use to add some nifty features to the productivity suite. Precisely which extensions you might find useful depends, of course, on your particular needs, but there are at least five extensions that deserve a closer look no matter how you use OpenOffice.org.
Administration , OpenOffice
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