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Anonymous Sharing with MediaCrush

Up to Speed

03.12.2013

You don’t always need a full-fledged YouTube or Flickr clone to share videos or images. Sometimes all you want is a quick place to upload, so you can link to your media or share it online. MediaCrush gives you just that, as well as some more interesting perks.

graphics , MediaCrush , sharing
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Free fonts for the working day

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

30.11.2013
In the last decade, free fonts have thrived to the point that you hardly need ones with restrictive licenses.
floss , free software , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source , Ubuntu
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The Typography Toolbar Extension for LibreOffice

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

22.11.2013
The Typography Toolbar takes LibreOffice to its natural conclusion.
floss , free software , libreoffice , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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Use the Reader Mode in Firefox for Android

Productivity Sauce

15.11.2013
The ability to push tabs to other devices is not the only clever feature of Firefox for Android. The app also features the handy Reader Mode which makes it easier to read long-form articles and view pages with complex layout.
Android , Firefox
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Which desktop will be the default for the next Debian release?

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

13.11.2013
Debian is considering Xfce or GNOME as the default desktop for its next release. But when you conisder the criteria involved, the choice seems obvious.
DEBIAN , floss , free software , Gnome , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine
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The Linux-libre Project

Freeing the Linux Kernel

04.11.2013

The Linux kernel and its penguin mascot are widely viewed as the symbol of free and open source software. The truth, however, is that the Linux kernel is only partly free.

free software , free software f... , Linux-libre
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My Wesnoth addiction

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

31.10.2013
If Steam has more enticing games than Battle of Wesnoth, I'm not sure I should know about them.
floss , free software , Linux Magazine , Linux New Media , open source
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Push Tabs with Firefox Sync

Productivity Sauce

29.10.2013
Firefox Sync integrates with Android's sharing functionality, which lets you push the currently opened website to another linked machine or device. You can put this feature to many practical uses.
Firefox , mobile
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Why is interest in free office suites declining?

Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog

25.10.2013
If cloud services are winning out over free software, maybe the reason is that cloud services are only giving users the features they need
floss , free software , libreoffice , Linux New Media , Linux Pro Magazine , open source
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Litewrite Notes App for Firefox: Perfect Mobile Litewrite Companion

Productivity Sauce

17.10.2013
Litewrite is a genuinely useful note-taking and drafting tool that has a lot going for it. The application has an unobtrusive interface which provides a distraction-free writing environment right inside your browser, you can easily manage multiple documents, and sync them across multiple machines via the remoteStorage-based protocol.
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