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Meet Spark, First Linux Tablet Running KDE Plasma Active

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Jan 28, 2012 2:02 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Aaron J. Seigo, from KDE Plasma Active development team has revealed a tablet which could be the first device to come with Plasma Active pre-installed. Named 'Spark', the tablet features an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with open content and services market.

How to make GNOME Shell look like Ice Cream Sandwich

  • my-guides.net; By axel (Posted by axel on Jan 28, 2012 1:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
This guide describes how to make your GNOME Shell look like Android Ice Cream Sandwich by using Holo theme with GNOME Tweak Tool.

How Ubuntu 12.04 Is Trying To Drop Power Usage

After illustrating Linux power regressions and other problems for months, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS developers at Canonical are finally taking a serious look at Linux power management and how it can be bettered...

Ubuntu's HUD Explained: Why It's A Great Idea

Let's have a look at Unity Heads-Up Display (HUD). By now, I'm sure most readers will have seen the screenshot of HUD and the old Machintosh, and some may have read or heard the expression WIMP for the first time. And you've most likely read at least one article under headings such as Ubuntu replaces menus with HUD. Of course, this is only the media being paid-per-click. It isn't true. In fact, it is the opposite of the truth. In all the official statements, it has been made explicit that the HUD is an addition to the menus and not a replacement. The news media, of course, will never let facts get in the way.

The Dark Side of the Internet

A glimpse at the results of a real life attack on a real life MySQL server, and the emotional end result of the damage caused.

Privacy Clashes with Data Collection Capability in Cloud

  • Tech Target View From Above; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Jan 28, 2012 9:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
As Google proposed a controversial new privacy policy, the EU proposed radical new data protection rules of its own and both illustrated the growing clash between data collection and privacy in the cloud.

Beets Music Tagger: Command Line Tool To Fix Metadata And Organize Your Music Library

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 28, 2012 7:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all". It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.

Chrome and Chromium: small golden rules to get the perfect browser !

bet that when you turn on your PC, one of the first programs that you start is your Browser . Indeed, many say that the browser that we have installed in our computer show a part of us! There is, therefore, who prefer Opera: a browser elegant and very particular, for those who prefer the aesthetics at the practicality, there are those who, following the mass chose the Firefox browser, which has won a great battle against IE in a recent past. And finally there are those who prefer the speed, stability and efficiency, and they choose Google Chrome or Chromium !

Interlaced Support For Intel's Linux Graphics Driver

Daniel Vetter of Intel has published a new patch-set to enable interlaced support within their DRM kernel driver...

5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 1/27/12

This week we look at how to hire a security genius, the advantages of using HTML5 and how Agile adds more discipline to the development process.

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Chap. 8: Designing the Interior of your Book

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Jan 28, 2012 3:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week we talked about how to design covers for books - eBooks, soft cover books and hard cover books. But how about the interior of your magnum opus? 

The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do

The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like rules), but it is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that has captured increasing attention this week.

Introducing Ask Ubuntu Lens for Unity

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 28, 2012 2:10 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
The Ask Ubuntu Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that allows you to search information about Ubuntu on the askubuntu.com website. This Lens also allows users to search other stack exchange sites, via Filter Results.

8 Best Free Android Launchers

  • LinuxLinks; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Jan 28, 2012 1:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
The Android platform is arguably one of the most flexible mobile operating systems in the customization stakes. Almost every part of the Android interface can be modified to meet the requirements of the user without having to gain privileged control (often referred to as "root access"). Customization extends far beyond simply changing the wallpaper, sounds, and widgets.

KDE Commit-Digest for 8th January 2012

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Aurorae goes QML, ClientGroup becomes scriptable in KDE base Calligra sees work on footnotes, all interactive painting tools are threading-friendly; Kexi introduces Simple User Feedback Agent Rekonq adds about:tabs, an easy method to manage rekonq tabs read more

id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns

Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...

Pandora Handheld To Finally Go Into Mass Production Next Month

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Jan 27, 2012 10:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Open Source Linux based gaming handheld and mini-laptop Pandora has created lots of buzz when it was revealed 4 years back. Since then the project has gone under numerous rough stages, production issues, tech spec changes and financial problems. A limited batch of 4000 units was available for pre-orders but not everyone has got the device on time. However, it looks like that bad time is finally over. They tested a prototype recently and it was a 100% success. Pandora will go into mass production next month in Germany.

Top five open source social networking platforms available in the market

  • http://linux-news.org; By Linux-news (Posted by linuxaria on Jan 27, 2012 9:12 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
In this era of technology and internet, social networking sites are getting more and more popularity. People are spending hours in front of them. For creating a social media website a platform is necessary, to make this easy came the social networking platforms.

Let us now take a look of the five most popular open source-networking platforms available in the market

FFmpeg 0.10 Gets New Filters, Decoders, Encoders

FFmpeg 0.10 is now available with several new filters, MUXers, encoders, and decoders for this very popular audio/video library...

Simple Linux Auditing

  • HowtoForge; By Bellamkonda Sudhakar (Posted by falko on Jan 27, 2012 7:37 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this lead me to put together a Open Source code project and develop simple BASH scripts that do the job nicely. The code and tar ball can be downloaded from both google code or from SourceForge's website and the project website has links to documentation, help, installation and code.

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