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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 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.

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 !

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

When it comes to open source software, the question that needs to be asked today is not which businesses are using open source – but rather which businesses are not.

Not only does it ship with Linux, It's one of the most powerful 14" laptops available. At first glance, the Alto 3880 will not strike envy into the hearts of any. Like any standard PC laptop, it’s dressed in glossy, molded plastic pieces. The design decisions here are almost certainly OEM driven as the laptop takes a 3-tone neutral color scheme that presents itself in a bit of an awkward way. The lid emulates a brushed metal look with an attractive ZaReason screen-print right in the center. This is the first of a couple nice touches on ZaReason’s behalf. If this unit is closed on your coffee table, your guests will probably ask you, “What’s a ZaReason?”. In this respect, I think it’s quite effective. The brushed metal look for laptop lids is a little dated now, so this will not trend well in the vanity department.

The latest stable KDE plasma and applications version 4.8 are available to update/install through backport PPA provided by Kubuntu team for 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot users. KDE 4.8 brings better performance, more stability and many new features to the plasma workspaces and KDE applications. So, let’s check KDE 4.8 highlights and some of the new features added recently to it.

Your daughter's birthday was beautiful and you have lots of videos and pictures from the event that have to be organized in a nice-looking way. Your graduation party was a blast and you want to remember it properly. Whatever the occasion, whatever the content, a custom-created DVD will pack your memories nicely and will spike your geek cred because you created it and hey, it looks so cool. But what tool should you use? There are professional, paid-for programs that can help you in creating a DVD, but why use another OS and pay when you have free OSs and free software to do this? You can use the command-line approach from start to finish, but sometimes a GUI that will wrap around these utilities looks like a nicer solution. Such a solution is DeVeDe, and it even has a Windows version if you insist, but I will focus on Linux (of course!) in this article.

Simple and Elegant is all I have to say about Xubuntu 11.10. I have done a short Video Review on Xubuntu 11.10. Fast and stable this *buntu favorite run extremely well in my Virtual Machine. Check out this short video and try Xubuntu for free today!