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Google Chrome team has made life easier for web developers and users. Google has implemented getUserMedia API in the beta channel of Chrome browser which allows users to grant web apps access to their camera and microphone right within the browser, without a plug-in. It opens doors to immense possibilities for developers to create 'open' and standard based apps which can use your webcam and microphone.

Andreessen Horowitz is investing $100 million in GitHub, the San Francisco startup that provides online resources for software programmers. It's the largest investment the venture capital firm has ever made. Github's acceptance of the cash is notable. Unlike many startups, the company has been profitable since its 2008 beginnings, and it's turned down investment offers in the past.

The web browsers in the software repository of Linux Mint are usually set to use some custom search engines. For example, Yahoo search and DuckDuckGo are used as the default search engines in Firefox, the preinstalled web browser of Linux Mint 13. ( learn how to change the default search engines of Firefox in Linux Mint 13)

GitHub has received its first ever outside investment, a huge sum of $100 Million from Andreessen Horowitz

The German Ubuntu Forum Lens is a Unity Dash plugin that allows users to search the Wiki of the ubuntuusers.de German Ubuntu forum. It is currently only available in German language.

Ahhhh, Sun Valley....Playground of the rich and famous. Music and Movie industry honchos will be meeting in Sun Valley soon to discuss how to better address online piracy. Their term....not mine. I found it refreshing to read an honest assessment of industry leader's reaction to the outrage over SOPA and PIPA. Spoiler alert here. Many voiced regret over trying to twist political arms to do their bidding. An amazing revelation in itself, methinks anyway.

NYTimes is mostly a pay site and this article may jump behind a paywall soon. If it does, my apologies. This is an interesting read for those interested in the ongoing and global flap over copyright, IP and the such.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.3 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-6.3 is based on the upstream release EL 6.3 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. There are some important changes to this release compared with the previous versions of CentOS and we highly recommend reading this announcement along with the Release Notes. There is also a minimal install CD that will get you a very small base install that you can add to.

phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a CentOS 6.2 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

On July 9th, Karanbir Singh announced the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 6.3 operating system for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Puppy Linux is very versatile and can be used for multiple purposes from retro gaming to system recovery. Other than as a main operating system here are 5 potential uses for Puppy Linux.

Ubuntu's default browser Firefox receives official updates when there is a new release, but same is not the case with Chromium which will only get updated on a new release of Ubuntu.

Mandriva gets new life from Mageia, Meego gets new life as Jolla and GPL forks toward Copyleft.next

A lack of clarity on the part of Red Hat open source licensing and patent counsel Richard Fontana as to whether he has, or has not, created a fork of the GPLv3 free software licence has led to the exit of well-known free software advocate Bradley Kuhn dissociating himself from the project

Fantasy Author Thomas A. Knight compares free software to free books and draws some important distinctions between the two.

Debian developers today at DebConf 12, aside from talking about the future Debian codename, discussed what to do about UEFI booting for Debian Linux...

Mike Elgan has published a passionate article "Why the ‘Boycott Apple’ Movement is Dumb" on Cult of Mac. I agree with Mike most of the time, but this time I do not.

Game designs and artifacts involve users more deeply in communities. Soon, prizes, trophies, and badges will be a standard part of the user experience of Web apps.

With their worst delays hopefully an issue of the past, CentOS 6.3 has been released today as the community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3...

Debian developers are still deciding on the name for the successor to "Wheezy + 1", but should be announcing a name within the next month...

Learn if your Mac can tame Cupertino's next big cat Apple has released the System Requirements for its upcoming new version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and as is usually the case with any operating system release, not all Macs need apply – even some that qualified for the Mac's current operating system, Lion.…