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This article will give you an introduction to Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language used by bloggers and web-writers a lot. It aims to be readable in non-converted form. This article will also give a tutorial and go over the syntax vs. raw html.

The GNome Audio Converter offers an alternative to Sound Converter for GTK+ 3.

When it comes to Twitter, there are three ways to use it: the web interface, a desktop/mobile client, or tweet from the command line (for the real Indiana Jones). The last way, despite its apparent complexity, can become very useful for people who want to reach a higher level of control over their favorite micro-blogging system. If you want to use some scripts, send your tweets automatically, or just get rid of the graphical application, TTYtter is an excellent program to start with.

Ever wish you could help design the TV of the future? If so, you’re in luck: Canonical developers are currently soliciting the open source community’s feedback to help plan features for Ubuntu TV. Here’s what they want to know, and how you can have your say.

The open source cloud made waves in the news this week with the results of a RightScale study that claims widespread adoption among enterprises of open source cloud computing services. VMWare and IBM showed their agreement by announcing plans to expand their open source cloud investments. These positive stories offset the shocker that NASA has abandoned OpenStack entirely for Amazon Web Services.

I’ve discovered this Indie game thanks to Humble Indie Bundle Number 5, buying it I’ve got this one as Bonus game, and I must say that it’s been a great, and positive surprise. Lone Survivor is a psychological survival adventure, with art, design, and music by the one-man studio, Superflat Games. The surgical-mask wearing protagonist has survived a disaster and must now face the world’s twisted creatures, as well as the potential unraveling of his own mind.

For users who dislike the Unity interface, but who want to stay with the latest Ubuntu release, there are many alternatives to install and try without switching to another distribution. GNOME Shell, Mint's Cinnamon, KDE, Xfce and LXDE are all available options

Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps and Salesforce.com consulting firm, has deployed roughly 50 Google Chromebooks internally and is rolling out the cloud-centric notebooks to some customers. Is this the start of a larger trend for Google’s cloud desktop and mobile strategy? Here’s the update.

"The world of IT is a better place when developers respect users instead of trying to enslave them," said blogger Robert Pogson. "We need new user interfaces for new gadgets with tiny screens and no keyboards and no mice, but there's absolutely no reason to radically change a user interface that has been used satisfactorily for decades."

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)?

The latest version rock 12.3 of the Linux deployment tool m23 comes with added support for deploying clients with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and a range of desktops to choose from. A client output monitor has been added to the web interface and the virtualization functions of the integrated virtualization have been extended. Several improvements and bug fixes complete the new release.

I originally planned on writing an article over Common Table Expressions (CTEs) but since MySQL does not currently support CTEs, and there has been much debate as to why they should implement it, I decided not to write an article about it. MySQLs answer to CTEs is Temporary Tables. A temporary table is a base table that is not stored in the databse, but instead exists only while the database session in which it was created is active. In this article we will look further at what a Temporary Table is, how to use them and when it is appropriate to use them.

Gwenview is the default image viewer for the KDE desktop. Out of the box it's good looking but nothing obviously exceptional. Except for two things: Phonon and plugins. That combination really does make Gwenview a pretty useful bit of kit. Let's see what it can do.

Via Technologies started to accept pre-orders onto its Android PC (APC) platform for $49 on Sunday and managed to sell the first batch of mainboards within several hours.

Skype proudly announced today, June 14th, that Skype 4.0 for Linux operating systems has been released and it’s available for download.

An interface for system updates will be integrated into a new software store tentatively named 'App Center'.

Nokia took an axe to much of its non-Windows software capacity today, leaving all but a core team working on S40, company insiders say. Among the 10,000 casualties officially announced are teams working on Meltemi, Qt and QML. The team imported via the Smarterphone acquisition will work on S40, we understand.

The Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.2 has been delayed, ultimately delaying the final product, and causing the team to rethink their strategy

A Cambridge University entrepreneur, who has created a handheld device to detect weapons, drugs or explosives at airports and other high risk environments, has won CambridgeElevator's inaugural KickStart Competition.

Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu and, until version 6, on GNOME 2 functionality. It means system resource requirements are quite high. But what if your computer is not the newest one? Does it mean Zorin OS is not available for you? Not at all! The Zorin team releases a special edition for people like you: this is the Lite version. This operating system uses the LXDE desktop environment, not the GNOME one.