Showing all newswire headlines

I just discovered that today it’s the world backup day, and with the slogan on the webpage: “DON’T BE AN APRIL FOOL. BACKUP YOUR FILES. CHECK YOUR RESTORES.” they remember that is always a good habit to have 1 (or more) backup of our important data.

But in the days of social network, cloud computing and emails always left on remote servers, where are all our information and how we can save them securely ?

The Ubuntu Recoll Lens is an amazing Unity Launcher plugin that uses the Recoll full text search tool to easily search text in local documents. It also has support for embedded documents.

You will be able to filter the results by Text, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Media, Message, and Other.

I don't do a lot of bad reviews about ubuntu, but this time around since I want the next release to be absolutely bug free (90% fixed) I have something to say about nuisances I found in Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2.

After making massive neckbeards a universal style statement, Richard Stallman, revered software freedom activist and computer programmer, has turned to the world of fashion. His new collection, titled RMS, is a luxury line of clothing specially designed for geeks and programmers. The launch follows on the success of GNU, a fragrance which he created and distributed for free.

GNU find is a powerful command-line utility that lets you search for files and folders in a hierarchical tree directory structure. It is the backend for all those utilities out there like the graphical searching in KDE or GNOME. However, find can be a little hard to handle at first by beginners. In this tutorial I will try to explain some of the capabilities of find, show some useful one-liners and provide more explanations regarding this command.

Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is last and final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release.

0 A.D. is a strategy game that has been around for quite some time now, and it reached a decent level of completeness despite the fact that Wildfire Games are releasing only alpha versions. It’s free, open-source and available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and the latest alpha, codenamed ‘Ides of March’, comes with a whole bunch of new features and fixes.

DamnVid is an apps video downloader and converter from popular videos sharing website such as YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, Metacafe, Blip Tv, iTuneS Podcast and More. DamnVid is cross-platform Apps that available for Linux Distribution,Mac OSX and Windows. DamVid is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Norwegian.

Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. This type of software is programmed to include phonemes and the grammatical rules of a language, so that words are pronounced correctly.

After spending some time messing with it, I can say very confidently that it is just about the best feature in GNOME 3.4, and if you combine it with Deepin Linux‘s built-in screen grabber and image editing tool, you have two very good reason to consider using a distribution that ships with a modified GNOME 3 desktop.

The Wine development release 1.5.1 is now available.

It’s been a long time since a desktop environment has caused so much controversy in the FOSS universe. How long? It is really hard to say, since the last time I can recall any kind of user backlash and retreat was over half a decade ago when the KDE project announced KDE 4.0.

Wine 1.5.1 was released today as the second development release following last month's stable Wine 1.4 release...

Another week comes to an end, another weekend arrives with plenty of free time to spent hopefully. 2 new great games for the linux platform (and not only) seek for your attention this weekend. The one is threatening to consume your brain’s gray matter, and the other is promising to give you a ride you’ll never forget. Let’s check them out!

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu 11.10 users how to make their favorite wallpaper appear at the login screen.

In two recent reviews of Bodhi Linux the authors mucked up a few of the details concerning compositing and E17. Today I would like to clarify a few things about using compositing with Enlightenment DR17.

Do you want to play a game with extreme violence in a background populated with characters that are American Caricatures ? Welcome to Postal 2.

The game is not new (first released in 2003) but has been recently released on Desura, a thing that make it really easy to be installed on our Linux box.

Postal 2 (stylized as Postal²) is a first-person shooter video game by Running with Scissors, and it is the sequel to the 1997 game Postal. Both are intentionally highly controversial due to high levels of violence and stereotyping. Unlike its predecessor, Postal 2 is played completely in first-person based on the Unreal Engine.

In m23 12.2 rock, CentOS 6.2 now complements the list of distributions to be installed and administered. Additionally, some new features were added, the help texts have been revised and several bugs were fixed.

AMD announced the release of AMD / ATI Catalyst 12.3, the biggest news is that Catalyst 12.3 now fully supports the AMD Radeon HD 7900, AMD Radeon HD 7800 and AMD Radeon HD 7700 series of products,

One of the targeted mobile platforms to target with Qt 5.0 has been Apple's iOS, but it looks like some technical problems may prevent Qt5 from coming to your iPhone or iPad...