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Wuala is a cloud storage service offered by LaCie, a computer storage and display outfit. Wuala is supported on all major operating system platforms, and there is even an app for iPhone and iPad. Like all cloud storage services, Wuala makes it easy for you to backup, sync, share and retrieve your data from any location. Yesterday’s article about Wuala was mostly about its terms of service. This article gives the steps required to create an account and start using the service in Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Mint 12.

Plank dock is a lightweight applications launcher, Plank dock is developed by Docky Core team. It could be a great alternative to many dock applications if you are looking for simple dock application do the basic function of launching applications and arranging applications on the dock. Also, it’s a lightweight dock does not require big a mount of memory at all.

This guide explains how to install Maia Mailguard, a spam and virus management system, on a Debian Squeeze mailserver. Maia Mailguard is a web-based interface and management system based on the popular amavisd-new email scanner and SpamAssassin. Written in Perl and PHP, Maia Mailguard gives end-users control over how their mail is processed by virus scanners and spam filters, while giving mail administrators the power to configure site-wide defaults and limits.

While I have covered Ensign 1 a couple of times, I decided to hold off on further updates until we had something fun to show, Brandon the main guy behind Only Human Studios who also made a highly underrated 2D+3D platformer Helena The 3rd (along with our very own editor Rusty!) has showed off a new video giving us a peak at some new fun features for the game engine.

The Ubuntu Torrents Lens will provide search filters that will allow users to narrow their Pirate Bay searches using type filters (audio, video, adult, games, applications, other and all) and size filters (1 MB, 10 MB, 100 MB, 1 GB, 10 GB, 100 GB).

Never shy with his ambitions, Mark Shuttleworth still has his sights set on world domination.

Stuart Metcalfe proudly announced a few hours ago, December 8th, on the Canonical blog that the popular PayPal payment method will be available in Ubuntu Software Center by Christmas.

10 years have passed since Via announced the Mini-ITX form factor. Their latest offering, the VE-900, is sold for an affordable $89 and promises better performance over Intel's Atom Platform.

HP today announced it will contribute the webOS software to the open source community.

Today we share with you an interview with René Grothmann, the developer of the Euler Math Toolbox, a software environment for interactive numerical computations. Euler is similar to FreeMat or MatLab, but it has its own take on how to do things. One interesting feature is that it creates 3D stereograms that require 3D glasses. I found this project way back in the 90?s and I am happy to see it is still going strong.

The final release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment, in January 2012, will contain features such as Qt Quick in Plasma Workspaces, an updated device notifier widget written in QML, a QML-based KWin window switcher, improved file view of Dolphin including a more attractive visual appearance, as well as lots of general performance improvements and assorted bugfixes.

Last week I placed online a few screenshot images of VectorLinux 7.0. Today I decided to show everone VectorLinux in action! VectorLinux 7.0 Standard Gold comes in either an installation CD or a LiveCD. Today I decided to make a short Web Video of VectorLinux in action. This Linux Distribution has a great user interface and I hope you enjoy it.

This tutorial shows you how you can install the GNOME 3 desktop on Ubuntu 11.10 with the shell extensions that are used in the Linux Mint 12 release (Lisa) (these shell extensions are called Mint GNOME Shell Extensions - mgse). These shell extensions give GNOME 3 the look and feel of GNOME 2. For those who prefer GNOME 2 this tutorial shows how to install Mate from the Linux Mint repositories on Ubuntu 11.10. Mate is a GNOME 2 fork.

The C standard library offers a plethora of functions for many usual tasks. Also there are lots of libraries for extra functionality, like GUI design (GTK+) or database interfacing (libpq). However, as you advance in the C programming world, you will soon find yourself repeating the same instructions in the same order over and over again and that will become time-consuming and inefficient. So you can just wrap all those instructions in a function and just call said function when you need it. Here's what you're gonna learn by reading this article, plus some useful tips that will make your life easier. Any suggestions or problems go to the forums, as before.

Most, but not all, open-source apps are being welcomed by Microsoft into the Windows 8 Windows Store. The Store’s App Developer Agreement (here) allows developers to build their apps for download and installation on Windows 8 machines using any open-source licence as long as it has been approved by the Open-Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI is the body that monitors all open-source licences.

With out-of-the-box support for HTML5, Flash and Java, containing the familiar environment of Google Chromium/Chrome, the entire web is at your fingertips in a few seconds with Chromium OS Lime.

While Adobe might be saying it's doing right by developers in open-sourcing Flex, it's really just spinning the fact it will no longer support it.

When you format a partition in Linux , 5% of the total space gets reserved for privileged processes, by default . This is done so that system processes continue to function correctly ,if the filesystem gets full. This is useful for your ‘root’ partition.However if you have let us say 50GB separate home partition, you may want to make use of few additional GBs by reducing the percentage of the reserved space. You can use tune2fs command to change the default allocation of space reserved for privileged processes. Command for the same is : #tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sda6