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This screencast shows you how to add a Kill Window applet to the Unity launcher. This applet is a must have for anyone who was a fan of the kill applet in Gnome 2.

Copy Plain Text is a very useful add-on for Mozilla products, especially for Firefox, when you deal with lots of text copying from web pages on a daily basis. The old Copy Plain Text, created by Jeremy Gillick, died at version 0.3.3 and it dosen't work anymore with current versions of Firefox or Thunderbird.

This is an open letter to all the open source free loaders out there - you know who you are.

Today we've tested the Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix distribution, which is actually an early Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) build, from October 2011, featuring KDE Software Compilation 4.7.1.

Here's a quick look at running the LLVM/Clang compiler on the OMAP4460-based PandaBoard ES compared to the default GCC compiler.

Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" graphics have a better out-of-the-box experience under the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release thanks to improvements in the open-source field, but ultimately it's still an ugly mess...

Here's one of the ways that Phoronix finds the performance regressions within the Mesa / Gallium3D drivers in a very easy way...

Picking the top ten Linux distributions is a tricky business. Here’s our choice.

Ricardo Villalba proudly announced today, December 29th, the immediate availability for download of the SMPlayer 0.6.10 media player frontend for Linux. SMPlayer 0.6.10 comes after a few months of development and it brings interesting features, such as...

Top Android applications every Rooted user should try.

Ubuntu Calendar Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin which allows users to quickly search and access their calendar directly from Unity, by accessing the calendar lens icon. The results are automatically filtered in Upcoming and Recent categories, and users can also manually filter the events by Personal and Birthdays & Anniversaries, and by time range.

There has long been a contingent that doesn't agree with RMS or his views. In 2011, they all rose to the surface lambasting him over his two sentence comment about the untimely passing of the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs. The relevancy of RMS and his 'fanatical' views was questioned in blogs and editorials big and small, anchored on his comments about Job's demise.

As 2011 draws to a close, GNU/Linux and Free Software are as prosperous and in-demand as they have ever been. 2011 was a magnificent year, one in which a lot of deals were made, a lot of profits were reaped, and a lot of freedom was spread. Free Software looks to have an even more rewarding year in 2012. Open source invaded the monetary system with the rise, fall, and subsequent rise of Bitcoins.

This time we have for you an interview with Britton Smith and Matthew Turk, lead developers of the yt Project, a toolkit that offers a common language for developing astrophysical simulations and analysis tools. Astronomy professionals and amateurs will find this interview fascinating. Enjoy!

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PIN brute force vulnerability found.

Chakra Linux is one of the most promising desktop distributions of 2011. It was on my list of the top 6 KDE distributions of 2011. In this article, all the step required to dual-boot this distribution (the latest editions and previous releases too) and Windows 7, are presented in an easy to follow manner. So that at the end, you should have a boot menu that looks just like the one below – when you (re)boot your computer.

Steve Jobs told his biographer that Apple would rather wage "thermonuclear war" with Google Inc. than make deals to share its technology with the maker of the Android operating system.

That was no empty threat. In the 18 months before Jobs died on Oct. 5, Apple sued HTC, Samsung Electronics and Motorola Mobility, the three largest Android users. It alleged that the phone makers stole Apple's technology and asked courts to make them stop.

Now, as rulings start coming in, it might be time for a detente that helps Apple maximize the value of its patents, said Kevin Rivette, a managing partner at 3LP Advisors LLC, a firm that advises on intellectual property.

The X.Org Foundation has been quietly paying a developer to better the OpenCL support within Gallium3D...

When I did my initial tests on this Debian Squeeze installation back in 2010, I had trouble with OpenJDK. I only use Java for two web-based things, and one of those -- GoToMyPC.com -- wouldn't successfully open up a Java client window. So I replaced openjdk-6 with sun-java6, found everything working and left it at that. Had things changed in the many intervening months? I was determined to find out.