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The Linux-based Android mobile platform is exploding, with thousands of tasty apps to choose from. Juliet Kemp shares a few of her favorites, from secure remote administration to eBooks to file managers and more. The huge number of apps available for Android is both a joy and something of a trial. Finding an app that does the thing you want can be something of a hit-and-miss experience. Here's a roundup of a few of the most useful ones.

Palm webOS design VP Peter Skillman has left the troubled company to head the MeeGo user-experience at Nokia. Skillman joins Matias Duarte, the UI designer for webOS, as the second senior ranking webOS employee to leave for another mobile OS.

Linux Mint, long known as a multimedia-ready spin on Ubuntu, has gone deeper and released a Mint distro based not on Ubuntu but on Debian Testing, and my first impressions running the system from the live DVD is that this is a game-changer in the Linux world.

Blender is a free open source 3D modelling and graphics software widely used for making animated movies. Here is a nice collection of 8 short films and animations made using Blender which I think will give you an idea on Blender's capabilities. Enjoy the ride.

Open source Dropbox alternative releases early beta. Like using Dropbox but looking for a good open source alternative? The good news is that there is a new online storage sharing application heading your way and it's completely open source.

Forget Perl’s claims, Emacs really is the Swiss Army chainsaw of the *NIX world. Join Richard Smedley on the first of a three-part series revealing how you can do most of your day-to-day tasks without leaving Emacs – even if programming is a small or non-existent part of your typical day…

Qmmp (Qt Multimedia Player) is a Qt-based audio player for Linux which resembles the appearance of XMMS (and Audacious for that matter), so users of these two players which want to have a player which integrates well in KDE will probably want to give it a try.

Team Tiny Core has released Tiny Core 3.1 the world's smallest desktop distribution - an 11 MB live CD, the major theme for this release is the tinycore-logo-150x150introduction of on demand icons. This allows for more options to have even faster boot times with the easy access to less often used application extensions. Much improved internationalization support and other upgrades and enhancements have been performed throught the system.

If you are serious about keeping data on your server safe, you should consider deploying an offsite backup solution. So if anything goes wrong, you still have all your data up in the cloud. One cloud-based backup solution is to use the good old rsync tool with the rsync.net backup service.

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on an OpenSUSE 11.3 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via http://FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

In a discussion on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Linus Torvalds leaked the fact the he became a US citizen last week. The Linux inventor grew up in Finland where he studied at the University of Helsinki. He moved to the US in 1997 to work for the chip developer Transmeta. For several years he has lived in Portland, Oregon, and receives an income as a Fellow of the Linux Foundation.

There are a number of things you can do if you think your Linux box was hacked. A common myth is to simply and quickly reinstall the OS, however that is the exact opposite of what you want to do, at least initially. What you want to do ASAP is take the box offline. Before you do that, you have an option, you can get some data on what's running and what IPs are currently connected.

In our last article we examined the steps required to prepare an Android application for publication to the Android Market, or for that matter, any number of other venues for distributing Android applications.

After complaints from users, Dell has now released the modified source code from the version of Android that runs on its Streak tablet. Over the summer, complaints had mounted that Dell had not released its changes to the GPL-licensed components, including the Linux kernel, that make up the tablet's operating system. After a period of silence, at the end of August Dell said it would address the issue. Dell have now released the source code, which includes the Linux kernel, BlueZ Bluetooth stack, the WLAN WPA supplicant, WebKit web browser and JPEG Library.

Linus Torvalds rarely makes appearances at conferences, and it's even less common for him to get up in front of the crowd and speak. He made an exception for LinuxCon Brazil, though, where he and Andrew Morton appeared in a question and answer session led by Linux Foundation director Jim Zemlin. The resulting conversation covered many aspects of kernel development, its processes, and its history.

I played this game at 12:30 AM, in a dark room with the door closed and using high quality head phones. It scared the crap out of me. No, I mean it scared me. Not a simple sneak-up-from-behind-and-yell-boo scared. I'm talking about crescendo-swelled music and sound effects. I mean, they let you know the horror is approaching and it still frightens you when you see the threat. One thing to remember. You don't play Amnesia - The Dark Decent to win...you play it to survive. Good luck with that.

Install VLMC in ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) using PPA. VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!.It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.

OpenLogic analyzed over 450 Apple Appstore and Google Android apps and found that 88 percent of Android and 41 percent of Apple iOS apps had an open source component. The data helps to underscore OpenLogic's new commercial service called OLEX App Store edition which is intended to help enable App Store developers and manager to identify and maintain compliance with open source licensing requirements.

Since Peppermint Ice targets netbooks and older, resource-constrained laptops and PCs, I dusted off a well-worn ThinkPad 2662-35U, loaded it up with the Peppermint Ice inaugural release, and took the setup for a spin.

Google's latest build of Android, version 2.2, codename: Froyo, has been trickling out to smartphones since its May announcement at Google's I/O Conference. Based on recent data collection by Google, Android 2.2 now accounts for 28.7 percent of the operating system's overall market share.