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Google on Monday revealed a new software tool that lets just about anyone make apps for mobile phones that use its Android software. The beta version of the website for App Inventor for Android went live from Google Labs with a video showing how easy it is to make apps, including a number of ideas for apps people can make themselves.

LXer Feature: 12-July-2010

Quake is a first person shooter game and design inspiration for Guake Terminal Emulator came from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again. Guake is originally inspired from KDE's Yakuake.

When I write these lines, the latest version of Imule is 1.4.6. But ... It relies on packages version (libgcj10, libstdc++6) that are released with the unstable (sid) version of Debian. So either you upgrade Debian to unstable version or you choose a lower version of Imule. I chose the latter: to install an old version of Imule. I tested few of them and Imule 1.3.5 seems to work quite well with Debian Lenny (stable).

The Wine development release 1.2-rc7 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Patrick Verner announced a few minutes ago (July 12th) the immediate availability of the new and major version of his popular Parted Magic operating system.

Online music streaming provider Spotify has announced a native application for Linux operating systems.

Last month saw the opening and subsequent closing of the 2.6.35 kernel’s merge window, the period of time during which all of the exciting new features that have been waiting in the wings are considered for merging into the official ‘mainline’ kernel source tree...

If you've been grappling with Linux hardware problems, take heart: Jack Wallen has some strategies for resolving common issues--or avoiding them in the first place.

This article shows how you can install the PowerDNS nameserver (with MySQL backend) and the Poweradmin control panel for PowerDNS on a Debian Lenny system. PowerDNS is a high-performance, authoritative-only nameserver - in the setup described here it will read the DNS records from a MySQL database (similar to MyDNS), although other backends such as PostgreSQL are supported as well. Poweradmin is a web-based control panel for PowerDNS.

As you know, You can adjust openoffice to your needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. Find in this post a list of useful extensions for openoffice.org with installation guide.

Bibliographic software (also known as citation software or reference managers) plays a very important role in research. This type of software helps research to be published more quickly. Researchers amass a huge collection of bibliographic references which are pertinent to their field of research, and they need to cite relevant references in their published journal articles.

I’m sick and tired of having to remember and ‘cd’ long paths. I decided to create my own console based Favorites-script which makes use of a definitions file which is easy to change. “cd /home/petur/Documents/school/2010/fall/chemistry” becomes “cdf chemistry” and “cd /var/log” becomes “cdf log”

ULTILEX stands for Ultimate Linux Experience. This is a live Linux CD compilation which in turn contains several live Linux distributions. You can boot ULTILEX from CD/DVD and USB flash devices.

Microsoft's mobile strategy goes from bad to non-existent. Everyone knows mobile is the next-big-thing. Everyone except Microsoft, that is. The company which has dominated technology for decades has systematically moved over the course of the year from having a deeply flawed mobile strategy to having no strategy at all. Meantime Apple, which has a very aggressive mobile strategy, is snapping up customers left, right and centre. An example of Microsoft's so-called strategy is the Kin debacle. Earlier this week Microsoft confirmed that it was killing development of its Kin phones. That's just six weeks after it first launched the phone.

DuckDuckGo is a new search engine focused on relevant results and respecting user privacy. Actually a mash-up of several other sites like Wikipedia, About, Bing, and Yahoo, DuckDuckGo also uses it's own web crawler, the DuckDuckBot. DuckDuckGo uses what it calls Zero-click search results to try to guess what you are looking for and give it to you directly in your search results. I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few weeks now, and I'm impressed. What further impresses me is that the entire site is built on open source tools, ranging from FreeBSD for the operating system to good old-fashioned Perl for the logic.

Last week, we had the pleasure of talking to Evan Dandrea, Software Engineer on the Foundations Team at Canonical, about the upcoming installer of the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system.

According to the publication “Kommersant”, the state enterprise “Russian Technologies” has almost completed the acquisition of shares LLC Alt Linux.

[CNews has an interesting article on the Russian investment in Mandriva which became known last week. Google translation here - hkwint].

There's a delightful story that does the rounds regarding one of the founding fathers of Linux. It's said that during the early days of the opensource operating system's development, this fellow took to attending conferences in complete silence. All attempts to communicate via means other than hand gestures were refused. Instead, he pointed at things. Apocryphal or not, the tale remains highly relevant today. Our hero's beef was with the windows-based graphical interface metaphor and its knack for turning us into mouse-pointing morons.

When you are using Squirrelmail for IMAP and using a client like Outlook Express, you will find that the folders do not play well together. You can modify both the client and the Squirrelmail settings to get them to work together.