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Posted in February 5th, 2012
Microsoft has lost the mobile war. The disappointing performance of Windows Phone even after two years of its release is evident that the market has moved on. Microsoft’s last bet is Nokia which dropped all of its own open source projects and promising…
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
[i][I wanted to be sure you saw this, as you've already run the first 8 chapters][/i]This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or…
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
This tutorial will explain how to create a facebook application using Graph api and PHP.For those who are new to Facebook platform you need to learn the basics of Graph api.We are about to build a facebook application you can see a demo here
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
The Wine development release 1.4-rc2 is now available.
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
Sparked from a posting earlier this week about Compiz likely being dropped from Fedora 17, some are wondering whether Compiz is effectively dead…
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
It is time for a brand new "Humble Bundle" release!But this time, it’s a bit different… Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem…), Windows (boo this OS), Linux (i shake my own hands) but also on… ANDROID!
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Posted in February 5th, 2012
The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 75% off sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana.
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
From the description, Bouncer is like a security agent that scans the marketplace for malware, relying on signatures of known malware to do its job. Besides looking for malicious applications, Bouncer also analyzes “new developer accounts to help pre…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
LinuxDevices’ publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company — as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced ……
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Posted in February 4th, 2012
The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missin…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Another set of comScore US smart phone market share statistics and once again Microsoft lost ground. Maybe it’s time to rethink this whole consumer approach to the market and take a hard look at the enterprise.
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
More details on Mer/KDE Plasma Active Tablet Spark has been revealed. Pre-order registration will open early next week and the tablet will start shipping in May 2012. It will be available online and orders will be accepted worldwide.
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a t…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Congatec announced a COM Express module that offers a Type 6 pinout — for VGA, LVDS, and DDI (digital display interface) display support — and a choice of six soldered-on Intel & Sandy Bridge& processors. The Conga-TS67 offers up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, has eight USB 2.0 ports and four SATA ports, and has multiple PCI Express expansion lanes, according to the company….
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Reddit, apart from being a social news website, has also become a cultural phenomenon. It has reached millions of internet users and has changed many lives since its inception. Though most users prefer browsing the site in its original avatar, that is …
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Well with the release of the Alpha for Ubuntu 12.04, I had to do a short video and screenshot tour. Join in the bandwagon parade of sorts leading up to the main release. Hey, dont get me wrong, I like parades….. I also have used Ubuntu for man…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Does HTML 5 spell the end for Java in the mobile space? Yeah, probably… I wanted to call this piece Life, the Universe and Everything. If you’re an avid sci-fi reader, or you’ve at least read Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, then those word…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than …
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Slowly but steadily KDE project has positioned itself at the right spot when tablets are becoming mainstream. You can pick KDE Desktop for your main PC, KDE netbook for your netbook and now Plasma Active 2 for touch based devices such as tablets. Aaron…
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Because despite all we think we know about a company that counts a membership equal to more than 10% of the earth’s population, Facebook’s filing was the first chance for outsiders to see the different ways FB profits from users. A careful read of the …
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Posted in February 4th, 2012
Wget can give you the ability to master the Internet by extending your download capabilities far past what your Web browser provides. You can use Wget to download all files from a website matching certain criteria, or you can use it to download an enti…
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
While RC6 support remains off-by-default as Intel developers are faced by RC6-related bugs affecting a small minority of Sandy Bridge users, this power-savings feature is not limited to only Intel mobile graphics. As discovered at Phoronix, RC6 can man…
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support.
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
Posted in February 3rd, 2012
Installing Webuzo Wordpress Stack
Webuzo Wordpress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows
bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for
development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated
version of …
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
I’ve had my Lenovo G555 laptop (AMD Athlon II at 2.1 GHz) for nearly two years, and recently I’ve been experiencing thermal shutdowns while running prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks in Debian Squeeze. Perhaps ironically but probably totally explainable, w…
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authe…
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
In an exclusive interview with Muktware, Greg-KH one of the leading figures of the Linux world, told us "The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn’t make it into the 3.3 kernel release."
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Posted in February 3rd, 2012
There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mammoth, you could not possibly eat it all before it rotted…
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