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18th November Comments

Adobe answers cries for 64-bit Flash on Linux

Posted on November 18th, 2008 at 5:47 am

  Starting to answer the clamorous demand from open-source fans, Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software. Linux has moved more rapidly than Windows or Mac OS X to support 64-bit processors, in part because the developer-friendly compile-your-own-software ethos that prevails [...]

Posted in Linux, Software

12th November Comments

50 Essential Open Source Security Tools

Posted on November 12th, 2008 at 7:21 am

Here is a article that I found and I thought that a few of you folks would like to peruse it and see what is out there that even you might not have used as of yet. Some are old favorites and others are not so well known, Baldy The area of open source security [...]

Posted in Linux, Security, Software

31st October Comments

OpenOffice 3: Useful, Compatible – and Pretty

Posted on October 31st, 2008 at 4:43 am

  The final version of OpenOffice.org 3, the open source competitor to Microsoft Office, came out two weeks ago and looks better than ever. I’ve been using its predecessors for years and, broadly speaking, OO3 is the most useful, widely compatible software ever. You can run it on anything: Macs, PCs, Linux, Unix workstations. It [...]

Posted in Software

15th October Comments

Review of final OpenOffice 3: Why buy Microsoft Office?

Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 6:15 am

  The final version of OpenOffice 3 is out today, and if you’re looking to save yourself plenty of money, download it instead of buying Microsoft Office — you could save yourself hundreds of dollars, and not lose out on many features. I put the Windows version through its paces, and am about to download [...]

Posted in Software

15th October Comments

OpenOffice 3 Debuts to Server-Crashing Demand

Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 6:12 am

  The third full OpenOffice suite is out in the wild and attracting plenty of attention. OpenOffice.org 3.0 was released Monday — and already, demand has been high enough to overwhelm the download servers and cause them to crash. The software suite, designed as an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, offers everything from word [...]

Posted in Software

26th September Comments

Do-it-yourself Konqueror commands

Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 4:39 am

  KDE’s Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means of service menus. The new commands appear in Konqueror’s context menu when you right-click a file. Here’s [...]

Posted in How-To, Software

16th September Comments

GIMP User Filter allows use of Photoshop filters

Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 5:16 am

  One brake on the GIMP’s popularity is that, while it boasts dozens of filters, a rival like Photoshop boasts thousands. You may only occasionally need a special effect that imitates a pencil sketch or a famous style of painting such as Impressionism or Cubism, but, when you do, having a filter to create the [...]

Posted in Graphics, Software

9th September Comments

Dress up your Python scripts with EasyGui

Posted on September 9th, 2008 at 5:44 am

  In many cases, adding a graphical interface to Python scripts means getting your hands dirty with TKinter or other GUI programming kits. This exercise is usually reserved for users who have already acquired decent Python programming skills, as it requires some serious code wizardry. Thankfully, the EasyGui module allows you to add some GUI [...]

Posted in Programming, Software

4th September Comments

DoS vulnerability hits Google’s Chrome, crashes with all tabs

Posted on September 4th, 2008 at 6:50 am

Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google’s Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang’s advisory : “An issue exists in how chrome behaves with [...]

Posted in News, Software

28th August Comments

Easy file uploads with Droopy

Posted on August 28th, 2008 at 5:06 am

  Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the [...]

Posted in Networking, Software

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