New Windows 8 Screenshots Leak It was only a matter of time until some began posting screenshots of the recently leaked build of Windows 8. News about the leak with the build number 7989 broke on June 18. We did not know a lot about that build back then, other than that it was compiled [...]
READ MORE »AMSTERDAM — The Dutch parliament is set to approve a twice-delayed bill that would force mobile Internet providers to let their customers use Skype and other third-party services on their networks without charging extra or giving preferential treatment to their own offerings. If passed and approved by the senate, it would set an example in [...]
READ MORE »n a move that can be seen as a direct response to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype last month, Google has said it plans to integrate real-time chat software that resembles Skype into its Chrome browser. The web giant is to integrate open-source software Web RTC into its browser, which will enable real-time communications capabilities via [...]
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Spider-Man is going to die tomorrow. Marvel confirmed today in a press release that the iconic web-headed superhero will bite the bullet in Ultimate Spider-Man #160, which hits stores tomorrow. There are two reasons that this news should not necessarily freak you out. First, tomorrow’s issue is the conclusion of an eight-issue story arc called [...]
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wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number [...]
READ MORE »So, I’ve just successfully downloaded an image of Linux Mint 11, and I’m ready to burn it. It’s a DVD ISO image and I downloaded it on my CLI only server, so I have no access to brasero or some gui tools, but since brasero is buggy as hell anyways, let’s see what other solutions [...]
READ MORE »Now, when Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.0-rc many people are trying to update to this version. I did it recently on one of my machines and decided to share instructions with others. For Ubuntu ‘natty’ 11.04 users the easiest way is to use packages from ‘oneiric’ 11.10 release. There are few ways of doing that. [...]
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Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor: the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors). the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl). the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp). the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors) Installation First step is to install lm-sensors: sudo apt-get install [...]
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The Ubuntu Software Center is a utility for software management in Ubuntu. Current versions allow easy finding and installing of software. In addition to that it supports software purchases, includes a recommendation features, and replace other tools such as apturl and gdebi. Future version may allow replacing of APTonCD, and most of the Computer Janitor. [...]
READ MORE »BURG is a program based-on Grub 2,BURG uses new menu list,screen layout and shortcut keys that all easily customized.Following is tested in Ubuntu Karmic. Update: Burg has released a first version front-end GUI called Burg-Manager. Read more 1.Install BURG Edit source.list file(Open terminal from Applications/Accessories/Terminal): sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list add following into the file and save [...]
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