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Archive for October, 2007

Make beautiful Panoramas with Hugin

By • Oct 22nd, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

Hugin, the time saving cross-platform open source software that is used by both professionals and amateur photographers. All you need is as digital camera, a nice landscape and Hugin. Hugin, by simply stitching together a sequence of photographic shots taken from the same location or landscape creates one big and well blended image or panorama. […]

Get a more organized Linux Desktop with Gimmie

By • Oct 19th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu

Get a more organized Desktop with Gimmie. All your recent documents and recurrent contacts would get prearranged by Gimmie a for a faster revisit. The utility panel for GNOME-based Linux clients places under four principal buttons; Linux, Program, Library and People all you most often use like Browsers, Audio Files, Downloaded Files and more. If […]

Take a Linux Desktop Survey from the Linux Foundation

By • Oct 19th, 2007 • Filed under: Open Source Advocacy

The Linux Foundation launches it’s Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey. The organization was founded in January 2007 when the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and the Free Standards Group joined forces. The Linux Desktop survey takes off from October 17 through November 30, and it can be done in six other languages: Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, […]

Netscape Navigator 9 for Linux takes a step ahead of Firefox

By • Oct 18th, 2007 • Filed under: Firefox, Linux Packages

Navigator 9 for Linux came out with some very interesting features that gives it a new shine. To start, there is no need for a formal installation, it can be executed from a terminal just like the ioswiftfox browser. Navigator 9 URL correction attempts to automatically correct incorrect entries, like changing kabatologycom to kabatology.com or […]

Backup and restore documents with Duplicity

By • Oct 17th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks

Backup and restore files and documents in a remote server with duplicity. Duplicity backs-up directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploads them to a remote or local file server. Duplicity like rsync recognises modifications/updates on files and transmits only the modified part, all with the aim to reduce band consumption and for a faster […]