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Archive for May, 2008

Cheese is to Linux as Photo Booth is to Mac OS X – Give more value to your Webcam

By • May 14th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source, Ubuntu, Video

Cheese is a simple open source, Linux, webcam application that can help you take snapshots and video. Written as part of Google’s 2007 Summer of Code, Cheese is almost a carbon copy of Mac OS X’s Photobooth. Cheese has as its foundation, the well known open source GStreamer library and GTK. Cheese gives an added […]

How to Setup a LAMP Server on Ubuntu – Locally run and test WordPress on LAMP Server

By • May 12th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu

Many think that setting up a local Web Server is costly, and can be done by professionals only. It is not true. Nowadays it easy to setup one yourself, without spending a dime and without any headache. Why would a non professional or blogger need a Web Server? You can test new WordPress themes, plugins, […]

Wordcamp at Milan – 10 May

By • May 9th, 2008 • Filed under: Extras, Italy-Specific

Tomorrow,10th Saturday kicks off WordCamp at Milan – Italy. The guest star is Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress and Auttomatic – the company behind Akismet antispam. If you’re a blogger or WordPress fan and want to listen to Matt, you are still in time to register, but also think of how you’re going to get […]

Top 25 blogs according to Times

By • May 7th, 2008 • Filed under: Blog World, Extras

The guys at Time.com said well, lets separate the nonsense blogs from those who make sense, so they searched the web and picked out 25 blogs “about something” from the millions of blogs “about nothing”, and asked its readers to vote their selection. Well, the outcome… was rather predictable to a certain point; the “crazy” […]