Boxee, the free cross-platform and open source media centre application with social networking features is now available for Windows users. Linux users especially those on Ubuntu have had the opportunity to test Boxee for months now. To download Boxee you need an account, if you already have one then just sign-in and download.
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What do you call this? I call it bullshit propaganda. Microsoft pits up
IE8 against Firefox and Google Chrome and in all ten cases, IE8 comes out victorious or almost. It seems the browser-war is driving Microsoft crazy. Howdid they come-up with blatant lies like
Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you’d want to download for Firefox are already a part of Internet Explorer 8 – right out of the box.
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Pidgin, the GTK+ frontend to libpurple, has released Pidgin 2.5.7 for Ubuntu. This new release adds support for the latest Yahoo Protocol 16 to fix login problems the multi-protocol messaging client has had with Yahoo.
Another major fix is; before, each time you blocked an MSN user not on your buddy list, Pidgin got disconnected. With Pidgin 2.5.7 this no-longer happens.
Other fixes include: More»
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If after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope you found out that you could no longer Send Text Messages with Skype for Linux, then this is what you should do – – A quick wall-through for you. More»
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Ubuntu Titbits: The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, is a weekly – – released every Monday of the week, with tons of information from the Ubuntu world.
The recent issue, 146, for the week June 8th – June 14th, 2009 covers SanDisk collaborates to improve Ubuntu netbook SSD performance, MOTU Council Results, Ubuntu Stats, Calling all LoCo Teams!. Amongst the many other articles from the Blogsphere you’ll find, includes an article from Kabatology: Ubuntu One Beta Finally Kicks Off .
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