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Entries for May, 2009

Filmaster: free and open social network for movie buffs with reviews and recommendations

Filmaster is a new social network for film buffs that features personalized content and recommendations. What makes it special is that it is an open service: both code and content is free as in freedom. Bias warning: Author of this article is one of the founders of Filmaster. At the same time he’s the founder [...]

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Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3

Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite long, so I will only try to show the most important changes. Notifications The system tray of KDE4.3 finally supports notifications fully. Also the configurability has changed [...]

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A quick look at Mandriva 2009.1 Spring

They say first love never dies, and I guess there is a degree of truth in that. Mandrake the predecessor of Mandriva was my first Linux, and despite the fact that over the years our ways parted, I have a sentiment for this distribution and I come back to it every now and again to [...]

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Synchronize Google Calendar and Accept Microsoft Outlook

I’ve been using Mozilla Thunderbird pretty extensively past few months. Even though I do have Microsoft Outlook installed on my work laptop – with the amount of mails  that I send and receive, Outlook just dies when the Inbox size shoots up and that’s an absolute killer. One of the problems with Thunderbird is that [...]

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Hedgewars – The Worms redesigned

I remember the old times, when we would gather the whole family, and with impunity besiege the computer without a break. It was a time of the Worms series reign, a reign that we all enjoyed. Though the initial release hit the skies in 1994, I have never forgotten the past, and it was one [...]

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