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When people speak about the Pros and Cons of Gimp you often hear that the “multi window mode” is the most annoying point. Personally I’m used to the way Gimp handles it’s windows, especially when you work on a dual … Continue reading →
Sometimes you need to record a telephone call, e.g. when you do a interview via phone and create an audio-blog afterwards. The Skype Call Recorder is a simple program to do this, it is a little tool to record the … Continue reading →
I really like Google Chrome or Chromium when it comes to get the best performance out of a outdated computer. With Firefox the fan of my notebook gets pretty fast pretty noisy. With Chromium pages load faster and without much … Continue reading →
For many people the time to boot up their system is quite essential. Every second counts. Especially when it comes to comparisons of operation systems, 5 seconds less waiting seems to proof that one system is better that another… Well Mark Shuttleworth announced for Karmic further improvement on the boot time, and it looks like the Ubuntu developers did a good job.
On YouTube there’s a video which shows two (nearly) identical laptops. One runs Ubuntu Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 2 and the other one uses Windows 7 RC. The windows system uses a Intel Core2 Duo Mobile T7250 which runs at 2Ghz where as the Ubuntu system only has a T7100 with 1.8Ghz.
The world of free PDF-Readers for Microsoft Windows just got a little bit larger. With the release of GNOME 2.28 Evince, the PDF-Reader of the GNOME desktop enviroment, has been ported to windows…
Version after version Canonical promised a new look for Ubuntu, but since Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 the desktop appearance didn’t change much. A couple of polished icons here and there, a new slightly different wallpaper with every release, but nothing … Continue reading →
Paint.NET is a popular graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It’s easier to use than Adobe Photoshop/GIMP but far more powerful than MS Paint. The program is build on the .NET Framework, so that it can be ported to Linux … Continue reading →
Dropbox evolves slowly step by step. Until now Dropbox clients could either up- or download data to/from dropbox. But they couldn’t sync files between computers inside a LAN. This will change with future releases and if you’re interested you can … Continue reading →
Since the first public screenshots of Microsoft’s Windows 7 the KDE Community noticed the remarkable similarity between Windows 7 and KDE 4. Could it be possible that Microsoft’s design team took a good look at the brand news KDE 4? … Continue reading →
On the internet you stumble quite often upon screencasts which try to explain software tools or guide you through applications. The most popular site are probably ShowMeDo, who offer screencasts about FOSS software, Screencasters at heathenx.org who do videos on … Continue reading →