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How to sync Evolution with Google's PIM apps

While I'm a die-hard Google user -- especially the PIM apps -- I still appreciate offline applications for the integration with the desktop, speed, and features they sport. The Evolution contact and calendaring application is a great example: it's as ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  12 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Konqueror, The Powerful KDE Browser

Figure 1: Konqueror Figure 2: A split screen showing an FTP client and two remote websites Figure 3: Watching a YouTube video with Konqueror and Flash Figure 4: Easy translation of andrewmin.com to Korean, courtesy of the Konqueror Babel Fish ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  1 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Linux Journal

Rhythmbox, Gnome music awesomeness

Figure 1: Rhythmbox Figure 2: Rhythmbox rocking it out with Lonestar Figure 3: Viewing my (ugh) iPod Nano Figure 4: Magnatune! Yay! Figure 5: Listening to Canada’s CBC radio Figure 6: Connecting to my host DAAP share Amarok sure inspires a lot of ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  22 Sep 2008
Related Topics: CBC,  Wikipedia,  Google Inc.,  Creative Commons

Amarok, the music player that does it all

Figure 1: Amarok Figure 2: Amarok playing one of my favorite bands Figure 3: My Amarok stats (I have a slight obsession with Southern music) Figure 4: Saving some favorites in a playlist Figure 5: Creating a smart playlist Figure 6: Adding a ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  1 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Mike Oldfield,  Johnny Cash,  Brad Paisley

The top 4 internet flame wars about free software

Figure 1: By Dave Fischer(http://www.cca.org/dave/), licensed under the CC-BY Everyone knows about the infamous internet wars. Ranging from operating systems to text editors to code indentation style, these wars have wreaked havoc on the web for years. ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  17 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Novell, Inc.,  Linus Torvalds,  Microsoft Corporation,  Richard Stallman,  Tim O'Reilly

The 2008 Google Summer of Code: 21 Projects I'm Excited About

The annual Google Summer of Code is upon us again. For the uninformed, that’s when Google pays hundreds of students and hundreds of mentors to work on free software projects, ranging from AbiSource to Zumastor. This is where great projects like the ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  17 May 2008
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

What's new in the lastest spring collection from Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and Opensuse

Figure 1: Mandriva 2008 (by HorseloverFat under the GPL) Figure 2: Ubuntu 8.04 (by V A R G U X under the GFDL) Figure 3: Fedora 9 Figure 4: openSUSE 11 It’s really the most wonderful time of the year. Out of the top 6 GNU/Linux distributions ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  24 Apr 2008

Getting help with Man Pages

WGET(1) GNU Wget WGET(1) NAME Wget - The non-interactive network downloader. SYNOPSIS wget [option]... [URL]... DESCRIPTION GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  21 Apr 2008

Choose the DVD ripper that's right for you

Linux is sometimes belittled for having inferior applications, but that's simply not the case. Take DVD rippers, for example -- a plethora of them work on Linux machines. With so many to choose from, which is the best? I performed three tests on five ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  6 Mar 2008

New CNR.com is a work in progress

Last year, Linspire announced that it was opening its software distribution service, CNR (short for Click 'n' Run), to users of the Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu distributions. A month ago, it announced a beta version of CNR that includes ...

From ANDREW MIN, LXer,  17 Jan 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

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