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As part of the Chrome Experiment, Canadian Indie Rock Band – Arcade Fire, have released an interactive music video for their song “We Used To Wait”. By using some amazing HTML5 stuffs and data from Google Maps, it creates an amazing music video.
With Microsoft planning to fully withdraw official support for Windows XP, it will be not a very good option for enterprises to continue running their infrastructure on Windows XP. However, many enterprise Windows users still plan to upgrade to Windows XP SP3 instead and not Windows 7.
Gnash (or GNU Flash Player) 0.88 has been released yesterday. The new version is now completely compatible with YouTube videos.
Amazon’s Kindle species has been reviled, revered and reviewed endlessly. The new Kindle, however, seems to be making headway. That hasn’t been easy, in the face of a highly skeptical industry.
Yesterday, the KDE client for UbuntuOne entered the Alpha stage. Apart from the usual UbuntuOne stuffs like syncing stuffs, it also has a few features which you do not get even with the UbuntuOne client for Ubuntu.
Mark Shuttleworth has just announced the codename of the next Ubuntu release after Maverick i.e. Ubuntu 11.04. Ubuntu 11.04 will be called Natty Narwhal.
Debian turns 17 today. Yes it has really come a long way from being Murdock’s pet project back in 1993 to being the distribution on which the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, is based on now.
In today’s build of Minefield (Firefox 4.0 Beta 4 Pre) in the Mozilla Daily Build PPA in Launchpad, Tab Candy is finally available. If you want to try it out, you can install Minefield alongside your normal Firefox installation.
There are many people who have had enough of Justin Bieber. Well someone decided to try and do something about it and created a Firefox add-on to block everything Bieber. It has been ported to Chrome as well.
Today with a new update, Shutter has finally replace its blue icon, which looked out of place among the other monochrome icons in Lucid, with a monochrome one. So, now it blends in well with the overall theme.
After the one week delay, KDE Software Compilation 4.5 has been finally released. This is a release meant for stability not new features. About 16,000 bugs have been fixed in this release. It is not to say there are no new features. KDE SC 4.5 has an absolutely gorgeous looking blur effect and some very [...]
Ubuntu is getting a new sound theme – the catch is it will not make it in time Maverick. According to a blog post from the Canonical Design team, they are looking for a new sound theme and are asking the community to submit. The submission is till October 28th. So that rules out any [...]
BlueDevil may eventually make way for KBluetooth as the default bluetooth manager in KDE.
Well, it has been quite a long time coming but, finally, there is a dictionary plugin for KRunner now. Jason Donenfeld posted in his blog today that he has completed the dictionary plugin for KRunner.
At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war [...]
Today I saw a mockup of GNOME Shell and cannot believe at how much it looks like Unity, the UI which Canonical is developing for Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Have a look :
Today I was going through Dell’s Ubuntu offerings and I saw something funny. Dell recommended that I use Internet Explorer 8. So what? Well lets see – I was on an Ubuntu system and, as I have said, I was in their Ubuntu section. Here is a picture: (Click for full size)
It seems like people just cannot have enough of Amarok 1.4. Earlier we have already reviewed Clementine, a port of Amarok 1.4. Now we have two more Amarok 1.4 clones – Gereqi and Pana. Both of them are relatively small projects and if you still want Amarok 1.4 you might want to check them out.
Peppermint Ice is a new Linux distribution from the Peppermint team. Unlike Peppermint OS One, Peppermint Ice is said to be more cloud based with its new Site Specific Browser called Ice. It is built from Peppermint OS One, but it is not a replacement for it. They both will be maintained.
In a major blow to Google Chrome’s claim of being one of the safest browsers, a developer has come up with an extension that he says can steal login details of the user. Andreas Grech has developed an extension for Google Chrome which he says can steal login details of the user. After installing the [...]
The second trailer of the movie based on the early years of Facebook has now been released. There is not much difference in the audio clip from the First Trailer, but this time it is shown in the form of Facebook updates. Here is the trailer. Enjoy.
It seems like the popular game FarmVille has made the jump from being a computer game to being real food available in grocery stores. (If you do not know what FarmVille is hide away in shame, unless you just came back from a trip to Mars.)
Brian Maupin, an employee of BestBuy, made a video spoof of iPhone4 Vs HTC Evo. The video became a big hit but his job may be on line because of it. According to Associated Press, Brian has been suspended from his job and he may be fired. BestBuy, which sells both the iPhone4 and the [...]

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