The eco-system around Pidgin is fantastic, below is yet another cool plug-in tip for it.
Pidgin-Twitter plug-in works with Linux and Windows for you to get back into posting to and receiving notes from Twitter (also works well with Identi.ca too!). Steps to get it working:

download and install the plug-in the plug-in;
go to Pidgin menu under [...]

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Migrating from a proprietary licensed mindset into open source can be perceived as a pretty challenging task. It is incredibly common for me to see that branding power often blinds people in a way that the functionalities of a software are disregarded in favor of the comforting sound of a brand name.
What does all that [...]

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Found in the Internet Archive, D.O.A. of 1950 is a classic film noir movie.
Although I’m not a fan of old movies, this drama mystery was pretty worth it. The basic story is of a person who tries to investigate who murdered him. The story is pretty rich with very good moments of suspense and a [...]

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Sharing with you my list of Linux and Open Source podcasts and vidcasts I subscribe to:

FLOSS Weekly (podcast) – part of the Twit.tv world, excellent interviews with leaders of different FLOSS projects;
Linux Outlaws (podcast) – this show is quite informal but has very nice comments on what’s new on the Linux and FLOSS world;
Stack Overflow [...]

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If you’re using Linux with Gnome, do a mouseover the music file and you’ll start hearing the song immediately.

You don’t even need to double-click to open the file in a media player, not even a mouse click is needed. Nice little hidden secrets of an awesome desktop file manager.
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If you’re interested in Free Libre Open Source Software and would like some valuable reading material to become an expert, FLOSS Manuals is a great site.
You can find books about Blender, Inkscape, Firefox, OpenOffice, Audacity, Wordpress, Linux Command Line, to name a few. Find the manual you want, read it on their site, download, or [...]

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Bugzilla has a very interesting feature called Whining. With it you can schedule reports to be automatically sent by email to you or anyone else in your team.
As an example, I have sent to me on the weekend a report of all items that were created or worked by our dev team in the past [...]

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If you like to support open standards format, here is a (at least for me) new discovery:  .epub.
If you like open standards and ebooks, support the spreading of .epub. This file extension is a mixture of three open standards OPS ( Open Publication Structure ), OPF ( Open Packaging Format) and OCF (Open Container Format), [...]

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As the last post of the year I wanted to sum up a short list of the best open source projects I met in 2008. Several from the list were created way before, but only got used by yours truly this year.
Without further delay:

Identi.ca which I’m now using way more often than Twitter;
Gwibber is pretty [...]

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Gnome has the great advantage of being a Chameleon with its Theme options. Making your Gnome based distro looking like a Mac OSX is very easy:

Download Mac4Lin;
Click on the file Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0_RC.sh for an automatic installation;
Install AWN and setup it up with the applets you need.

Since I installed AWN, I removed the bottom panel of my [...]

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