Gwibber, an open source microblogging app for Gnome has now reached version 2.0!
Although at 2.0, the developers are not considering this a stable release yet and not making it available on the stable distribution channels. What I could notice first from the upgrade was the UI from:
to

Which means:

it is now easier to jump between different [...]

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If you’re trying to recover deleted files or files in a corrupted partition, you might want to give Magic Rescue a try. With this command-line tool you will basically be looking for specific file types (searching by their extension). So, for a massive file recovery task, it will not be a good approach.
The program uses [...]

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If you want to run a WebKit web browser with no strings attached (unlike Safari and Google Chrome), Arora is surely worth a try.

First plus is that it runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS X. It is fast, has private browsing and looks like it has some plug-in support. Another good news is the announcement [...]

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Not long ago I was working with some .po files and needed a nice and simple diff program to merge 2 files. First I tried the multi-purposed text editor vim.
Using vim as a diff and merge tool:
with Andrej’s article I found some nice tips & tricks and the Vim manual for diff tasks. Some useful [...]

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Gnash, the freedom alternative to Adobe Flash Player now supports displaying YouTube movies!
The to-do list for Gnash is still pretty large until we’re all freely able to browse the web without the Adobe plug-in. But, at least this is some major good news I found out today.
Now let’s hope html5 gives us more goodies and [...]

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Although it has been a round for quite some time, I’m not a coder so my experience with text editors and IDEs is very limited. To give you an example, I’ve been using on the command line the good-ol’ simple nano. But, since I’m starting to need a bit more powerful features, my search began [...]

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For those who like ebooks, Calibre is a great program that was created to manage pretty much any aspect of your reading files.

The list of features is pretty extensive:

convert files from and to epub, mobi, LRF and supports input of several other formats including PDF, html, odt, rtf amongst others;
syncs to mobile reader devices (seems [...]

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Finally a SIP/VoIP program for the Android OS!
Sipdroid is a great GPL licensed program that allows you to make and receive SIP and make VoIP from your mobile. The app is incredibly simple to use, which just requires you to enter your SIP credentials (server, login and password).
Once it is on, you will see a [...]

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Doing a basic screencast in Linux is pretty easy. The package recordMyDesktop can be found easily on the repository of many Linux distros (including Ubuntu 9.04 that I use).
With this package you’re actually getting the backend recordMyDesktop which is written in C and the frontend developed in Python (gtk-recordMyDesktop or qt-recordMyDesktop).
The feature list is simple [...]

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I’m an follower of GTD. Probably not the best one, but at least I try to keep myself as organized as I can in the stream of neverending to-dos.
Which is why one of the first applications I searched for to install on my Android device was a good task manager to sync with RememberTheMilk. I [...]

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