Baldy’s Paradox

For Firefox users who are constantly referring to multiple pages, tabbed browsing is not a feature, but a way of life. There are enough of us that the Firefox addon page lists more than 110 extensions related to tabs. These extensions feature everything from simple add-ons to various means of saving tab addresses and sessions to thumbnails and collections of functions, as well as one or two uncategorizable ideas.

Oh, Oh, Oh! this is right up my alley!!

Source: Linux.com

~LC

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Unlike previous 2.x releases, OpenOffice.org 2.3 is a new and enhanced feature release rather than a bug fix. There are several smart changes, a whole new approach to adding new features and of course the much anticipated new charting tool. This is definitely a release to get to know.

Source: Search Enterprise Linux

~LC

Technorati Tags: OpenOffice, Linux, Windows, Software

The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel’s new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard. Without spoiling the review of this motherboard that will be published shortly, the ASUS P5E3 Deluxe is one of the most innovative motherboards we have seen to date and it packs one very exciting and unusual feature. Embedded onto the P5E3 Deluxe is a Linux environment that features a Firefox-rebranded web browser and the Skype VoIP client! Within five seconds of turning on this $360 USD gaming/enthusiast motherboard, you can be using Linux and surfing the Internet. On this motherboard the feature is known as ASUS Express Gate, which is powered by something called SplashTop. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop being created by DeviceVM. SplashTop isn’t even launching for a few more days (October 10), but in this article we have more details on this embedded Linux environment as well as screenshots and our thoughts with what will hopefully come next for this Linux environment.

Source: Phoronix

~LC

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* New default style: bloe

* New styles:

ostrich zimek_darkblue, zimek_green, zimek_bisque,
carp, arch, bora_black, bora_blue, bora_green, green_tea, bloe
* Fixed shape handling, now shaped corners have border.

* Allow negative numbers in command “Workspace”

* Added utility fluxbox-remote

* Allows script access to most fluxbox commands;

Support must be turned on in the init file with
session.screen.allowRemoteActions; the syntax is, e.g.,
fluxbox-remote “CustomMenu ~/.fluxbox/custommenu”
* Added keycommands :AddWorkspace and :RemoveLastWorkspace

* Added some missing Open Office entries and window managers,
plus some other minor changes in fluxbox-generate_menu
* Updated languages:

sv_SE, zh_CN, de_*, es_ES, es_AR, en_US, en_GB, pt_*
fi_FI, fr_FR, ru_RU

Source: fluxbox.sourceforge.net

~LC

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Microsoft will now allow users of Windows XP to download Internet Explorer 7 without having to gain Windows Genuine Advantage authentication.

Source: ZDNet

~LC

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