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Chromium Linux build now supports themes

The fact that Chrome can be themed does not sound that fresh of news to you all, but Chromium, the Open Source project behind it never had this ability on it's Linux and Mac builds.. until now. Yes!...

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10

Ubuntu has endured tons of complaints about their brownish looks and is notorious for being an 'ugly' distro. While this is debatable (I for one love the colors, although I am colorblind..) but the...

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Pirate Bay and BREIN Clash at Hacker Conference

Two months ago BREIN decided to take the Pirate Bay founders to court, hoping to get the BitTorrent tracker shut down in The Netherlands. BREIN won the civil case two weeks ago, and Fredrik Neij,...

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The Pirate Bay is back

The Pirate Bay and all of it's trackers are back online as we speak, good news for all the fans of the site, however these events have given us a small preview of what would happen if The Pirate Bay...

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Looks like Jolicloud stole Ubuntu's thunder

Although being based on the latest stable Ubuntu Netbook Remix release the guys at Jolicloud came up with a perfectly functional instler which wraps up pretty much all the features Ubuntu described in...

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Holy crap! Skype Linux goes 64bit!

There has been an official Skype client for Linux for some years now but despite the efforts of putting out a client for Linux the community still wasn't quite pleased to find out that Skype had no...

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Ubuntu's software store shows up in Karmic Alpha

The goal of the new Software Store is to bring structure to the way applications are installed on the system. They want to merge all the different package manager into a single 'click and go' system...

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New wallpaper features in Karmic alpha 6

They newly added wallpaper support also allows for wallpaper packages to be installed. You can now install a set of wallpapers that you'd like to be shuffled. For the first time Ubuntu will ship...

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Chromium Linux now has flash support out of the box

The Flash issues (emphases on 64bit) on Linux are often quite simple to bypass, especially since Adobe released the native 64bit browser plugins for Linux. But when it comes to linking these extensions...

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Pirate Bay admin takes legal action against Brein and Tim Kuik

In an attempt to take The Pirate Bay offline, BREIN took three of the tracker's 'founders' to court. BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users within 10 days...

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Strange Wiki page Powned Youtube.com

This afternoon was one of the rare days in which I would like to have found comfort in watching dull Youtube video's but as it turned out Youtube.com wasn't redirecting me to the Youtube homepage...

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Howto: run Jinzora on your Synology NAS

I'm pretty sure (google) I'm not the only one that had to deal with open_basedir restrictions and headers that got sent halfway round the world and back. Well turns out the solution is 'as always'...

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Chromium now blends in perfectly with Gnome

Almost from the very start Chromium has offered the ability to use your GTK theme to make the browser blend in with your everyday system. Even though the feature to match the GTK theme has been...

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Official Ubuntu Desktop Support For Home Users

Daring to utter the 'M' word - Microsoft - it's worth nothing that Windows OS does come with very basic free support - however in a roundabout way you're still paying for it by having to buy the OS in...

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ISP Stands Up For Torrent Site Owner's Privacy

In conjunction with the local anti-piracy outfit Antipiratbyrån, three movie companies took legal action last year in an attempt to obtain the personal details of the owner of the SweTorrents...

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Install firefox 3.6 stable on Linux in two steps

This tutorial applies only to distro's with the 'aptitude' package manger (apt-get) and focuses on Ubuntu in general. There are several ways to install Firefox but by far the easiest way is adding the...

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OMG! Bandcamp is the new muxtape

We at Softsaurus love music, in a way it guides us through life... well you can make up all kinds of bullshit on music but the fact is that it should just sound right. With the current costs of drive...

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New Ubuntu themes available in latest Alpha 3 update

The newly announced Ubuntu themes have just been made available through the Ubuntu Lucid Alpha repositories. Simply run:sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and you're solid! Please make sure you're not on a...

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The Ubuntu Music Store is now live

Even though the Ubuntu music store is realy nothing more than just 7digital with a little juice and some nice Rhythmbox integration many people (including me) have been waiting for it to open up and...

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Rapidshare Terminates Accounts of Illegal Downloaders

In common with BitTorrent and other file-sharing services, Rapidshare has steadily increased its user base in recent years. The site has hundreds of millions of visitors each month and is listed among...

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