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Songbird enters Beta! Go and get it!

Songbird, the long in developement ultimate media system for cross platform audio/visual joy has entered Beta!  The new release features a new UI, faster media scanning, drag and drop goodness, a first run wizard (with EULA - is that really a feature?), smart playlists and album art.  Wee!

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How to rip, store, tag and enjoy MP3s on your Ubuntu install

A short while back, I decided I needed to get a handle on my music collection.  I've got random MP3s from years back, purchased MP3s, CDs and even an old 8 track or two.  There are many ways to do go about this, but after throwing out the 8 tracks, here's what I did to get organized.

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Say, have we got a dinosaur for you! The Pleo for more than $100 off regular retail price

There’s a little Jurassic Park in all of us, even though most of those dinos were not from the Jurassic era.  There’s a lot of movie science purist in me, sorry.  Still and all, we’d love to have a local installment of a dino park nearby where we can stroll amongst the giants and perhaps [...]

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Move over potato clock… build your own Multi-Touch pad

Found on New Science and Gizmodo With gas prices now over the four dollar mark (Road Warriors still plays in my head when I think about that). Seth Sandler, you’re my new hero. With merely a cardboard box, tape, a piece of glass, paper and a webcam; he was able to create a Multi-Touch pad. [...]

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Microsoft is embracing open source- but will the years it will take to make it happen be too late?

From InfoWorldUpdate: Microsoft makes boldest move yet embracing open source Redmond promises ‘greater transparency’ in business practices and will provide more access to APIs and previously proprietary protocols for Windows and Office By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service February 21, 2008 In a major turnaround for Microsoft, the company Thursday promised “greater transparency” in its [...]

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From InfoWorld: Time to dump Windows?

 Laziness and fear of my own abilities has caused me to remain in a dysfunctional relationship with my computer. After reading the following article, I feel empowered to finally branch free and give my computer a whole new persona that will hopefully enable us to live happily ever after. -Dawn Time to dump Windows? Can [...]

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Fedora Project Hires New Leader

The Fedora Project has hired a new leader from the community. Having not worked at Red Hat hiring Paul Frields shows, once again, how committed Red Hat is to fostering community and Open Source. read more | digg story Share and Enjoy:

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Six People, six months to a fully 3D, open source game to run on Linux, Windows and OSX?

  Apricot intends to take on this challenge by recruiting a team of six who will have six months to create a fully 3D game using Blender and Crystal Space.  One of the goals of this project, which I fully support is ” to improve open source tools to better fit to the professional gamedev [...]

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Perl Language Upgraded

Just in time for the holidays, for the first time in 5 years the open sourced language gets a major upgrade. Read the article Share and Enjoy:

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Neuros OSD

I remember the time prior to receiving the Neuros OSD. I would watch DVD’s on my television set and either shrug as it ended or I’d mentally add them to a growing list of films I wish were readily available for purchase. I never realized what a primal life I had lived. Recording films, television [...]

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Miro 1.0 is available! Better than Joost, free and no DRM to muck up your world

Miro (formerly Democracy Player) has reached 1.o! This is a fantastic, open source, online video/tv player that’s available for Linux, Windows or OSX. It uses the VLC engine and can play just about any format under the sun. What are a few things that makes this player so fantastic? Over 2,500 channels (compared to Joost’s [...]

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Zombies! The Game.

Here’s another free and open source Zombie game for you. Welcome to Zombies, a turn-based game where the only goal is to outlast and destroy the zombies before they do the same to you. Can you save humanity from being overrun? Find out if you can hack it (nyuck nyuck!) by downloading it for Windows [...]

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Open source spotlight: musikCube

This is a new segment I would like to introduce to you all. I will try to comment on something open source related as often as possible, without boring your minds. I will mainly present the programs I use personally, but it could also be about the latest development in the open source community. Everyone [...]

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