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GNOME 3 released available for Ubuntu 11.04 via PPA

GNOME 3, aside from looking visually different to GNOME 2 thanks to its new ‘Shell’ – has had a refit, rethink and re-code of pretty much everything else underneath it! With changes so big and dramatic as these it’s hard to … Continue reading

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Drupal 7 – Major Update!

The machine-readable web has come a step closer thanks to open sourcers in the Drupal community. Drupal 7 has received sign-off – finally – adding the ability to embed semantic meta-data into sites using the open-source content management system. That … Continue reading

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Dropbox Cloud Storage

Dropbox is a cloud storage system where you can backup your files and folders on their servers and access them in real-time on Windows and Linux machines. It integrates with the operating systems desktop manager and allows you to add/remove … Continue reading

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Google Chrome Extensions

Google chrome have just released a BETA version of the extension gallery. You can check it out here. There are many good extensions already released. I have listed below some of the more interesting ones. Speed Tracer (By Google) is … Continue reading

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Cloud Storage: Ubuntu One

I came across a free (and paid) cloud service from Ubuntu; the creators of the popular OS Ubuntu Linux. You can have a free account and have 2GB’s worth of storage costing you nothing. If you happen to run the Ubuntu OS, One integrates … Continue reading

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Game Server Manager Project

Game Server Manager (GSM) started life as a very simple system for managing Linux based game servers. The early versions all worked via shell scripts and whilst this worked very well managing the servers requires an understanding of Linux. GSM … Continue reading

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Google unveils Chrome operating system

Chrome OS, due to launch next year, will be based on Linux, and is leaner than Windows and some people believe it could radically change the way we use computers. User data will be stored on Google’s servers and synchronise with … Continue reading

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Google Launches Public DNS

Google will use its own DNS servers to resolve queries from computers using Google Public DNS. In its Thursday announcement, Google said that page loading performance would be improved by provisioning and load balancing its servers, and by minimising denial … Continue reading

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