If you haven't downloaded OpenOffice.org 3 yet, you may be missing something. Since OpenOffice.org 3 was released a year ago, it has been downloaded some 100 million times.
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The Mozilla developers have released the first beta release of Firefox version 3.6, which uses the rendering engine Gecko 1.9.2 and JavaScript 1.8.2 for better performance.
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Since Firefox remembers all your tabs when you close and re-open the browser, I have been using tabs increasingly as bookmarks as wells as reminders of pages I have been reading recently or tasks I have been working on. The key advantage of tabs for such purposes is that you can switch between tabbed web sites instantly with one click. There is no loading time. This also means that the number of tabs grows quickly, and managing the large number of tabs becomes an issue.
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Ubuntu 9.10, code named Karmic Koala, will be officially released on Thursday. If you don't want to wait you can get the beta release immediately.
However, the download servers and mirror sites are expected to be busy, so be prepared for longer download times than usual.
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Ready for Halloween? Here are a few tricks to get you into the mood. The Penumbra horror games trilogy Overture, Black Plague, and Requiem is an excellent choice for entertainment this time of the year and will make the hair on your back stand up.
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Highlights of the latest release include improvements in shadow, weather, and sound effects (including doppler effect), as well as security fixes and recording of first run settings. Two new game levels have been added.
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The developers of MythTV, the Open Source Software for Digital Video Recording, have started the release schedule of version 0.22 and have published the first release candidate.
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VoiceXML is a markup language that allows you to create voice-enabled web applications. For example, instead of filling out a form on a web page by clicking on each of the fields and typing in the text, with a voice-enabled web page you can simply speak into the microphone of your computer and have the voice application fill in the form fields. Read more...