This has been a long time coming, folks. Mp3 downloads from mainstream artists, with no encumbering digital rights management. That’s right, just a simple click to download and pay, and it works on Linux! This is great news. GREAT news. I don’t know if you can tell, but I’m just so excited I don’t […]

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It’s easy to drag’n’drop files to the Totem playlist.

If you don’t feel like firing up a mammoth music managament app like Rhythmbox or Amarok, you might try simple drag and drop from your music collection to the Totem (’Movie Player’) playlist. It ain’t fancy, but it works really well for my style of listening to […]

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I like to to keep a pretty clean desktop on my main workstation…I don’t keep any icons there unless they’re automatically generated by GNOME for removable devices. Yesterday while working on the order of some Christmas music for my church, I realized I had enough room to arrange and rearrange my documents on the […]

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This post from Ubuntu Unleashed on using Mousepad as a lightweight alternative to Gedit or Kate got me thinking about my favorite lightweight gui text editor: Leafpad.
Now of course, this thing is no-frills, bare-basics only. But it’s also sleek, visually appealing, supports line numbers, text search, drag and drop, and it has unlimited undo/redo. It […]

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VnTutor spotlights over eighty free OpenOffice tutorials including “Find and Replace,” “Using Autofill,” and “Creating Charts.” This could be super useful if you’re migrating your workplace (or home!) to the OpenOffice suite of productivity apps from Microsoft offerings.
Full Story: Free OpenOffice.org Tutorials

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