Aug 03 2011
You can currently call landlines and cell phones (mobiles) using Google Voice, from within your GMail account. As long as you reside in the US or in Canada. It appears that Google is about to extend this feature to the rest of the world. The following are screenshots taking this morning which show that the …
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Jun 21 2011
Something that the Greek GNOME community has been missing was a good marketing effort to promote GNOME in Greece, both at local FLOSS conferences and online on the Twitters and Facebooks. Efstathios Iosifidis came in to fill this marketing void. He is currently an active member of the Greek OpenSUSE team and helps with GNOME. …
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Jun 09 2011
We are approaching 20 years of Linux since Linus started work on the Linux kernel. The Linux Foundation, with Linux.com, are running a contest for a t-shirt design. The t-shirt will be used to commemorate the 20 years of Linux in our lives. The Linux kernel can be found anywhere, on servers, mobile phones (such …
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Apr 22 2011
Did you manage to buy a new computer (desktop or most commonly a laptop) and avoid paying for the pre-installed Windows, even if you do not intend to use it? Even if you already have a license (such as with those MS Academic licenses from your school)? Let’s dig some numbers for Europe. According to …
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Apr 17 2011
So you want to grab the latest version of LibreOffice or the bleeding-edge beta of LibreOffice? How do you install these if you want to test them first, or just try out the pre-release/beta? There is a helpful how-to on how to run different versions of OpenOffice.org, which applies to LibreOffice. Here is how we …
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Mar 23 2011
Είναι διαθέσιμος ο Firefox 4 και είναι ώρα να προχωρήσετε με την εγκατάστασή του! Μπορείτε να δείτε τα στατιστικά λήψης του Firefox 4 σε σχεδόν πραγματικό χρόνο. Αυτή τη στιγμή έχει ξεπεράσει τις 10.5 εκ. λήψεις, με ρυθμό γύρω στις 7000 λήψεις ανά λεπτό. Από Ελλάδα έχουν γίνει 92.000 λήψεις περίπου μέχρι στιγμής. Σε σχέση …
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