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What happens when you treat the IT department badly? Click below to find out… Click on the video to watch it or just go to our Youtube channel and enjoy the other fun stuff we have! Enjoy, RossB

No disrespect to Dilbert, XKCD, Joy of Tech or UserFriendly, but my new tech-cartoon love is Noise to Signal.  Why?  You may ask, here’s a sample… Beware, as you follow this link back to Rob’s blog and see the rest, I’d not be drinking or eating anything, unless you have a CPR-trained person nearby.  Like my reaction after reading the below cartoon….

Exaile is a wonderful application for listening to music in a GNOME environment. Although it could be considered a newcomer to the music player world and we are not hearing much about it, I have been using Exaile for quite a while now and I think it is the best application of its kind. For this reason, I would like to present it in this vortal. (more…) » Post Purchase:  Text Link

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Haha.nu is one of my oft-visited entertainment sites, they manage to put out a lot of fun things, nearly all family-friendly, and some are downright profound.  I like this ABC chart done using today’s technology. Click on the chart for the larger original version. Enjoy, RossB

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There’s a very nice review of 11 of the available players that run on Linux systems over at the Echoes blog, if you know of any more such reviews, please leave a comment, we’re trying to collect the definitive set of reviews for our readers. From the article: SMPlayer SMPlayer is a fully featured video player built using the Qt 4 libraries. It basically plays anything, including DVDs and ISO images, but it skipped the menus when reading DVD ISOs. It’s complete and it offers plenty configuration options, including for subtitles and the interface itself, allowing to choose the icon set and the style used. You can also configure the language SMPlayer uses for its interface, including English, Romanian, Polish, German and many other. I was impressed to see translations are pretty much complete.

From the article: Last fall when the two mega-distros openSUSE and Mandriva both hit the mirrors, it was difficult to decide which I liked better. In an attempt to narrow it down, I ran some light-hearted tests and found Mandriva won out in a side-by-side comparison. But things change rapidly in the Linux world and I wondered how a competition of the newest releases would come out. Mandriva 2008.1 was released this past April and openSUSE 11.0 was released just last week. Read More.

"This project is for the use of the average bloke (yes, you), who would like to further help and promote the use of your favorite free format. The MailOgging is a strategy to get the attention of hardware and software vendors who do not know the Ogg family, do not care about it, or do not know how many people care about it. read more

From the article: This article shows how you can use an iPod on a Linux desktop with the Rhythmbox audio player. It covers how you can upload MP3 files from your desktop to your iPod and delete files on the iPod. Normally, Apple’s iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Rhythmbox that can handle the task. Read More.

ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed. Complete Story

"...It's a 100% free multimedia operating system intended for music production, graphic design, audio and video edition, and all kind of tasks. It contains an enormous collection of free (as in freedom) programs that can replace Windows or Mac OS X..." -- via http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04827

From the article: AIR is Adobe’s software for running and creating Web applications that run both online and offline. AIR 1.0, released late last month, runs on Windows and Mac OS. Adobe had said it will port AIR to Linux and then mobile devices. As part of the AIR-on-Linux release, Adobe is making an update to the alpha version of its Flex Builder framework for Linux. Both will be made available at Adobe Labs for free and will be completed later this year. Read More.

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