Learn the Linux Command Line and Shell Scripting

You have Linux installed and running. The GUI is working fine, but you are getting tired of changing your desktop themes. You keep seeing this "terminal" thing. Don't worry, we'll show you what to do.

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The Next Gen Of Cars

This is a video about a new car developed by GM called the Hy-Wire...the cool part starts at 1:15 in the video

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UDATE: I also found this interesting article that goes in-depth into the inner workings of the Hy-Wire.

Gliffy, the Online Visio Killer

Two guys with some time on their hands have created a tool that might just become a Visio-killer. Gliffy is a free diagramming tool that works entirely in your browser. Like other online apps, it has inherent advantages over traditional software. Collaboration is easier,and so is publishing diagrams you create to the web.

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Knit Theory

Hyperbolic space is an unimaginable concept, unless you're a Latvian mathematician who's handy with needle and yarn. "People walked by, and they asked me, 'What are you doing?' And I answered, 'Oh, I'm crocheting the hyperbolic plane.' "

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iBox - Flexible Overlays (Images, Divs, AJAX)

iBox is a compact and easy to use overlay script. Smaller than other scripts, it supports images, inner divs, and even external pages.

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New Real world 3D Desktop

This video shows you a new way to display and organize your desktop. It's 3D, physics-ruled environment looks more like your actual desktop, which may force users to clean and organize it more often.

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50 ways to become a better designer

How to become a better designer? Here's a list of 50 good tips to make your design work better, while making your life easier. Nothing earth-shattering, just good old advice.

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best guide to make Ubuntu look like Mac OS X

"This guide tries to be as spesific as possible, so that even newbies can follow it easily!"

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Amazing photoshop work - all done with a mouse - plus tutorial

This guy is amazing... he has created a photorealistic image using just Photoshop 6.0 and a mouse... no graphics tablets here. Pure talent. He has also created a nice step-by-step tutorial on how it was created. Final image: http://www.wade.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/FinalPic.png

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How To Get Full Multimedia Support in Ubuntu

This gives Ubuntu desktop users the guidance to enable full multimedia support and playback of popular media codecs and technologies in just 3 steps. Covered: DVD (CSS) movie playback support, OGG / THEORA / AAC / MP3 / WMA / WMV/ DIVX / XVID / MPEG-1/2/4 / QuickTime support, Skype, Flash, RealPlayer, JAVA, and more.

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Animator vs Animation

It's a struggle between a stick figure and his creator, using items on the Flash toolbar!

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Amazing Photoshop Replacement - It's not Gimp!

For the past nine years Pavel Kanzelsberger of Slovakia has been quietly working on a graphics application that may shake the very foundations that Photoshop have been built on. The application called 'Pixel' nears its 1.0 release and can still be purchased for a mere $32. It runs on about any OS one can imagine!

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Ubuntu Dapper Review

"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu�s Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."

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Atlantik. The online Monopoly-like game for Linux

Last night while playing around with the new Dapper Drake version of Ubuntu, I found this piece of software created by Robert John Kaper. It is designed for KDE but seems to work just fine on GNOME. I had hours of fun playing last night. The cool thing is that you can create your own monopoly-like board games using this engine... one that I tried was a Lord of the Rings Monopoly game. Check it out.

Ubuntu Linux 6.06 LTS Released

My favorite release of linux has just released the official Dapper Drake version 6.06)