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The Linux Foundation: "The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that its Open Accessibility Workgroup is releasing IAccessible2 for Windows under the BSD license."

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LinuxConfig: "Solution to online banking by having an USB key with some bootable Live Linux distribution solely dedicated to serve our online banking needs can be very handy not even when traveling, but also when used on day to day basis."

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Tech Drive-in: "Ailurus is cross-Linux-distribution GPL software, which aims at making Linux easier to use for beginners."

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CNN.com: "This isn't just rhetoric of a few over-eager government officials and headline writers; the entire national debate on cyberwar is plagued with exaggerations and hyperbole."

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MakeTechEasier: "Therefore, while the number of high-rated Linux game titles may be small in comparison to Windows or gaming consoles, there are a number of quality free and commercial games out there"

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CNet: "Google has begun work on a new item on a long list of technologies designed to make applications running on the Web more competitive with those that run natively on a machine's operating system: an interface to know which way is up."

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plope: "The IBM Model M keyboard is a time traveler. You might be slightly surprised to see one on a friend's desk, as if it might foreshadow by only a few minutes the naked arrival of a Sarah Connor-hungry Arnold Schwartzenegger. Like the Terminator, the existence of a Model M today is an anachronism."

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Scott Photographics: "Black and White images have been neglected ever since the introduction of colour into film photography, due to the fact that colour is best and what we see (colour) is the true beauty of a scene/object."

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LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 6 finance applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of the software in action, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

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ars Technica: "Google's Android mobile operating system got some significant performance improvements in version 2.2, codenamed Froyo."

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Howtoforge: "After a long time waiting the most interesting update of the Intel drivers for linux is now a fact. We can now have this great hardware acceleration for playing h.264 video. Or in other words we now have Hardware acceleration for HD content with our Intel video cards."

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The H Open: "In a post on his blog, developer Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD-Jon, says that, "Google does far too little curation of the Android Market, and it shows.""

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FOSSBazaar: "One key element of open source compliance is to know your obligations. There is a lot of confusion about what open source means exactly and some people believe that open source means you can do whatever you want."

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Help Net Security: "The results of a Cyber-Ark global survey show that 35 percent of respondents believe their company's highly-sensitive information has been handed over to competitors."

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Groklaw: "Simon Phipps is correct: Open Core is Bad for You, the "you" here being you and me, end users:

The open core model exploits open source and is a game on software freedom"

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Tech Source: "You might not find quite as many experienced Python developers as .Net or Java folks, in part because Python is younger than Java and hasn't had the corporate push of .Net. Still, Python's doing well enough in developer adoption to make it a solid choice."

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IT World: "When something goes terribly wrong with your computer, never forget that the real problem might be sitting in the chair in front of the display."

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Enterprise Networking Planet: "For some time, the big commercial Linux vendors have been happily wandering orchard of low-hanging enterprise fruit, almost completely eschewing markets such as consumers or small- to medium-sized businesses."

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Linux Insider: "Using two note-taking applications in tandem -- Basket Note Pads and QToDo -- leaves the user wanting for few, if any, additional features."

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Groklaw: "More hilarity ensues as SCO files its MORs for April. As you'll recall, it was in March that the Yarro loan went through, and both Blank Rome and Ocean Park got paid, $335,296 and $261,645 respectively. Now what happened in SCOville in the following month?

Oh noes. I think SCO is losing money."

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Linux Journal: "One of the great things about Linux is how easy it is to customize. Now unfortunately if you don't know what you're doing and sometimes even if you do know what you're doing, you can get into trouble."

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Linux Devices: "Norco announced a fanless, Linux-ready mini PC with support for 1080p video. The 4.7 x 4.7 x 1.6-inch BIS-6620III incorporates the Intel Atom Z510 CPU and Intel SCH US15W chipset, and offers an HDMI port, SD and CF slots "

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Tech Report: "If you've been keeping up with TR over the last few months, you'll know that I've been hunkered down in the Benchmarking Sweatshop testing a torrent of solid-state drives on our brand-new pair of storage test rigs. The Twins have churned through a dozen SSD configurations in the last little while, neatly bringing us up to date with the latest drives, controllers, and firmware from all the usual suspects."

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Jun Auza: "Nearly two years ago, I did a guest post here by featuring 10 Linux-powered e-book readers (if you're not yet familiar with e-book readers, I suggest you click that link first). Consider this an update of that post. But of course, this time, I'll be introducing you to the latest of these devices."

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Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "Plasmoids provide a powerful platform to build up the KDE desktop, but making a custom Plasmoid does require quite a bit of time and skill. The good news is that it is easy to build a Plasmoid that will display a web page, which allows you to take advantage of any existing web based gadget"

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TildeHash: "I'll just get this out right now, I've fallen for Live USB drives. Yes, and if you haven't yet, you will. What fills an entire CD, only fills 17% of a 4GB thumb drive (8% of an 8GB, 4% of a 16GB, 2% of a 32GB, and so on)."

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The H Open: "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors"

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ars Technica: "Google is rolling out Android 2.2, codenamed Froyo, to Nexus One handsets. The new version of the operating system brings an extremely noticeable performance boost, a handful of impressive new features, some minor user interface enhancements, and useful new APIs for developers."

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Computerworld UK: "So imagining a world without Wikipedia is pretty frightening. Actually, you don't need to imagine it, because apparently it just happened a few hours ago:"

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Delimiter: "The organisation behind Australia's flagship annual Linux conference has requested formal proposals from parties interested in hosting the event in their city in 2012."

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Julie188 writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman has released five new stable Linux kernels, correcting minor errors of their predecessors and including improvements which are unlikely to generate new errors. As so often with kernel versions in the stable series, it remains undisclosed if the new versions contain changes which fix security vulnerabilities, although the number of changes and some of the descriptions of those changes certainly suggest that all the new versions contain security fixes."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications to privacy, information and the formation of identity? Now that we have a second self, how do we protect it? This presentation will cover aspects of time and space compression, communication in the mobile era, evaporating interfaces and how to approach a rapidly changing information spaces. About Amber Case Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and User Experience Designer from Portland, Oregon. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Her main focus is on mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, as these reduce the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect with information. Case founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding. Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Webvisions 2009 and Keynoted Portland's Open Source Bridge with a speech on Cyborg Citizens. She's been a guest lecturer at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lewis & Clark College and Oregon State University's School of Continuing Education. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Tech. She formerly worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. She currently works as a User Experience Designer at Vertigo Software. In 2008, Case founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers. To attend, visit http://portland.cyborgcamp.com/. You can learn more about Cyborg Anthropology at http://www.cyborganthropology.com, and on Twitter at @caseorganic.

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One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and test to see if they had the expected results. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing, there is minimal documentation for the tool, so here's a quick walkthrough of how to use it. Read more.
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In this Q&A, OSCON speaker and GNOME foundation executive director Stormy Peters discusses the risks of cloud computing, the continued importance of desktop computing, and the interesting relationship between new mobile form factors and free software adoption.

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Developer Christophe Lauret recently commented A schema is like an aircraft: it can be designed for stability or maneuverability but not both. I recently have been trying a different method for designing intermediate schemas in publication chains. It is an

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The Way I Work: Justin Kan of JustinTV (Inc Magazine) -- I admit it, I had written Justin off as "that irritating guy who went around with a camera on all the time" but it turns out he's quite thoughtful about what he does. I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. If you

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How do you take advantage of the new opportunities opening up in mobile web development? With this book, you'll learn the intricacies and pitfalls involved in building HTML and CSS-based apps that you can extend to work with particular devices, including the iPhone, Nokia, Blackberry, Android devices, and other smartphones. You'll not only learn how to deal with platform variations, finicky browsers, CSS compatibility, and other issues, but also how to create pleasant user experiences in a constrained environment.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The impending release of Ruby on Rails version 3 both refines and expands the
capabilities of the popular Web application framework. Offering cleaner controllers
and savvier SQL queries, you can expect to write less code than before. Better yet, you
can include most of the components of Rails 3 in any Ruby application. Here's a look at
what's changed for the better.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

One of the ways that the IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Feature Pack for Communications
Enabled Applications (CEA) simplifies embedding
communications capabilities into Web applications is through a ready-to-use set of Dojo widgets. These widgets
enable click-to-call functionality, cobrowsing sessions, two-way form
capabilities, and more. These widgets and the functions they provide can be
leveraged by simply including the appropriate HTML element on a user's Web
page. Beyond the functions they deliver right out of the box, you can extend
these widgets to provide a customized, enhanced communications experience in
your Web applications using your own HTML, Dojo, and JavaScript skills. To see how, follow this tutorial and extend
the Collaboration Dialog and Cobrowse widgets to deliver instant messaging
capability in a Web cobrowsing session.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) "Widget Packaging and
Configuration" specification is currently in candidate
recommendation status. The widgets, which can be used to provide rich Web application
elements for mobile devices and Web sites, are an emerging technology to be used with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
They are packaged as compressed (.zip)
files and can be deployed in HTML files with a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type of
application or widget. This article dives deeper into the specification, exploring how Web
application developers can use it and what the benefits are.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Pyjamas is a cool tool, or framework, for developing Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications in Python. It's a versatile tool that
you can use to write comprehensive applications without writing any JavaScript
code. This series
examines the myriad aspects of Pyjamas, and this first article
explores Pyjamas's background and basic elements. Step through the process of
building a sample application with Pyjamas using the article's examples.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This article, the second in a three-part series, explores advanced topics in
Apache Wink 1.0 development, a new Java framework for implementing and consuming
REST-based Web services.

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New concepts and strategies require changes in vocabulary. With a move
toward lower cost, highly flexible, cloud-friendly architectures, the concept
of elasticity has been established for an enterprise IT solution. This
article explores a specific definition of elasticity by describing examples
present in IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale, an elastic in-memory data grid.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Since the World Wide Web emerged in the early 1990s, HTML has evolved to
become a relatively powerful markup language, which, when backed up by its
close partners JavaScript and CSS, can be used to create visually stunning and
interactive Web sites and applications. This tutorial serves as a hands-on
introduction to HTML5 and CSS3. It provides information about the
functionality and syntax for many of the new elements and APIs that HTML5 has
to offer, as well as the new selectors, effects, and features that CSS3 brings
to the table. Finally, it will show you how to develop a sample Web page that
harnesses many of these new features. By the time you have finished this
tutorial, you will be ready to build Web sites or applications of your own
that are powered by HTML5 and CSS3.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Developing for mobile devices has been a high cost, low return
proposition for many years, despite the hype around it. The latest generation
of smartphones powered by the iPhone OS and Google's Android provide a much
simplified solution: just build Web applications. This gives you a one build for
all devices approach, which can lower the cost. Even better, these high-end devices
all offer ultra-modern browsers supporting advanced HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
In this article, learn how to build Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-heavy applications that take
full advantage of the capabilities of modern smartphones. You will learn not
only how to get the most out of these devices, but also how to deal with the
subtle differences between them.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

JAX-RS (JSR-311) is a Java API that enables quick and easy development of
Java RESTful services. The API provides an annotation-based model for describing
distributed resources. Annotations are used to provide resource location, resource
representation, and a pluggable data binding architecture. In this article, learn
how you can use JAX-RS to realize the potential of a RESTful services architecture in a Java EE environment.

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Have you ever wished that Cookies were a lot bigger so you could store
more data on the client, or that you could make cross-domain Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML (Ajax) calls? If
so, you are in luck. Both of these techniques can be accomplished using
invisible Flash. So, just what is invisible Flash? It is not really invisible,
however, it is 1 pixel by 1 pixel, which makes it pretty hard to see. And, it can
be used as a way to tap into the capabilities of the Flash Player. In
this article, you will learn how to build invisible Flash files that let you to store up to 100 KB of client-side data and make cross-domain Ajax calls
-- all without your users ever knowing that Flash is being used.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This article introduces Apache Wink, which is a framework for building Representational State
Transfer (REST)ful Web services. Apache Wink is an Apache Incubator project. Its goal is to
provide an easier method of writing RESTful Web services by providing the ability to use Java
annotations to define services inside classes.

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Part 1 of this series introduced the OAuth protocol and showed
you how to develop an OAuth-enabled desktop Twitter client. In Part 2, you will learn how to develop an OAuth-enabled Web Twitter client, from which users can update or delete their status and display their friends' timelines.

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This is the first of a five-part series of articles written for the PHP developer interested in learning about an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework called Agavi. In this first article, you walk through the installation of the framework and the other required components, get an overview of Agavi and its functions, and create your first Web application.