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pulptunes_logoIf you have a huge collection of music and it’s hard for you to make it portable, install pulpTunes! pulpTunes allows you to access your music from anywhere with a internet connection, connecting your home iTunes with yourself. Better yet, you can share your music publicly worldwide and let anyone know how many hours your spent downloading..err..buying music.

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flash_linuxI’m not a Linux power user myself, but I have Linux installed on several rigs and this thought crossed my mind several times, but without any conclusion being too lazy. Saving flash movies locally is very useful especially when you want to view it again later or share it with friends when they come by your home. Fortunately, I’ve found a similar article via How-To Geek and I have decided to share it with you.

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I will try to break the myth on how hard Linux is, how complicated is to set-up crons and of course, how to save your time automating your website backups without using 3rd party software or scripts. Now, if you’re not familiar with this, the cron actually helps you automate any task or Linux command easily. For our current task, we first need a bash file, where we will write the database backup command (MySQL).

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We can’t say we didn’t expected that and personally, I’m surprised it happened now. While still the dominant software company, Microsoft started to lose ground for the Windows OS and people are more attracted to other platforms, such as Mac or Linux. Microsoft has Windows 7 in its sleeve, but nobody can predict at this point how much will Windows 7 repair what Vista collapsed.

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The known Linux distribution, Fedora, received its well deserved update to its 10th version. The new Fedora 10 comes with many improvements and fixes such as loading times (including boot times), security tweaks, virtualization management and of course, networking improvements.

The new Fedora distro comes bundled with OpenOffice 10, the latest build of OpenOffice, covering your daily office needs.

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I had several cases when some friends of mine had their SD card corrupted and they lost many photos. Now, I hope you’ll never have to deal with a corrupted SD card but if you do, we have a good solution for you.

PhotoRec is a digital photo recovery solution that is designed to handle multiple types of storage media. The operating system will not be a problem either, PhotoRec runs under Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Dos, Solaris and FreeBSD.

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If you are a fan of the uptime command present within Linux or you are a heavy multimedia 24/7 download freak, you should know your current system up time. What is the system up time you ask? Well, shortly, the system up time shows you how long your system has been online. Surely you can brag or do contests with your friends, but we’ll keep this aspect for another time.

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As we warned you several days ago, Ubuntu 8.10 codename Intrepid Ibex has been released yesterday and it’s ready to be downloaded and installed. The new version comes with improved for media devices, 3G cards support and loads of other performance/improvements updates and features.

Let’s review some of the important Ubuntu 8.10 features and updates.

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