Compiz Fusion - An Amazing Video Demonstration of the Development Version

Compiz Fusion is collection of plugins for Compiz, an OpenGL based window manager for the X Window System (read: available for all Linux distributions, natively build in Ubuntu) that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.

Most of you have heard about that great piece of free software, and [...]

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I’m back and ready to install Gutsy Gibbon!

After few days of silence finally I’m back. Despite of the fact that most of readers are not interested in reading about more personal stuff in general, there are few things worth to share in a post. This time it’s a piece of my software ramblings - finally I’ve upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty Fawn [...]

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Mozilla 1.0, Opera 2.00, Netscape 4.79?

Today I found one “another interesting website” - OldApps.com. This is really nice, I’ve used to think there is no way to get all these programs in early versions of development. Some of them must be pretty challenging to install, but damn I like to play with old apps and see their expansion in time. [...]

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Silverlight as a cross-platform project with support for Linux!

It shouldn’t happen to Microsoft, but DAMN it seems that unloved company from Redmond has made the first GOOD thing for a long time. Today’s release of Silverlight 1.0 might be a real milestone, below I listed the biggest advantages of this really great project. Check this out:

Silverlight is a cross-browser & cross-platform project (there’ll [...]

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Evolution of Web Browsers, from 1991 to the present

Today I found a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. In this picture you can see a very interesting look at the past and how far we’ve come. For instance, I didn’t even know that Netscape Navigator is older than damn Internet Explorer. For those who cannot view Scalable Vector Graphics there’s a picture [...]

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Wordpress as a CMS? Well, why not.

Today I have spent most of my time on adjusting CMS in order to prove the fact that Open Source software rocks the Web. So which Content Managing System I’ve picked up, I’ve chosen blog software naturally. It not easy to make an “ambitious” service with some advanced functionality on default version of Wordpress, after [...]

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Adware version of Opera, where have you gone?

You remember that famous ad banner in Opera Browser that probably was the biggest catch on the way to increase number of Opera users, don’t you? On September 20, 2005, with official appearance of version 8.50, Opera Browser started to be a freewarelicensed program. Don’t you want to find out why Opera Software, a Norwegian [...]

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