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Archive for August, 2009


Neatx: A new NX server from Google

Monday, August 10th, 2009

On July 7, internet search giant Google not only announced its operating system Google Chrome OS with much fanfare, it also quietly released Neatx, an open source NX server. According to the announcement, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for quite a while. While the X Window System has issues with network latency [...]

Extending Gnome’s Nautilus File Manager

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Nautilus-actions is an extension for nautilus which allows you to add an arbitrary program to launch from the nautilus popup menu of selected files.
Each time you right-click on one or several selected files in nautilus, nautilus-actions will look at its configuration to see if a program has been setup for this selection. If so, [...]

Best Cross-Platform Email Apps

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

 
Linux comes with various GUI based email client to stay in touch with your friends and family, and share information in newsgroups with other users. The following software is similar to Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail and is used by both home and office user.
Webmail interfaces allow users to access their mail with any [...]