Your child had been pestering you for that Linux mediacenter which he came across a few weeks back at the shopping mall and you promised to gift him on this birthday but all your plans went haywire af…

Hewlett-Packard has won a highly lucrative and bitterly contested battle against Kodak as the printer supplier for photo kiosks in thousands of Wal-Mart stores, giving HP a dynamic and long-lasting re…

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Google just upgraded its photo editor, Picasa, to version 3. This new version brings the following new features:

Sync Picasa 3 with Picasa Web Albums
Ne…

The Blender 3D open source community is highlighting the power of their software by producing Apricot, an open source Blender game. By the looks of the various sample videos (see one below), it shows …

When I wrote about music players available on Linux, a reader commented about Banshee. I decided to check it out now that version 1.0 is already out.

Banshee is a like an open-sourced iTunes player…

Not too long ago, I featured two entries, "Linux Video Editing" and "State of Video Editing", on video editing in Linux. Today, I feature another one that I just recently discove…

I have been a Flickr user for a long time already and I have gigabytes of images hosted there, some of which I have uploaded directly from my mobile phone (no local copies). I have thought of downlo…

by Sebastian Bergmann

I have been playing with the beta version of Skype for Linux on the Asus Eee PC before and I must say that it is stable and awesome. Video support is a welcome addition to this …

We all know that YouTube and other popular video-sites use Flash as their multimedia file format. Whilst Adobe provides versions of their flash player for Linux, the player is in no way open source. …

Back in 2006, I wished for a Linux port of Google's Picasa for photo editing and sharing. Google answered my prayer and gave us a Linux port.

Whilst it is not entirely a native Linux applicati…