Archive for the ‘Fedora Notes’ category

Very cool Tango Icon Theme for GNOME

October 15th, 2008

Have been used my Fedora 9 desktop for half a year, I really got bored with the default Fedora Themes, especially the default icons theme, so I tried to look for a better one on the whole net, and I was so excited when I found the unofficial tango icon theme. It’s high quality and looks very cool. The Tango team is just the contributor of GNOME icons themes, so their icons have a good visual metaphor for Nautilus and other GNOME modules.

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Last Exit last.fm client for Linux

October 13th, 2008

Last Exit is streaming media player for GNOME as a Last.fm client for your Linux desktop. With Last Exit, you are able to listen the songs you shared in last.fm easily.

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Virtual Forbidden City

October 13th, 2008

The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time is a partnership between IBM and the Palace Museum in Beijing, China. For more than five hundred years, the Ming and Qing emperors ruled China from the palaces of the Forbidden City. The art and architectural treasures from this period are the cultural heart of modern China.

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Fedora Chinese Blog Union

October 11th, 2008

Hello, eveybody, I set up a Fedora Chinese Blog Union at Feedsky (a Chinese feed burner) this morning. It’s a group for Chinese fedora bloggers to share their Fedora skills and/or experiences with other Fedora fans, so as to promote Fedora in Chinese-speaking countries or areas…

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Picasa 3 for Linux

October 11th, 2008

Google’s Picasa 3 is a free photo software, it helps you instantly find, edit, and share all the pictures on your computer. Although it isn’t released as open source it is free to download and use from Google’s Web site. The new version 3, which is currently in beta, is available for Linux now.

Picasa 3 runs on Linux compatible, and won’t delete your pictures or put them online without your permission. Version 3 is still in beta, a preview of the upcoming release of Picasa 3 for Linux with some great new features, including a new retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes from your photos. If you don’t want to download the beta, the previous stable version is still available.

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