Last Exit last.fm client for Linux

October 13th, 2008 by Charles Peng 4 comments »

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 by Charles Peng No comments »

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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Barry – Another BlackBerry ™ synchronization for Linux

October 13th, 2008 by Charles Peng 4 comments »

Last time, I introduced PocketMac for BlackBerry Linux Edition tool for you to sync your date in Linux system, but now, we have another option for managing their BlackBerry directly from Linux.

Barry is an Open Source application that will provide synchronization, backup, restore and program management for BlackBerry ™ devices. Barry is primarily developed on Linux, but is intended as a cross platform library and application set, targeting Linux, BSD, 32/64bit, and big/little endian systems.

The Barry project began in October 2005 and has steadily added features and polish to Blackberry usage on Linux ever since. We were the first to reverse engineer the battery charging handshake via USB.

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Fedora Chinese Blog Union

October 11th, 2008 by Charles Peng No comments »

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 by Charles Peng 1 comment »

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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