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20 Linux apps you can’t live without

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Following the success of our 25 killer apps for Linux post, we’ve dug deep to find the 20 must-have apps you should get your hands on today. Believe us when we say that for Linux users, they’re indispensable.
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LightZone 3.4www.lightcrafts.com/linuxThis powerful photo editing tool enables you to adjust the lighting attributes for any photo. Its main [...]

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Meet the online protection racketeers

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During the SANS Institute’s Conference in October 2004, the Institute’s Alan Paller claimed that “Every online gambling site is paying extortion… Hackers use DDoS attacks, using botnets to do it. Then they say, ‘Pay us $40,000, or we’ll do it again.’ ”
In the same month as this revelation, UK-based bookies Blue Square received an [...]

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The good, the bad and the downright weird at IFA 2008

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Well, TechRadar’s coverage of this annual electronics extravaganza has nearly come to an end, but there’s still time to give you a good idea about what worked, and more importantly, what didn’t.
The good
As you may know, TVs were the main event here, and TechRadar excitedly found out that the OLED war is set to hot [...]

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Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.5

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Gone are the days when you’d have to head down to the store and pick up a slideshow maker, a video maker, a video capture tool, a CD burning tool, an image editor and so on and so forth. With Easy Media Creator you’re provided with all the tools in one, very full, box of [...]

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