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• Bookmark sync arrives on Chromium for Mac - here's how to make it work
  Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Google, Open Source, Browsers We've told you before about Google Chrome's slick new bookmark syncing feature, available in the Windows beta version of Chrome 4. It automatically keeps your bookmarks synced across multiple Chrome installations, using your Google Account. Well, this feature has landed in recent buil […]
• Wally is a kick-ass, connected wallpaper changer for Windows, Mac, and Linux
  Filed under: Fun, Internet, Photo, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux There are plenty of wallpaper-changing applications out there, and plenty of them can tap into photo sharing sites like Flickr and Photobucket for access to a plethora of images. Still, not many of them are quite as well-connected as Wally. Even fewer are cross-platform. Wally, though, […]
• Linux Mint 8 RC1 brings a kicked-up Karmic Koala to your desktop
  Filed under: OS Updates, Linux, Open Source There's no denying Ubuntu's popularity when it comes to Linux on the desktop. It's also the foundation for a number of other excellent distributions, including one of my favorites - Linux Mint - and I was pleased to see some big news on the Mint blog early this morning. Linux Mint 8 RC1 has arrived […]
• Test, package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in
  Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows development environment. The new tools could potentially help boost the availability of third-party software for Linux. Novell's Mono project, an open source […]
• Go: new open source programming language from Google
  Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster compilation? That's one of the reasons why there are so many programming languages. Creating a compiler is practically a rite of passage for comput […]
• GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010
  The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working on version 3.0, the first major overhaul since 2002. The GNOME release team has updated the roadmap and has set September 2010 as the target for the launch of GNOME 3.0. The release team has also announced the new module decis […]
• WhiteHouse.gov Drupal Detractors Get Buggy
  The news that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched this week running open source Drupal software raised eyebrows and hackles among knee-jerk anti-Obama types and a small cadre of ignorant bloggers. […]
• First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform
  Mozilla Labs has released a new open source messaging platform prototype called Raindrop. The project offers a powerful Web-based interface for interacting with messaging systems like Skype and e-mail—but installation is not for the faint of heart. […]