While a client or plug-in to tweet is typically unneeded, the Twitter IM has been broken for ... ever? *cough* Time to get something working. "Czarphanguye: Looking for a nice desktop twitter app (for linux.)" Thanks for the feedback @cawlin @embee @PatiNetRead more

This brief blog entry will give you a snapshot of a few modern, and of course free, graphic editors available to Linux users. The inspiration is primarily caused due to frustrated w/ running oudated Photoshop version in WINE or resorting you GIMP.
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This brief blog entry will note the steps to set-up (re-install) VMPlayer (VMWare Player) on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04. VMware Player is a freeware virtualization software product from VMware, Inc., a subsidiary of EMC Corporation. Player can run guest virtual machines produced by other VMware products; it cannot itself create new virtual machines. VMware provides free virtual disk images of several pre-configured operating systems and applications, many of them community-contributed. Freeware tools and websites (such as EasyVMX) also exist for creating VMs, mounting, manipulating and converting VMware disks and floppies, permitting users to create, run and maintain virtual machines free of charge (even for commercial use). Read more

I just took notice (and you should too) that the wine-0.9.58 now supports DX9 (Direct3D) Post-Process effects. Thank you Wine (or Google's $$) Simply open the options (F11) -> Grphics -> ENABLE Post-Process Effects (no restart required). "This option will improve the quality and realism of a scene, as well as achieve some specific effects, such as scene-wide blurring. In Direct3D, image processing is usually performed as a postprocess after the rendering is completed. An application first renders its scene onto a texture, then processes the texture with a pixel shader to produce a different image with the enhancement or alteration. The use of pixel shaders makes this operation very efficient, so it can be performed in real time." [more on C++\Direct3D\PostProcess]Read more

This brief blog entry will note the steps, reason, & links I followed to install VMWare Tools in a Windows XP Guest without using VMWare Workstation. The host machine is Ubuntu Linux and the application being used is plan ol' FREE VMWare Player (VMPlayer). Read more

Bitswash is a bittorrent client built on crossplatform library wxWidgets, libtorrent (see Easy-Peasy Ubuntu Linux Torrent for rTorrent/Libtorrent use) and boost library. It supports multiple torrent downloading, automatic queue management, protocol encryption, peer exchange, upnp, natpmp, lsd, and IP and file filtering.

Protocol encryption (PE), Message stream encryption (MSE), or Protocol header encrypt (PHE) are related features of some peer-to-peer file-sharing clients, including BitTorrent. They attempt to make traffic harder to identify by third parties including internet service providers (ISPs).

It is currently being developed and tested heavily under ubuntu edgy and feisty.

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