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I am not a Mac user. I have been and will be a PC user - with that said I love mac’s style. Clean, sleek, and simple. For $50 I picked up an Apple keyboard at Best Buy; I am typing on it right now. It has rounded white keys with simple lower-case gray glyphs [...]

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I’ve been on another Linux kick, and so of course have checked up on my favorite program, Wine. For those of you who don’t know, Wine (recursively standing for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a compatibility layer for Windows code to run on Linux. This allows you to do cool things like run Photoshop [...]

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I’ve been waiting a copy of KDE for my gaming box for a long time, and finally that wait is coming to an end. If you don’t know what KDE is, do some reading up first. Before going into the new solution, let me explain why this is such a big deal…
In the past, there were two [...]

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Ever wish that you had dozens, even hundreds of high resolution (HD even) wallpapers without paying a dime? As a photographer and Photoshop-guru, I find myself typically only using my own wallpapers. When I want something else, however, I am quite picky. I tell you this because almost everything at InterfaceLIFT meets or exceeds even my [...]

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Mozilla, the company that brought us Firefox and Thunderbird (as well as many less-notable programs), has ventured into the media player business. Enter Songbird.

Songbird’s interface clearly takes a cue from iTunes, however is a far cry from it. It integrates a web browser with tabs and search, functioning very much like Firefox, including a specific [...]

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How do you instantly hack a Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux, MAC, or BSD with the same tool, without bothering to ever crack a password? Why, you just simply plug your box into theirs via Firewire, and run some Python code. That’s right, it’s that easy. With each OS you want to hack, you simply [...]

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Before I even begin to cover this excellent game, let me say that it is also a Windows (and MAC) game, and was actually released for Windows first. It is categorized in this new series of Linux-compatible games because most games aren’t created to work with Linux due to the low gamer population. Without further ado..

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Everyone is used to their wonderfully commercial Windows software, and many are tired of hearing about how wonderful “open source” is. This series was conceived to give you an idea of what exactly is available for use on Linux, specifically what I’ve been using on a regular basis.
This is article one in the series, and [...]

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Many people have heard of “writing your own session manager” or wondered how to get a program to start up when you log on. In this article I’m going to teach you how to accomplish this, and tell you what I use.
I installed Linux Mint 4.0, which comes with GNOME installed and configured as default. [...]

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Linux is one of the most versatile operating systems, seeing as it almost entirely consists of free software and community support. This has provided innumerable programs to choose from. One thing I’ve always liked about Linux is it’s versatility of user interfaces. In Windows, the only solid interface you can use is Explorer. There are [...]

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