Philipp Höhn

After suffering from this bug in moc (a console based audio player) I decided to look for an alternative for this programme. Having heard so many positive opinions about amaroK I downloaded and installed it and was quite pleased. I then got to know of Exaile which looks like a gnome version of amaroK. It [...]

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Microsoft announced support for a Chinese Open Source project. The Beihang University at Beijing together with several other Chinese institutions is currently working on a translation of the Chinese Unified Office Format (UOF) into Microsoft’s debatable OOXML format, and vice versa. Open XML to UOF Translator, as the new application will be called, is going [...]

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Pidgin, the successor of Gaim, has been released in version 2.0.0.
“In addition to the new name, this release features extraordinary enhancements to features and functionality over the previous release.”
(pidgin.im)
According to moderators from the ubuntuforums Pidgin will be part of Feisty’s repository soon meaning we hopefully won’t have to wait for the next Ubuntu release in [...]

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