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For all who doesn't know: theweb2py is free now.

A great move by Massimo!

The Official web2py Book

Izo shows an awesome Nautilus mock-up in his blog:
I hope the Gnome team is considering his ideas. Thanks Izo!

Design By Izo | The online showcase of Ian Cylkowski

Most of us have trouble to learn vocabulary, technical terms or facts. But why is that? Becauese we don't repeat things we learned often.

Mnemosyne helps

At that point vomes Mnemosyne to the game.
Mnemosyne works like an intelligent vocabulary trainer. Who knows what to repeat when you should repeat it.

Andrew Hyde wrote an article about saving on food.

While I agree that you should cook your meals at home and his shopping strategies, I totally disagree you on living with a less than $1/day diet!

Good food is a investment in yourself!

Good and healthy food is a investment in yourself as good education is.
You shouldn't save at the wrong place. You can live a healthy and tasty live on 5 bucks a day

I am currently learning Pyjamas, the Python to Javascript compiler. This means writing Javascript without knowing Javascript.
I am at the very begining of my journey. As the title suggests, I will post tiny bits of what I learned about Pyjamas and what I think could be useful to others, too.
This is a living post, I will add content when I learn something new.

Only illegal copies are more dangerous.

OSnews tells us, that Microsoft fears Linux more that Apple. And they mean the desktop market.

There are two reasons for that:

1. According to Microsoft, Linux has a bigger market share on the desktop market than OS X. That sounds interesting, does it not.
2. Linux is an open system, that can be adopted by anybody. Especially by hardware vendors that want to produce a plattform of their own. OS X is exclusively used by Apple, which is not a Microsoft customer anyway.

Today I want to show you a tool that will raise your presentation power and makes you faster getting what you want.

Impressive shows presentations, saved as pdf , with tasty animations between slides. Impressive has a lot of additional functions. Two highlights are:

Would he have used Linux? by furibond

At the moment some people are telling us Linux would have finally lost the battle for the desktop. For justification they claim Windows 7 is overtaking the netbook market. In this essay I will argue, Linux has not lost the desktop market and it should not position itself in the low-end PC market but in the high-end.

In this Article I want to comment on how I tried to learn programming and which mistakes I made.

To clarify things, I am not a top notch programmer that could roll out a new operating system in a few days or nights. I can do some Web programming and have the knowledge to write plug ins, text processing programs and little GUIs.

You all know the shortcuts <Ctrl>+c, <Ctrl>+v and <Ctrl>+x to copy and paste content from the clipboard. If not you should change that immediately.
A great disadvantage of the standard clipboard is, if you want copy different text passages you have to change between the source and the target back and forth.
Parcellite creates an history of the clipboard for you.

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