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Fault Lines (Al Jazeera English) on Web Surveillance Bills -"Controlling the Web"
from Media Alliance
(2012/9/10 5:23)
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An incisive look at how anti-piracy proposals threaten computer users privacy and freedom.
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Jose Luis Sin Censura: CANCELED!
from Media Alliance
(2012/9/10 5:23)
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Two major media watchdog groups have joined to file a complaint of failure to enforce broadcast decency standards for an LA-produced Spanish language talk show with a heavy dose of homophobia, nudity and slurs.
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Compile Your Own PDF Books with Wikipedia and Edit them with LibreOffice and Pdfmod
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/9/10 0:36)
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Yes, you read that correctly. If you've ever wanted to put together a bespoke PDF document and then edit it to add or delete features, you don't really need to hunt for some specialist software to get the job done. Wikipedia is only a URL away and LibreOffice comes bundled with all the major distros--and if not it can usually be installed from the repositories. Category: End users Tagging: wikipedia pdfmod libreoffice License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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Color picking made simple
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/9/5 4:27)
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If I see a color on my computer screen that I'd like to use somewhere else, I want to know that color's hexadecimal code. Conversely, if I see a color's hex code, I want to know what that coded color looks like on-screen. Some time back, I wanted an application that does both those jobs simply in Linux. The best tool I found was gcolor2 , described below. It's great for finding hex codes, but it doesn't display colors in a large enough'swatch'to suit me. To do that job I wrote a simple script, also described below. Category: Hacking Tagging: color color tool License: Verbatim only
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"Lunatics"Project Needs Your Help!
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/9/3 6:38)
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The"Lunatics"project is moving on to the next stage, which is audio production -- recording voices, mixing sound effects and music, and putting it to an animatic which will be used later in creating fully-animated scenes. But we have a couple of problems for which we need free software help. We're also trying to meet a Kickstarter goal to get just this part of the project completed. Category: Announcements Tagging: lunatics video free culture License: CC-BY-SA
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Enabling Thumbnails and Embedded Video in the Konqueror File Manager
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/8/31 3:13)
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Spare a thought for old time stalwarts like Konqueror. Many great features have been stripped out but it's still a a great file manager (and a decent browser) even if Dolphin has been promoted as the default file manager of the KDE desktop. Back in the day, Konqueror was able to handle lots of media without having to open a separate application. I want some of that functionality back for those times when I just want to view it quick and fast without all the bells and whistles--and the good news is that it's not difficult to do. Category: End users Tagging: konqueror kde filemanager video thumbnails mplayer kmplayer License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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Kill the Copper and Move 'Em Along
from Media Alliance
(2012/8/27 6:12)
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At the June 21st Guggenheim Securities Symposium, the CEO of Verizon laid out aggressive plans to move customers off of copper phone lines and into Fios service and not necessarily voluntarily.
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San Luis Obispo Supervisor Threatening Local Newspaper
from Media Alliance
(2012/8/27 6:12)
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We haven't had time to investigate this further, but here is a report from a local paper/news site in San Luis Obispo reporting some harassment from a local supervisor that is possibly linked to their coverage of a crackdown on the homeless in the city.
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2012 Board Election
from Media Alliance
(2012/8/27 6:12)
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It's that time again. MA members, we need you to vote in our uncontested board election and ratify some bylaws changes.
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Setting up and Managing RSS Feeds in the Thunderbird E-mail Client
from Free Software Magazine
(2012/8/27 3:15)
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I love Mozilla Thunderbird. I love using it with IMAP which lets me synchronize with GMail. To make the experience complete, I also like to view my RSS feeds. Setting them up is shamefully easy. There's no excuse not to try it, so let's do it. First, we need to set up an account so select Other Accounts from the File> New drop-down menu to initiate the Account Wizard. There are three choices. Accept the default for Blogs and Newsfeeds. Figure 1: Follow the Wizard to set up your feeds Category: End users Tagging: thunderbird mozilla rss feeds addons License: CC-BY-NC-SA
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