Matias Vangsnes

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Six Key Improvements in Bodhi Linux 2.0.1

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

It’s been less than a year since I first wrote about Bodhi Linux 1.2.0, but already the popular, Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has reached its second major milestone. During the intervening time Bodhi has crept upward from No. 22 to No. 18 on DistroWatch’s list of page-hit rankings, where it currently resides, and it’s added a [...]

MATE 1.4: The GNOME 2 Desktop Clone Gets a Key Update

Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Fans of Linux in general and Linux Mint in particular are no doubt already familiar with MATE, the GNOME 2-like desktop that was first included in Linux Mint 12 as an alternative for users wary of GNOME 3. MATE is still less than a year old, but on Monday the open source project behind it [...]

Social Gallery WordPress Premium Plugin Launched

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012

PRLog (Press Release) – Jul 24, 2012 – This week Social Gallery – a new premium plugin for WordPress was released by StormGate, a web development company in England. Social Gallery is “the product of one of our internal projects” – a social take on the often under-leveraged way of viewing images in WordPress blog [...]

Nexcess Enhances Hosting Services With PHP-FPM

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 12, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via PRWEB – Nexcess, a leading provider of premium eCommerce and WordPress hosting services, has announced that going forward it will be instituting a move to using PHP-FPM (PHP FastCGI Process Manager) with Apache across the majority of its new hosting accounts. The move to PHP-FPM [...]

REVIEW: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012

Updates to the popular Ubuntu Linux distro come around, with monotonous regularity, every six months or so. The latest implementation, 12.04, however, carries the “LTS” tag, short for Long Term Support, making it just that little bit different. LTS releases only appear every 2 years and, rather than cutting edge new technologies, are all about [...]

WordPress and Facebook are finally together, officially

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

Before there was WordPress there was b2/cafelog, around 2001 (if you remember that, you’re among the proud and the few). In 2003, Matt Mullenweg released WordPress, which today has grown from a simple piece of blogging software to the most popular choice for a content management system on the planet. Facebook, you all know. Integrating [...]

WordPress 3.4 Adds Live Preview and Embedded Tweets

Tuesday, June 19th, 2012

WordPress, the popular web blog content management system has a new release out June 14, and it includes a live preview feature and embedded tweets that can be retweeted without leaving the page. Version 3.4 isn’t a large release, but the new tweaks add a few features people have obviously been asking for. Embedded tweets [...]

WordPress Plugin SlideDeck Adds Multiple Content Sources And Custom HTML

Monday, June 18th, 2012

SlideDeck is a WordPress plugin that’s supposed to make it easy for publishers to add “content sliders” (basically a gallery/slideshow interface for browsing content) to their sites, and it’s already attracting some positive notice from tech bloggers. Today Digital Telepathy, which makes the plugin (as well as the Hello Bar), is releasing a preview version [...]

WordPress 3.4 offers no hassle theme testing

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform. Those who upgrade to the new edition will enjoy such features as the ability to test themes before applying them to the entire blog site and the ability to add [...]

WordPress 3.4 Offers No Hassle Theme Testing

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform. Those who upgrade to the new edition will enjoy such features as the ability to test themes before applying them to the entire blog site and the ability to add [...]

WordPress 3.4 offers no hassle theme testing

Thursday, June 14th, 2012

IDG News Service – Although taking a few months longer than expected, Automattic and the volunteer developers have finally released version 3.4 of the widely used WordPress blogging platform. Those who upgrade to the new edition will enjoy such features as the ability to test themes before applying them to the entire blog site and [...]

WordPress and Facebook are finally together, officially

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Facebook announced an official WordPress plugin today for cross-posting content, enabling tighter, cleaner, and simpler integration between millions of WordPress blogs and Facebook. All I can say is: finally! I’ve been using WordPress blogging software since before it was WordPress. Seriously. Before there was WordPress there was b2/cafelog, around 2001 (if you remember that, you’re [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 available now

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

It has only been a few short weeks since Ubuntu 12.04 was released back in April, along side the LTS support. While I’m sure it still feels new to many we already have the next version. Development never stops in the Linux world and today they’ve made their next version, Ubuntu 12.10 alpha 1 available [...]

Bodhi Linux 2.0 alpha arrives for testing

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

The Bodhi development team has published the first pre-release build of Bodhi Linux 2.0, the project’s next major update. According to project lead developer Jeff Hoogland, the goal of the new version “is not to introduce ground breaking new features”, but rather to “allow our distro to transition to the next major Ubuntu LTS as a [...]

Is Xfce a GNOME and Unity Replacement?

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Xfce‘s first release in sixteen months comes at a critical time. After years of being a distant third among Linux desktops, in the last year Xfce has found a new popularity among those looking for alternatives to GNOME 3 and Ubuntu’s Unity. In fact, according to one survey, Xfce is now the second most popular [...]

Snowlinux 2 delivers a GNOME 2 based Ubuntu

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Snowlinux 2 Cream in action Snowlinux Project founder Lars Torben Kremer has published version 2 of Snowlinux, code-named “Cream”, the latest release of the project’s Linux distribution. Unlike Snowlinux 2 “Ice”, which is based on Debian, the new version is built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, incorporating a number of changes and new features from that release. According [...]

PowerPress 4.0 Offers New Features and Updates for Latest iTunes Specifications

Saturday, May 12th, 2012

More Related Stories email article print page <![CDATA[ ]]>   May 11, 2012 — (PRWEB) May 11, 2012 Blubrry PowerPress 4.0 brings the latest essential features for media creation to WordPress, including the hottest updates to the new iTunes specifications. I am proud of this release of PowerPress, in supporting the latest iTunes podcast specs, [...]

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: The morning after

Friday, May 11th, 2012

Following the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), I took the plunge and upgraded my main work PC from Ubuntu 11.10. Up until the release I had been running the 12.04 beta on a second machine. Although I can switch to GNOME 2 (Classic) quite happily on this system, for some reason — yet [...]

Ubuntu 12.04′s Great Flaw: No Hibernation Feature

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

Ubuntu 12.04 is codenamed “Precise Pangolin.” But maybe it should be called “Linux that never sleeps.” And that wouldn’t be a compliment. Au contraire — the operating system’s lack of support for hibernation, or the ability to put the computer to “sleep” using no power, is a major flaw in an otherwise great Ubuntu release. [...]

4 Things You’ll Love About Ubuntu 12.04

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

The new version of Ubuntu–12.04, codename “Precise Pangolin”– is officially here, meaning two things: I get to be really happy about new features, and some people get to complain about Unity in the comments. Horray! It’s been a year since Ubuntu made Unity the default interface, and man: many of you were not happy. I was [...]

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