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Have you downloaded and install gOS on your computer? gOS is an Ubuntu (Linux-based ) operating system that bundled with Google applications in case you don’t know.

If you think Linux box is not user friendly and less graphic user interface (GUI) than you are wrong! Now, gOS come with Apple OS X like interface. When people talk about Apple OS X, means must have dock and stack that appear in the latest Apple OS X Leopard 10.5. In gOS, it is called Awn! (more…)

It was already 10 years since Netscape launched mozilla.org to develop its open source project. It’s most well known project – Mozilla Firefox has been reached its success milestone by achieve 500 Millions downloads.

With this achievement, Mozilla willing to donate 500 Millions grains of rice to feed the world’s poor and hungry people.You could contribute part of this 500 Millions grains of rice!

How to Donate Free Rice?

Play the vocabulary game on Free Rice and donation with go to the hunger. No sign up, no login, no hassle. Just goto Free Rice homepage, answer the word meaning with objective choice. For each word you answer correctly, Mozilla donate 20 grains of rice (money earn from ads) through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger in over 75 countries.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. While you answer the vocabulary game correctly, you are actually helping one of these child to have some food on that day. So why don’t join now? There is no limit, do what ever you can!

My two cents

Mozilla is so kind to organize this charity work. Hope the money generated from the website can save some life in poor countries. I myself have contributed 100 grains of rice to them by answered 5 question correctly! How many grains have you contributed?

Tips: Check out the word’s meaning at Dictionary.com (English dictionary) or Tigernt.com (Eng to Chinese dictionary)

If you are Open Source supporter, I am sure you familiar with the name of Open Source Office Suite such as Open Office (by Sun Microsystems) and Star Office in Google Pack. Now, you can have another Free Office Suite named IBM Lotus Symphony (by IBM).

Why use IBM Lotus Symphony?

Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. hence no worries on its friendliness and features. Since Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, so it is Free of Charge.

There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. In my opinion, Lotus Symphony is perfect for business users. It meet office operation requirements yet it is Free! (more…)

Fun with Personas

Personas for Firefox is an extension that adds lightweight theming to your firefox web browser. With this add on, you can swap your favourite browser themes instantly from the dynamic menu, without restart you firefox.

Personas is still in beta and it does not need to download, install or update for new theme release. The reason behind is Personas selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. This mean all latest themes name are loaded automatically into your menu, and only download automatically when you acquire it!

How to use Personas?

Install Personas extension and do a restart for your firefox. You will see a Personas icon on your firefox status bar as below. Click on the Personas button and select your desire theme

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Beware of downloads!

If you are my readers from Malaysia, please beware of downloading illegal materials from Internet, especially those pirated musics and movies and for sure software. A serious warning from the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry:

If you download material illegally from the Internet, be prepared to fork out a minimum fine of RM250,000.

This penalty was legislated more than 10 years ago under the Copyright Act. We will also very soon make Internet download offenders our priority, he said. The maximum fine for downloading material illegally from the Internet was a whopping RM500,000.

My two cents

As my opinion, we must respect to the intellectual property while seeking for free things! Hence I would like to call on all of you here to support Open Source projects and encourage the freedom of using software for the next generation by using Linux.

While for musics and movies, anybody can tell me how to get legal source from Internet? Will this warning stop you downloading from Internet?