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Walmart is planning to sell $199 Linux PC called the «Green gPC» that is made by Everex of Taiwan, costs $199 and
runs Linux. It will be available in about 600 stores, as well as online.

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KDE team has released their 4th beta version of KDE 4.0. This beta version contains tons of bug fixes. Some minor features were added.

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I have subscribed to Propeller (Netscape) news feeds for sometime now. Some of those news items are spammed, I believe. When you click on the news item, it'll open a new tab or window and ask you install activex and then it tries to run activexsomething.exe file. I luckily don't use Internet Explorer. I use Firefox and Firefox won't allow you to run exe files. I forgot to take the screenshot of the spam window. I'll do it next time I hit it. One of the news item, that I believe, was spammed is shown in the screenshot below. Netscape has removed that link now (2nd screenshot). If you are reading news from Propeller, beware!!! Do not use Internet Explorer and if possible, do not use Windows.

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Yahoo has released beta version of Yahoo Messenger 9. This version has a new theme and look. Here are some of the changes in Yahoo Messenger 9, other than the theme:

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Wordpress 2.3.1 was released few hours back. I have already blogged about the canges in 2.3.1 when RC was released. This release includes a security fix for XSS problem that can be exploited if your php setup has register_globals enabled.

I first installed Virtualbox OSE (Open Source Edition) from Ubuntu repo. I didn't see any option to load USB devices in the settings. The OSE version was 1.5 whereas the current Virtualbox version is 1.5.2. I thought, may be the OSE edition doesn't support USB devices, so I removed the OSE edition and installed Virtualbox from Virtualbox.org. Even that didn't show any option to load USB devices. I then found out from Virtualbox site that Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon removed support for /proc/bus/usb. If you have the same issue, this is what you have to do to fix it (Thanks to Virtualbox for the tip).

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The Mozilla calendar team  has released Lightning and Sunbird 0.7 today. According to the calendar weblog, the notable improvements are:

• It is now much easier to switch between the mail and calendar parts of Thunderbird thanks to a user interface redesign
• A redesigned event/task dialog has been enabled to gather feedback
  from the community. It offers a much cleaner user interface and
  additional functionality including:
  
  
  

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Wordpress has released the 1st release candidate for Wordpress 2.3.1. There are over 20 bugs that were fixed in Release 2.3.1. Some of the important fixes according to Wordpress are:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
• A login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
  their WordPress Address is fixed
• Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
• Link importer fixes

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GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 2.4.0 was released today. It has some cool improvements/addition.  Here are some of the changes in GIMP 2.4.0.

• New Tango style icons across all platforms
• The tool options now include a brush size slider that affects both the parametric and bitmap brushes.
• The selection tools have been rewritten from scratch to allow resizing of existing selections.
• Selecting individual objects on images is easier now with a new foreground select tool.
• New Align Tool to align or distribute a list of layers, paths or guides.
• In the new version of GIMP, some menu entries have changed their names and position.
• Improved Zooming effect.
• Support for Photoshop ABR brush format.
• 16/32 bit bitmaps and alpha-channel support in BMP.
• 24 bit and Vista icons can be opened and saved.
• Full screen editing.
• GIMP now provides full support for color profiles.
• Printing has been largely improved.
• Auto-magic filter to remove red eye from your shots.
• A new Perspective Clone Tool has been added to GIMP.

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Gizmo Project has released a beta version of Gizmo 4.0 with video conference support. Video support, from what I could tell, is for Windows only. Send me the download link if I'm wrong. Here are some of the fixes and improvements according to Gizmo forum:

Fixes:

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