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Widgets and gadgets on various websites and platforms are inherently insecure, despite the fact that standards exist to create secure gadgets.

Linux desktop effects have come a long way. Over time we’ve seen different implementations like compiz & beryl. These 2 projects have lead a life of their own but have now been merged back together again in a new project called: compiz-fusion. Compiz-fusion has got some awesome eye candy effects, but it’s still a little bit tricky to get it to work though.

Velvet Puffin is a new Web-based IM and social networking client with a twist: it keeps running after you close your browser.

After playing for 6 years with the Tampa Bay buccaneers, the team released Simeon Rice, one of the leagues best pass rushers.

Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla that is often described as the Firefox of media players because of the growing number of plugins and feathers (skins) that can be applied to the player. It also includes a range of plugins for popular music ratings sites and blogs that add to your music listening pleasure. Although Songbird can be run on just about any platform you can think of we prefer to run it on our favourite Linux distribution: Ubuntu. Unfortunately, at last check, Songbird was not available yet in the standard Ubuntu repositories. Fortunately there is a really handy script available that takes the pain out of installing Songbird on Ubuntu.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on July 22 at the Ubuntu Live conference in Portland, Ore., the availability of Landscape, its Web-based systems management program for Ubuntu servers and desktops.

Good article for linux newbies on how to configure system resources, graphics card, keyboard, pointing device, and monitor for a computer running the X Window System