Scott Photographics: "If you don't have a zoom lens or you'd like to manipulate a certain image in this style then this tutorial for GIMP should help you achieve a similar effect!"

ZDNet: "An Oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. How can that particular definition be applied to Oracle the company?"

Fedora: "Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on systemd, the new initialization system being introduced in Fedora 14."

Datamation: "In a tight economy, it's more important than ever to make sure every dollar spent is providing maximum return. And for a growing number of small businesses, this means reexamining plans for upgrading existing servers and workstations."

Hubpages: "Maybe you'll think: "Oh, I, Windows, I have not paid, they gave me with the computer." Are you absolutely certain? If your computer had Windows, then you paid, even if the dealer did not told you, or you installed a copy of "pirate"."

Howtoforge: "This article explains how you can use the DNS Templates in ISPConfig3 to allow layman to enter domain data without any previous knowledge on the subject."

Bradley M. Kuhn: "I'm sorry that I was right about this, but we should now finally learn the lesson: languages like Java and C# are dangerous."

BerkeleyLUG: "It seems like nearly every 6 months, Apple redefines just how closed their closed platform can be. Instead of just completely restricting the source and distribution of their own software, they now also limit the kind of third-party applications and content their users can enjoy."

PCLinuxOS Magazine: OpenOffice Impress, LXDE, Quick GIMP Tip, Meemaw, Linux Market Share...

everyday linux how2s: "Recently, I wrote a post about the KDE 4.5 SC release candidate. In that post, I was a little bit critical about the discoverability of desktop activities."

Tech Drive-in: "Songbird is still open source, but developers behind Songbird have decided to discontinue support for Linux and the concentrate on Mac and Windows versions of Songbird."

Das U-Blog by Prashanth: "This is how I felt when testing Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity. It's a weird mishmash of old-school and new-school KDE."

Tuxradar: "Ubuntu is dominating the mindshare for desktop distros, but there's still a place for rivals – even those built on the Ubuntu foundation – to take things in different directions."

Ubuntu Musings: "Utilities. They're what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use."

ars Technica: "As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted."

OStatic: "I did the upgrade, and made the meeting in time to get a cup of coffee on the way. This is how upgrades should work for everything."

Linux.com: "If any of these are true you might be looking at one of the many drawing tablets that can be connected, via USB, to your laptop or PC. These tablets make for a far superior graphic experience, giving the artist much more control over the cursor than with a standard mouse."

Linux Journal: "Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather it is a single, focused tool. However, if you're interested in simply backing up or restoring whole partitions to or from files, or copying one partition onto another, Clonezilla might be just what you're looking for."

O'Reilly Broadcast: "The trouble with Linux: there's too much choice. To Mr. Morrison and all the others who have written articles like this one I say: Hogwash!"

A High School Student's Views on Software Freedom: "The next version of WriteType (1.0.98) is now available for download! WriteType is a word processor designed to make typing easier and more efficient for young students and students with disabilities."

LinuxBSDos: "As a desktop distribution built atop FreeBSD, PC-BSD makes available to the desktop user all the cool technologies inside FreeBSD. One of those cool technologies is ZFS, the Zettabyte File System"

ars Technica: "Canonical has announced the availability of the Ubuntu 10.10 beta release. The new version of the popular Linux distribution, codenamed Maverick Meerkat, is scheduled for final release in October. It brings some noteworthy user interface improvements and updated software."

Linuxaria: "My guide on how to make a webcam server has had a lot of feedback and so I decided to give two other methods to achieve it with two different software webcam-server and ZoneMinder"

The H Open: "This apparently allows a programmable USB development board with an AT90USB microcontroller to be used to circumvent the PS3's security systems and execute unsigned code."

Computerworld: "Oracle is hoping to entice a younger generation of Java programmers into its fold by offering students complimentary admission to the upcoming JavaOne and Oracle Develop conferences."

Stubborn Tech Problem Solving: "Once in a while a Linux PC technician will encounter a system that has problems with lockups (a.k.a. hanging or freezing). Sometimes it is failing hardware but other times it's a software problem. Here are the common causes for this and how to identify which is the source of your problems."

Linux.com: "Last weekend, we looked at how to enable your Web site to accept OpenID logins. But accepting OpenID authentication is only half of the issue — if you care about online privacy and identity, the chances are that you will want to control your own OpenID."

LWN.net: "Systemd, an alternative to Upstart or System V init, has made big strides since it was announced at the end of April. It has been packaged for Fedora and openSUSE, and for users of Fedora Rawhide, it gets installed as the default."

Cnet: "When Samsung debuted its Galaxy Tab on Thursday, it made a bold claim: the device is at least as good as today's dominant tablet, Apple's iPad."

Linuxaria: "In these days all the new netbooks and most laptops have built-in webcam, or at least add one external costs very little, apart from the traditional use in video calls you can use our Linux box to create a monitoring device"