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Free Open Source Resources: Some of Our Popular Collections

In the mood for picking up skills with some new open source apps and extensions? Here are five popular collections we've done on free applications, books, tutorials, and more:

7 Free Resources for Eye-Popping Graphics and Animation. From free clip art, to free web design templates, to a free desktop publishing app, to resources for animation in Blender, here are some gems.

6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP. GIMP is a long-standing and hugely respected open source graphics program. Here are good ways to learn and optimize it, including a free online book.

OStatic's Firefox Superguide. The Firefox browser has one distint advantage over other browsers: thousands of useful extensions. You'll find the best ones here, and other Firefox goodies.

Over 35 Free, Essential Open Source Resources and Apps. This is our uber-roundup of open source applications and resources, divided into categories. It's packed with apps, tutorials, free online books, and more.

8 Free, Open Source Tools for a Better Digital Music Experience. Here you'll find how to put a new, slick open source OS on an old iPod, software apps that extend beyond iTunes, and how to maximize your musical experience on Android.



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Novell Linux revenue soars as global server revenue plummets. The company reported Thursday that its Linux Platform revenue climbed 25 percent year over year in one of the worst recessions in history.

Google expects 18 Android phones by year's end. Andy Rubin, senior director for Mobile Platforms for Google, said the number could be as high as 20.

A grab bag of Linux games. From first person shooters to racing games, here are some titles to try over the weekend.

Microsoft Update quietly installs Firefox extension. A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installs a .NET update extension.

Navigate the web faster with these Firefox hotkeys. Here are a whole lot of easy shortcuts.



Browser Chiefs Aiming Squarely At Web Apps

Is innovation in browsers where it should be? We've reported before on how most of the innovation is going on in open source browsers, as Microsoft's Internet Explorer continues to lose market share. This week, at two separate conferences, officials from Google and Mozilla have weighed in on how browsers need to improve. Notably, they primarily agree, and their focus doesn't seem matched by Microsoft with Internet Explorer.


Intel: Netbooks Continue to Cannibalize Notebook Sales

As GigaOm reports today, Intel believes that the rate of cannabilization of notebooks by lower priced netbooks is sitting at around 20 percent. That's what the company's European sales chief told Reuters at a company event. This trend remains very positive for open source in general, including but definitely not limited to Linux. It's also an issue that is likely becoming a growing sticking point for Microsoft.


Mozilla's Fennec Mobile Browser to Get Firefox-Like Extensions

As we've covered many times, one of the primary reasons for the growing success of Mozilla's Firefox browser is the thriving ecosystem of useful extensions for it, created by the user community. Mozilla is also generating increasing buzz with its innovative, open source mobile browser called Fennec. As we covered here, Fennec is available in an Alpha version for Windows Mobile, and you can see it in action in a video here. One of the big questions surrounding Fennec has been whether Mozilla will try to replicate the success of extensions for Firefox with useful extensions for Fennec, which could make it more flexible and extensible than other mobile browsers. Now, it looks like Mozilla has that goal squarely on its radar.


New Version of Google Chrome is Much Faster

There's a new version of Google's Chrome open source browser available, as the team behind it has announced. Google is citing up to 30 percent performance increases on JavaScript-heavy tasks. I've taken it for a spin, comparing it to Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, which also has very fast JavaScript performance thanks to its TraceMonkey technology. The new Chrome does work faster than the Firefox beta at this point, and the performance is another way that Google's browser is maturing and innovating.


Mozilla's Jetpack To Make Firefox Extension Development Easier, More Widespread

Mozilla is out with a new project called Jetpack, which is an API designed to make building extensions for Firefox easier and faster. It won't require extensions to be written in XUL and will allow developers to use standard technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Notably, Jetpack will also allow Firefox users to load extensions without annoying browser restarts, and will resolve compatibility issues between older extensions and newer versions of Firefox. Find out more, including a video, in JKOnTheRun's post.?


Fennec, Mozilla's Mobile Browser, Arrives in Alpha for Windows Mobile

We've written before about Fennec, Mozilla's innovative open source mobile browser. For quite a while now, Fennec has been in beta testing on Maemo-enabled Nokia Internet Tablets, but now there is an alpha version available for testing on Windows Mobile 6. It should put the pre-release browser in front of many more people, even though it is intended for developers and testers. You can find a download link and installation notes here. There is also a video of Fennec for Windows Mobile here, which is definitely worth watching.


3 Open Source Productivity Tools for Safari

Safari

Apple's open source browser Safari doesn't always get the love it deserves. That's probably because in its original state, Safari isn't as inviting as Mozilla's Firefox browser with all its native bells and whistles. Nevertheless, Safari has a cadre of loyal fans.

Productivity is the buzzword these days so if your browser of choice can't help you power through your to-do list each day, then it's not very useful. If you've been lukewarm over Safari because you think using it will impede your workflow, then try these handy productivity add-ons before giving up on the Apple browser altogether.



Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate Coming in Early June

It's been a long wait through many beta versions for the final versions of Firefox 3.5 to show up. Today, Mozilla Director Mike Beltzner has a post up confirming that we're setting an aggressive code freeze target of next Wednesday, May 20th for Firefox 3.5 RC. He adds that the official Release Candidate for the browser will arrive in the first week of June.


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