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We can guide children to write simple sentences and paragraphs by creating different kinds of activities. Additionally, we can use many different applications to allow the student to record the sentence instead of writing it. This way, it is possible to evaluate their skills and to create motivating exercises to offer them better guidance to write simpler or more complex sentences. Reading this article written by by Vanesa S. Olsen and following the exercises we will learn the following : * Preparing and recording a sentence with many predefined words * Record, encode, and upload digitalized voice as a result of a Moodle exercise * Prepare images that combine clipart pictures with geometric shapes

Francois Gouget the coordinator of this years WineConf sent a e-mail to the wine-devel mailing list informing everyone of the date and location of WineConf 2010.

Today we are proud to introduce you guys to the revamped calculator application that will be part of the upcoming GNOME 3.0.0 desktop environment and Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) operating system.

This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need to roll this out to N other PC’s or simply want a backup of a server or desktop to another machine or even to an image file. The main tool here is netcat which is extremely powerful and has a multitude of other great uses that won’t be covered here.

A quick collection of my favorite RSS feed reader applications for Ubuntu desktop. Even though it is totally out of place in my Gnome desktop, Akregator is my favorite among the lot. But after exploring a bit further, I found feed readers like Yarssr really good and easy to use. So here is my list of favorite 4 feed reader applications for Ubuntu.

Beware unreviewed software calling itself Mozilla Sniffer

Mozilla has disabled and block-listed a Firefox add-on containing code that nabs login data sent to any website and reroutes it to a remote server.…

Free On-Demand Webcast – Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 15, 2010 is available.

Maps, mobile and Dell help

Ex-Walmart man and current Microsoftie Kevin Turner might have peppered partners with anti-Google talking points this week, but the team that’s building Redmond’s challenger Bing aren’t so gung-ho.…

Jobs says nothing — until Friday

Updated  Today’s rumeur du jour concerning Apple’s ongoing antennagate fiasco: Cupertino has secretly fixed the Jobsian handset’s Death Grip defect, and is now quietly collecting the bad phones and replacing them with good ones.…

Finjan has sued five rival security companies, including Symantec and McAfee, claiming it holds crucial patents used by popular antivirus products and security services.

Consumers wane as corporates wax

The PC market rebounded as expected in the second quarter, according to the latest statistics from market watcher IDC, with PC shipments across all types up 22.4 per cent to 81.5 million units.…

Mozilla Sniffer is downloaded about 1,800 times before being disabled and blocked for stealing passwords.

URD is a program to download binaries from usenet (newsgroups) through a web interface.While some other programs offer similar services (e.g. Ninan, Sabnzbd), URD doesn’t need external NZB files to function. URD lets you subscribe to newsgroups, and will then automatically analyse those articles to form downloadable ‘sets’, consisting of all the files belonging to a specific upload. These sets are displayed, and through point and click you can be downloading a binary in no time.

Enables Googly schizophrenia

Google is testing a tool that lets you use multiple user accounts in the same browser, according to a bloggy report.…

Among the many exciting announcements in their annual I/O conference, Google released the Android 2.2 SDK (FroYo) to developers. This highly anticipated platform upgrade brings with it exciting improvements and features for users and new tools for application developers and publishers. Here’s what we made of it…

J. Dzhugashvili writes “If you read Slashdot, odds are you already know about WiGig and the 7Gbps wireless networking it promises. The people at Atheros and Wilocity are now working on an interesting application for the spec: wireless PCI Express. In a nutshell, wPCIe enables a PCI Express switch with local and remote components linked by a 60GHz connection. The first applications, which will start sampling next year, will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor. wPCIe works transparently to the operating system, which only sees additional devices connected over PCI Express. And as icing on the cake, wPCie controllers will lets you connect to standard Wi-Fi networks, too.”

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A library management system (also known as an integrated library system) is an automated resource planning system which enables a library to operate efficiently, freeing staff from unnecessary tasks. This type of software typically offers functionality such as cataloging, searching, reporting, acquisitions, library circulation and management embodied into a central system.

mattnyc99 writes “Earlier this year came reports that Felix Baumgartner (the daredevil who flew across the English Channel) would be attempting to jump from a balloon at least 120,000 feet altitude, break the sound barrier, and live. Now comes a big investigative story from Esquire’s issue on achieving the impossible, which details the former NASA team dedicated to making sure Baumgartner’s Stratos project will instruct the future safety of manned space flight (including Jonathan Clark, the husband of an astronaut who died in the Columbia disaster). From the article (which also includes pics and video shot by the amateur space photographer we’ve discussed here before): “that’s also precisely what makes Stratos great. It’s more like Mercury than the shuttle: They’re taking risks, making things up as they go along. But they’re also doing important work, potentially groundbreaking work. They’re doing what NASA no longer has the balls to do. Hell, he’d do it for free. He is doing it for free. Stratos only picks up his travel expenses. Clark looks at his friend, shrugs. ‘This is new space.’”"

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sciencehabit writes “Thanks to an anlaysis of fecal samples from four sets of Missouri-born female identical twins and their mothers, researchers have concluded that human guts harbor viruses as unique as the people they inhabit; the viral lineup differs even between identical twins. Even more surprising? These viruses may be doing good work inside of us.”

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Barence writes “The former manager of Pink Floyd has labelled attempts to clamp down on music file-sharing as a ‘waste of time.’ ‘Not only are they a waste of time, they make the law offensive. They are comparable to prohibition in the US in the 1920s,’ said Peter Jenner, who’s now the emeritus president of the International Music Managers’ Forum. ‘It’s absurd to expect ordinary members of the public to think about what they’re allowed to do [with CDs, digital downloads, etc]… and then ask themselves whether it’s legal or not.’ The comments come as Britain’s biggest ISP, BT, said it was confident that Britain’s Digital Economy Act — which could result in file-sharers losing their internet connection — would be overturned in the courts, because it doesn’t comply with European laws on privacy.”

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