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After installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my old Acer Travelmate 61x series, I realized that the LCD screen was not properly recognized: the maximum usable resolution was in fact only 800 × 600.
After numerous searches on forums and various attempts I ran into the right solution for my problem: manually edit the file "/ etc/X11/xorg.conf" to properly configure the monitor unknown.
Here is a copy of my modified file and running:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
HorizSync 31.5 - 50.0
VertRefresh 40-90
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024 × 768" "800 × 600" "640 × 480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024 × 768" "800 × 600" "640 × 480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

E 'should make a copy of the original file for safekeeping. You can still resolve any malfunctions launching the utility "xfix" after booting Ubuntu in "recovery mode".

VLC player

Released version 1.0.0 of VLC Media Player, the popular multimedia player free, opensource and multiplatform.

Numerous new in this version:

• Support HD (codec for AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0);
• customizable toolbars;
• support for new formats such as Raw Dirac and M2TS;
• support for frame-by-frame to the video in fullscreen scaling.

Videolan 1.0 is available for download platform for both Windows and Linux and MAC.

Finally available the final version of Firefox 3.5, the increasingly used browser by Mozilla.
Here you can read the many news release. The main concern the support anonymous browsing (already possible with Google Chrome), support for native OGG Theora and navigation based on location.

Try! Download it from here.

For the past few days has been released OpenOffice 3.1, the new version of the popular open source office suite for word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, graphics, databases and much more. The software is completely free of charge for any use (including training).

Although it is not a major release, this version brings several improvements to the suite. The most significant is the rewrite of the module for displaying the graphics, which thanks to the introduction of antialiasing, it greatly improves the quality. The news are many, here is a list of the main outlet from the site of Italian OpenOffice:

Writer management (lyrics)

• Improvement of NOTES, which allow you to add responses
• Integration of grammar, which comes as an extension
• Use paragraphs such as titles or subtitles in the index for complex documents

Calc management (spreadsheets)

• Autocomplete driven formulas, which shows the syntax to use
• New features and improvements of many existing functions
• Improved sorting function
• Removal of some "bottlenecks" for performance
• Added the cursor to enlarge the status bar
• Rename the individual sheets with a double click

Chart management (graphic analysis)

• Flexible positioning of the axes, especially for scientific and educational
• Flexible management of numerical data "missing" in the series

Impress (presentations of management)

• Buttons on the size of font

Base (database management)

• Highlighting SQL Syntax
• Implementation of simplified macro applications

Internationalization and Localization

• Improved support for bidirectional text
• New locations: Maltese, Shuswap (Canada), Burmese and Tok Pisin (Papua)

For a description Details of the new versions, please see this pdf.

OpenOffice.org 3.1, was released in more than 90 language versions for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and Solaris. This is the page download the Italian version.

Frets on Fire is a game multiplatform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) clone of the famous Guitar Hero, where players use the PC keyboard to play musical notes of the guitar scroll across the screen in order to compose a complete song.

The notes appear on screen synchronized with the song and are sounds when keys are pressed for time F1-F2-F3-F4-F5 (which by default correspond to the notes) plus the push of a button to select (usually ENTER or SHIFT). More consecutive notes are performed the greater the leverage points, which however will be reset to the first error.

The new version of the game has made improvements thanks to a new mode, called HOPO (Hammer on and Pull off), with which you can perform solos only change the keys of the notes, but holding down the button for selecting, simplifying and increasing the overall playability.

The game includes only three songs but you can expand it with hundreds of new pieces composed by the community and readily available online. This can also import your songs directly from Guitar Hero.

Frets on Fire is a good entertaining game open source has nothing to envy to the most renowned titles such as Guitar Hero and StepMania. It can be downloaded in its various versions, from the official website.

Coinciding with the announcement by Nokia to design it the accelerometer in its N-Gage gaming platform (in order to bridge the gap with Apple and games for iPhone and iPod Touch), Aikonlab has released the Beta 2 version of Frozen Twisted Bubble, an adaptation of the famous open source game that lets you use just the accelerometer to move the gun and shoot the bull.

Here are the features found in the latest version.

• Accelerometer: you can move the phone left and right to direct the cannon.

• Volume and dynamic balance: change the music depending on the position of the phone.

E 'can also listen to their music by including a file called fbtwisted.mp3 in the c: \ Data \ Others

• Backlight: Switch the backlight dynamically according to the bubble burst.

• Vibration: the greater the bubble burst, the greater the duration of vibration.

• Touch Screen: finally was given partial support S60 5th devices with touch screen and high resolution display (like the Nokia 5800 Tube).

Compatible with Symbian S60 v3 and v5 with accelerometer, you can download it in its self-signed, the official site.

Successfully tested on Nokia N82 firmware v31.0.16

Today we present an extension for the popular browser Firefox which allows you to download and convert videos from hundreds of sites like YouTube.

It's called DownloadHelper and is a utility for extracting web content. It also works for audio and photo galleries.

It 'easy to use: just surf the web as it is customary to do and when DownloadHelper finds something for you, the icon is animated and the menu lets you download files with a simple click!

Since version 3.1, you can set the extension to automatically convert downloaded movies to your favorite video format.

To change your preferences, for example, the default download directory, click the right button on the icon and choose "Preferences".

You can get support at http://www.downloadhelper.net/support.php.

It is compatible with all versions of Firefox 1.5 higher than

Today we present an open source software capable of recording on a video screen activity on your computer: CamStudio can create either a video in standard AVI format video in SWF (Streaming Flash videos).

This software is very versatile and can be used in many ways:

* To create demonstration videos for software programs;
* To create a series of videos that respond to frequently asked questions (FAQ);
* To create video guides school;
* To record a recurring problem of your computer and technical support;
* To record your favorite software tricks discovered;
* To record a webcam on the screen.

The software also allows you to record, in addition to video, even audio streams.

It can be downloaded from the official website.

Watch this amazing video found on YouTube: in two and a half hours, with only using Windows Paint and a simple mouse, an artist brings to life the masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci!

Other than "The Da Vinci Code"!