Amazon MP3 has opened its doors to Linux users. The Amazon MP3 Downloader is now compatible with Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and OpenSUSE systems.

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Kelly is a Creative Commons licensed webcomic written and illustrated by Dan Goldman. It is serialized at ACT-I-VATE, an online comic collective.

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Creative Commons Philippines released an unofficial PDF versions of the Creative Commons newsletter – for people who need the base information printed, so they may read them offline. All five issues are available in PDF format.

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Many friends of CC are involved in efforts like Sound Copyright, a petition to the European Union to stop the retroactive extension of copyright in sound recordings from 50 years to 95 years – writes Creative Commons Weblog.

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Ardour is currently the most advanced digital audio workstation for Linux. However, several other useful applications are also available.

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TorrentFreak posted a selection of BitTorrent sites that look promising, or offer something new. The list is available here.

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VideoCut is an open source desktop application specially created for capturing screenshots from video files. It is using xine-lib and Qt-4.

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Nicu’s How-to published an interesting tutorial about creating a Polaroid effect from a digital photo involving basic operations like layer and canvas management, drop shadows, selection move and rotation, and distort filters.

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PyTube allows to download videos from YouTube, encode and convert them. It also offers the possibility of searching YouTube website. PyTube allows to resize, rotate, apply an external MP3 into a video, it generates a 10 to 30 seconds MP3 ring tones (with fade-ins and fade-outs).

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Codename Nemo is a new way of managing files, or rather, not managing files. Currently, it’s a cross between a calendar and a file browser with labels.

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