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gStrings in Your Pocket

By Shawn Powers 

What may sound like a perverse concept is actually one of the many ways smartphones can change your life. If you play a musical instrument but don't happen to have perfect pitch (most of us, sadly), you can buy a tuner, pitch pipe, tuning fork or any number of other aids to keep yourself in tune. If you have a smartphone in your pocket, however, you also can simply download gStrings. more>>

Lowjack Your Body with RunKeeper

By Shawn Powers 

This past summer, I went to a beach resort in Mexico with my wife. It made sense to get into a little better shape so as not to cause any beached-whale rumors while I soaked in the rays. Typical geek that I am, I wanted to track my every move so I could see how much exercise I really was doing. And, I wanted to do that with technology. more>>

Readers' Choice Awards 2011

By Shawn Powers 

The votes are in, the tallies are counted, the hanging chads have been evaluated, and we have our winners. This year holds a few surprises, a couple dominant players and as much open source as you can handle. We don't encourage gambling here at Linux Journal, but if you had an office pool going for pizza money, it's officially too late to make your wager.

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CyanogenMod 7.0—Gingerbread in the House

By Shawn Powers 
CyanogenMod is a full-blown Android distro you can install on your phone, whether your cell-phone provider wants you to or not. more>>

Installing an Alternate SSL Provider on Android

By Chris Conlon 
The ability to install third-party libraries on Android offers developers the freedom to customize and optimize for applications. more>>

Quick User Interfaces with Qt

By Johan Thelin 
The user interface is progressing quickly these days. It has been 15 years since cool 3-D buttons and the like, as popularized by Windows 95 and other early windowing environments, emerged. Now, we see halo effects, shades, transparency and more—all hardware-accelerated, and all making our computers look better than ever. more>>
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Put the World in Your Pocket with Marble

By Stuart Jarvis 
KDE's Marble breaks free of the desktop—and it knows where it's going. more>>

Is Your Personal Area Network Giving You the BlueZ?

By Chuck Elliot 
Bluetooth is a complex beast, and recent changes to the standard Linux implementation have bamboozled many users. Untangle your personal area network with this revealing article on setting up the Bluetooth PAN Profile in BlueZ v.4. more>>
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Augmented Reality with HTML5

By Rick Rogers 
How far can HTML5 go when writing mobile applications? more>>
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Run with MeeGo

By Ibrahim Haddad 
What's new in 1.1? more>>
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Python for Android

By Paul Barry 
Think Java's the only game in town when it comes to programming Android apps? Think again. more>>

WebOS 2.1 - Give It a Spin with Emulation Through the WebOS SDK!

By Ross Larson 

It seems like only yesterday that Palm announced its brand new Linux-based WebOS and Palm Pre, ready to shake up the world with awesomeness and Linux in a little package. more>>

Finding Your Phone, the Linux Way

By Daniel Bartholomew 
If you have a Nokia N900, you can set it up so that it helps you find it the next time you lose it. The methods shown here, with modifications, can be used on other Linux phones as well. more>>

Controlling Your Linux System with a Smartphone

By Jamie Popkin 
Using simple Web technologies, you can turn your smartphone into a multipurpose device to control your computers. more>>
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