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Google Chrome team has made life easier for web developers and users. Google has implemented getUserMedia API in the beta channel of Chrome browser which allows users to grant web apps access to their camera and microphone right within the browser, without a plug-in. It opens doors to immense possibilities for developers to create 'open' and standard based apps which can use your webcam and microphone.

Mike Elgan has published a passionate article "Why the ‘Boycott Apple’ Movement is Dumb" on Cult of Mac. I agree with Mike most of the time, but this time I do not.

It will be really embarrassing for Microsoft if it turns out that the spam botnet was actually running on Windows machines and not on Android devices.

Amazon is working on its own Smartphone running a forked version of Android. Amazon already has its own Kindle Fire tablet which runs on Android.

The GNOME Project have released the third update to the development cycle heading for GNOME 3.6. This is a testing release not suitable for stable environments.

If you use Gnome, Shotwell will be one of your favorite photo viewer. This simple, minimalistic application that has the ability to do all you want is soon going to get a face detection tool, thanks to a developer working on it as his Google Summer of Code Project.

Gnome developer Erick Pérez has given us a glimpse of how Gnome Calendar is shaping up. Though still its in skeleton stage, you will get an idea of how it will look like in future version of Gnome.

The Document Foundation is planning to release LibreOffice, the free software office suite, for Android devices. A good amount of work has been done on the app and here we bring the latest screenshots of how this app will look like.

The Fuduntu team has released the latest version of their distro – Fuduntu 2012.3. This release comes third time in their quarterly release cycles which gives some minor updates to keep the system stable.

If you use Gnome, you must have used Nautilus which is the default file manager that ships with Gnome by default. We have been closely monitoring Gnome 3.6 development and here is some interesting changes lined up for Nautilus.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a whitepaper recommending free operating systems how to deal with UEFI secure boot. In the whitepaper, the foundation has criticized the approach Canonical/Ubuntu has taken to deal with the problem.

We have been closely following Ubuntu App Showdown, a contest cum workshop. Over the past two weeks, 20 workshops sessions have been conducted which covered every step of creating and submitting an Ubuntu application.

The application is named GWOffice and with the help of it, you can create and edit word documents, spreadsheets and presentation as running an desktop office suite.

The Google Chrome team has released latest stable versions of their browser. The Google Chrome version 20.0.1132.43 for Windows, Mac and Linux comes with a loads of bug fixes and also the Pepper plugin that will allow Linux users to watch web videos and use flash without installing the Flash plugin.

Based on Wine 1.4.1, CrossOver XI can be used to run software like Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 in Linux effortlessly.

Now, Fridrich Strba, of TDF reports that the team is working on LibreOffice CorelDraw Import Filter that will make it easier to import CorelDraw text into LibreOffice. This is an important development as for LibreOffice as CorelDraw text support was missing.

The next version of Krita, KDE's artwork program for sketching and painting, is going to be released soon. The team has released first beta of Krita 2.5 which brings many new features and improvements.

In order to install Dropbox on Ubuntu or Debian based systems, visit Dropbox and download the binary for your system and install manually.

It seems that recent comments made by Linus Torvalds and the loss of deal from China have made the people at NVIDIA take Linux more seriously and amend their attitude towards it. Recently an Nvidia employee asked in the Kernel Summit mailing list what could be done differently to make the Linux support better.

We have good news for KDE users who want better integration with social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter or identica. Soon you will have your favorite social networks at your fingertips thanks to Marty, a developer working on his Google Summer of Code project.