Do you wanted to know how many bricks are produced per minute? How many bricks have been produced in history? What’s the best-selling set ever? What has been the worst? Do they recycle? You sent the questions and here you have the answers: Here’s the definitive mega-reference, straight from Lego.

We are always working to improve the assortment of pieces available through our Pick a Brick service. Right now we have over 900 elements available. Unlike the traditional toy retail business, its more difficult for us to project which…

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Easily create your own ringtones for any Bluetooth enabled phone (this is pretty much a standard feature with modern phones). Requires only a few free programs and a Bluetooth USB adapter which can be purchased on eBay for around $5. Takes no time at all once you learn how to do it correctly. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.

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Mark Shuttleworth talks about life with Ubuntu, the death of Gobuntu, the default Ubuntu package selection to new derivatives like Ubuntu mobile; the community surrounding free software, being nice to hippies, and the future of Linux.

Would it be possible to put the email for the competition on the website? It was kind of hard to catch in the podcast.

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Banshee, the free/open-source media player for GNOME, has just released version 1.0 Beta 1. MTP and iPod devices are now supported, with cover art, transcoding, and video sync! The minimode extension has returned, there are new default smart playlists, and fullscreen video playback!

We have just released Banshee 1.0 Beta 1, aka 0.99.1! This release adds some major features and lots of polish. View the release notes Banshee 1.0 Beta 1 Source (bz2) openSUSE 10.3 users can Foresight 2.0 users: Use PackageKit or Conary to…

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Linux Journal Gadget Guy Shawn Powers walks you through how to play Windows games on Linux.

IEs 4 Linux http://www.tatanka.com.br IEs 4 Linux isn't really a game installer at all. If all you desire, however, is to have a version of Internet Explorer running in Linux (for proprietary websites, code testing, or just plain…

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GNOMEs Totem Movie Player now includes a plugin for searching and playing YouTube videos without leaving the player, and without Flash. Its installed by default in Ubuntu 8.04, and works fabulously!

There’s a modification to this plugin that will play the H.264 video, you can install its package from this page and enable the YouTube H264 plugin the same way. On recently added videos, the H.264 file looks much better.

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The mobile network operators have carried on the status quo of charging separate monthly fees for voice and data plans for long enough. Just like we went from paying for long distance telephone calls to one monthly fee, why cant our mobile phones do the same for voice and data?

Google Android and Skype are a match that’s made for each other. Android handsets are poised to spread like wildfire across the open source and developer communities upon release. Since it’s built on linux, it should be stable…

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