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Sort links by: Title ( + | - ) Date ( + | - ) Rating ( + | - ) Popularity ( + | - ) Sites currently sorted by: Date (newest links listed first) Apple Refreshes iMac Line Apple this morning announced an update to its iMac line. The latest version of the popular all-in-one system includes new Intel Core 2 Duo processors with 6MB L2 cache and 1066 MHz front-side bus, a standard 2GB of memory on most models, and the most powerful graphics yet available on the system. Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 6 Report broken link | Details 16 Ways to Spend Your Economic Stimulus Check The tax rebate checks are going out early, which is a few extra days you get to play with your new iPhone. Or GPS device. Or destkop PC. Or... or... Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 6 Report broken link | Details How to Downgrade from Vista to XP Fed up with Vista? Here are step-by-step instructions for downgrading back to the warm familiarity of Windows XP. Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 6 Report broken link | Details Microsoft looking to run Windows on OLPC Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook computers, OLPC chairman Nicholas Negroponte said at the NetEvents conference in Hong Kong Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 3 Report broken link | Details Firefox 2.0: Not Radical, but Just Right There's no denying that Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 release is a heftier upgrade than Mozilla's new Firefox 2.0 release. Where Microsoft has significantly added to the feature set, Mozilla has tweaked its feature set. (It was already ahead in the features war.) The question is: Are those tweaks enough to keep the open-source browser on top? Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 6 Report broken link | Details Desktop Predictions for 2007-2008 This has been stewing in my mind for awhile, and now the picture has crystallised. Here's what I predict will happen in the desktop market over the next two years: Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 6 Report broken link | Details FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo FAA chief information officer David Bowen said he's taking a close look at the Premier Edition of Google Apps as he mulls replacements for the agency's Windows XP-based desktop computers and laptops. Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 5 Report broken link | Details HP Sees Huge Linux Desktop Deals Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) is closing custom deals for thousands of desktop PCs running Linux, which has the company assessing the possibility of offering factory-loaded Linux systems, an HP executive said. Added on: 07-May-2008 | hits: 3 Report broken link | Details 'Legitimate concerns' raised over Microsoft's Office formats Microsoft Corp's director of corporate standards has conceded that 'legitimate concerns' have been raised in response to its attempt to fast-track the approval of its Open XML format by ISO. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 10 Report broken link | Details 'The Linux desktop is a complete blast' Chicago native Katie McAuliff, who has worked for Novell Inc. for 13 years, took over as president of Novell Canada, replacing Don Chapman. Ms McAuliff will oversee all facets of the Canadian organization including sales, marketing, consulting, support, training, finance and operations, with a focus on expanding and strengthening Novell Canada's partnership model. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 8 Report broken link | Details Second Life's population problems David is not the first person to write about doing business in Second Life, but he has managed to dig up some interesting information relating to Second Life's true population and technical infrastructure. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 8 Report broken link | Details Networked Storage for All Whether you're looking for a small device to store your home media on or a heavy-duty beast that can meet your growing business' needs, there's a NAS box for you. There's even one for Macs! Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 5 Report broken link | Details 10 Sites for Cheap Flights These Web sites won't help with security lines and lost luggage, but they might save you a few bucks and find you a more comfortable seat. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 7 Report broken link | Details Waiting for Dell In Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, Godot never arrives, and the play ends with our characters still waiting. I sometimes think Linux users are also stuck in a barren landscape endlessly waiting for Dell, HP, Lenovo, or another major vendor to finally deliver a mass-market Linux desktop. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 7 Report broken link | Details Buying a preinstalled Linux desktop or laptop So you want to run Linux, but you really would rather have it preinstalled? Good idea. It's for those users that longtime LXer.com reader cyber_rigger started putting together his "Companies selling preinstalled Linux and no-OS" listing. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 8 Report broken link | Details OpenOffice 2.0: Handling Mac, Microsoft migration and database creation Expert Solveig Haugland covers migration of content from Mac and Microsoft programs and flatfile Microsoft Works databases to OpenOffice in this interview. Haugland, author of The OpenOffice.org 2 Guidebook, also gives advice on how to globally format labels, create tables with no borders and provides a workaround for viewing Calc records on separate pages. Added on: 28-Apr-2008 | hits: 5 Report broken link | Details HP lets user take Linux for a virtual spin The program, called TestDrive, is accessed online via the TestDrive Web site. It allows free-of-charge access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Novell SuSE Linux and other open source operating systems like Debian, FreeBSD and OpenVMS. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 8 Report broken link | Details Congrats to the OOXML Team! Yes, Office Open XML is now (almost) a standard. Open source users are upset, which seems a natural course of events. Heck, I am too. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 14 Report broken link | Details Microsoft Releases 5 Critical Updates Microsoft released 8 security bulletins Tuesday, 5 of them critical. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 4 Report broken link | Details Generation LinuX, Part 2--Web Research Every kid should learn that invaluable skill of finding information on the Web. Mentoring, books, magazines, and other resources provide phenomenal content to today's kids. Better make sure that they can tap that huge information gold mine known as the Web. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 12 Report broken link | Details 502,174 Documents Can't Be Wrong. Next Up ajaxSketch Over the last 6 days, more than 500,000 documents have been created with ajaxWrite, including a report on William Shakespeare written by my son for a grade school assignment. I'm confident that the launch of ajaxWrite was the biggest in history for a new word processor. If you haven't tried it yet or didn't have a satisfying experience last week, I encourage you to try it now. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 14 Report broken link | Details PostgreSQL experts: Why are you still using a big bucks database Your company doesn't have to pay big bucks for a big database. If your apps are not completely chained to Microsoft, then you've got a chance to save money and get enterprise-level scalability, functionality and ease of use with open source PostgreSQL Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 13 Report broken link | Details Graphite: Smart font technology comes to FOSS Smart font technology, which automatically inserts advanced typographical features in the right context, has existed for a decade, but it is still only partly implemented in most operating systems and programs. Now, a project called Graphite is not only introducing smart font technology to GNU/Linux, but offering it in a form more advanced than any previous implementations. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 10 Report broken link | Details Windows Linux DualBoot Tutorial This tutorial was written to help set up a dual boot on a SATA drive but it will also work for PATA so continue forward and I will let you know if you need to skip something. In order to have a fully functional dual boot system it is preferred that Windows be loaded first. Added on: 21-Apr-2008 | hits: 8 Report broken link | Details Big Blue turning its data centers green IBM says it will save $250 million by moving 4,000 servers onto 30 mainframes Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details Keeping Free Software Free Next-generation computers are designed to restrict how you use them even before you buy them. What can the free software community do? Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 22 Report broken link | Details Microsoft: Office Format War Over Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he says, is both. Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 15 Report broken link | Details Watch your work habits with Rachota 2.1 I didn't want a project management application or one that was specialized for particular fields; I just wanted a general tool that was out of beta. I found what I was looking for in Rachota, whose name in Czech means the daily toil. Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 14 Report broken link | Details Ubuntu's Migration Assistant Ubuntu's migration-assistant is designed to help the user transport all of their documents/media and settings all over to a new Ubuntu installation. Among the areas being worked on for the migration-assistant is transporting instant messenger settings, bookmarks, address books, user accounts, e-mail messages, fonts, desktop backgrounds, and even Internet connection settings. Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 15 Report broken link | Details Archos 704 WiFi The Archos 704 WiFi multimedia player looks amazing on paper, but the Web browsing isn't quite smooth enough. Still, as a video player it succeeds: the large screen size makes it ideal for planes, trains, and automobiles, though it's too big to be an everyday music player. Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details The Firefox Kid Blake Ross helped make Firefox one of the biggest open-source success stories ever. Just wait until you see what he's up to now Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 10 Report broken link | Details Our Favorite Digital Imaging Apps No matter what variety of photo-imaging software you're looking for, there's a pretty good chance that there's a top-tier app out there for you. We've rounded up some of the highest-rated programs in the space, and there's a quality app that should meet the needs of everyone, from budget-conscious beginners to production pros. Added on: 07-Apr-2008 | hits: 11 Report broken link | Details Help for Library Computers DiscoverStation uses one Linux desktop to power up to 10 workstations, leaving only monitors, keyboards, floppy drives and mice subject to public torture. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details The powerful appeal of something for nothing In places where a Windows software licence costs more than the average monthly wage, the appeal of free software becomes extremely powerful. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details Why is anyone still using Internet Explorer? OK, how many times must Internet Explorer be ripped open like a hot 16-year old in a summer slasher movie before people finally get it: IE is not safe. Period. End of Statement. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 18 Report broken link | Details Microsoft's high prices drive FSW to Linux, open source High costs and an urgent need for standards compliance is driving FSW Inc. away from Microsoft and into new worlds, such as server virtualization on Linux, an open source and Linux backend and open source desktops. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 17 Report broken link | Details Firefox Growth, Internet Explorer Decline Driven By Windows Users, Not Linux Some memes die hard. Along with the persistent claim that the popular Firefox browser platform is only for Windows-haters, we often see the comment that simply downloading something… even 100 million-plus of something… doesn’t mean people are using it. In fact, Firefox’s Mary Colvig says they believe 40 to 60 million people are actually using it. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details DOT Bans Vista Upgrades Citing concerns about cost and system compatibility, the CIO of the federal Department of Transportation has put a hold on DOT upgrades toMicrosoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Windows Vista operating system, Internet Explorer 7, and Office 2007. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 10 Report broken link | Details Novell: Word, Meet Open Source The open source software vendor has produced a translator, available for download on its site, that allows users of OpenOffice, Novell's version of ODF, to read and edit documents produced using Microsoft Word 2007. Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 14 Report broken link | Details This is The End My Friend: Negroponte Says XP on XO in 60 Days We all have strong opinions about Windows XP on the XO laptop, and soon according to Laptop Mag, our greatest fears or hopes will be realized: Added on: 31-Mar-2008 | hits: 22 Report broken link | Details How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories How would you like to study at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for free? It has been nearly six years since MIT first announced their MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. More recently, MIT announced that the OCW program, a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world, is online and will be completed by 2008. The OCW provides open access to course materials for up to 1,550 MIT courses, representing 34 departments and all five MIT schools. The goal is to include materials from all MIT courses by next year. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 21 Report broken link | Details Review: Inkscape 0.45 is the best yet Open source software's preeminent vector graphics package, Inkscape, made a new stable release last month. Inkscape 0.45 packs in new features, speed, and usability enhancements, and offers a tempting look at where the package is headed. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 26 Report broken link | Details The Best Projectors for Your Business Confused by the dizzying array of projector options out there? Here's a guide to finding the perfect option for your business. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 18 Report broken link | Details 30 Days with Linux Many people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch to Linux." We spend 30 days using nothing but Ubuntu Linux to find out if this is truly a viable alternative for the consumer. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 25 Report broken link | Details Vista SP1 Available Through Windows Update Microsoft announced on Tuesday that Vista users can upgrade to Vista Service Pack 1 through a Windows Update download. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 17 Report broken link | Details When is a standard not a standard? My mother receives documents from theater organizations in .doc and .xls formats, as do I from local organizations. The local Cambridge and Cambridgeshire governments post documents on their web sites using them. I understand how people can see it as a standard. Except it is not. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 21 Report broken link | Details Microsoft patch stops Linux on Xbox 360 Microsoft has quietly released a fix for a security vulnerability that could let Xbox 360 owners run their own applications or operating systems on the console. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 21 Report broken link | Details HP Sees Big Bucks in Linux In fiscal 2006, $25 million in hardware sales in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) were directly related to HP's Debian support. Added on: 24-Mar-2008 | hits: 17 Report broken link | Details Is GNU/Linux for you? Probably not From time to time, it is not uncommon to encounter a confession on the net, a bleating essay that says "I can't run Linux, though I'd love to", and advances a host of assorted "reasons" for this act of commission. Added on: 17-Mar-2008 | hits: 19 Report broken link | Details Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x faster than IE7, 3x faster than FF2 The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed. In some tests, it’s three times faster than Firefox 2 (meaning the test completes in 1/3 the time), and a whopping five times faster than IE 7: Added on: 17-Mar-2008 | hits: 32 Report broken link | Details Select page: 1 2 3 Next >> |
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