46 Firefox Features You Might Not Know About

Firefox, an open source application that needs no introduction. A browser that has succesfully been eating away it it’s competitors market share since the early parts of the decade. Firefox with it’s theming and extenibility is an incredibly adaptible and customizable browser. As of version 3 a lot of work has gone into a set of new features, mainly for HTML 5 and CSS 3. read more… »

The Inevitable Firefox vs Chrome debate

With the Chrome browser gaining market share, with it’s innovative feature set and interface, it is heating up competition for the open source giant, Firefox. Firefox, initially paved the way for an alternative browser lifestyle that many internet surfers enjoy today. It’s quite easily filled a need that Internet Explorer couldn’t, mainly being security and innovative ergonomics. read more… »

6 Reasons why Linux Servers are More Secure

Although there are several servers available on different operating system platforms like windows, unix , etc. I feel that Linux Servers are more secure when compared to other competitors. Via SmashingTips.com, read more…

Linus Torvalds Loves His New Google Nexus One

Self-described cellphone cynic and “father of Linux” Linus Torvalds decided to get a Google Nexus One the other day. And while the customer service lines may be clogged over the phone’s performance, Daddy Linux is positively pleased as punch. Via Gizmodo, read more

Firefox 3.6 – The review

I’ve had Firefox 3.6 installed on my system for a few hours now and I’ve been putting it through its paces, I’m ready to give you my thoughts and feelings on this new release. more…

Gimp 2.8 scheduled to release at the end of 2010

GIMP’s developer, Martin Nordholts aka Enselic, has announced the release of GIMP 2.8 on 27th Dec this year. The schedule is not really fixed, its an estimated release date. This new release promises to have a lot of new features along with the major advantage of a single window mode which has been a long-standing complaint by many users for this great tool. read more…

Run Firefox 3.6 From Your Flash Drive

Firefox 3.6 portable is a useful web browsing application as it runs completely and portably from your flash drive, saving its usage data and settings along side itself on your flash drive. Perfect for the traveller or internet cafe user, as this allows you to take your own browsing experience, along with you bookmarks and settings anywhere. read more… »

Moovida – A Polished Media Centre

Moovida, a polished media centre application for the Windows or Linux desktop. Formally known as Elisa, Moovida is a powerful and user friendly Media Centre, which includes many useful features such as internet streaming videos, music and movie libraries and automatic media tagging, thus keeping your collection sorted and correctly labelled. Further more Moovida has been optimized for HDTV formats enabling the playback of movies and other media in HD quality. read more… »

Dell Anounces An Android Based Tablet

Dell recently unveiled its plans at the CES 2010 event, to begin manufacturing and selling an android based tablet mobile computer. This would mark a significant effort on Dell’s behalf to take advantage of the currently booming mobile PC market.

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PiTiVi To Be Included In Ubuntu 10.04

frontpage-smallSpeculations were recently confirmed that the open source video editing package PiTiVi will be included in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 as a default application.

Ubuntu 10.04 will bring many changes, including quite a shake up in the selection of default applications.

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Nexus One will struggle: Microsoft

In the wake of the launch of Google’s Nexus One “super phone”, Microsoft has attacked the company’s mobile strategy. Google’s Android mobile phone software will struggle to make a major impact in the market now that the company has launched its own mobile phone, the Windows manufacturer has claimed. read more…

How To Install Global Menu on Ubuntu

menuGlobal Menu is an application for linux that emulates the Mac OSX menu in the top panel. A global menu is handy in saving horizontal screen space and utilizaing otherwise wasted space on the top Gnome panel.This works with all GTK application, therefore it won’t work with KDE based applications, Firefox, and Open Office. read more… »

Google will introduce Google Chrome OS in society on Thursday

“As everyone knows, last week it was rumored that Google Chrome would see the light next week with its first beta, but apparently it will not.” more

Exciting Times For 2010

20102010 sure seems to be an exciting year in terms of technology. With an array of predicted and planned new technology releases amidst an economic upturn this year will surely set the stage for brilliant innovation and development. According to leading news sources 2010 is expected to dramatically influence the way we use the internet along with how our devices will interconnect, merge and improve.

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