Seeking help with the free Linux distribution Ubuntu 10.04? You do know about the Ubuntu forums right? You may also want to check out the Ubuntu Wikis, it’s better organized than the forums but sometimes ist’ a bit outdated in certain areas. Luckly the Ubuntu team and a bunch of contributors have created a well [...]
Knowing our 30 Recommended Software Downloads for Free article was now a year old, we decided to give it an upgrade. After we got started I didn’t fully realize just how many applications we had tested throughout the year, and how many had made the cut until I started putting this list together.
When we finished [...]
(Windows, Linux, Mac) Wallpapers sure do change things don’t they? I mean putting on a new wallpaper is like getting a new outfit to wear. It brightens up the place a bit. Out with the old and in with the new. Nobody likes staring at the same old boring desktop day and day. If you [...]
Many of you have seriously considered making the switch to Ubuntu or have already done so. One of the problems with switching operating systems is knowing what to do or where to get it and how things are done. Linux is an awesome OS and rules most of the server world. But it can be [...]
Hopefully you know you should use WPA to secure your Wi-Fi network, always select WPA encryption over WEP as the later is so easy to crack. How easy is it? Check out the video I posted below.
Yhis video will walk you through the procedures, step by step showing you how to crack a Wi-Fi network [...]
Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla just released the first official beta of Firefox 3.6, featuring built-in support for themes (Personas), improved performance, and more. So all you early birds your download is now ready.
Today is a very special event for Linux fans: Canonical and Ubuntu developers, have released the final version of Ubuntu 9.10, named “Karmic Koala”. With the latest release of Ubuntu.
I love the fact there are free open operating systems available for everyone to use or modify to suit there own needs. It’s crazy to think that there is an entire community of developers who work to fabricate features that I want. Thats what computing should be all about – enabling choice.
I like that idea [...]
Over time we have received a whole lot of email asking about web hosting. Most want to know what or who we use and or who we feel has the best deals. We thought this carefully and have concluded that a review is in order, however we are not going to tell you who ranks [...]
Netbooks have become a popular choice these days, mostly because there cheap, small, and lightweight thus making them easy to drag alone with you. But there are some problems that come with this portability, smaller screens, weaker processors, and no dual cores at all. Easy Peasy is a Linux distribution formerly known as Ubuntu Eee [...]
The vast majority of netbooks and lower end notebooks rely on integrated graphics from Intel, the chipsets used include GMA 954GM, GMA 900, GMA 950 and GSE940 among others. With these netbooks basic games are playable, but if you play a game that needs 3D acceleration, your going to realize your hardware needs help.
Today we [...]
We’ve been hearing about USB 3.0 for years, finally it’s going to happen. This third generation Universal Serial Bus interconnect will transfer data at speeds up to 4.8Gbit/s, that’s ten times faster than the current speed of the USB 2.0’s 480MBit/s. I’d say that is lighting fast in comparison to USB 2.0. backwards-compatible with USB [...]
Korean company UMID revealed today a super mini laptop . This new UMID MID UMPC is being called a mini-netbook, as it crams the Intel’s Atom processor @ 1.33 GHz, 1GB of RAM, 8 to 32GB of SSD storage, WiMAX, HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, and a 1.3 megapixel camera into a laptop-shaped computer roughly the size [...]
OpenOffice.org has officially released the 3.0 version of office suite. It is immediately available for download from the official site. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X.
OpenOffice.org 3.0 can import Office 2007 OOXML files that have extensions such as .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx. Unfortunately it does not yet feature the [...]
