Top 50 Portable Open Source Apps
If you travel frequently, it can be frustrating to have to use a system that doesn’t have your favorite open source software already installed. Fortunately, many of the most popular open source...
View ArticleAre Usability Studies Hurting the Free Desktop?
The recent history of new interfaces on the free desktop is not a happy one. Three years ago, the release of KDE 4.0 resulted in a user revolt whose like had never been seen. This year, the releases...
View ArticleOther Linux Distros’ View of Ubuntu’s Unity: It Ain’t Pretty
You might expect other distributions to be as divided about Ubuntu’s new Unity desktop as users are. That is, at least among the vocal, you might expect to find that the condemnation slightly...
View ArticleHow Apple’s iCloud Will Rain On Google’s Parade
Apple’s iCloud service, expected to be unveiled next week, completes a perfect storm of features that could accelerate Apple’s growing dominance of computing and seriously undermine Google’s cloud...
View ArticleDeath, Taxes, Virus Protection?
Star Internet, a U.K.-based Internet service provider, last year spun off MessageLabs, its former in-house application development arm, to sell managed services and software independently. Who would...
View ArticleUbuntu Unity vs. GNOME 3: Which Is Better?
GNOME 3 and Ubuntu’s soon-to-be released Unity are the first GNOME desktops designed from the start with usability principles in mind. Not that releases in the GNOME 2 series ignored usability, but in...
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Bruce Perens: A Big Change for Open Source
A court of appeals has eradicated any doubt around licensing in terms of open sourcing, in a decision that favored Wikipedia, Linux, and Creative Commons. The man who prompted the change could be...
View ArticleMac Security Software Review
Mac OS X has somehow managed to evade the global pandemic of spyware, viruses, and other various malware issues that seems to affect software big and small. People in the know would predict that this...
View ArticleBasic HTML: Primer #1Introduction/What You Will Need
Use these to jump around or read it all Welcome to HTML… This is Primer #1 in a series of seven that will calmly introduce you to the very basics of HyperText Mark-up Language. I suggest you take the...
View ArticleThe KDE 4.3 beta: KDE Returns to Incremental Releases
The last few months have been pretty intense for KDE. They have recently come out with a later version, KDE 4.0, and it has brought with it a user revolt that was only partly remedied by the KDE 4.1...
View ArticleGartner: Get Ready For Tablets In The Enterprise
Don’t think that tablets are ready for the enterprise? Think again. The tablet market may still be a young one, but it is one that is rapidly becoming very relevant to enterprise IT. How are...
View Article12 Great Tech Innovations
Behold: this August will be the 30th anniversary of the first IBM PC. That humble box changed our world. No, IBM wasn’t the first PC maker, but back then the company revolutionized our industry. It...
View ArticleWhy Is Ubuntu’s Unity Squeezing out GNOME 3?
Given that Unity might be the Windows Vista of the Linux world, shouldn’t GNOME get more focus? Not too long ago, I wrote about Ubuntu’s embrace of the Unity desktop and what that would mean for...
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