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IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 Review - The office alternative.

Sun, 2009-08-16 23:48

If you’re looking for an alternative to Windows Office, OpenOffice or other software suites, you might want to give IBM Lotus Symphony 1.3 a look. Although the name of the suite is derived from a similar software package that failed to make an impact in the 1990’s, this suite seems to have more potential and a wide range of features that might make it more appealing to consumers and computer users.

Author: John Doe

Layout changes

Sat, 2009-08-15 12:04

I'm going to implement some minor layout modifications on the website. And as is typical, I will make them to the live site.

So please bear with me.

PCLinuxOS 2009.2 Review

Wed, 2009-08-12 00:48

Mandriva Linux (formerly known as Mandrake Linux) is an operating system that had so much recognition that various forks were made out of it to further make Linux accessible to enthusiasts and newbies while at the same time overcoming some of its weaknesses.

PCLinuxOS was among these forks and opened up in 2007 with a lot of potential because of its easier installation process and best preserved features of the original OS. From there, a community made 2008 version surfaced having code that is more diverse than Mandriva and Live Install features and then only minor updates were seen.

Author: John Doe

MorphOS 2.3

The MorphOS development team released MorphOS 2.3 a free update for users of MorphOS 2.2, 2.1 and 2.0

Like any other release it features a multitude of bug-fixes, optimisations and new features including new configuration options for the MorphOS display engine, useful utilities for the screen bar and read-only support for HFS+ formatted volumes.

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Thu, 2009-08-06

Wine 1.1.27 Released

Sat, 2009-08-08 12:40

The Wine development release 1.1.27 is now available.

What's new in this release:

  • New version of the Gecko engine.
  • New GSM 06.10 codec support.
  • Improved support for the disk volume APIs.
  • Support for XShm pixmaps for better performance.
  • Various bug fixes.

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Author: CoolGoose

KDE 4.3.0 Release

Wed, 2009-08-05 21:57

Have no fear KDE 4.3 is here and it's shaping up to be a great release.

Here are some random stats that do justice to this project:

  • 10,000 bugs have been fixed.
  • close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors.
  • 2,000 feature requests were implemented in the past 6 months
Author: CoolGoose

Mac OS X bandwidth monitoring with Surplus Meter

Sun, 2009-08-02 12:56

In any operating system, it is possible for an internet user to monitor the bandwidth usage. This is useful to keep track of internet usage in case you have a maximum bandwidth cap or download limit. To begin you need to install a software called SurplusMeter on your OS X. SurplusMeter can be downloaded from here.

Author: John Doe

Firefox passed 1.000.000.000 downloads

Sat, 2009-08-01 01:15

As you can see on the Spread Firefox News & Events page Firefox recently passed the 1 billion download mark (1,000,557,488 at the moment of writing this article).

The OneBillionPlusYou will come online shortly to celebrate the event and give additional information.

Remember, even if this is quite an achievement the stats don't include any of the "downloads" done by people installing / updating their Linux distribution.

Author: CoolGoose

3 Dockbar like applications for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows

Thu, 2009-07-30 22:39

In the past, the dock bar has been just an appearance enhancer in operating systems. People have been led to believe that the dock is for those who are more conscious about appearance rather than performance and because of this, they quickly lost interest in it once they got used to it.

In truth, the dock bar can provide you more if you want it to. There are a lot of Dock bar applications available that do just that.

Here are a few Dock Bar applications that are available on the major Operating Systems.

Author: John Doe

Replacing iTunes: a Songbird Review

Tue, 2009-07-28 23:17

Over the years, iTunes has been accepted as a necessary evil between media players.

However, the open source project called Songbird, ever since its conception, has been providing some stiff competition for iTunes. In fact, most people believe that at this rate it won’t be long before it overtakes iTunes and becomes the most influential media player around.

Songbird was first released in 2006 by the creators of Mozilla Firefox, Winamp and Netscape Navigator, The Pioneers of the Inevitable. Lets a take a look at why Songbird is so highly rated by everyone.

Author: John Doe
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