YouTube to Present Video Awards

Step aside, MTV. Next week, YouTube will present awards for best user-generated videos of 2006. Starting Monday, YouTube members can browse through videos and rank their favorite short-form videos.



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TigerDirect: 2GB Flash Drive For $1.99 After Rebates, $171.98 After 30 Days

TigerDirect.com sold Chudacek a 2GB flash drive for $1.99, without warning that after thirty days, the price would skyrocket to an astounding $171.38. Included with the drive "[for] a limited-time only [the] opportunity to try [CA] Internet Security Suite 2007." We have warned against rebates...



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How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy

3 WinXP flaws in power-savings options created a situation where Microsoft's silly mistakes have cost the world roughly $25 billion dollars and resulted in the release of 225 million tons of CO2. Um...Oops?

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OpenOffice.org Calc adds support for Excel VBA

As an Excel user, you may have looked at OpenOffice.org and found that it doesn't support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the Microsoft Office macro language. If you've spent years building hundreds of Excel macros, the fear of losing them all could keep you locked in to Office. If so, it's time to look again; Novell has taken OpenOffice.org's

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Linus Torvalds officially a Hero

According to TIME magazine, Linus Torvalds is one of the the greatest heroes of the last 60 years.

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Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd in their dealings with Microsoft, and have posted their thoughts on the matter.

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Give the Gift of Pre-Installed Linux This Year

With Christmas around the corner, you'll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer's Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.

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GoogleTorrents.com ... search for torrents using google

A new torrent search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine.

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YOU'RE BEING TRACKED in Firefox 2.0 - how to disable 3rd party cookies

Issue was raised in latest Security Now. Firefox always blocked 3rd party cookies, now in 2.0 it removed the option. To fix: about:config in your address bar, change network.cookie.cookieBehavior from 0 to 1. I did this immediately. Also in the mozilla forum thread, link to extension that blocks 3rd party cookies.

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HOW TO - Free international calling... for the next 3 years?

"Michael Gartenberg from Jupiter Research spotted this odd phone service for making free international calls, you call a number in Iowa (712-858-8883), enter 011 and then enjoy your free call."

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PDF TextOnline - PDF Text Extraction in Your Browser

PDF TextOnline Is a new (Beta) Ajax application that allows you to upload PDF documents right from your browser and convert them to text that you can easily copy past any where you need without the hassle that you usually gets from Adobe Acrobat or other PDF viewer.

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Results of the Google Desktop Gadget Contest!

1st place goes to "diGGGadget by Marius and Yannick Stucki Stay on top of the latest stories from digg.com. Click on a few buttons and you'll know why we think it's so great. It also takes advantage of our advanced APIs to enable sharing news with friends plus personalization based on your interests. "

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Free Linux Disks needs your support!

The folks at FreeLinuxDisk have 20,000 orders to fulfill with an additional 60-100 requests a day. To fulfill the orders in a timely fashion they have to buy an automated CD duplication machine ($4500 CDN). The goal is to raise $4,500 to purchase "Big Daddy Tux" in order to meet with the ongoing demand for Linux disks. Show them your support!

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Hail the Konqueror

Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing.

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The New Yorker to Sell All 4,000 Issues from 1925 to 2006 on Hard Drive

"In one of the first digital publishing initiatives of its kind, we are proud to announce the release of The New Yorker's entire archive, February, 1925 - April, 2006, on a palm-sized portable hard drive. Over 4,000 issues of your favorite magazine now sit, ready for you to search and savor, on an 80G light-weight hard drive."

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Linux at Your Fingertips

espite the hype, Linux hasn't made a dent in Microsoft's desktop PC monopoly, grabbing less than 2% of the market versus 95% for Windows. That's mostly because PC makers remain loyal to Microsoft. But Linux is catching on like crazy in other devices ike crazy in other devices, powering the sleek new Motorola A1200 smart phone, the Sony Mylo

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6 Ways To Organize Your Mail Application

Dealing with emails can be a nightmare, especially when you have hundreds of unread emails which keep growing by the hour, and dozens of flagged messages which need following-up on. Here are a few simple actions you can take to clear that inbox.

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British Airways Flies With "Google Earth"

British Airways became the first airline to pin the technology to its Web site, allowing visitors to not only book their flights, but find nearby hotels and car rentals on a 3D map. Once users have zoomed in on their chosen locale, the Google service provides a link through which they can make a booking back on the British Airways site.

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New phones run Skype without PC

Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV has announced a new phone that allows users of Skype Ltd.'s Internet telephony service to make calls without having to boot up their PCs.

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Linux Flash 9 Player Making Progress

In the most recent blog post on Penguin.SWF, Mike Melanson notes that all Flash-based sites he checked recently, Flash 9 for Linux was completely stable. Now they're moving on to more specific feature tests. Here's hoping it comes out soon!

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