Amazing online organizer

If the actual product is anything like the video on the home page (and on youtube), this will scoop up and slaughter the current set of online personal organization and tracking systems. Very well thought out, works offline, prints to a useable, portable format and works with firefox.

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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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The Secret Failures of Microsoft

The big corporations partering with Microsoft suggest that the company knows what it's doing, but real the secret is that Microsoft hasn't ever earned significant profits in the consumer hardware business. Here's why DRM is the least of the Zune's worries! Daniel Eran, RoughlyDrafted Magazine : The Truth, Censored by Digg.

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Microsoft was behind Baystar investment in SCO after all

Seems SCO, the company suing IBM and alleging that they put masses of SCO code into linux illegally, was sponsored by Microsoft after all. Larry Goldfarb, head of Baystar investment says in a court filing that Microsoft pushed the $20 million investment ahead, even going so far as guaranteeing to back up the investment for the company.

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The Rarest, Most Valuable, and Desirable Video Games Ever

This feature runs down the "Holy Grails" of console game collecting. The list covers games from Atari, Nintendo, Sega, and many others. You never know, may have a treasure in your pile of old video games.

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Does an OS have to be costlier than the hardware on which it is run ?

This insightful article looks at the obvious mismatch of the pricing between the propritery OS and the hardware on which it is run. And goes on to state why it is prudent to choose GNU/Linux over the propritery OS.

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How To: Your First Firefox Extension -- Say XUL

The active ingredient is XUL, a markup language (the eXtensible [or "XML-Based"] User-interface Language, to be precise) that describes things like toolbars, menus, keyboard shortcuts.

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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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Become a del.icio.us Power User

"Del.icio.us can be used as a place to store bookmarks, share bookmarks, and discover web sites, blogs, downloads, and more, that would otherwise largely go unnoticed. Here are some of the ways to really harness the power of del.icio.us."

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234 Free Vintage DOS Games and Llayable Demos

It's amazing how far computer games have progressed. But have you ever felt the urge to take a trip back in time and relive the games of the eighties and nineties? Well now you can

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Parallels Desktop adds support for Mac Pro, Leopard

It works, finally it realy does - great news ....

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Open Source: changing the world and web

"Let's face it, not everyone is a tech junkie at this stage in their life (I know that I am not) but the further one gets in their college career, the closer we get to the corporate realm, and it is important to note one of the most interesting tech issue revolutionizing our world, open source programming."

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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 downloadable algorithms book

I've only read chapter one, but it seem like a very good reading !

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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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It's not just Linux: Open Source has arrived

Open-source true believers have been saying forever that open source is the way to develop software. It turns out they've convinced most programmers that they're right. According to a newly released IDC study, open source isn't just hype; it's now the way most developers make software.

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Do Everything Right From the Command Line: the Internet

UNIX provides hundreds, if not thousands, of commands with which you can manipulate a large variety of resources available in the kernel and user space. Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine, looks at three essential UNIX utilities that deliver the entire Internet to your command line.

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Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial A Beginner's handbook

Most of the other tutorials on Linux shell scripting are either too basic or skip too many important intermediate steps. The concept of this tutorial is to maintain a balance between these two. It covers many of the real life examples of shell scripting that are missing from many other tutorials.

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GMail Hacks/Tips

"I've been using GMail since 2004 and have always thought it was the best email service. With the large amount of space it offers, and the amazing features the possibilities are endless. Here are some nifty hacks/tips that allow you to get the most out of your GMail account."

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