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Ubuntu Flickr/Shotwell Photos Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that allows you to search for online photos on Flickr and local photos imported in Shotwell. The photos can be sorted by date and by the person how took them.

The controversial legislation will be withheld for 'wider agreement' . U.S. lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks on Friday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills.

This we look at Linux gains in the data center, understanding analytics through Fantasy Football and the gamification of programming -- an approach that just could work with programming geeks.

Nvidia Optimus is a technology available for netbooks, used to increases battery life by switching the dedicated GPU off when it's not needed and then switching it on again when it's needed. When the dedicated GPU is off, the integrated graphics chip is used.

I've realized I've missed out on a huge area of computational science—chemistry. Many packages exist for doing chemistry on your desktop. This article looks at a general tool called avogadro. It can do computations of energy and gradient values. Additionally, it can do analysis of molecular systems, interface to GAMESS and import and export from and to several file formats. There also are lots of options for generating pretty pictures of your totally new molecule that you hope will revolutionize the chemical industry.

SandForce has developed a very interesting and unique SSD controller that uses real-time data compression. This affects data throughput and SSD longevity. In this article, we perform an initial examination of the IOPS performance of a SandForce 1222-based SSD. The results can be pretty amazing.

Here's a look at what's coming up on Friday at the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 10X..

Does Oneiric have you down? Is your hardware not up to snuff? Well, what are you going to do about it? Ubuntu 10.04 is almost 2 years old now, but you can teach it the electric slide even if all it knows how to do is the funky chicken.

If your publishing progress has been keeping step with this series, you’ve now not only got the text of book all ready to go, but you’ve decided on how you’re going to bring it to market (POD, Google eBooks, or whatever) as well. So your next set of tasks revolves around this question: what would you like your masterpiece to look like?

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, January 19th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing.

Fantasy author Thomas A. Knight discusses what drew him to the Free Software Community to begin with, and how other communities have affected his writing. Virtual communities bring people together in an amazing way, come celebrate the magic.

While much of the attention has been focused on the implications of adding everything from dot-lawyer to dot-microsoft, the bigger story is the link between new domain extensions and the future of the current Internet governance system.

Just about 24 hours ago I spread the news about a major vulnerability in X.Org / XKB that makes it trivial for anyone with physical access to a Linux-based desktop system to easily bypass any screensaver lock whether you're using GNOME, KDE, or most other desktop environments. So what's changed in the past day?..

From the 'Self-Serving Stats' files...

Yesterday the server company that hosts The Tyee had a major outage caused by a small electrical explosion in downtown Vancouver...

... While we're sympathetic to the SOPA protest, which involved high-profile sites like Wikipedia "going dark" for 24 hours yesterday, we categorically deny blowing anything up in support of the cause.

Yesterday my website, michaelgeist.ca, went dark for 12 hours with thousands of posts replaced by a single page warning against proposed U.S. legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). My site was not alone as the online protest included some of the Internet’s most popular sites, including Wikipedia, Craigslist and Reddit.

Fingers Thai flood whipping boy and netbook decline Microsoft has released its quarterly results, and reports that Windows revenues are down 6 per cent when compared with the previous quarter.…

Oracle is claiming Google makes $3.65 billion a year in mobile advertising from Android, basing its estimate on Google's own boast of 700,000 daily activations for Android devices. Oracle made the new claim to encourage a favorable settlement in its lawsuit against Google, which is finally scheduled to go to trial in March....

With the Kindle Fire, we have a version of Android so different, it could be like developing for an entirely new OS and that could pose challenges for developers.

here is a **Linux website** that demands people's name, phone number and other personal information as a NECESSARY condition to download, as a "Free Offer"... a CC-licensed software manual (and other books about Linux) that is directly available online on its home page