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Near Field Communications or NFC is an emerging technology that allows simplified data exchange and transactions between two devices in proximity. It’s also the core technology behind Google’s ambitious Google Wallet project. Though NFC is not mainstream yet, Google has already future-proofed its flagship devices, the Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus, by including the feature in them. If you happen to possess a Nexus S or any other NFC-enabled Android phone, right now, there’s not a lot you can do with it. But as the technology is getting popular, new apps have come out letting you do a lot of cool things with NFC. Here are 3 of the best apps you can download right now to make the most out of your NFC-enabled Droid

The VISTA Expertise Network cordially invites you to the first-ever VISTA Expo and Symposium! Join us November 17-20 in Redmond, Washington where the VISTA Community will gather in Seattle to share what we've done and focus on where we're going next. For more information, visit http://www.vistaexpo.net Featured speakers will include VISTA pioneer Tom Munnecke, Rob Tweed of M/Gateway and Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation. In addition, there will be representatives from OSEHRA, VISTA's new custodial agent. We hope to see you there!

ARM announced a 28-nanometer MPCore processor claimed to offer five times the energy efficiency, one fifth the size, and 50 percent better performance than the Cortex-A8. The Cortex-A7 supports designs up to four cores, offers all the features of the high-end Cortex-A15, and will be deployed with the A15 in a & big.Little& SoC design that interconnects the two at 20 microsecond speeds....

LXer Feature: 19-Oct-2011

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, the Elder Gods of the Digital Universe decreed that the Icon would rule the World of Desktops, just as it had dominated the Land of the Hand-held since the dawn of time. No matter that on a giant monitor the Firefox appeared at nearly life size, all desktop items were to be stripped of verbal clues to the nature of their meaning.

Pardus Linux is a relative newcomer to the Linux scene. Version 1.0 was released at the end of 2005, and since then, the project started using version numbers that remind us of what Mandriva uses for some time. So, the latest stable version is 2011.2, which means it's the second release for 2011. Pardus Linux is a distribution sponsored and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. It's a easy to use distribution, with a series of unique tools like Pisi (Packages Installed Successfully as Intended), which is the package manager. We will not give you a Pardus review, instead we'll assume you have the distro already installed and running and we'll tell you about a tool named PiSiDo.

My studio computer collection includes two custom-built desktop machines and a Hewlett-Packard G60 laptop. As described in my previous article, the primary desktop box has been running an old but rock-steady 64 Studio 2.1 that has recently been replaced by a shiny new 64-bit Arch system. The secondary desktop machine and the laptop are both running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 10.04. However, while I like and enjoy using Ubuntu I hardly require two identical installations of the same Linux distribution, so I decided to replace one of them with AV Linux.

A terminal is at the end of an electric wire, a shell is the home of a turtle, tty is a strange abbreviation and a console is a kind of cabinet. Well, etymologically speaking, anyway.

If you follow Linuxaria you know that some days ago we had a contest and the first prize was the last Humble Indie Bundle, the winner has been Geor Pribil, that has been so kind to write a review of the games, these are his opinions after some “testing” on Trauma, Frozen Synapse and Space Chem.

ownCloud is a free software alternative to some proprietary web services and it currently includes file management (with built-in file sharing), music streaming, calendar, contacts and more - all running on your computer or server..

The newest release of Ubuntu Operating System, Ubuntu 11.10, was released 5 days ago. Stir is settled down, and it is a time for me to try new flavour of African Humanity.

For some reason notifications are a big hairy deal to certain people in FOSS-land, like the fine KDE4 folks. And so we have all these popups, blinking icons, sound effects, and jumping systrays. The subject of notifications is a fine one for another day; for today I will share how to turn off the annoying blinking systray in KDE4.

On October 18th, Victor Tuson Palau wrote an interesting article on the Canonical blog, about the new ARM support available in Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot).

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

If you manage user and group accounts, you may find that these accounts don't always work seamlessly for users in mixed environments--a common source of frustration for both users and systems administrators. Fortunately, the Samba suite provides tools to help you manage the process. In this article, learn how to manage user and group accounts in your mixed environment.

From the solemn to the absurd, Linux keeps moving forward.

As mentioned over the weekend, a Phoronix reader that was excited about AMD's Bulldozer products had went out and immediately purchased an FX-4100 processor. This user graciously let me SSH into the system as soon as Ubuntu Linux was installed so that benchmarks from the AMD FX-4100 could be conducted. Here is a look at the AMD FX-4100 Bulldozer on Linux compared to Llano Fusion hardware and Intel Sandy Bridge processors.

Farsight, the GStreamer-based audio/video conferencing framework that's used by MeeGo, Pidgin, Empathy, aMSN, and former Nokia phones is now known as the Farstream project...

I decided to give the OpenShot video editor for Linux another try. Not entirely satisfied with my last effort in OpenShot, I wanted to try something else, and that something turned out to be Blender's Video Sequence Editor feature. That was a resounding failure. I had no idea how to do just about anything, and I find the Blender UI extremely uninviting.

I’ve finally terminated my upgrade to Xubuntu 11.10, with the usual small problems, nothing really too bad. But now, when i boot I don’t see anymore the “Windows” entry in the boot menu made with grub2, I’ve installed os-prober that should help in will find additional entries on the hard disks and add them to the menu, but this don’t solved too my problem.

Advantech announced an industrial-grade Mini-ITX motherboard supporting AMD G-Series processors including the dual-core 1.65GHz T56N. The AIMB-223 board is equipped with up to 4GB of DDR3 SDRAM, plus PCI and PCI Express expansion, four SATA III interfaces with RAID support, and the usual mix of I/O including gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and serial connections....