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The Google Play Store "Traps" pirates, even though they aren't pirates! This is how you can break free!

Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most...

Linux Tycoon, which the developer claims to be the “worlds premier Linux Distribution Building Simulation Game”, is getting some pretty big improvements in the near future. Not the least of which is a version for Android and iOS, as well as real-time online gameplay.

A lot of time has passed since this article was originally written (January 2011), so some aspects of Chrome OS have changed…while still others have stayed quite the same. What do you think about the current state of Google’s experimental operating system? Let’s hear it in the comments.

Two years ago I wrote a post giving some of my thoughts on the benefits of the Android Market, now known as Google Play. The general idea of the post was that while there are some problems with Google Play, there are also some great benefits for developers.

It’s that time of year again. Ubuntu 12.04 final is upon us and speculation has begun as to what Ubuntu +1 might be called. No, Mark Shuttleworth has not made his regulary scheduled statement announcing this forthcoming realease… yet.

With iOS and Android dominating the mobile space, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it’s actually a congested and cluttered market. They are quite a few operating systems that are either in an incubating period, or already in your local Verizon store vying for your attention.

Run! Run as fast as you can to GOG.com! If you hadn’t already heard, today is the last day to get your free copy of Fallout from Good Old Games. This is great news for gamers who are fans of this style RPG and want to relive a classic, but for some reason they only distribute the Windows version.

So, you just had to go overboard with your PPA’s, didn’t you? The lure of bleeding-edge software was just to great for you to be able to stick with the tried-and-true software that was already available in your existing repositories.

As you probably already know, Qt 5 Alpha has been released for your consumption by Nokia labs. As we move closer to mid-life for KDE 4.8, we can see KDE 4.9 looming around the corner. With a 4.9 release by the KDE team and an alpha quality build of Qt 5 just a download away, one thing is certain. KDE 5.0 is coming...

The Powerbase interviews Jeremey Parker who hacked NASA, stole $250,000 and served 2 years for his crime.

This weekend I took on the project of getting Ice Cream Sandwich installed onto a Samsung Galaxy S phone, the Verizon branded Fascinate. Getting the Fascinate to comply with what I believed to be a reasonable request was made difficult by some annoying traits of the hardware itself, but that is a story for another time.

Last night at 1:30am EST, we received a surprise tip from faithful reader Chaucer. Chaucer will not reveal his true identity for obvious reasons, though he does want to make it known that this screenshot was leaked from Microsoft’s Canterbury campus.

It’s been a long time since a desktop environment has caused so much controversy in the FOSS universe. How long? It is really hard to say, since the last time I can recall any kind of user backlash and retreat was over half a decade ago when the KDE project announced KDE 4.0.

The long-awaited and much anticipated 2.8 release of GIMP is right around the corner! Wait, I know, you’ve heard this before. You were expecting it at the end of 2010, and then in 2011, and so on… Well, fear not because it’s really coming in less than 45 days! Want proof? Nothing could be more clear than this infographic.

This is the year that everything changes, forever. Ironically, the devices that helped stagnate to web are the same ones that are going to change it, completely.

In what seems like an eternity, the group over at Yorba.org unleashed Shotwell version 0.12.0 today after a period of stagnation that could only be exceeded by F-Spot or Duke Nukem Forever. The software package did not gain a lot of features, though seems to have been released just in time for Gnome 3.4. From Yorba.org: Shotwell 0.12 is here! Major new features include:

In the 1960?s, when the early generation of mainframe computers began popping up at places like MIT, it quickly became obvious that users needed a way to identify themselves on the machine they were logging into.

Meet Vivaldi, the new opensource tablet from the gang over at MakePlayLive. You might already know a thing or two about the Vivaldi, because it used to be called the KDE ‘Spark’ Tablet. What you should really know is that at heart, it is just a giant Google Nexus S. But what makes it so special?

In a blog announcement last week, developer ttill announced he had started a fundraising campaign at IndieGoGo, a kickstarter-like crowd-funding hub designed to bring projects to life that would otherwise not have seen the light of day. Well, Kdenlive has already seen the light of...