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Nitro is simple, fast and powerful. It can synchronize your appointments on the cloud with Ubuntu One and Dropbox, so you can access them from any computer, not lose any of your tasks and you’ll never get a conflicted copy. Nitro also creates a todo.txt file so you can see or embed your tasks in plain text. Nitro is available for a variety of platforms such as Linux, Mac and as extension of Google Chrome / Chromium. And the development team is working on mobile versions and so they’ll be available in the future.

Today we are pleased to announce the release of OS4 OpenDesktop 13.2. This release brings a long-awaited update to our next-generation desktop operating system platform. With this release we have also refreshed our pre-installed hardware line. Some of the advancements brought to OpenDesktop 13.2 are: Linux kernel 3.2, the 3.5 kernel is still available in the repositories; Thunar 1.6.3; Fogger for creating we-based desktop applications; parental controls; support for Kindle Fire, Kindle Fire HD and Nook-based tablets; a new system profiler and benchmark utility. It also brings updates to applications and device drivers as well as bug fixes in the kernel itself.

It takes way too many cues from Apple's Mac OS X, which puts me off a bit, but I feel like a lot of other people would like that. Plus, it is put together extremely well.

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter asked me, "What is Salt Stack?" I began by explaining the problem it solved. If you have multiple servers and want to do things to those servers, you would need to log in to each one and do those things one at a time on each one. They could be fairly simple tasks like restarting them or checking how long they have been running. Or, you might want to do more complicated things like installing software and then configuring that software based upon your own specific criteria. You also might want to add users and configure permissions for them.

The One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPCA) has announced the next generation of its Linux-based XO laptop and a new XO Tablet design at CES in Las Vegas. According to a report on The Verge, chip manufacturer Marvell demonstrated the XO 4.0 Touch laptop at the conference but did not show the XO Tablet which is being developed by Sakar International.

New kernel, a number of application tweaks and quite a few packages updated for security fixes. Also made better use of a battery monitor for laptop use, automatically triggers a system shutdown when power gets low enough... gives user 60 seconds to cancel if they need more time to finish up. Fun is fun, but who really needs crashes and file corruption, anyway?

Yes, it's true. I hate touchpads and so I always plug in an external mouse. Unfortunately, the touchpad wasn't recognized as a touchpad, making it impossible to turn off via desktop tools. Here's how I exterminated it using the Linux shell.

Not content to let all the Cloud glory go to server-side products like SUSE Cloud, a small team of SUSE engineers and openSUSE community members have been working on supporting the ARM Chromebook with openSUSE, and can now report their first success: a ‘mostly working’ openSUSE 12.2 image that you can boot from (using a USB stick so the stock image is left untouched). This image already includes a usable XFCE desktop. There is also a Chromebook version of openSUSE 12.3 Milestone 2 available here for the more adventurous.

What is GearCity? It's an automobile manufacturing business simulator. "What the hell is that?!" you might have just muttered. In essence it is a sim game where you run a car company. It's like a tycoon game but it's less casual. GearCity has been in production for the last three years.

In 2012 mobile continued its upward growth trajectory while the poor old PC stayed flat as a pancake, and the PC better face it, as technology demographics continue to shift toward mobile, it's going to be the second banana in the future.

Red Hat will update its open hybrid cloud strategy during a North America partner conference, scheduled for Jan. 14-16. Telcos, cloud services providers (CSPs) and other types of partners apparently are opening their arms to Red Hat's CloudForms (IaaS) and OpenShift (PaaS) strategies. But can Red Hat really muscle aside VMware and Microsoft as partners seek the building blocks for public and private clouds?

The just released version 18 of Firefox no longer works with older systems. Read on for details.

Stargazing Live is currently airing on the BBC, and you can plan our your own evening of astronomy using these three amazing pieces of software

As many of those who have read my previous articles will know, i am a big backer of the web, especially web technology on the desktop. However with the recent course corrections made by Facebook in terms of their mobile offering and the relatively poor performance of HTML5 applications to date this belief had become marred with doubt. That was until i came across OS.js.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the January 2013 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

I'm not talking about a text-based email client that allows you to read and send mails on the terminal like Mutt here. In this article, I will show you a simple way to send emails via the command line. The tools you will need are "msmtp" and " heirloom-mailx". These two are in the repository of most distros so you can install them easily. In Ubuntu-related distros, "heirloom-mailx" is installed by default so you just need "msmtp" then.

Eclipse is an multi-language Integrated Development Environment or IDE. The Eclipse was originally created by IBM, but the Eclipse Foundation has since taken over direction and development of the project. Eclipse started out as a Java IDE, but has since grown into much more. If you are a developer working with this IDE here is how to upgrade Eclipse to the latest version.

Linux Mint 14 contains some well-needed facelifts. For example, the Mint Display Manager used for the login screen is refreshingly improved. MDM now supports legacy GDM 2 themes with some 30 installed by default and about 2,000 more available for download. Even better, the format is so easy to apply for making themes that you can quickly add your own personalization to make your login screen look your way.

Where would we be without Facebook as we forge into 2013? If Skype is the grande dame of app-based telephony, Facebook is the head honcho of social networking. Facebook Messenger lets you social network fast with its app-based interface. It's proprietary, which we don't love, and it has a few kinks -- but they're likely to be ironed out in due course.

I got an email from the developer of Forgotten Elements to announce the full official release of the free MMORPG.