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Leader International announced two Android tablets, both with full-sized USB ports and microSD slots. The $179 Impression 7 (I7) runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz processor, and provides a seven-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen, while the $349 Impression 10 (I10) runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird, adding a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 capacitive IPS touchscreen, an HDMI port, and a two-megapixel camera....

WordPress plugins are a great way of customizing and improving the usability of your blog. I am a firm believer that selecting the right plugins can go a long way towards getting your niche site above your competitors in the search engine rankings. I have experimented extensively with this and will happily share with you the list I install for nearly all of my niche sites.

Storing your App data to Apple’s iCloud is very convenient. A little too convenient maybe. Find out how to manage your iCloud backup data before you spend money on storage you don’t need.

Video can be a powerful tool to deliver information over the Internet for marketing, corporate training, or social media purposes. Most people who think of Internet video probably think of YouTube first, but sometimes public hosting is not the best option for your video.

Despite having issues using Sabayon Linux on a USB stick with persistent storage (unable to install packages), I was so impressed by its speed that I decided to go ahead and install it. Surprisingly I have found that most of the software I use is already included, including Gnome Tweak Tool.

Some of you may wonder what is the purpose of this article. First, because hardware nowadays is pretty cheap, you don't need older hardware anymore. Second, there are some articles across the Internet dealing with this already. The answer to the first problem is: well, you'll see in the article. The answer to the second is we have some experience with older hardware first-hand, and we found it to be very useful to this day, so we want to share this with you.

Here are 4 beautiful, light GTK3.2 compatible themes: Evolve, Sonar, Elegant Brit and Elements.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last night, October 25th, the immediate availability for download of the stable and final release of the Google Chrome 15 web browser for Linux platforms.

Security researchers at ESET and Sophos have discovered that hackers have gone out of their way to port an old Linux backdoor Trojan to the Apple Mac OS X platform, extending their reach of computers that they can use as part of their botnets.

Repeated online harassment, all of it based on her sex, has forced a prominent female open source developer and community organiser to quit the tech industry and also rethink her participation in LCA 2012.

All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon 2011 Europe conference held in Prague this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (Sept. 26-28). Live streaming of the keynotes is available according to a fixed schedule, but you can also watch them later via the conference’s video archive.

The Linux deployment tool m23 is now available for download in version m23 rock 11.4. In comparison to its predecessor, the new version offers support for Debian Squeeze to be installed on the client computers and Trinity Desktop Environment is now among the available desktops. Many more smaller changes and improvements have been made - go to the website for download and more information!

As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.

Contrasting Stallman's philosophy to Steve Jobs work. "The biggest problem here isn’t so much how insensitive RMS may have been, but the underlying philosophy that he promotes. What he said makes perfect sense if you buy into his philosophy."

Ever since Ubuntu shipped its first long-term-support release, the 6.06 Dapper Drake (one of my all-time favorites by the way), the distro's LTS editions have enjoyed three years of support on the desktop and five years on the server. Now Canonical is extending desktop support for the upcoming 12.04 LTS (to be named Precise Pangolin) to a full five years on both the desktop and server, making the release that much more compelling for enterprise users and others (like myself) who might not necessarily stick with the release for the full five years but want the option of doing so.

This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 5.7 server (x86_64) that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

The Linux Foundation announced today, October 26th, in a press release that it's hosting a new project made by its Consumer Electronics (CE) workgroup.

For those living in the North of Germany, here's a date to mark in your calendar: On 28th and 29th of October 2011, the ninth "Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage" will take place in Kiel. There will be talks, workshops and booths from OpenSource projects and enterprises. The complete program is available here. Dive into the Linux community and meet up with other OpenSource users!

Swayam Prakasha explores and explains one of the most important methodologies in modern software development…

In a world of Brussels sprouts (like) and eggplant (dislike), Larry the Free Software Guy celebrates the fact that we have a lot of choices in the FOSS realm. Fear not, Ubuntu users who view Unity as the digital equivalent of a plate of string beans -- you have a variety of more palatable desktop options with which to use Ubuntu 11.10.