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Santa didn't bring you any calendars this year? Feeling a creative urge? Try Photo Calendar for creating and printing your own beautiful custom calendars.

In spite of a reported record number of Beta downloads, I'm wondering what would compel anyone to buy Office 2010 with a growing number of free or low cost alternatives such as Google Docs and OpenOffice available.

Announced today the release of Openoffice3.2 RC2, the new release comes with new features and improvements. Note that the final release of Openoffice 3.2 is planned for XX January 2010.

In this article by Reynante Martinez, we’ll cover everything from modeling a tin can from scratch, giving it some basic shading, adding appropriate textures, finalizing the lighting schemes for the scene to lastly compositing it for a better feel.

AImagendrew Lake, the main developer of Bangarang, has announced the release of Bangarang 1.0 “The Basics”. Bangarang is a media player for KDE. The name comes from the Jamaican word for noisy, chaos or disorder. Bangarang is a simple and stylish media player. The version 1.0 of Bangarang aims to introduce a basic functionality feature set.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 9.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 9.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0 is released. With this tool it's possible to tweak various settings of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

This all started a couple of weeks ago when I finally got around to putting the tv capture card I had picked up a year or two ago into my computer. Happily like most things in Linux, it just worked, that was a great plus. Sadly the software packages in existence that I ran across were either too much or too little, nothing was just right.

Here we are, at the front of a new year and decade. For open source software, the refined fuel that has enabled many of the incredible information technology happenings of the previous decade, the future is, well, wide open. The rising tide of cloud computing combined with shifting strategies in the enterprise space will surely bring much excitement to the open source arena and the players within. Rather than reflect, or predict on the future state of open source, I'd like to take an opportunity to make a few requests to maintain the success of open source.

I was all chuffed with myself for participating in the Ubuntu process through commenting on bugs in Launchpad. Then the e-mail started to annoy me. I unsubscribed to the bugs. The mail kept coming.

The major Linux distribution providers — Red Hat, Novell and Canonical — are preparing to attend IBM’s Lotusphere 2010 conference (Orlando, January 17-21). The VAR Guy is keeping a particularly close eye on Canonical, backer of Ubuntu. Here’s why.

Lots of fascinating new devices were showcased during past week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In addition to marketing new products events like the CES serve as an opportunity to demonstrate what technology can do. Naturally, some of those feats may not prove particularly useful, but they are fun to watch anyway. Even more fun if the underlying software is built on top of Linux, as is the case for the following special devices found at CES 2010.

One of the coolest things about being a Linux user can be showing off your slick custom interface to your friends. With the maturing of Grub 2 and kernel mode setting, we’ll soon all have a beautiful boot from start to finish. The step we’re covering today is customizing GDM, the login manager you likely use if you’re running Ubuntu or any other system with Gnome as your desktop. Well those of you who don’t like the Ubuntu brown can brighten up because there’s no shortage of slick GDM themes available for download. Today, we’ll cover where to get them and how to use them.

When it comes to playing music, there is no shortage of software options, both open and closed. The race to gain users is a race to add features, and if KDE is your thing, then Amarok may be running your way. Arriving just a few weeks past its first anniversary, the latest release of Amarok 2 maintains the momentum built steadily by the seven revisions of the past year. In addition to continuing improvements in stability, performance, and usability, the 2.2.2 release adds and edits a range of features from playlists to podcasts and patches a host of bothersome bugs.

At CES, Nvidia demonstrated tablet-PC prototypes incorporating its Tegra 250 processor, including a Linux-based model from Foxconn, and Android-based models from ICD and Notion Ink, the latter using Pixel Qi display technology. Meanwhile, an Android version of HP's Windows-based "Slate" computer is on the way, say several reports.

"We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China."

You may think that word processing is all about WYSIWYG and GUI, but WordGrinder is living proof that a word processor that runs in a terminal does make sense.

For the second time in recent days, a major SaaS software company says it’s introducing tools to remotely manage Linux devices. Suddenly, VARs and managed service providers seem to be jumping on the Linux remote management bandwagon. Here’s why.

Google Engineering Director David Glazer has announced that registration for this year's Google I/O developer conference is now open. Google I/O 2010 will take place on the 19th and the 20th of May, 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The organisers say that, in addition to various Google products, such as App Engine, Google Web Toolkit, Android and Chrome, the Google I/O developer conference will focus on "pushing the boundaries of web applications through open web technologies".

There is a right way to remove and replace your computer's CPU, and several wrong ways. Carla Schroder shows the right way, and how it isn't very difficult.