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The big story to me today wasn't the launch of the Nexus One phone, which looked nice enough, but the fatally flawed web-only distribution system

Apple's rumored upcoming tablet PC, supposedly called the iSlate, is already a big success in the minds of many analysts. Freescale and Hearst-- yes, the newspaper publisher Hearst-- have entered the tablet PC wars. Are they competing against vapor? Do customers even want tablet PCs?

When I got home from work last night, my 17 year old son (Bryan) demanded I watch something on TV he had found. Welding the TiVo remote he played for me a commercial aired during SpongeBob SquarePants. In the commercial I kid got a package in the mail that contained two OLPCs one of which the kid picks up and walks out of his house with, journeying until he is in a village in Africa where he gives a village kid the OLPC. At the very end it is revealed that it is a contest being run by General Mills with chances to win provided with some of their products.

Available for only 200 dollars and can run off of AA Batteries. Norhtec’s Gecko EduBook can run off of 8 NiMH rechargeable batteries.

Using HTML 5, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, and jQuery on Android and the iPhone

X-Plane contains subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, allowing users to predict the flight characteristics of the slowest aircraft to the fastest. X-Plane includes thirty-five aircraft on its master disk, spanning the aviation industry (and its history), sporting aircraft from the Bell 206 JetRanger and Cessna 172 to the supersonic SR-71 and the Space Shuttle. Additionally, more than 1,400 additional aircraft models (such as those at X-Plane.org) can be downloaded from the Internet , nearly all of which are free. If those aren't enough, users can design their own airplanes and test fly them!.

Bisigi themes had always been my favorite. Initially they started of with 9 themes and now the full set includes 12 mind blowing themes for Ubuntu gnome. And the most interesting part is that, you can download these themes directly from Synaptic.

VLC is the favorite media player for most people because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. so see which more things vlc mediplayer can do

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Zimbra, one of the best-known providers of open source email, may soon have a new owner. Rumors are swirling that Yahoo plans to sell Zimbra to VMware. If true, here are the implications for Zimbra business partners.

RawTherapee 3.0, a free RAW converter was released today licensed under GPL. The first alpha version of RawTherapee 3.0 is available for download. Note that this is not a feature complete version. In V3.0 both major GUI/workflow and algorithm changes are planned. This alpha version demonstrates the new, much more efficient GUI, but it does not contain any algorithmic changes yet.

Have you ever wondered how much quality your HD camera can deliver? This script helps you to find it out if you have a camera that encodes interlaced video. It uses special filters to calculate 50 whole frames out of the half frames, which makes motions seem extremely fluent. You could play the file at half speed slow motion and still have a full 25 frames per second.

The goal of this tutorial is to show you how to set up a public share on your Samba server that can be used by everyone on your network with all rights. This will enable everyone on a Windows machine to access this without a password. Of course, this has security implications but it is a good way to get something working. The next article will show you how to create a share for one user in which that one user is the only one who can access the share.

Most AIX administrators understand the virtualization features available to them on their System p platform through PowerVM, which is also available on the System p for Linux. What about the other UNIX hardware platforms? What do they have to offer and how do some of their features compare to PowerVM. These topics are explored in this article.

Following closely on the heels of the December announcement of D-Link’s BoxeeBox, Syabas Technology today said it will ship a $129 Internet-based A/V streaming set-top box (STB) in March. Both new gadgets have the potential to give Roku’s popular Netflix-streaming STB a run for its money. All three devices run Linux.

The ASTRO File Manager helps you get the most out of your Android-powered phone. The Android operating system is designed to be very open and flexible, giving its users the chance to do more things on their phone than ever before. ASTRO helps your phone reach its full potential by giving you the tools to manage your phone.

LinuxForce has compiled a list of 49 news articles documenting milestones of the Debian GNU/Linux project in 2009.

LXer Feature: 04-Jan-2010

This article shows the differences between KDE 4 and KDE 3, examines the new features, and gives clear instructions on how to get from 3 to 4. For parts 2 and 3 in this series click on Next Hidden Linux --> at the bottom right of the screen.

[I found this article when searching for info. on transitioning from KDE3 to KDE4 - Barbara]

Move over Firefox, look out IE and Safari. Google's adding even more competition to the browser world with its Chrome beta. But is it ready for prime time?