CodeWeaver has released a new version of its popular application CrossOver. CrossOver is an application for Linux, Mac OS X using which you can run Windows applications. It is an improved version of Wine, the free software that allows Windows applications to run in Linux. The new version Crossover 9, codenamed “Snow Mallard” brings with [...]

The new Ubuntu Light theme has the windows control buttons on the left rather than the right, where it traditionally is. This has resulted in many users voicing their opinions how they do not like the change. Mark Shuttleworth has meanwhile said that the buttons on left is here to stay. So, here are two [...]

Microsoft has releases a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX conference. They did not say it explicitly, but by now it is pretty clear that its new browser will not be supported in Windows Xp.
This is what Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch said:
Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system.
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At its Mix Conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft gave a preview of what is to come with its next web-browser Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, which is a prototype to show how IE9 will handle the current web technologies and the new ones to come.
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Arizona Web Design (PrimeView) is a 14 year old website design company that has worked with startups to fortune 500 clients, such as Nissan, National Car Rental and University of Phoenix to build their websites and provide web based solutions.  One of PrimeView’s signature projects was taking a large unwieldy 800 page medical college website, [...]

Canonical introduced a new design for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, which is due for release this April. The new theme introduced a radical change by putting the windows control buttons on the left instead of the right. This has caused quite a controversy with a lot of users demanding that it be put back on [...]

The Amarok team has announced the release of Amarok 2.3 codenamed “Clear Light”. The new release has a much requested feature – an Equalizer. The equalizer however uses kdelibs 4.4 , so you will have to be running KDE 4.4 for it to work.
As Amarok 2 is largely stable by now, for Amarok 2.3, the [...]

We have already told you how to install Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 in Kubuntu. However, we have not really written anything else about what new features and improvements will come with Amarok 2.3. However, the Amarok team has very conveniently revived the Amarok Insider. So, here is whats new in Amarok 2.3 from their own [...]

Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity. Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information. (via Wikipedia)
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In some new builds of Google Chrome a bug has been reported which makes it the browser hang when it is used in KDE but it works fine in GNOME. In Google Chrome, the bugs results in the tab hanging after a page has been loaded. After sometime a pop-up usually comes saying some thing [...]

How do you improve upon something as good as 3G ? Simple, move on to 4G. Without any doubt,3G was the next best thing in mobile data communication after EDGE/GPRS.  I mean with download speeds as high as 7mbps, 3G redefined the way we thought of mobile broadband connectivity. But everything that has a beginning [...]

With almost every other person making their own websites nowadays, knowledge about the various web site hosting services available today is very important. All the web-hosting services available gives detailed informations about the various plans that they provide. However, considering the sheer number web-hosting services available, it can sometime be a real task trying to [...]

Next time when your Mom asks you so as to why you waste your time sitting in front of the computer all the time, you should show this list of billionaires to her. All the persons listed below are some of the world’s youngest billionaires, possibly in the shortest possible time scale, ever. And all [...]

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for KDE and in my opinion, one of the best at that. Recently, the Choqok team released the first beta towards Choqok 1.0. It has various improvements like:

Actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and block a user, added to User menu.
Support to attach a file (like image) to a dent in StatusNet/Identica(>0.9).
Ability to [...]

Paint.NET is a photo editing tool for Windows system – small in size but heavily loaded with features. You can almost term it as the layman’s Photoshop. Although, Paint.NET has support for almost all famous file formats but it cannot handle other file formats such as the PSD (Photoshop Document – Adobe Photoshop’s Native Format). [...]

Along with the new theme, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is getting a new ubiquity slide-show. What is Ubiquity slide-show? It is the slide-show you see when the Ubuntu installation is taking place.
The new slide-show does indeed look very good in keeping with the new theme. So, here are the slides:

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Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing [...]

Amarok is an audio player for Linux that needs no introduction. This article will outline how you can install Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 codenamed “Altered State” in Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So, before you proceed, remember that this is a beta and there is every possibility of it breaking.
So, to install Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 [...]

Presenting Two New themes for your Windows 7 Desktop. The Shamrocks theme and the Discovery LIFE theme.  The Shamrocks Themepack has been released by Microsoft for the Saint Patrick’s Day celebration on March 17th. The Discovery LIFE Themepack – as the name suggests – is from Microsoft and The Discovery Channel. This theme also packs [...]

In this article we will tell you how to convert a CHM file to a PDF file in Linux.

Valve Games who are undoubtedly the largest distributor of online games have made a lot of Apple Mac users, Fans and aficionados happy. Many of the Valve game titles: Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will likely be the first games ported to [...]

Well if you are a Google Chrome lover and robots make you go crazy then this one is for you. Presenting an Android themed green – looking theme for the Google Chrome browser. Titled the Robot Theme, this theme is inspired by Google’s Android. We have tested this theme on both Google Chrome for Windows [...]

GMail is not only your best online email client (as well as offline?) but also as your online to-do list manager and much much more. Although present in GMail since it started, I am pretty sure you must have missed the multi-tasking features that are already available in GMail and can make you GMail experience [...]

The Caps lock on your laptop or computer’s keyboard is equally useful and disastrous. There are situations when you unknowingly press the CAPS lock and you find that you have gotten yourself into total mess – like entered wrong passwords during login or registration, etc. Although toggling the CAPS lock key toggles the indicator light [...]