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 [...]

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 [...]

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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By now, you must have know or atleast heard about Ubuntu’s rebranding. Canonical has changed a lot of things about  Ubuntu from the font used in its logo to its default theme. Talking about the theme, Ubuntu has made a radical departure from its typical brownish theme to a new “light” theme. While there is [...]

Canonical caused a huge surprise yesterday with its announcement of the new Ubuntu looks. Now, you can download the wallpaper used in the screenshots posted.
To downlaod, simply click on the image below.

Thanks Bognár András.
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As you may already be aware by now, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is coming with a music store called the Ubuntu One Music Store. This is a very new and exciting thing from Canoncal and understandably people have a lot of questions about this new service. So, the Ubuntu One Music Store team have come [...]

Photoshop, arguably one of the most popular image editing software out there, is now 20 years old.
Photoshop’s history dates back to 1987 when Thomas Knoll, a PhD student at the University of Michigan wrote a software which he called Display. Initially Display was meant just to display images on Machintosh. However, his brother John Knoll, [...]

After about two years of development, the Gnumeric developers have announced the release of version 1.10.0 of the spreadsheet application. The first stable release in the 1.10.x series includes several changes, updates and improvements. This release removes the 65,536 row restriction on spreadsheets and includes many new functions, better OpenDocument Format (ODF) support, new statistical analysis tools, [...]

A federal magistrate in the US today ruled that a Facebook posts falls under the First Amendment, which provides for free speech. The matter came up after a student, Katherine Evans, was suspended for three days from her school for creating a Facebook page where she vented about the worst teacher she has ever met.
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Research In Motion, the makers of BlackBerry, is bringing out a new web browser for its device. This is the first browser that RIM has released after it bought Torch Mobile, a browser design firm, last year. The new browser is said to be much faster and easier to use compared to its earlier browsers.
The [...]

Today, Adobe announced the introduction of Flash 10.1 and AIR platform for Google’s Android mobile operating system. With this announcement, Adobe plans to introduce AIR as a common platform across the the fragmented mobile operating system market.
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Intel and Nokia have announced that they are merging their respective Linux operating environments to power future smart-phones and tablets. This merger will combine Intel’s Moblin platform with Nokia’s Maemo platform to create a new platform called MeeGo. Currently, Intel’s Moblin OS is used in Netbooks while Nokia’s Maemo powers Nokia’s N900.
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Kaspersky Lab has patented a hardware-based antivirus solution in the United States. The device is supposed to scan all data passed from the hard disk to the CPU and RAM, blocking any malicious code it detects. The device is said to be particularly effective at blocking rootkits or bootkits, complex threats that inject themselves into [...]

Today at the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona, Microsoft has finally released its new operating system for mobile phones named as Windows Phone 7 Series. This is a very ambitious new product from Microsoft. The Windows Phone 7 Series is a brand new in every sense. Microsoft have done away with almost all that has [...]

In an earlier post we have told that Google will be replaced by Yahoo! as the default search in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Now, the Ubuntu community has come up with the design for what the Firefox Start Page with Yahoo! is going to be like.
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The showdown between online money transfer and India continues. About two weeks ago, PayPal suddenly stopped transfer of money to individuals using India Banks. After PayPal’s suspending of transfer to Indian banks, PayPal wrote in their blog that they are suspending the services to respond to enquiries from the Indian regulators.
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Today with so many web hosting providers cropping up everywhere, it can sometime be a very difficult task to find the best web hosting provider which is just right for you. Of course, there are the big players like Rackspace, Servint etc. But for a small organisation, such hosting may not always be an ideal [...]

In this article we will tell you about five reasons according to which we feel, the switch to Windows 7 from Windows XP is actually not necessary for time being.

A few hours back, the Apple store was down. When it came up again, they have added a new product – Aperture 3.
Aperture 3 is Apple’s solution for professional photo editing and management. It is like a advanced (or should I say, Professional) version of Apple’s iPhoto software.
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In time for the release of KDE SC 4.4 later today, the KDE Promo Team have finished the KDE SC 4.4 Visual Guide. Although the guide is done, it has not been released officially. You can however have a sneak peak of the guide here. When it is officially, it will be available here.
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We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings.
The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:
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Update: Abiword and Gnumeric are now most likely to replace OpenOffice.
According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs. (After this article, [...]

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, wrote an article in The New York Times in which he speaks out against what he calls “Creative Destruction” in Microsoft. In the article, he discussed why Microsoft is no longer the company leading the technology revolution that it was some years ago.
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VLC is all set to get new a new feature – extension support, from VLC 1.1. The extensions will be written in Lua, a simple a lightweight scripting language, embbeded inside VLC media player. The VLC extensions are scripts that will popup windows and fetch information on the web for you.

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