 | After Apple introduced touchpads which supports multi-touch in Macbooks, Synaptic has also come out with its own version of multi-touch touchpad called Clickpad. It supports many multi-touch gestures like two finger scrolling, zooming, right-click etc. However, none of these works out of the box in Ubuntu 10.10. It is not yet possible to enable all… |
 | If you use a mouse with your laptop, there is a a good probability that more often than not the touchpad gets in the way. In some laptop, there is a physical button to turn on/off the touchpad, but many do not have it. However, you can easily install a install Touchpad Indicator to switch… |
 | Last week, Bill Filler from Canonical created a flutter when he announced Unity 2D for computers which cannot run the normal Unity 3D. Unity 3D requires Compiz and thus requires computers capable of 3D-acceleration to run. Unity 2D, technically known as Unity-Qt, is based on Qt/QML and has been designed to run on the slower computers…. |
 | Yesterday, Mozilla released the ninth beta of Firefox 4. It has a lot of improvements both in the UI and performance. One major new features added in this release is hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration uses the GPU whenever it is possible instead of relying solely on the CPU. This can give a performance boost for… |
 | Steve Chang, the Chairman of Trend Micro, has kicked up a controversy by claiming that open source software are inherently less secure. When talking about the security of smartphone, Chang claimed that the iPhone is more secure than Android because being an open-source platform, attackers know more about the underlying architecture. Android is open-source, which… |
 | Ok, there is no confirmation about this and Mark Shuttleworth is generally the one to announce the new name, so take this with a pinch of salt. So, apparently Ubuntu 11.10 will be called Oscillating Ocelot. This fits the naming convention that Ubuntu follows, but so does about 50 other names. This was tweeted by… |
 | Wiley Online Library is one of the best content platforms out there for scholars, researchers, scientists, clinicians, business professionals and information specialists. One good thing about the Wiley Online Library is that it lets you export citations and use them in your projects. However, the format in which Wiley provides the citations are somewhat un-user-friendly to be converted to LaTeX format. |
