 | Microsoft — or perhaps someone else whom Microsoft definitely pays — has created howsoftwareisbuilt.com, where Microsoft apparently tries to promote itself and ‘embrace’ the FOSS world (here is the latest interview). In the homepage, the site also links to the company’s anti-GNU/Linux pages (“compare” site). How demeaning. Notice the footer which clearly states: “How Software is Built is… |
| 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) |
| The following tutorial will explain how to extract all text from PDFs (including text in images), by using a combination of Ghostscript and a command line OCR tool calledtesseract-ocr. This is yet another guest post by StoneCut. First we need to convert our PDF to individual image files (TIFF) so we can then OCR-scan them again. We… |
![[Eyecandy] Android Theme For Google Chrome Browser](http://digitizor.comhttps://digitizor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/robot-theme-chrome-150x150.png) | 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… |
| Jono Bacon, Alan Pope, and many others have written, yesterday we published a new visual story and style for Ubuntu. The core design work was lead by Marcus Haslam, Otto Greenslade and Dominic Edmunds, who are the three visual artists leading our efforts in the Canonical Design team. Once we had the base ideas in place we… |
| Bill Andad writes: Two headlines grabbed my attention today. The first proclaiming that Linux sucks while the second announced it was possible to boot into a full Linux OS in less than a single solitary second. Paul Rako reports that one company, an embedded-Linux specialist called MontaVista Software, has gone step further than developing a proper… |
| Ubuntu has come a long way since it’s start in 2004. Through these years Ubuntu has changed the face of the linux operating system and has made linux more user-friendly than ever before. Come Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed Lucid Lynx), a lot is set to change in the Ubuntu Community. Based on a review of brand… |
 | The final build of Opera 10.50 has already been released for Windows. It boasts of some superb features and claims to be the fastest browser. The Linux build has, however, not even reached the beta. It is still in the Alpha stage. Nevertheless, here we give you how you can install Opera 10.50 Alpha in… |
