November 2010
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A very important Facebook security feature you...
This feature by default gives all your Facebook information to your friends applications. Why in the world would my friends Facebook applications need my Bio, My videos, Birthday, My links, Family and relationships, My notes, Interested in and looking for, Photos and videos I’m tagged in, Religious and political views, Hometown, My website, Current city, If I’m online, Education and...
October 2010
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ScreamRadious Elgin Texas Great Resource Site
Her is a great resource for Elgin Texas screamradius - Elgin, Texas #elgin #bastrop #austin #texas @theaustingeek Her is a great resource for Elgin Texas screamradius - Elgin, Texas #elgin #bastrop #austin #texas @theaustingeek … read the full article here
HP Releases the Palm Pre 2 with WebOS 2.0
When it comes to webOS 2.0 (now actually called HP webOS), it almost felt like we’d never see the version number, let alone get to review it. It’s been an intense few months for Palm: after floundering in the early part of the smartphone wars, it was scooped up by HP for a tidy sum of $1.2b. Though it seemed like the dream of webOS could fade away, the company made it clear that it had...
BleachBit Cross Platform Free Open Source System...
BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more. Beyond simply...
Facebook offers Disposable Passwords
Facebook has another new feature that will allow users to receive a temporary password via sms text message, allowing the user to log in on a public or unfamiliar computer using the temporary password, this hopefully will Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site. One is a temporary password; another is letting people sign out of Facebook remotely....
Bing and Facebook New Search Feature
The Most popular Social Networking site “Facebook” and Micro$oft’s Search engine “Bing” have teamed up, recently revealing new search features. Micro$oft is adding “input from users” feature, using Facebook data in the results of a search, giving an idea of what your facebook friends think on a particular topic. Both companies stress privacy is a priority,...
September 2010
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Facebook Skype Video Chat Internet Telephone Calls
Facebook & Skype are on the verge of releasing there new partnership, allowing Facebook users to sign in to Skype, send text messages, Video Chat & make Internet telephone calls from their Facebook profile page. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100929/exclusive-facebook-and-skype-readying-wide-ranging-integration-partnership/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/30/facebook_skype/...
Ubuntu Parallax New Full Screen Interaction
This new feature will use a web cam to detect the users presence, close, sitting back or not in view. changing various settings like putting a movie in full screen, or using a very large font for notifications. read the full article hereThis new feature will use a web cam to detect the users presence, close, sitting back or not in view. changing various settings like putting a movie in full...
Mageia A New Linux Distribution
As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is unclear. Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don’t think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project. Many things have happened in the past 12 years. Some were very nice: the Mandriva Linux...
Escher-like internet map could speed online...
A novel map of the internet created by Marián Boguñá and colleagues at the University of Barcelona, Spain, could help make network glitches a thing of the past. Boguñá squeezed the entire network into a disc using hyperbolic geometry, more familiar to us through the circular mosaic-like artworks of M. C. Escher. Each square on the map is an “autonomous system” – a section of the...
The PlayStation 3 powered super-computer
Gaurav Khanna combined games consoles to make a super-computer capable of serious number-crunching Playing the PlayStation and getting your homework done are not usually activities which go hand-in-hand, but one university professor may have cracked it. Dr Gaurav Khanna has no less than 16 Sony PlayStation 3 consoles working together to create a super-computer which he says rivals the...
Google explains technology behind Instant search
How to handle five to seven times more results pages per query The system provides a live feed of search suggestions as the user types, and has already won widespread favor. “Our key design challenge was to make sure people would notice relevant results without being distracted,” said Ben Gomes, a distinguished engineer Google, in a blog post. “We knew it would take...
Google Instant shows search results as you type
(CNN) — Tired of waiting the tenths of a second it takes to get Google search results? Google promises it’ll get faster. The search giant on Wednesday introduced Google Instant, which will give users suggested results before they’re even done typing. “It’s not quite psychic, but it is very clever,” said Othar Hansson, a senior software engineer at Google....
Will WebOS 2.0 let HP compete with Apple?
The next generation of WebOS will make or break HP’s attempt to slide in among RIM, Apple and Google in the mobile arena. Last week was an Apple launch week, and short of the launch of World War III, there were likely few things that could pull much interest away from this event. Still, HP chose the week to launch WebOS 2.0 in advance of what will is expected to be a line of products that...
Facebook closes hole that let spammers auto-post...
Facebook has closed a hole that was being used by spammers to automatically post wall messages and direct messages to friends, the company said on Tuesday. Just clicking on the link to one of the applications that were taking advantage of the bug would allow the auto-posting to happen, Facebook said The apps, which appeared to be sending people to a survey Web site, were disabled on Monday, the...
XMIND free open source brainstorming software
XMind is an open source brainstorming and mind mapping software tool developed by XMind Ltd. It helps people to capture ideas, organize to various charts, and share them for collaboration. It supports mind maps, Ishikawa diagrams (also called fishbone diagrams or cause-and-effect diagrams), tree diagrams, org-charts, logic charts, and spreadsheets. It is often used for knowledge management,...
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The Top 7 Best Linux Distributions for You
There are various approaches to answering this question. The broad answer is: “any of them,” but that’s not very helpful if you’re just looking for a place to start. The problem is, there never can be one best Linux distribution for everyone, because the needs of each user tend to be unique. Telling someone who’s looking for a good introductory distribution to...
to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID)...
“This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for ‘anytime, anywhere’ biometric...
July 2010
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knowledge is freedom, spread the knowledge, or at...
Open source is a development method for software that harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process. The promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and...
April 2010
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Media Portal Open Source Media Center →
Media Portal Open Source Media Center
I love Media Portal, I have contributed to the MP community for 4 years, and finally is just about 1.1.0 final release, while the devlopoers focus on MediaPortal2 a complete rewrite. there will continue to be more and more stable plugins for MP1.1.0, some of my favorite must have MP plugins, TV-Series, Moving Pictures, Online Videos and My Emulators make Media Portal the all in one Ultimate Media...
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Over the last few years I have been blown away by Ubuntu and it’s progression, I am happy to say I have not booted into my windows os’s in over 2 years, but I get plenty of practice fixing Windows for clients. Ubutuntu 10.04 has some real ground breaking features this go around, with new out-of-box support for most wireless cards, Nvidia graphics cards, and all the mobile broadband...
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March 2010
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What does Ubuntu Lucid Lynx beta 1 actually look...
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This is a quick video walkthrough of the new Ubuntu Lucid Lynx beta 1. It’s definitely a desktop perspective, so nothing about what’s new with server packages or cloud stuff.
If you’ve been curious about what the new Ubuntu looks like, but don’t want to actually install it until it’s fully released, check out this short video.
Source: This Week in Linux.
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