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Top Ubuntu Linux Games

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Okay okay you say that there are no games worth playing in Linux! Well spanky here is a list of some of the most popular ones that you can download and install for Ubuntu, really almost any distro will work, most are one player shooter games and some are based on the Quake engine. Take [...]

Do Your Customers Hate Vista? Rip and Replace with a Twist

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Give Vista the heave-ho and turn your customers on to alternatives.
So, you just delivered that new PC to your customer and gave them a quick tour of what’s new and then watched their eyes glaze over with confusion.
After a few seconds, the questions start. Questions that should be easy to answer, but turn out not [...]

Windows XP PCs still available from Dell.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

With several models to choose from, it’s great to see Dell still offering XP machines, while everywhere else you look, Vista is all there is!
I’ve never been a huge fan of Dell, but I’m starting to come around. They’ve been doing a pretty good job lately, in their effort to give customers what they want. [...]

Dell to sell PCs through Staples

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. plans to sell computers and other electronics gear at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores, the latest departure from the direct-to-customer business model pioneered by the No. 2 computer maker.
Dell and the world’s biggest office products supplier announced Monday that Staples would offer Dell desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, [...]

Take a guided tour of Mac OS X Leopard

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Watch it or download it
Check out the new features and get a closer look at Leopard.

Source: apple.com
~LC
Technorati Tags: Apple, Mac, Leopard
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

Stop Smoking Day

Friday, September 28th, 2007

No, it is not another smoke free day, it however is the day that I had decided I have had enough of the smoking habit. After 3 cold turkey attempts that failed, 2 attempts with the patches which also failed, oh and don’t forget the 1 failed attempt using the gum, I decided to try [...]

Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

 
iritant writes “As we were discussing, Gran Paradiso — the latest version of Firefox — is nearing release. Gran Paradiso includes a form of malware protection that checks every URL against a known list of sites. It does so by sending each URL to Google. In other words, if people enable this feature, they get [...]

Hacker frees iPhone from its carrier’s clutches

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

George Hotz stood in the kitchen of his family home in Glen Rock, N.J., and announced his breakthrough to the world: He had liberated the hottest cellphone in history.
The 17-year-old, a curly-haired kid on his way to college, made his revelation not at a news conference but in a YouTube video. He had unlocked the [...]

Add USB power to your alarm clock.

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Why? Because you can, and hey, why not!
It’s much easier than you might think. I saw this on The Lab with Leo Laporte last night. I was fully prepared to link you to the instructions from his site, but that episode’s notes (episode #61) aren’t there yet. Never fear, I managed to find it elsewhere [...]

Open Source Business Resource Launches

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Last week the Talent First Network announced the launch of a new monthly publication geared toward greater understanding and dialogue between businesses and open source software projects. The free monthly’s title is Open Source Business Resource, and it’s geared toward the local business, open source, and academic communities in Ontario, Canada, though if it does [...]

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