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6 Reasons Why Windows 8 Tablets Are Not A Threat To Android

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:49:24 +0000

Microsoft has lost the mobile war. The disappointing performance of Windows Phone even after two years of its release is evident that the market has moved on. Microsoft’s last bet is Nokia which dropped all of its own open source projects and promising OS such as MeeGo to become a hardware delivery truck for Microsoft’s Mobile OS.Nokia used to have a very strong position in the Asian market and Microsoft wanted to get a free ride of that popularity. Which again is the indication that people won’t go to buy a Windows phone they will be looking for a Nokia Phone. That leaves on to wonder what is going to be the future of Windows 8 Tablet.

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Ch. 9: How to Price your Book – and Does it Matter?

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:19:39 +0000

[i][I wanted to be sure you saw this, as you've already run the first 8 chapters][/i]This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than fewer, people actually buy your book. My challenge will be to convince you that the title you see above makes sense.

How to create facebook application using PHP and graph api

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:22:28 +0000

This tutorial will explain how to create a facebook application using Graph api and PHP.For those who are new to Facebook platform you need to learn the basics of Graph api.We are about to build a facebook application you can see a demo here

Wine 1.4-rc2 released

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:25:17 +0000

The Wine development release 1.4-rc2 is now available.

Is Compiz On Its Deathbed?

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:28:06 +0000

Sparked from a posting earlier this week about Compiz likely being dropped from Fedora 17, some are wondering whether Compiz is effectively dead…

The Humble Bundle for Android

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:30:55 +0000

It is time for a brand new “Humble Bundle” release!But this time, it’s a bit different… Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem…), Windows (boo this OS), Linux (i shake my own hands) but also on… ANDROID!

Bordeaux 75% off sale

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:39:22 +0000

The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 75% off sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana.

Bouncing malware from Android Market

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:36:00 +0000

From the description, Bouncer is like a security agent that scans the marketplace for malware, relying on signatures of known malware to do its job. Besides looking for malicious applications, Bouncer also analyzes “new developer accounts to help prevent malicious and repeat-offending developers from coming back.”The idea, as Hiroshi described it, is to provide an “automated scanning of Android Market for potentially malicious software without disrupting the user experience of Android Market or requiring developers to go through an application approval process.” Sounds good to me.

LinuxDevices acquired …

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:38:49 +0000

LinuxDevices’ publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, has been acquired by a Californian company — as yet undisclosed, but rumored to be Foster City-based QuinStreet. Future plans for the site have not yet been announced ……

DesktopLinux.com acquired …

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:41:38 +0000

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Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:50:05 +0000

The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn’t make it into the 3.3 kernel release.

Microsoft Loses US Mobile Market Share — Again

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:55:40 +0000

Another set of comScore US smart phone market share statistics and once again Microsoft lost ground. Maybe it’s time to rethink this whole consumer approach to the market and take a hard look at the enterprise.

KDE Plasma Active Tablet ‘Spark’ Preorders Starting Next Week, More Details

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:02:28 +0000

More details on Mer/KDE Plasma Active Tablet Spark has been revealed. Pre-order registration will open early next week and the tablet will start shipping in May 2012. It will be available online and orders will be accepted worldwide.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Speechs to House of Commons

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:05:17 +0000

The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a premium on vicious pleasures. I admit, however, the necessity of giving a bounty to genius and learning. In order to give such a bounty, I willingly submit even to this severe and burdensome tax. Nay, I am ready to increase the tax, if it can be shown that by so doing I should proportionally increase the bounty. My complaint is, that my honorable and learned friend doubles, triples, quadruples, the tax, and makes scarcely and perceptible addition to the bounty.

COM Express module has power-saving, soldered-on Cores

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:08:06 +0000

Congatec announced a COM Express module that offers a Type 6 pinout — for VGA, LVDS, and DDI (digital display interface) display support — and a choice of six soldered-on Intel & Sandy Bridge& processors. The Conga-TS67 offers up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, has eight USB 2.0 ports and four SATA ports, and has multiple PCI Express expansion lanes, according to the company….

5 Best Android Apps For Reddit Lovers

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:29:14 +0000

Reddit, apart from being a social news website, has also become a cultural phenomenon. It has reached millions of internet users and has changed many lives since its inception. Though most users prefer browsing the site in its original avatar, that is the web-based version, there are some Redditors who need to upvote/downvote stuff even while they’re travelling. So, to fulfill that need, here are some of the best Reddit Apps for Android which will let you browse the site from anywhere.

Video Review: Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 – Screenshots

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:32:03 +0000

Well with the release of the Alpha for Ubuntu 12.04, I had to do a short video and screenshot tour. Join in the bandwagon parade of sorts leading up to the main release. Hey, dont get me wrong, I like parades….. I also have used Ubuntu for many years but currently I use Xubuntu but… I still enjoy Ubuntu…..

Android, Tizen and the End of Java

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:34:51 +0000

Does HTML 5 spell the end for Java in the mobile space? Yeah, probably… I wanted to call this piece Life, the Universe and Everything. If you’re an avid sci-fi reader, or you’ve at least read Hitch-hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, then those words might mean something to you, but this argument is not about the book, or Douglas Adams. Allow me to explain.

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Ch. 9: How to Price your Book – and Does it Matter?

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:00:08 +0000

This week we’ll talk about how to come up with the “right” price for your book in each of the formats in which you plan to make it available (eBook, soft, and/or hardcover). By “right” price, I mean a price that will make more, rather than fewer, people actually buy your book. My challenge will be to convince you that the title you see above makes sense.

KDE Tablet Sparks Starts Shipping In May

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:05:46 +0000

Slowly but steadily KDE project has positioned itself at the right spot when tablets are becoming mainstream. You can pick KDE Desktop for your main PC, KDE netbook for your netbook and now Plasma Active 2 for touch based devices such as tablets. Aaron Seigo, the lead of the KDE team, has revealed more information about the KDE powered tablet.

3 Ways Facebook Plans to Exploit Users

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:08:32 +0000

Because despite all we think we know about a company that counts a membership equal to more than 10% of the earth’s population, Facebook’s filing was the first chance for outsiders to see the different ways FB profits from users. A careful read of the S-1 reveals Facebook’s plans to make even more money from members using the free service to connect with old friends. Earlier today my co-host Matt Nesto and I discussed 3 ways Facebook plans to exploit you the user, in order to justify their plans to increase revenues, profit, and valuation. The list may disturb you.

Be a downloading machine with Linux and Wget

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:40:39 +0000

Wget can give you the ability to master the Internet by extending your download capabilities far past what your Web browser provides. You can use Wget to download all files from a website matching certain criteria, or you can use it to download an entire website itself. This article lists and describes all of Wget’s usage options and provides several sample commands you can try out for yourself.

Intel RC6 Support On The Sandy Bridge Desktop

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:49:06 +0000

While RC6 support remains off-by-default as Intel developers are faced by RC6-related bugs affecting a small minority of Sandy Bridge users, this power-savings feature is not limited to only Intel mobile graphics. As discovered at Phoronix, RC6 can manage to boost the graphics performance beyond just extending your battery life. The RC6 performance boost is also quite visible on Intel Sandy Bridge desktop hardware too.

Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:57:29 +0000

This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement: showing off the first mainstream laptop with Coreboot support.

Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:33:59 +0000

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Installing Webuzo WordPress Stack

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:19:39 +0000

Installing Webuzo WordPress Stack

Webuzo WordPress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows
bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run WordPress for
development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated
version of WordPress and is pre-configured and ready-to-run.

Laptop overheating, causing thermal shutdown during prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:37:19 +0000

I’ve had my Lenovo G555 laptop (AMD Athlon II at 2.1 GHz) for nearly two years, and recently I’ve been experiencing thermal shutdowns while running prolonged, CPU-intensive tasks in Debian Squeeze. Perhaps ironically but probably totally explainable, watching Flash video is not one of these tasks. I can watch Flash-delivered content in Hulu all night, and the Lenovo is fine.

Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (CentOS 6.2)

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:49:59 +0000

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I’ll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV and SquirrelMail.

Soon You Will Be Running Android On Your PCs

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:46:07 +0000

In an exclusive interview with Muktware, Greg-KH one of the leading figures of the Linux world, told us “The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power management hooks that Android needs in it, along with a few other minor missing infrastructure pieces that didn’t make it into the 3.3 kernel release.”

The Rise of Developeronomics

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:56:01 +0000

There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mammoth, you could not possibly eat it all before it rotted. So you shared it. The best bank for your excess capital was your friend’s stomach. That way, you could play banker when your friend killed the next mammoth. — I was thinking of this little idea recently in the context of human wealth. Unless you are a professional investor, places to store surplus capital today where it will even be safe and/or not depreciate too fast are getting incredibly hard to find. — But there is one safe haven, if you know how to invest in it: software developers.