guest post by RICK! I’ve been a fan social network event calendar sites like Going.com, but Jersey Oakland-based Sonic Living has been busy working on some cool features. The iTunes scanner goes through your music library. You can decide what bands you’re interested in seeing in concert. Never miss your favorite band coming to town. Very cool but Sonic Living took it step further and partnered with Pandora to offer concert listings to its 19 million users. Bands you discover and bookmark on Pandora now show up in the new Sonic Living-powered concert section. So you have one less excuse...
Ubuntu comes pre-installed with a wealth of apps - covering almost every task you need to do, while still managing to fit on a CD. Are you ready to discover some pretty cool apps that don’t get the attention they deserve? Let’s check them out. You can easily install any of these apps using the ‘Add/Remove Applications’ from the upper panel. 1. Midori Midori is a web browser that uses the well-known WebKit rendering engine, providing quite a speed bump from Firefox and standards complying page rendering. Midori is currently packaged into Xubuntu and features include tabs, bookmarks and customizable...
Windows Server 2008 is the latest product of Microsoft’s Server series which provides new features compared to previous Windows Server versions like Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization system, self-healing NTFS or Server Core. Server Core is a bare bones installation of Windows Server 2008 without Windows Explorer which means that configuration is done through a command line interface or by remotely connecting to the Windows 2008 Server. Server Cores can be configured for several basic rules like DNS Server, DHPC Server or Hyper-V virtual server. The Windows 2008 Server Core Configurator aids the system administrator in configuring certain tasks like activating...
Gnome-Do is a quicksilver-like application for Linux. By itself, it is only a simple application launcher, and seriously speaking, I find that there is nothing great about it on its own. However, if you make good use of the plugins in the repository, you will discover that there are tons of things that you can do with it. Some of them are really a great time-saver and are able to make your life easier. So here it is, my recommendation of the 8 most useful plugins for Gnome-Do: 1. Locate files I am definitely not the type who likes to...
It’s the bane of every web developer’s existence — tracking down and diagnosing bugs in the myriad of different web browsers available. There are some incredibly helpful tools out there, but most are limited to a particular browser. However there’s a new option by the name of Firebug Lite, that’s designed to work in any browser. Tools like the Firefox add-on Firebug, and Opera’s new Dragonfly, can ease the web development process by providing debugging tools like console interfaces, XmlHttpRequest tracking, and all sorts of useful information about what your pages are doing (or not doing). But what if you...
Filed under: OS Updates, Linux, Open Source WattOS is a new Linux distribution that's based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware. But the developers are also hoping to build advanced power management features into the OS so that you'll have a full Linux desktop experience without consuming much power (by today's computer standards).The operating system comes in four flavors: wattOS: The core operating system which features a Gnome desktop mWattOS: Uses the Xfce interface µWattOS: Features a command line interface and a light-weight GUI Substation:...
