Times Reader 2.0, is an Adobe Air-powered (and therefore cross-platform) application that allows subscribers of the New York Times to read an electronic version of the newspaper on their Windows, Mac, or Linux-based devices for no additional cost. I’ll be reviewing the application on both Windows 7 and on Linux, using a netbook for Windows [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction BTGuard is a paid proxy service intended for bittorrent users. For $6.95 a month you can use BTGuard to hide your IP address from other downloaders and bypass any traffic shaping your ISP performs to limit your bittorrent usage. I’ve given this service a try, with mixed results. Read on for more. NOTE: I’ve [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Griffith is an application for the Gnome desktop that organizes your movie collection, much in the same way Alexandria is used to organize your book library. Simply by entering the name of a movie, Griffith will query various databases on the internet and download cover art, plot details, and cast information. Installation Griffith is [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Google’s Picasa software is a powerful tool for managing your photo collection. It provides a simple interface for organizing your pictures, as well as some easy-to-use, yet powerful image manipulation tools. However, until recently the Windows version of Picasa has had some features that put it above the Linux version; some of these features, [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction While it may not let you go where no man has gone before, Celestia is an amazing desktop application that lets you travel anywhere in the known Universe. You can view any object in the Solar System, travel to distant stars, and even leave the Galaxy to view planets only recently discovered by NASA [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction While Linux is praised for its ability to run on older hardware, modern distributions such as [K]Ubuntu and Fedora eat up lots of disk space, memory, and processing power. And, while there are many smaller distributions that are designed to run on antiquated machines, most of them require years of Linux experience, lest the [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction This week Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, announced a partnership with Parallels, maker of the Virtualization products Parallels Workstation and Parallels Desktop for Mac. Consequently, the Parallels Workstation virtualization software is now available to download and install in Ubuntu Linux, completely supported by Canonical, and done entirely through the Add/Remove programs interface. This [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon). This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and the [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Backing up in Linux is finally made simple with Time-Vault, a graphical, periodic, snapshot-based program that makes it easy to start, monitor, and modify backups, as well as restore data.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Alexandria is an application for Linux allows you to sort and track your book collection. It makes it easy to manage your collection by allowing you to sort items into multiple libraries (for example, books at your office, in your home, or elsewhere), and adding books is as simple as entering its ISBN. Once [...]
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