Editorial: Compiz and Beryl Merger
April 4, 2007
It isn’t official yet, but Compiz and Beryl are merging. For the last few weeks I have been following the mailing list discussions on this topic. A lot of the work has been started. It is sort of unofficially announced, so I feel now is as good a time as any to comment. First some back story:The war between Compiz and Beryl has been entertaini[…]
According to Mozilla, everyone who participated in the beta process for Firefox 2 will be offered a prerelease version of the next security and stability update within the next 24 hours.
Become a digital video editing guru using Linux tools
March 18, 2007
Shooting, editing, and producing video clips has been my passion for about 10 years. As a free software adept, I always tried to perform this process on Linux. This year I have finally found a set of tools that work for me. This article provides a brief tutorial on home video production.
15 second tweak for better beryl perfomance
March 2, 2007
Beryl is the best eye candy in the world, by far. Now get rid of all the jerkyness and make it buttery smooth in 15 seconds. It worked for me on my laptop with intel integrated 945 graphics. It is now smooth as silk. This is an aweseme tweak and takes 15 seconds tops.
HUGE Windows Vista Tweaking Guide!
March 2, 2007
“The guide is designed for novice and advanced users alike, containing 250 pages of objective descriptions, recommendations and tweaks for every aspect of Windows Vista. It is all laid out in plain English, and while it may take you a few days to work through, I promise you that at the end of it you will not only have a better system…”
Firefox 3.0 opens door to Web apps
March 1, 2007
When Firefox 3.0 is released later this year, the open-source browser is likely to contain a host of new features, including offline support for Web applications and new bookmark and search features.
Photoshop CS3 shaping up for March release
February 21, 2007
Sources familiar with the development of Adobe’s next version of Photoshop report that Adobe has ramped up the release of development builds and that a ship date could come as early as the end of March, in line with Apple’s release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
This article shows how you can convert a physical Windows system into a VMware virtual machine with VMware Converter. The resulting virtual machine can be run in the free VMware Player and VMware Server. Vmware Converter comes in handy if you want to switch to a Linux desktop, but feel the need to run your old Windows desktop from time to time.
Possibly the coolest screen saver on earth…
February 17, 2007
This is possibly the coolest screen saver I have ever seen/used. Allows you to monitor global blog activity in real time and visually. Really cool…must see in action to understand.
My first Linux experience: Overwhelmingly positive.
February 14, 2007
I am a first-year high school English teacher, and I was looking to get computers in my room so I could have a writing lab. I was temporarily elated when our tech coordinator informed me via email that a dozen iMacs had been donated to the school and I was welcome to take a few for my room.
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