Software

Popcorn Maker 1.0 launched by Mozilla

For those with a penchant for entertainment technologies Mozilla continues to provide innovative software. Its latest such release is aimed at those creative people...

Linux File System Test for USB Media

So you got yourself a shiny new USB drive and are not too sure what file system to format it with. Sure, FAT is...

Xenix: The Microsoft Unix That Once Was

One would not normally associate Microsoft with Unix. While Microsoft's interest(s) in Unix may remain minimal in recent times, history tells a very different...

NVIDIA 304.64 has been released! A look at new features and...

NVIDIA 304.64  is finally out fixing number of issues and bugs. The posts introduces you to its new features and details installation instructions. According to NVIDIA, they...

Opera 12.10 Feature Round-up

Opera software shortly released Opera Browsers latest version Opera 12.10. The browser upgrade might not be densely feature packed but apart from handful of...

Why do super computers use Linux?

In our last few posts we discussed the fact that over 90% supercomputers (94.2% to be precise) employ Linux as their operating system. In...

XStreamOS: An Illumos Kernel based Operating System

Being a Technical Writer involves a lot of reading and research of new and emerging technologies. And one project that recently came to my...

Firefox 16, a treat for developers

Mozilla has released the latest version of Firefox, version 16, keeping up with is newly imposed tradition of "rapid release". Mozilla brings several under-the-hood...

Good to know: Freeware is not Free Software

You will be interested to note that; you can purchase a Free software! That is to say Free Software may not be free and...

Blender 2.64 has been released! PPA Ubuntu

Blender 2.64 has been released, The 2.6x series is being targeted at including all work that happened in branches or patches past years. According to...

Imagine Internet without Firefox

In my previous post I analyzed the browser market share and trends prevalent for last 2 years. The analysis yielded interesting facts; firstly Google...

How to Secure Your System

The world of computing and the internet is a very normal and accepted entity to most geeks. But to some unknown, unsuspecting and unfamiliar...

Browsers Growth Analysis 2010-2012 [Infograph]

Gradually our computing trends are changing in favor of cloud. Today we tend to do most of our works in the cloud via our...

Clementine 1.1 RC1 is available!

The Amarok 1.4-inspired Clementine music player, is about to release a new exciting version - the first major one after the stable 1.0 that...

Google Patents Object Tagging Software

While I know it’s not Unix or Linux news, I thought this was pretty interesting. Google has applied for a patent on software that...

Oracle Linux Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld 2012

There has been demand for Oracle to reinstate the Oracle Linux Pavilion at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 convention. Oracle is stating that the booth...

VirtualBox4.2 has been released! PPA

VirtualBox4.2  is out,  according to the announcement, the release builds on previous versions by adding new features such as VM Groups which are designed...

Open-Source Software Licenses

To some people’s surprise, even open-source software has a license attached to it. And with that license comes a description and agreement for what...