IBM recently announced they are pairing up with Cannonical and Red Hat to develop a Windows 7 alternative (see “IBM Client for Smart Work“). This pairing makes perfect sense as IBM has been a supporter of open source and Linux for some time now. Not only that but IBM released their office suite, Lotus Symphony, [...]

Tags: cloud computing, ibm, lotus, smart work, symphony, windows alternative
Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Mobile Computing, companies, software

Apple has finally launched the new Macs, and as expected, the world is going crazy over comparisons and everything. Apple’s Phil Schiller has been vocal about Microsoft’s Windows 7 not having any negative effects on Apple’s sales whatsoever. In fact, he said that it would actually drive people towards Apple with the complicated upgrading procedure. [...]

Tags: apple, mac mini, macbook white, magic mouse, quad core imac
Categories: Apple, Gadgets, Hardware, Mac, Misc, Notebooks

With all the rumors around the device and the vast number of different sources of those rumors, it seems like Apple really is going to release the fabled tablet early next year. But will it be all that great? There is precedence of super-hyped Apple products failing spectacularly. In this context, the best example would [...]

Tags: apple, failure, newton, problems, tablet
Categories: Apple, Compilations, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile Computing

If your laptop is running Linux you might not be happy with the battery life you are getting. There are numerous reasons for the possible extra drain on your battery. Some of the biggest issues are: Hard drive spin-downs, interrupts, and power management. Figuring out how to make these adjustments to your kernel (or subsystems) [...]

Tags: laptop battery, laptop battery life, linux laptop
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software, troubleshooting

The Mozilla Weave development team has released version 0.4 of the Firefox add-on that allows users to synchronize data across multiple web browsers. It is basically a storage for user data on the Internet so that Firefox users can access the same bookmarks, passwords, preferences, browsing history and tabs on different computers and mobile devices.
Mozilla [...]

Tags: firefox, mozilla weave, mozilla weave 0.4, synchronize data, weave, web browser
Categories: Browsing, Mobile Computing, Mobiles, firefox

So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]

Tags: cheese, Linux, photo booth software, photos, web cam
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Notebooks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

System 76 is a company, founded in 2005, dedicated to the spreading of Linux and open source. They are so dedicated to this cause they sell Linux-only hardware. You might be saying to yourself “It’s been tried before and it failed.” That is certainly the case if you can remember the Wal Mart/Linux failure or [...]

Tags: laptop, Linux, Linux hardware, System 76
Categories: Advice, Hardware, Linux, Mobile Computing, Notebooks, Open Source, Operating Systems, Uncategorized, firefox