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The latest version of OpenSuSE Linux, 11.4, has just been released and it's chock full of new features. The replacement for OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, gets its first major outing, KDE gets bumped to 4.6 and Gnome comes in at 2.32. There's a also a pile of updates to applications, including Empathy, RhythmBox, Amarok, Totem, Evince and Shotwell. For developers, GTK 3
Anyone who's been around technology knows that over time you get more for less. Whether it's more GB, more GHz, more pixels, it's a side effect of Moore's Law and market forces. You always pay a premium for the new stuff but over time the price falls. Sometimes, it's not always readily apparent how much it falls. Perhaps it's because
News360 If you are a a big fan of Flipboard on the iPad then you may want to take a look at News360 . News360 is a news aggregator created by a Russian start up company based in Moscow. At this time it collects from 500 sources, but is expected to increase to 1,000 sources soon. It uses artificial intelligence
I spend a few moments talking about the technical portions of the Charlie Sheen show on Ustream. Considering the train wreck that happened on their inaugural show on Saturday makes me proud of all the new media creators that produce their own shows, and do so with 50x the professionalism of what I observed Saturday night. I have a new
My team at RawVoice this morning released version 2.0 of the PowerPress Podcast plugin for WordPress. The work committed to this update was well over 1 month of coding. I have been running the beta here at Geek News Central for several weeks, and many of you have already commented on the new video player experience as being superior to
HP today announced the new all-in-one HP Omni Pro 110 PC and it certainly seems to be a good compromise between features and looks, well suited for the business environment. It's got a 20" widescreen (1600 x 900) anti-glare display, stereo speakers, webcam and microphone and comes with a choice of Pentium or Core 2 processors, paired with up to
G Data's been busy. After releasing their malware protection for Android, they've also extended their safety net into the internet. G Data's CloudSecurity is a free browser plug-in designed to block phishing sites and protect against websites pushing malware. The plug-in can be used with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer and it's available as a free download from free-cloudsecurity.com. CloudSecurity
There's no doubt that some pieces of technology can be beautiful in themselves, but the supporting accessories in terms of power strips and cables can rarely be described as attractive. One solution is to disguise an ugly thing as something else, and that's what's happening here. Inbook disguises iPhone and iPod chargers within a vintage book. Placed discretely on a
One of the challenges with creating video in this day, is that you have to encode several formats of video to cover all browsers and devices. I have worked very hard to minimize the number of encodes I need to make each week due to the time involved. While there are several online services that I could upload master media
When I was a kid my dad worked for a small airplane company that had some big government contracts. He spent a lot of time traveling to foreign countries delivering planes and teaching air force pilots there about them. A lot of those countries experienced regime changes soon after his departure. It was so obvious that we teased him about
So yesterday I headed down to my nearest big box store to pick up a new mouse. After looking around and playing with various mice and not being really happy with any of them. I started looking and playing with the Apple Magic Trackpad and I liked the way it felt, so I picked it up instead. I have had it for about twenty-four hours and so far I believe I have made the right decision. It was super easy to set up. Turn on Bluetooth in System Preference of the Mac, make the trackpad discoverable and within two minutes or less you are ready to go. You can set how fast you want the swipe and track to be. You have presets for one to four finger swipes,. which you can turn on or off based on your likes and needs. The available set up is as follows:
As I continue to live in a world of both Android and iOS apps, I have a few observations. These should serve as lessons for would-be app designers. The most useful apps are those that take a single to narrow range of tasks that can be accomplished conventionally on a computer browser and squeeze them down into a simple interface
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