Linux only: Whenever you’ve installed a package using apt, Synaptic, or any other package management system, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that your package of choice’s dependencies are installed…
Link to Linux Tip: Use Synaptic Package Manager to remove abandoned packages

Linux only: Free open-source app Tilda creates customizable terminal sessions in Linux. Tilda provides the same functionality as many other popular Linux terminal applications such as Gnome…
Link to Featured Linux Download: Customizable terminal sessions with Tilda

Linux only: Free open-source app Awn is an application dock for Linux. Awn allows you to setup custom launchers exactly the same way it’s done on the Mac OS X Dock. Additionally, Awn supports the…
Link to Featured Linux Download: Awn Linux application dock

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Apple Patches Bugs In QuickTime … AgainInformationWeek - 13 hours agoFor the second time this month, Apple released a security update to fix vulnerabilities in its QuickTime media player. By Sharon Gaudin.Apple patches QuickTime second time this month ComputerworldApple Fixes Serious QuickTime Bug PC WorldHelp Net Security - Monsters and Critics.com - Register - TechNewsWorldall 48 […]

A new PC-to-mobile messaging concept allows for SMS and MMS messages to be created and sent via Outlook and Internet Explorer.
Link to Microsoft Outlook plug-ins enable SMS and MMS messaging

Google has quietly add some basic facial recognition technology to its image search. Filtering out search queries to only show faces is just the first step, though.
Link to Facial recognition slipped into Google image search

Everyone’s favorite photo-sharing web application, Flickr, has had tons of ancillary applications and user scripts developed for it to tweak, mod and add to its functionality. Dozens of Greasemonkey user scripts have popped up that make Flickr better; so I’ve rolled a few of my favorites into a new Firefox extension called Better Flickr
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A new report blasts Vista, saying that it’s “equally at peril” compared to Windows XP. The report is instructive but also contains some considerable flaws that show the difficulty of assessing Vista’s new security architecture.
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Link to Windows Vista no more secure than XP: report

Google has released a new set of programming interfaces called Google Gears that allow web developers to create applications that continue to work while offline, as well as a sample app that upgrades Google Reader.
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Link to Google “gears” up for offline web apps with new API, offline Reader

Apple on Wednesday announced the launch of iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and uni…

Link to Apple announces iTunes U on the iTunes Store