<img src=”graphics/linspire6desktopsmall.jpg” align=left class=displaypics>Ubuntu-based Linspire 6.0 includes CNR service, proprietary software and Microsoft technology. It also bundles in Microsoft patent covenants following a deal with the software giant last year.
Link to Linspire 6.0 desktop Linux released

KnowledgeTree has announced a new web based document management service, KnowledgeTreeLive, offering all the functionality of their on-premise solution on a secure host which can be accessed from anywhere via the Web.
Link to KnowledgeTree launches web based service

Mandriva Linux 2008 has been released this week. Packaged with all the latest open source software goodies, the new release also addresses a number of hardware compatibility issues.
Link to Mandriva Linux 2008 released

Those that love to live on the bleeding edge of Linux will be pleased to hear that the Linux Kernel 2.6.23 was <a href=”http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1790″>released yesterday</a>.
Link to Linux kernel 2.6.23 released

Yesterday was just unlucky. Not only did a server crash at work, but the How-To Geek Vista gadget just stopped working. After learning how to debug sidebar gadgets (more on that later) I finally found the problem: Our gadget had been blocked by Feedburner.
I followed up with them and they confirmed that they had blocked […]

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Microsoft has teamed up with voice recognition software firm Nuance to develop its own hands-free text software for use with Microsoft Sync. The software would allow users to dictate SMS messages and possibly emails later on down the line. This would undoubtedly result in far less cellphone-related accidents, not to mention instances where I […]

Blank CD’s are on their way out as a day to day storage medium, and by the looks of things they don’t make for a very comfortable chair either. The inexplicably titled “Panda Chair” was designed by Belen Hermosa using hundreds of disks lined in rows. It may be uncomfortable, but I suppose lying on […]

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While at least some of you out there have likely already put the new Vista SP1 beta through its paces, those less fortunate (or more so, depending on your perspective) can now get a full report of what’s in store courtesy of the folks at PC Magazine, who’ve now provided a full […]

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It looks like Vista isn’t the only OS Microsoft is working to improve, with the folks at Neosmart now reporting that a beta of Windows XP SP3 Build 3205 has been sent out to a select group of testers. Apparently, it includes more than a thousand patches and hotfixes, some of which […]