Jolidrive is not a standalone service, but rather, an interface that makes it easy to access all those Cloud storageservices. In other words, it’s a service interface to other services.
Read more »EU Commission fines Microsoft $731 million, but does it really matter?
That would have gotten everyone’s attention. A fine of $731m USD sounds like a lot of money, but to an outfit like Microsoft, Apple, and Google, it’s chump change. If you want to send a message, make it hurt the other party at the receiving end.
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Triple-boot Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora 18 on one HDD
That single-point-of-failure issue is the sole case, and a very important one, against setting up a multi-boot system on one HDD. Aside from that, nothing prevents you from installing as many operating systems on one HDD that it can hold.
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Zap GPT data structures from a disk, while preserving existing MBR partitions
Using GPT partitions, or a GPT partitioning scheme, takes care of the shortcomings of the MBR partitioning scheme. However, if you are not careful, it could make things difficult...
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LG acquires webOS from HP
Now that LG has acquired it from HP, we’ll just have to wait and see what LG’s game plan will be. We do know, from the announcement, that LG intends to use webOS to power its smart TV’s.
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Kademar 5 preview
Kademar is Debian-based Linux distribution, with KDE as the default desktop. The first beta of what would be Kademar 5 was released a few days ago.
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Slate 7 Android tablet from HP for $169
Announced at the ongoing Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, the Slate 7 Android tablet is HP’s first consumer-level tablet device since the failed webOS-powered Touchpad
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Dual-boot Fedora 18 and Windows 7, with full disk encryption configured on both OSs
The dual-boot system will be on a single hard disk drive (HDD), GRUB will be installed in Fedora’s boot partition, and Truecrypt will be used to encrypt the Windows 7 end of the installation.
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Ubuntu Touch – SDK alpha and preview images released
Ubuntu Touch is the umbrella name for Ubuntu for Phone and Ubuntu for Tablets. Both platforms were released this year, with the latter coming just a few days ago.
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CoolShip Android all-in-keyboard computer
But this one is unlike other Android units. It’s not in a USB stick, but in a keyboard with most of the connectivity of a standard desktop or notebook computer.
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How to setup Fast and Reliable Public DNS for Ubuntu Linux
Fast and Free Public DNS Servers are available. It will increase the browsing speed.
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Chromebook Pixel: Wow!
With the same type of touch-screen available on most smartphones – Gorilla® Glass from Qualcomm, the Chromebook Pixel is a touch ahead other touch-capable computers available. But all that high-end features and higher-end price tag means this is not one Chromebook I’m going to buy just to see if I can install my favorite Linux distribution on it.
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Ubuntu on tablets: Who’s on board?
Ubuntu on tablets is the latest Ubuntu platform from Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution. Barely two months ago, the company announced Ubuntu for smartphones. Before that, was Ubuntu for TV and before that, too, was Ubuntu for Android.
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Built-in PDF reader for Firefox released
Firefox PDF reader for Firefox Web browser might just be the add-on that put Adobe’s acrobat PDF reader out of business.
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Sabayon 11 GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce preview
This article provides screen shots from test installations of the released desktop environments – GNOME 3, KDE, MATE, and Xfce.
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