There are plenty of textbooks and teaching materials that can help you to learn foreign languages one way or another. Yet, there is no way to learn a foreign language without memorizing vocabulary and looking up words in a dictionary.

This weekend I suffered a meltdown of my workstation’s main hard drive. The drive help my Windows Vista Ultimate install, which in turn held several hundred pictures, music files, movies etc., not to mention all the games and utilities that I had installed over the years.

No one would argue that maps are useful. However, creating even a simple interactive map ready to be published on the Web can be a real hassle. Fortunately, there is worldKit, a Flash-based light-weight geographical information system (GIS) distributed under GPL.

Collecting and organizing disparate pieces of data on the hard disk and from the web can be a real challenge. Fortunately, there are two utilities that help to collect and organize “stuff” in a structured fashion.

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VLC media player features a deceptively simple interface that doesn't require a degree in rocket science to operate. That doesn't mean, however, that VLC is a simplistic application: it has a few tricks up its sleeve, which can significantly extend its functionality and your user experience. Here are a couple of VLC's nifty features you might want to try.

"John Resig did a presentation at Google on Best Practices in Javascript Library Design. The presentation has some great information on creating solid libraries in JavaScript..."

Technalign, developers of both the community and commercial Pioneer Linux operating systems, recently announced the release of Pioneer Explorer 1.0 and the Programs folder.