There are many great photo and graphic software for a nice amount of dollars out there, but finding the few good applications that are also free is harder.
Here are a few good ones – both the online version and those you install on your desktop.

At times it feels like the ad industry is constantly besieged by bad news: Budgets are getting trimmed, mass audiences are splintering into niches, display ad click-through rates are at all-time lows and no one has figured out the social-media equation just yet.

Multiple people can be be doing several things each, all while logged into a single machine. With the rise of multi-user systems came a growing need for security and privacy.

Arista Transcoder is an easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. I really like it because it comes with presets for iPod, computer, DVD player, PSP, Playstation 3, etc., kind of like Mobile Media Converter but the best part is that you can see a live preview of the encoding so that you'll know the quality of the video before it's ready.

The first One Hundred Paper Cuts milestone was completed on time! Ten Ubuntu paper cuts and one Kubuntu paper cut were fixed.

Having recently upgraded to Jaunty, I thought it might be time to give KDE another try. I have been a little tough on KDE in the past, but I have always maintained it has potential. Time to see if 4.2 can finally deliver!

The release of Fedora 11 promises numerous new improvements. One such improvement is an updated and more efficient package manager. How does it compare to the previous release, version 10?

The developers behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution aim to significantly improve boot performance. Their ambitious goal for 2010 is to reduce total boot time to 10 seconds.