In Microsoft's continued effort to pay people to use their products, they are "burying" $10,000 somewhere on the web and will be giving clues out, but IE 8 (or Firefox + the user-agent switcher plugin) are the only browsers capable of finding the clues. In fact, if you go to the page with a different browser, it will make fun of you:
Chrome: "But you'll never find it using tarnished Chrome."

Perhaps you have a habit of pasting small yellow pieces of notes all over your table just to remind you to do a particular task. In this technological era, that is soon becoming obsolete. Let us take a look at some of the various sticky note applications that are available in Linux.

Typical Linux desktop options like KDE and GNOME limit the way computer users interact with the applications and programs on their systems. There's not much to do beyond opening and closing an app, and moving or resizing a window. The development team behind Étoilé is building a desktop interface that aims to stand that idea on its head.

The Interactive Computing Lab at ENAC, Toulouse have collaborated with the Linux developers to add the native multitouch support in Linux Kernel.

In Karmic Koala (9.10), though, Ubuntu seems to be shifting more towards the Windows 7 style... The plan is apparently to offer, in addition to the default wallpaper, a selection of more diverse alternative wallpapers, including photographs, which is a first for Ubuntu.

Fedora developer Jon Stanley has announced that the 10th of July, 2009 will be the end-of-life date for Fedora 9, code named Sulphur.

Most of us tend towards the latest and greatest, and the fattest and baddest. We are sucked into the upgrade cycle and the relative bloat that goes with it, "Two gigabytes of RAM, and is that really enough?" The nomadic tiny Linux distributions offer a different kind of experience.

GNOME 2.26.1, the desktop version that comes essentially as the default with Fedora 11 is like an old friend; an old friend with a couple of extra benefits.