The Rockbox project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Rockbox 3.1. This marks the first release following Rockbox' new quarterly release schedule.

Ubuntu Linux 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex, is the most popular Linux distribution available for installing on your PC, thanks to its steadily improving hardware compatibility and installation software, along with a wealth of free applications and utilities that run on any version of Linux.

Novell Inc.'s openSUSE project is becoming more open, as a new release due out Thursday includes licensing changes that make it easier to redistribute the Linux operating system, as well as a build service that will encourage more contributions from open-source developers.

Inspired by Spicebird (http://www.spicebird.com/content/home-screen), and the default page for a new tab in Google Chrome, we've developed a mockup of a possible dashboard concept for OpenOffice.org. By tying more effectively into the always-on nature of web applications, we could stand out and demonstrate that we are more modern and more advanced than our competitors.

Managing buddies on a few online social networks isn't too much of a hassle, but throw in your contact list from instant messaging platforms and online apps and services like Flickr, Digg, and Twitter, and you have a contact list that'd rival that of Kevin Bacon.

Over the course of recent years, some people have found the quality of most out-of-the-store firewall appliances either lacking functionality or worse, set at a price that has made them generally out of reach.

This morning I went to find the name of a piece of software through Add/Remove programs, only to find that there was only one category ("All") and there were no applications listed at all. It took me less than 10 minutes to find and implement the solution, but I shouldn't have to deal with this stuff. Worse, I find that these sorts of little problems are almost common.

In my family, I’m the tech nerd. I get this from my father, from whom I’ve learned so much, from our early days tinkering in the basement on our office-tan 1994 Dell desktop, seeing if we could get DOOM to run.