A small group of programmers plans to breathe new life into the Napster-spawned OpenNap protocol that was designed to help dejected music fans share files using similar technology after the official Napster servers blinked off.

Here's how to set up a system with pretty graphs to track your practice time and display it at your Wordpress site! I'm using mine to track the time I spend each day on four different categories of practice, and also show my progress toward the goal of 10,000 hours of total practice.

I went to a Win7 party, the host agreed to install copies of Win7, Fedora, openSUSE, and OSX. And yes, they were more impressed by how fast and how many programs that were ready to run, but because it didn't run Photoshop - they were willing to pay the $320 for Windows.

Need to find all the photos you took in France? You can use the Map Searches sidebar to do just that, provided your photos have been geotagged.

Widelands is an open source (works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX) real-time strategy game, built upon the SDL and other open source libraries. If you knew Settlers I & II (Bluebyte), then you already have a rough idea what Widelands is all about because Widelands is heavily inspired by those two games.

You probably know that to use a Launchpad PPA repository, you must also import the GPG key. Lately, keyserver.ubuntu.com which we need to import the GPG key goes down quite often, so how can we solve this?

You won't find a better media center than the open-source XBMC, but most people don't have the space or desire to plug a noisy PC into their TV. Instead, I converted a cheap nettop into a standalone XBMC set-top box. Here's how.

Arguably gaming is the one place in which Linux is sorely lacking. Very few titles release with a native installer for this platform and as such many say gaming is impossible on Linux. This is just not true.