Lots of governments, businesses and individuals are turning to FOSS during the global recession, according to a recently-released study. But how do you go about it? Do you stick a toe in the water, or dive in head-first to your new FOSS computing environment? This article helps new users think out the steps for migrating to Free Software, and gives a couple of examples.

One problem does remain. Many of the texts that provide the information needed to learn how to work with multiple processors are written in language that the average human doesn’t understand. With C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming this problem is also relieved.

Since releasing an experimental new tab page for Firefox a week ago, we’ve got a lot of great feedback. For the past week we’ve been using the feedback as a springboard for designing the next iteration.

Microsoft has made a business out of selling licenses to run software that can be copied at no marginal cost, this everybody knows. Essentially, they manufacture software, but their product isn’t computer code, it’s legal code. Contracts.

To take advantage of the excellent Linux development environment, you need to have the right tools. Here’s a rundown of some of the best ones out there and the features they have to offer.

Handing out business cards is an important form of networking. Follow this how-to by opening the blank business card template and make you own business cards easily.

In January 2000, T-Online asked us what we’d do if we could design a browser from scratch. Our answer was “Tabs”. Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: “Forget tabs!”

Mozilla had planned to release its new "Shiretoko" version of Firefox in early 2009, but with the scale of changes made to the open-source browser, a date halfway through the year now looks more realistic.