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Apple design guru Jonathan Ive has been knighted at Buckingham Palace. He said he's "both humbled and sincerely grateful" for the "absolutely thrilling honour," according to the "BBC" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18171093). In 2005, Ive was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE). Another figure being honored by Princess Anne on Wednesday include Sir Peter Bazalgette, of Endemol, the TV company behind Big Brother, who is being knighted for services to broadcasting. Read More | View Original Article
Meet Google, Your New Hardware Supplier
Is Google poised to become one of your major hardware suppliers? Before you dismiss such an idea, keep close tabs on Google’s recent buyout of Motorola Mobility plus the upcoming Google I/O conference, where plenty of news involving Google Android tablets, Google Chromebooks and smartphones may surface. [url=http://www.thevarguy.com/2012/05/23/google-goog-your-new-hardware-supplier/]Here's the update[/url]. Read More | View Original Article
Canonical Makes Rare X.Org/Wayland Contribution
While Canonical is known -- and commonly criticized -- for not investing in making heavy, low-level upstream Linux contributions, today a set of patches intended for upstream were published by a Canonical engineer concerning XWayland support... Read More | View Original Article
VirtualBox 4.1.16 has been released!
VirtualBox 4.1.16 has been released!, this is a maintenance release that comes to fix several bugs. Install VirtualBox 4.1.16 Open terminal and enter the following command: . . . sudo -vecho "deb... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read More | View Original Article
OpenMoko's New Endeavor: Giving Out IDs
With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses... Read More | View Original Article
How To Configure Apache To Use Radius For Two-Factor Authentication On Ubuntu 12.04
HowToForge: This document describes how to add WiKID two-factor authentication to Apache 2.2.22 using mod_auth_radius on Ubuntu 12.04. Read More | View Original Article
Mictlan | Gnome Shell – Cinnamon Theme
Mictlan is one of the most elegant and carefully designed Gnome-Shell themes and Gtk 3 themes I’ve ever seen. It reminds me of the elegance that you get from the Enlightenment desktop... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read More | View Original Article
Open source driving cloud, big data, mobile, survey finds
Open source continues to make big strides, and leads in key growth segments including cloud, big data, mobile applications and enterprise mobility, according to a survey published yesterday. At the launch of the Open Source Business Conference, two key backers in the open source space, Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, issued their sixth annual survey results including key findings and challenges for open source in 2012. Read More | View Original Article
Norton launches iAntiVirus on Mac App Store
Norton by Symantec released iAntivirus, a free app that protects Macs from malware and viruses. It requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher and is available at the Mac App Store. It's an on-demand virus and malware scanner that provides basic protection for Mac users through an user interface that leverages gestures to navigate the various application features. iAntivirus also scans the user's Facebook wall for malicious links for added protection against online fraud. Read More | View Original Article
ZDnet: An essential Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X administration tool had a major security problem. It has been fixed, and now you need to patch your system ASAP. Read More | View Original Article
AMD Radeon Catalyst: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Now having compared the graphics driver performance between Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 Linux for the NVIDIA driver with the GeForce GTX 680 and the multi-platform Intel performance for Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, here's a look at the AMD Catalyst driver performance with the Radeon HD 7950 graphics card when running between Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Read More | View Original Article
QuickerTek rolls out Little Black Box for the iPad
QuickerTek has announced the Little Black Box II universal external battery (http://www.quickertek.com/products/lbb_II.php) . It costs approximately US$100 and purportedly adds 10 more hours of battery life to the iPad. The Little Black Box II also works with the iPhone, iPod touch, all 30-pin iPodds and most USBS devices. LEDs indicate the charge status, and an on/off switch conserves power. Even the batteries themselves are user-replaceable. Read More | View Original Article
Geary: A Simple Email Client For Linux That Supports Threaded Conversation
here are plenty of email desktop clients for Linux. Some are being integrated into the distro (such as Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) and used as the default email client while others require you to install manually. Geary belongs to the latter. Read More | View Original Article
SlateShield introduces new iPad 360 case
SlateShield (http://www.SlateSHIELD.com) has introduced the 360 case for the iPad. It's an integrated iPad case with its patent-pending collapsible handle design and slide-out integrated stand. Read More | View Original Article
Stellar Phoenix releases PDF Repair 1 for OS X
Stellar Data Recovery (http://www.stellarinfo.com/) has launched PDF Repair for Mac, a tool that repairs corrupt or damage portable document format, PDF. The software sports features that restore all PDF items, including header, footer, charts, hyperlinks, bookmarks, and comments. PDF Repair scans and repairs your corrupt PDF files using algorithms and can even repair back PDF files stored in your CD-ROM, according to Sunil Chandna, CEO of Stellar Data Recovery. Read More | View Original Article
Mageia: We're the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2! Read More | View Original Article
CueTab releases iPad cases, covers
CueTab has announced the debut of a new of a new case for the iPad 2 and new iPad. It's designed for both use at home and use on the go. The iPad cover itself is molded to the device, leaving all ports and buttons free, according to the CueTab Case designers. An adjustable kickstand, attached to the back of the CueTab, adds security to the device, notably for the viewing in either portrait or landscape modes. read more Read More | View Original Article
Pliaton rolls out BTNC Bluetooth Stereo headphones
Phiaton Corp. (http://www.phiaton.com/) has debuted its US$159 PS 210 BTNC Bluetooth Stereo Earphone, which the company says combines wireless Bluetooth technology with "dramatically improved" audio performance. The PS 210 BTNC’s enhanced noise canceling technology neutralizes up to 95% of ambient background noise, according to the folks at Phiaton. You can plug the wireless earphones into most portable music players with a 3.5mm output. Read More | View Original Article
VirtualBox 4.1.16 Has Support for Linux Kernel 3.4
Oracle announced a few minutes ago, May 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the popular VirtualBox 4.1.16 virtualization software. Read More | View Original Article
Customizable iPhone, iPod touch case, app combo available
Griffin Technology (http://www.griffintechnology.com/) and Crayola have teamed up for Crayola Case Creator (http://www.griffintechnology.com/crayola), a protective case and app combo that lets users create one-of-a-kind cases for the iPhone and iPod touch. read more Read More | View Original Article
Deal Spotlight: Stock Keeper for OS X
Today's special deal is Stock Keeper for Mac OS X. It's being offered for US$9.99; the regular price is $19. To take advantage of this special pricing go to http://mupromo.com/deal/1866/6603 . Read More | View Original Article
Mac OS X software updates for May 23
Here are the latest incremental updates for Mac OS X apps. AKVIS (http://www.akvis.com) has announced the update of five programs: Retoucher, Coloriage, HDRFactory, NatureArt and MakeUp. All of these products are available in two variants: as plug-ins and as standalone applications, on Windows and Macintosh. Bugs have been fixed, and the plug-in versions are now compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS6. Registered users can upgrade to the newest versions for free. Read More | View Original Article
Simon Phipps is the new OSI President
The Open Source Initiative has announced that the Board has chosen new officers for a one year term and that Simon Phipps is the new President of the organisation. The appointment was made at the OSI meeting in Chicago over the weekend. Phipps told The H that his "focus for the year is to enable that transformation into an organisation fulfilling the first paragraph of OSI's mission and led by those it seeks to represent". Read More | View Original Article
Mageia is very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2, our100% community-driven Linux distribution with users and contributors from countries all over the world. Read More | View Original Article
ownCloud 4 Advances Open Source Storage
Datamation: Open source competitor to Dropbox expands with new file versioning capabilities. Read More | View Original Article
Announcing the Make Play Live Partner Network
In the wake of the announcement of the first ever KDE powered tablet, quite a few interesting things are happening in the background. One of them is the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. Let's look at this Partner Network in more detail. Read More | View Original Article
Hadoop – The Small Application for Big Data
Back in December 2011, data-intensive Linux users rejoiced as Apache Hadoop reached its 1.0.0 milestone. Setting a benchmark for distributed computing software, this wonderful little program is now into release 1.0.3 but what is Hadoop and how can you benefit from using it? Designed with ‘web-scale’ operations in mind, Hadoop can handle massive amounts of information, allowing you to quickly and efficiently process volumes of data that other systems simply cannot handle. But that’s just the beginning. Read More | View Original Article
VIA Is Still At It: They Launched A $49 ARM PC
While fading away to irrelevancy, VIA is still around and actually releasing new hardware. Though this isn't some new VIA x86 quad-core CPU but rather VIA Technologies is now entering the ARM and Android space. The product they announced on Tuesday is a $49 Android PC... Read More | View Original Article
The Open-Source Graphics Card Is Dead
The effort to create an open-source graphics card suffered a premature and quiet death some time ago... Read More | View Original Article
The Linux USB Library Has Been Forked
Libusb has been forked as libusbx and it appears this library for user-space USB data transfers on Linux and other operating systems is gaining traction... Read More | View Original Article
