Operating Systems

Does Google Have a Secret OS?

InternetNews: "Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft's operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not...

ProfilMail

If you have a Windows Mobile Treo then you may wish to take a look at ProfilMail I discovered it on my Palminfocenter RSS feed. "Lonely Cat Games has released version 3.0 of its ProfilMail email client for Windows Mobile...

Modify ICal Events in 10.5 via Drag-and-drop

As much as I dislike the event info window in OS X 10.5's version of iCal--I dislike it enough that it made my list of Leopard annoyances--anything I can do to make working with that window simpler is a win in my book. In that...

Netflix Movie Downloads Come to Linux PCs

DeviceGuru: "Boxee announced today that it has added Netflix video downloads -- including the ability to browse Netflix's media library from within Boxee -- to its A/V media center platform for Linux, Mac, and (soon) Windows PCs."

Android Stalks Steve Jobs (at Motley Fool)

By Tim Beyers December 4, 2008 | Comments (0) Linux on the iPhone? Yep. I've just seen the video at gadget blog Gizmodo. The geek in me is thrilled with this. How cool would it be to have Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Android OS...

TIP: Switching Soundcards In Ubuntu

Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "If you have multiple soundcards in your system and have to switch between them regularly...you would definitely be under-whelmed by the less-than-stellar performance of ubuntu in switching...

Platypus for Palm OS v1.00

Platypus for Palm OS v1.00This is an updated program."Based on the cult classic for PC and Mac, Platypus is a fast, frantic and fun side-scrolling arcade shooter with a difference - the entire game is made from clay! The vast...

Go-OO: The Best Office Suite You Never Knew You Used

Linux.com: "If you run Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, or Mandriva, among other distributions, then whenever you run OpenOffice.org you don't run the "official" version, but rather Go-OO, an office suite based on the OpenOffice.org...

Debian Takes AGPL Software into Main

Linux Magazine: "The GNU Affero Public License tries to get around an issue that the usual GPL doesn't address: many in the Internet age use free server and web service software that doesn't reside on their computers."

Jack Keane comes to Mac OS X

Freeverse and Runesoft have launched a Mac compatible version of the Jack Keane, an action, adventure and mystery game where players must lead Jack through the dangers of Tooth Island. Jack Keane contains over 250 findable...