Tuesday - December 23, 2008
PicSay is one of the winners of the Android Developer Challenge, a contest Google set up to get a batch of decent apps into the Market in time for its launch. Cash prizes went to the devs who built the coolest apps for the platform. It's just an entertaining little app -- it's not likely you'll be using it for anything productive. It does make decent use of the resources available to everyone: photos and the phone's touchscreen. PicSay is pretty cartoony, but this app is all about silly fun.
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Friday - December 19, 2008
A quiet battle of sorts is taking place behind the scenes in the software industry. Software as a Service and cloud computing have evolved, placing much more attention on Web-based applications. This greater focus has also raised expectations for the services delivered via Web 2.0.
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Thursday - December 18, 2008
Enterprise application whitelisting company Bit9 launched an attention-getting press release last week, a document which merely bubbled for a few days until the recent Internet Explorer flaw took center stage and Mozilla pushed out a few Firefox updates. Eventually, the heat under the issue boiled over, prompting Mozilla to tackle the Bit9 report on its Mozilla Security Blog.
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Friday - December 12, 2008
I recently promised you a strategy for a long-term exploration and transition to Linux and open source. This plan is for home use; organizational Linux is another issue. You also can follow this strategy to get some idea of how well a netbook will work before shelling out big bucks.
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Thursday - December 11, 2008
Google released the 15th update for its Chrome Web browser and officially ended the beta testing phase for the application Thursday. With some 10 million active users and 14 prior updates under its belt, the browser has improved its stability and performance in just 100 days, according to Google.
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Tuesday - December 9, 2008
Mozilla released the second beta for its Firefox 3.1 Web browser to testers Monday. The latest release comes just seven weeks after the open source software maker launched the first beta of the version currently in the works. Available in 54 languages, Firefox 3.1 beta 2 includes both major and incremental changes, according to Mozilla.
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Monday - December 1, 2008
Well, the holiday season is upon us once again, and that means it's the beginning of what, for many geeks, is a time of unnatural, enforced, repeated and prolonged socialization. Yes, it can be an uncomfortable time for those of us who aren't perky, extroverted cheerleader-types, and we here at LinuxInsider are no exception.
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Saturday - November 29, 2008
The battle of the operating systems is intensifying in Nepal, and it looks like free open source software like Linux is emerging as a viable alternative to commercial software. People usually are only too happy to grab anything labeled "free," but free and open source software was finding it difficult to make much headway against the commercial giants.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
"Cloud computing is not magical, but it is more economical, more easily scaled and more easily managed," said Lance Walley, chief executive officer of Engine Yard, a hosting and infrastructure support company for Ruby on Rails applications. It's getting more so, too. That's because it's so practical, more applications are sure to appear every year.
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Monday - November 24, 2008
Thanksgiving may still be around the corner, but already Linux users have something to be thankful for. Yes, Adobe apparently saw the writing on the wall at last, and last week released a 64-bit version of Flash for Linux. The righteous have been rewarded! The news made no small splash on the Linux blogs, as one might expect, with geeks far and wide praising the new technology.
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