KDE 4.3.0 is out, and it is a great release. It is unlikely that any one specific thing will strike the user as the most noticeable improvement; rather, the overall user experience of KDE has improved greatly in KDE 4.3.0. The release’s codename, Caizen, is a Japanese philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all [...]
By default, Firefox (or Swiftfox) crashes when trying to view a full-screen video on say… YouTube. At least for me it used to crash until I found a fix. If that is the case for you also, you may want to read on.
Okay this has been a problem since the release of 3.5 (32 [...]
Sometimes Firefox can become a real memory hog, especially if you keep it running for hours and have many tabs opened. In order to make Firefox a little more responsive and save some RAM memory, here are three tweaks I bumped into over time. Notice that most of these tips only free up some memory [...]
When it comes to the world of graphics, Adobe’s Photoshop and Illustrator and DTP applications such as Quark and InDesign, stand head and shoulders above the rest and are the defacto standards for graphics professionals. But they’re not open source, even if a little Wine hacking gets them running. If you’re committed to doing your [...]
At the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver BC, hackers were invited to find and exploit holes in modern browsers. A popular target for hackers at this year’s conference was Safari on a Mac — definitely the lowest hanging fruit.
Charlie Miller explains that it’s not whether a product has holes (all of them do), its how [...]
Recent developments in the OpenChange and KDE open source projects are set to bridge a “missing link” in messaging and groupware compatibility from Microsoft’s Exchange to open source clients. Many open source groupware suites lay claim to this holy grail of interoperability, but the software to synchronise address book, task and calendar information with Exchange [...]
After the tech bubble burst, E*Trade’s technology chief, Lee Thompson, needed to find a way to do more with less. In 2001 and 2002, the online stock trading company shrank its tech budget by one-third. "We had to go through and figure out every penny that we were spending and make alternatives to reduce [...]
Mozilla has advised Firefox customers not to try add-ons classed as "experimental," such as the recently released China Channel, because they could cause computer problems. Firefox add-ons allow users to personalize their browsing and add additional features, and because Firefox is open source, many of these add-ons are thought up by third-party developers. Add-ons [...]
Starting to answer the clamorous demand from open-source fans, Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software. Linux has moved more rapidly than Windows or Mac OS X to support 64-bit processors, in part because the developer-friendly [...]
Here is a article that I found and I thought that a few of you folks would like to peruse it and see what is out there that even you might not have used as of yet. Some are old favorites and others are not so well known, Baldy
The area of open source security [...]