101 Fantastic Freebies for your PC

Want to make your PC more productive, secure, informative, and entertaining? These downloads and services will do the trick--and they don't cost a dime.



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Create your own comic strip with ToonDoo

What better way to waste time then to create a cartoon. Who cares if you have no skills, ToonDoo will help you out.



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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

The OpenOffice.org Community announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.2, the latest version of the leading open-source office suite. With upgrades to its word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, and database software.



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15 Javascript Snippets You Can't Live Without

"You either love Javascript or you hate it. Either way it can provide great functionality that users love. And it doesn't have to affect usability. Here are my top 15 Javascript snippits for making great sites that bit extra special."



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Turn Wall Into "Firewall" With Anti-Wifi Paint

Is your neighbor leeching off your Wi-Fi connection and stealing your bandwidth? A company called EM-SEC Technologies claims to have tested a new paint that BLOCKS WI-FI SIGNALS.



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Feds mandates 'secure' Windows set-up

Changes in US government purchasing policies due to come into effect this summer could have a huge effect on computer security, particularly for Windows desktops. A White House directive to federal chief information officers issued this week calls for all new Windows PC acquisitions, beginning 30 June, to use a common "secure configuration".



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Novell spoofs Mac vs. PC ads

The Unofficial Apple Weblog writes to say that Novell has gone viral with a spoof on the popular Apple commercials.



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Yahoo releases Widgets 4

The original cross-platform widget engine gets a makeover and nice set of new features and enhancements. Available for Mac and Windows. The Widget Dock is long over due for Mac users with Google or Vista sidebar envy.



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Flying Car Concept Takes Off In The Netherlands

The Dutch company PAL-V Europe BV plans to launch in 2009 a TRICYCLE HELICOPTER with wings that folds up so the vehicle can be used as a car. Called the PAL-V (short for Personal Air and Land Vehicle), the three-wheeled gyrocopter will lean into turns when driven on the road, go zero to 60 in five seconds and travel 340 miles on a tank of gas.



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Your Identity Has Been Stolen: a 24-Point Recovery Checklist

Over 700,000 people get their identity stolen every year in the US. This comprehensive tutorial will walk you through the steps that will help you recover your identity and restore your credit rating.



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Red Hat Plans Linux Desktop Offering 'for the Masses'

Red Hat is designing a new, packaged Linux desktop solution to push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution.



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Tutorial: AJAX Made Easy

A very simple tutorial explaining how to add AJAX functionality to your website with 3 easy steps. Helpful no matter what your technical expertise may be... from beginner to advanced.



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Linux Partitioning Schemes

Here's a short guide into the wonderful world of Linux partitions.



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Linux Prevents Obsolescence: Could Prevent Millions of Tons of E-Waste

A British study on the benefits of open source software has determined that Linux machines live 2X longer than Windows machines. The amount of computer waste in the world, it turns out, could be halved just by going Open Source!



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Headline of the Week (San Diego, CA)

"He was a happy guy," they're telling us, "but being dismembered ruined it."



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Calif. school district aims 5,000 desktops at Linux

A school district technology director is making wholesale changes in her employer's IT system by migrating most of 5,000 Windows desktops to a new setup based primarily on Linux-powered desktop PCs and thin clients. The change aims to reduce annual costs, offer many more applications, and use less energy.



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Word 2007: Lessons on usability

Although Microsoft says that the radical interface changes in Word 2007 are aimed at enhancing usability, not everyone is convinced that the goal has been met. Justin James analyzes several aspects of the redesign and offers a case in support of the changes.



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Welcome to Couchville

Couchville’s purpose is to be a simple TV listings website. In addition to being very usable and fast, there are a bunch of cool things about the site – one of them is the draggable program guide (kind of like Google Maps, but with your program guide) and easy to link to TV show pages for all of you bloggers



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Weather.com releases real-time weather for your street

The Interactive Weather Map can be viewed in either a "road view", or a satellite view, with different color blobs from greens to grays denoting the weather conditions.



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VMware puts a virtual machine in your pocket

VMware has announced a public beta test for a new version of its enterprise virtual machine program, which will allow IT managers to distribute VMs on USB thumb drives.



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The Great Firewall of China

Test any website and see in real-time if it's censored in China.



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Visuwords: online graphical dictionary

Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary — Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.



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Countdown to Confusion: Daylight Saving Time Comes Early This Year

Perhaps the worst that will happen in millions of offices on second Monday in March is that caffeine-deprived workers will wonder why their automatic coffeemakers failed to perk on schedule. In less lucky workplaces, employees might miss meetings, overbook conference rooms or inaccurately record the time or date of important financial transactions.



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Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument

A list of 70 things you can use to stump your opponent in a technical argument.



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Grocery Shopping on the Web

Von's is actually delivering out in the boonies!



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Learn Unix in 10 Minutes

Quick Unix tutorial on one page, nice place to start learning Unix.



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And California Makes Four

The big news of the day is that a legislator in California has decided that it is time to convince his colleagues that California should become the latest U.S. State to get on the open formats bandwagon. If the bill advances, it will the third such pieces of legislation to have been filed in recent weeks (the others are in Texas and Minnesota).



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The 25 Most Common Mistakes In Email Security

25 tips to bring new Internet users up to speed so they stop compromising your network security.



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Programmer Personality Test

A great test to take if you are a programmer. Similar to the Myer Briggs test.



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Will hardware manufacturers open the floodgates to free software adoption?

The Free Software Foundation has released a paper detailing the five actions major hardware manufacturers can take to foster a mutually beneficial relationship with the free software community: support free software drivers, end the “Microsoft Tax”, remove proprietary BIOS locks, support a free BIOS, and reject Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)



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The Weather Channel to offer truly Local weather maps

Coming Monday the Weather Channel will be releasing an interactive Web map that lets users zoom in to get a localized snapshot of current weather. That is, to see how it's affecting their neighborhood — not just the city as a whole.



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