January 19, 2008 by Brad.

New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in notebook storage.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you are in Linux, but not the other way round. This guide shows 3 ways to access your Linux partitions from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable File System for Windows.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you’ll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who’s next? MSN!

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

The command line. It strikes fear in the hearts of many a new Linux user. They open their terminals reluctantly, and there the prompt sits, with the cursor blinking in rhythm with their racing hearts… All right, so maybe it’s not horror movie material. But it is intimidating for many new users.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

Well, for those of you who hate the pain of cell-phone charging, there is now a promising new technology that could get rid of the messy problem of cellphone chargers once and for all, AND eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the toxic heavy metals that are currently found in cell-phone batteries.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

“Due to its ultra-thin profile, Apple’s new MacBook Air was designed with an integrated 37-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery that is not user-replaceable. Though this has caused some initial concern amongst potential adopters, AppleInsider has learned that the replacement process is quite trivial.”

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January 19, 2008 by Brad.

What KDE 4 does best is give users the ability to almost completely re-design their desktops, putting their programs, icons and useful widgets wherever they see fit, on as many desktops as they want, to create their ideal workspace. I spent some time exploring the features of the less-than-week-old system, the results of which are after the jump

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