Google Lets You Custom-Print Millions of Public Domain Books.
Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the last seven years, Google has scanned millions of dusty tomes from deep in the stacks of the nation’s leading university libraries and turned them into searchable documents available anywhere in the world through its search box. more...

HP Sneaks Linux Onto New Laptops.
HP's new laptop will run Splashtop Linux, but the company seems to be having trouble admitting that. Except for Dell, the major PC vendors are reluctant to admit they actually sell and support Linux. For instance, HP, supports Linux quite well on its servers, but is very reluctant about supporting it on its desktops. Or, it seems they have trouble even admitting that they're now shipping DeviceVM's instant-on Splashtop Linux on their new notebook lines. more... and Hewlett Packard’s Linux Systems.

Linux-based picture frame adds Internet radio, widgets, multimedia.
HP announced an ARM-based digital picture frame enhanced with multimedia capabilities, Internet radio, and widget-based clients for services such as Facebook and Pandora. The HP DreamScreen provides a 10- or 13-inch display with 800 x 480 resolution, 2GB of RAM, WiFi, Ethernet, and dual card readers more...

Cisco Routers Powered By Linux.
At the heart of many Cisco enterprise routers is its IOS operating system. When it comes to small business, however, Cisco isn't pushing IOS, which it developed itself -- instead, the networking giant is new small business router is powered by Linux. more... and Cisco Pursues Small Business With Linux Routers.

Seagate Unveils Filesharing Hardware For The Home.
The FreeAgent DockStar works with its FreeAgent external hard drive and other USB-connected storage devices. It plugs into a router and makes all the content in connected drives available to all computers on the home network. In addition, the DockStar interface also makes all content on the network accessible through any computer with a Web browser and Internet access. more...

Using mobile phone as remote for Linux media players is fun!
Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux media players and mobile devices equipped with Bluetooth or WiFi. To put it simple you could actually use your mobile phone with bluetooth or Wifi as a remote control for linux media players like Amarok, Banshee, Totem, VLC and more. more...

Opera browser bids for America.
The founder of Opera has said despite its 100m worldwide users, they have a big job ahead conquering America. In the US, the latest figures by Net Applications showed Opera is 5th in the market with a 2% share behind Microsoft, Apple, Google and Firefox. more...

Undead COBOL celebrates (another) 50th birthday.
In May 1959, during a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., the US Department of Defense organized a committee charged with developing a "short range" approach to a common business computing language. And on September 18th of that year, the new Short Range Committee coined the name COBOL, short for Common Business-Oriented Language. more...

Ubuntu Artwork team starts delivering - Four cool themes and two icon sets to start with!
Ubuntu Artwork team finally starts delivering. Although Ubuntu have been the most popular distro for a pretty long time now, it really need to put in a lot of work on enhancing look and feel. more...

My preference for cross-platform applications leads me to Scribus for desktop publishing.
While I've known about the free, open-source desktop publishing application Scribus, until I happened across this article today I didn't know that Scribus is a cross-platform program that runs not just in Linux/Unix but also on computers using the Macintosh OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. more...

Misc.
KOffice to be Used in Next Generation Smart Phone.
Ubuntu 10.04 The Lucid Lynx. Shuttleworth says it won't stink.
GIMP 2.8 and its (huge) improvements to the User Interface!
Sugar on a Stick and wiki.
Gnome 3 – A Quick Visual Tour.
The path to GNOME 3.0.

How To Tips.

How To GNOME Hotkeys.
How To Customize your Clonezilla Live CD.
How To Install Android sdk 1.6 on Ubuntu 9.04.
How To C++ : Understanding pointers.
How To Sophisticated Picture Taking With gPhoto.
How To Take Screenshots With Shutter.

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