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.

Ohio Linux Fest [September 25-27] Back to the Future of Linux!
Registration has been lighter than past years please forward this release to friends in the Ohio and surrounding areas. Columbus, Ohio The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio. more...

The 2.6.31 kernel is out.
Linus has released the 2.6.31 kernel. A few of the major features in 2.6.31 include performance counter support, the "fsnotify" notification infrastructure, kernel mode setting for ATI Radeon chipsets, the kmemleak tool, char drivers in user space support, USB 3 support, and much more. As always, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.31 page for a much more exhaustive list. more...

Quick Previews In Gnome & Ubuntu With Gloobus.
Gloobus is an extension of Gnome designed to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file. Gloobus currently supports the following files: TXT , PDF, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, PSD, MP3, OGG, MPG, WMV, XCF. Finally I can preview PSD and XCF files. more...

IBM punts free enterprise language tools.
IBM has begun offering a free version of its Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) tools, so developers can build dynamic web applications without getting their hands dirty using HTML or JavaScript. more...

Texas Judge Bans Microsoft From Selling Word in the U.S.
Microsoft also faces more damages over willful infringement Microsoft's Office 2003 and 2007 wove XML into Word, with the introduction of .docx, otherwise known as Office Open XML, as the format of choice. The new format brought an open standard and better storage to the application. Unfortunately, it also turned into one of the company's biggest legal headaches. more...

Dell Looks to Linux to Expand Netbook Presence.
In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. more...

MonoTouch 1.0 goes live.
MonoTouch is a commercial product based on Mono. The MonoTouch API is documented on the Mono site. The MonoTouch API is a combination of the core of .NET 3.5 and the iPhone APIs. We have created some tutorials on how to use MonoTouch and you can read the design documentation on the MonoTouch framework. more...

Open Source Photo Processing Comes of Age.
People who enjoy digital photography as a creative outlet are very familiar with software products from companies like Adobe, Corel, ACD Systems, Bibble Labs, Light Crafts, and even Google. Most of them are also likely familiar with what until recently was the premier open source photo editor, the Gimp. more...

Apple Open Sources Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch.
Apple has decided to open the code behind Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch feature. "The user-space implementation of the Grand Central Dispatch services API, called libdispatch, has been delivered as its own open source project, more... and Apple open source Grand Central.

Oracle breaks silence on Sun plans.
Oracle Corp. ended its silence Thursday on its post-merger plans for Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Unix systems in an advertisement aimed at Sun customers to keep them from leaving the Sparc and Solaris platforms. more... and Oracle-Sun Plans Missing MySQL.

Microsoft launches open source foundation.
Microsoft has launched the open source CodePlex Foundation. "The goals of the CodePlex Foundation are spelled out on the website as enabling the "exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities," as well as "increasing participation in open source community projects." more... and The CodePlex Foundation: First Impressions.

Misc.
Some pics from the new GNOME Activity Journal.
ClearOS (formerly ClarkConnect) 5.1 announced.
Chess Tactics Server.
Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems.
Facebook releases the "Tornado" web server.
Boxee Will Blow You Away.

How To Tips.