In an unmistakable sign of desperation, the newspaper industry has made a Faustian pact with the Devil. Struggling to make money in an Internet era when readers crave more news but stubbornly refuse to pay for it, major news organizations including The New York Times and Washington Post are floundering Read More
Just because you forked out a gazillion dollars for your spanking new iMac or MacBook does not mean you must spend more money on buying a bunch of Mac applications. In this post, we’ll consider several useful free and open source applications that work well on the Mac OS X Read More
When most of us think of the Internet, our thoughts turn to search engines like Google, news sites like New York Times, social networks like Facebook or Twitter, tech blogs like Techcrunch, shopping sites like Amazon, free e-mail like gmail and our employers’ web sites. But those’re just the most Read More
Here’s some good news for Linux Mint fans. The next update of this excellent Linux desktop distribution should arrive toward the end of November or latest by December 2015. Linux Mint 17.3 aka Rosa will be the third and last 17.x point release. Linux Mint 17, 17.1 and 17.2 users Read More
Fall on your knees and kiss the earth in gratitude. Folks, Kali Linux 2.0 has just been released. In case you’ve just arrived from Mars or Uranus, Kali is the mother of Linux penetrating distributions. So what’s new in Kali 2.0? A lot of goodies in there, a lot! So Read More
QuiteRSS is an excellent open source cross-platform RSS news feed reader that I have been using for about a year now with mucho satisfaction. I’ve installed it on Linux Mint and CentOS. The reader works fine on Linux and I can’t recollect it ever crashing on me. The free reader Read More
