All good things of life must come to an end sooner or later. And that holds true for the wunderkinds of the smartphone business too. After a great run for the last few years, the good times appear to be drawing to a close for the two smartphone darlings, Apple Read More
The Linux Mint development team has pushed back the release date of XFCE and KDE desktop versions of Linux Mint 17.3 a.k.a. Rosa to January 2016. Launch dates for KDE and XFCE versions of Rosa were originally set for December 2015. But with even the beta (trial version) of XFCE Read More
Israeli multi-cloud monitoring and optimizing startup Cloudyn has raised $11 million in a Series B round, led by Carmel Ventures with participation from previous investors Titanium Investments and RDSeed (a collaboration of Rafael and Elron Electronics), taking its total backing to date to $15 million. What Cloudyn Does Targeted at Read More
Determining the kernel version of your Linux system is easier than stuffing a large pizza slice into your mouth. Really! 🙂 There are multiple commands you can use to find out the kernel version/release on your system. Now you might wonder why we need to know the kernel version. Determining Read More
Anyone who has installed Oracle’s VirtualBox virtualization software inevitably encounters a few vexing problems. The main problem is that your monitor settings (screen resolution) will be off and the desktop will not occupy the full screen. Plus, there are usually issues with your mouse with the guest OS. Here’s where 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