Source: John’s Blog
Safari is to eliminate Firefox, Opera & every alternate browser : Steve Jobs
That is not a statement from a random blogger or a fanboy but is an indication from Steve Jobs' latest WWDC keynote speech.
I would leave it on you to make all conclusions from the two slides...
Source: Linux-Watch
There is no disagreement that Mark Shuttleworth is very good with words (especially words of encouragement) but this speech is spot on. Do read the link. It is highly recommended and addresses some key problems that FOSS community is facing.
Ubuntu forums describes a neat little hack to make your Firefox widgets beautiful. You might not realise what you are missing until you actually see the effects. Example screenshots of Google before and after applying the hack.
Before
After
How To: Firefox Widgets
PC World today released their list of the top 100 products for the year 2007. The list being an annual feature by a highly reputed magazine, PC World, came as a shocker for Vista supporters as it did not mention Microsoft's most expensive desktop operating system, Windows Vista, in it.
The...
Opera has just released version 9.21 of its desktop product, Opera Internet Browser, thus fixing a security vulnerability in its BitTorrent Engine. The vulnerability was reported by laFlecha on May 03, 2007 and is categorized as "Highly Critical" by Secunia.
There is no known work around to...
Distrowatch Weekly in its 203rd issue reports about the recent efforts being made by openSUSE Boot Time group in order to reduce the boot time to 5 seconds
Source: Distrowatch Weekly
Source: Mozilla Links
What’s the most annoying thing when writing a long text in web textareas? You guessed: not being able to use the Tab key to indent some text.
Tabinta (Tab in Textarea), is an extension for Firefox and SeaMonkey, developed by Bálint Endrey, that lets enter tabulations...
Source: CyberNet
When your filtering through results returned by a search engine it can take quite a while to filter through them trying to find what you’re looking for. One thing that I think most people will agree with is that you’ll normally find what you’re looking for in the first ten...
Ubuntu to release mobile & embedded editions
Source: Ubuntu-devel Mailing List
Ubuntu today announced on its mailing list that it will be starting a new project, Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded project, with its first release coming out in October along with Ubuntu 7.10. Canonical, the developers...
An online survey was conducted by openSUSE after their 10.2 release in which more than 27,000 users participated. It reveals some interesting facts. Here are a few for you people to ponder about :)
What I find interesting is that Linux users are young and they have the energy to carry Linux...
Source: Vimperator
In the world of free text editors, nothing beats the beloved Vim for mouseless navigation and keyboard productivity. Now the Vimperator Firefox extension brings the same Vim shortcuts to your Firefox experience. That means that tons of the keybindings Vim users have come to...
Source: Dell Ideas In Action
c|net talks about great and no-so-great points about announcement
Watch Mark Shuttleworth talking about why he started Ubuntu, Linux adoption rate trends, how previous barriers to Linux adoption for mainstream users are improving, and more.
Ubuntu's famous bug #1...
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