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Google pushing software to low-cost Linux PCs

With an eye for larger adoption of Linux, Google is actively working with open-source developers to integrate its applications in the OS, a Linux developer said on Tuesday. By working with developers, Google may be trying to push more of its applications in netbooks, low-cost laptops designed to run basic applications for Web surfing and e-mail, said David Liu, Good OS Founder and President, at the Linuxworld conference in San Francisco. [ For more on products in the hot mini-notebook category, ...

gDesklets - Desklets for your Desktop in openSUSE

gDesklets is another great tool like Google Gadgets for bringing mini programs called desklets such as weather forecasts, news tickers, system information displays, or music player controls, onto your desktop, where they are sitting there in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. The possibilities are really endless and they are always there to serve you whenever you need them, just one key-press away. The system is not restricted to one desktop environment, but currently works on...

A stickies situation

An early virtual desktop program for the Mac, the aptly named Spaces.app, by Riley Lynch, circa January 2001. Hmm, I wonder where Apple gets all of its great ideas ... I'm stuck on my Mac's Stickies program. I've got 13 stickies lined up on the right side of my desktop, most of them collapsed. The topmost note is pink -- to suggest urgency -- and lists the must-do items for the day (including this post). Most of the others are collapsed and lined up in a neat stack, any one of them ready to unf...

Notes from GUADEC Istanbul

GUADEC is held in Istanbul this year, and as has been the custom in 2006 and 2007, I again came there to discuss making the Linux desktop location aware. This year I gave the "GeoClue and Gypsy - geo-information frameworks for mobile Linux desktops" talk together with Jussi Kukkonen and Iain Holmes. With Linux devices hitting more and more pockets time was finally ripe for the talk, and hopefully soon we shall see GeoClue in places like the GNOME Panel Clock and Telepathy. Slides are available ...

From the desktop to your TV (Google Desktops)

Posted by David Garcia, Software Engineer In the old days, we used to watch a simple device called a television. Nowadays, all the stuff worth watching and listening to tends to be stored on or accessed through a computer. To help remedy this, we are pleased to release the Google Media Server. Google Media Server is a Windows application that aims to bridge the gap between Google and your TV. It uses... Source : Google Desktops (subscribe) Explore : Google, Technology

WorldWide Telescope Brings The Universe To Students' Desktops

An eSchool News online article. Microsoft Corp. has launched its answer to Google Sky: a free, web-based program for zooming around the universe from any internet-connected computer. Developed by Microsoft’s research arm, the WorldWide Telescop

MobileMe gets a video tour, and John the Apple guy is your guide

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops By now you've probably heard about .Mac's replacement, MobileMe. It's like Yahoo! Mail, Google Docs, and every other Ajaxy web app you've ever used... just way more Apple-ish. If you're feeling confused by

European Football Championship Scores gadget (Google Desktops)

Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team) Keep track of all the latest Euro 2008 action from your desktop. This gadget shows the latest scores and schedules from the upcoming 2008 UEFA European Football Championship . You can also customize the gadget to match your favorite team's colors. Please try out this beautiful gadget for the beautiful game . Download the gadget Source : Google Desktops (subscribe) Explore : FIFA, Google, Soccer, Technology, UEFA

Fujitsu showcases external graphics solution

clipped by: hishura Clip Source: asia.cnet.com Fujitsu showcases external graphics solution Darius Chang | Jun 04, 2008 Unlike desktops, notebooks are essentially stuck with whatever graphics engine is under the hood for its entire lifespan. At the recent launch of AMD's Puma platform, we were surprised when Fujitsu showcased its external graphics solution at the event. Based on the DirectX 10.1 ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 video card, the Amilo GraphicsBooster hooks up via the ExpressCard slot a...

How tech wars end

The tech industry is organized around the concept of wars. In recent memory, the browser wars, the Java wars, before that there were wars over email APIs, desktops, GUIs, networking standards, you name it, if there's money to be made in controlling users, there's been a war to lock those users in. It's been that way since the dawn of time, and it will always be that way. It's in human nature. It's also in human nature for the users to realize they're being used, get fed up, and create or discove...