You don't have to mod your classic Xbox to run the best free media center application around anymore: Dedicated developers have ported the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) software to the Mac, and its killer features will convince you to abandon Front Row forever. The latest XBMC on OS X beta dropped last week, and it's as stable and useful as ever.

We believe that it is probably technically possible to get XBMC for OS X to run on Apple TV hardware. The processor would be underpowered for most HD content, and it would probably perform very closely to the original XBox hardware (unless…

Linux started as a hobby project. But it is now 17 years old and it has grown up, and a recent report by the Linux Foundation, which extends a series of investigations by Jonathan Corbett, shows that it is no longer a hobby, it is out in the working world.

There are two main disadvantage of locking yourself out of further developments. Most obviously you may lose out on incorporating future beneficial developments which you would otherwise get for free. Less obvious but possibly far more important,…

There have been rumors since last year that Valve may be serious about porting Source games to Linux after Valve Software began seeking a senior software engineer with the responsibility of porting Windows-based games to the Linux platform.

Valve Software's other major component that they use for their own games and over time has been opened up to its licensees is Steam. Steam is Valve's digital distribution platform. The Steam client — which right now is only…

An overview of 35 established or rather unknown ' but useful source code-editors; youll probably find usual suspects, but youll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Vim (all)Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi…

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As M?rten mentioned yesterday in the CommunityOne panel, expect Sun/MySQL to continue experimenting with the business model, and with what’s offered for the community and what’s offered commercial-only. We won’t…

Vodafone’s just got a tiny, minor, insignificant announcement to make this morning: it’s signed with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten markets, including Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy (so much for Telecom Italia), India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey. Expect the phone later this year — that’s all we know for no

Cnet.com.au was reporting that Optus was getting the iphone in Australia. If true this would back up the rumor of the new Apple strategy of non exclusive deals.To Vinay,The sign of any free market is choice. What you value is different from…

Top 5 Open Source tools including Kompozer, Piwik, OpenX and Quanta. Article includes descriptions and information on these, including links to several others.

I'm always surprised by how few people doing advertising-driven things on the web don't know about OpenX, a free, open source ad server that serves more than 30,000 customers. OpenX recently secured $15.5 million in second round…

Engineers are building inexpensive, tabletop, touch-screen displays and sharing the instructions online.

Wagenknecht says that her system works in a similar way. Cubit is a boxy table with a clear surface. The single camera inside the table can be a simple webcam with an added infrared filter, and a small image projector can be purchased for about…

This list is just randomly ordered, higher blogs on the list does not mean better. Oh and this list is by no means exhaustive. Of course, your input will be highly appreciated, tell me what are your favorite?

6-HowtoForge While this isn’t exactly a personal blog, but it’s a great reference to 100’s of very comprehensive howto’s and guides. From setting up the perfect Ubuntu or Fedora box to building a simple…

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This weekend I was helping a friend with his Flash website.? Now, I don’t consider myself an expert in Actionscript, especially the new AS 3.?? But there are tons of resources/tutorials to help you along the way to create the effects…

The problem is that the majority of people are used to using Microsoft Windows, to doing things a certain way, and Linux does similar things, only in slightly different ways. So, there’s a learning process which must involve reading as much as possible.

FIRSTLY, it's important to realise the distinction between 'Linux' and 'Free Open Source'.'Linux' actually refers to the kernel – the computer code which acts like the brains, if you like - of a series of…

LinuxChix was founded in 1998-99 by Deb Richardson, who was a technical writer and webmaster at an open source consulting firm. Her reason for founding LinuxChix was to create an alternative to the “locker room mentality” of other Linux User Groups and forums.

If these tech leaders were to run for US President, who will you vote for?

In a survey conducted by the Standish group, companies say that Linux is more secure than Windows. The study also looks at other key drivers that are motivating open-source adoption, like lower cost and and faster development.

The ability to adapt existing open-source applications to meet specialized needs is one of the most significant adoption drivers addressed by the Standish report. Starting with an existing code base can accelerate development considerably and…

About 70,000 students and their 7,000 teachers in the Geneva school district will gradually be moving to Open Source. The decision to move to Open Source was taken by the Geneva Public School District in March 2006. Eventually all teachers will be supplied with laptops running Ubuntu GNU/Linux.

The migration to Open Source will begin after the next summer holiday with three projects. One school, the Candolle College in Geneva, will try out a complete Open Source desktop, using the GNU/Linux distribution Ubuntu. Next, OpenOffice will be…