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Google Chrome Standalone setup link:  Bookmark it and download latest version monthly. http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=126299&&hl=en

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system) Microsoft is working on a research OS for quite some time. Since it's research project there's a small team of developers plus a number of interns who work on this project. The project seems to be testing ground for Ground breaking technologies that will influence windows of the future.

What is it? Staying at the top with the best in the class, with the latest of the breed? Perhaps not best but certainly latest. Now comest the tricky question. Are you at the cutting edge? Oh My God! Me? Man! Are you... Naah not me. It's simple actually - it costs too much for what it's worth. The latest is very costly - and so many reasons. Most of us have all these reasons and we are not supermen to fly the sky and have X-Ray eyes. So what do we do? We try to stay updated on what is latest. And we can definitely look forward to have the opportunity to bag something which was latest not far back. We usually have our budget rigs with not so latest software. E.g. I have a Win7 machine which haven't seen a single update. Why? because I end up installing the OSES on regular basis. Let me put the Installs and Deaths of various OS'es on it below. 1. Win XP SP3 32-bit Install 2. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit Install 3. Win7 Ultimate 32-bit Install 4. KUbuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit ...

C64x: A Commodore 64 with Blu-Ray, Dual-Core Processors, and More The commodore is back. And this time it's going to kick some serious ass!

SOURCE: DistroWatch.com Questions and Answers (by Jesse Smith) Memory usage One of our readers asked about programs which display memory usage, what to use and what the different types of memory (shared, virtual, swapped, cached) mean. Furthermore, what fields are important to look at when comparing different systems? First let's talk about programs to use when monitoring memory usage. When in doubt, I generally fall back to basics and use "top". It runs everywhere and shows you most of the information you should need, both in regards to memory usage and CPU usage. If you're just concerned with how much memory is being used by the system and uninterested in CPU usage then "free" is also a good command to run as it'll show you usage information for shared memory, cache and swap. When looking at GUI applications, I like KDE's System Monitor. The default layout looks a lot like top's, but it's easy to configure System Monitor with differ...

SOURCE:DistroWatch.com  Feature Story (by Bernard Hoffmann) Slax - still alive in the Slax Community remix Once upon a time  Slax  and  KNOPPIX  were the de facto Linux live CD distributions. Dating back to 2003 Slax was certainly one of the first, and its creator, widely known as Tomas M, gave the community the Linux-live scripts and pioneered modules instead of packages for an easy install of additional programs. The main edition CD image was around 200 MB and featured only the necessary base and a light KDE 3 desktop to allow customizing from there. Slax is, as the name might suggest, based off  Slackware  Linux, or perhaps better, a repackaging of the Slackware base and certain applications into Slax's module format LZM. The  module section  hosted is vast and many are user-contributed which makes this way of operating a security concern. However, a system of approval is in place which warns you when downloading one that has not been ...

I didn't know it would affect me so much. But Linux Mint is something - perhaps its mint fresh! I came across Linux Mint through a few reviews/ posts about it, and thought to try it. It's one of remasters of Ubuntu/ Debian (There's a debian edition too), containing many everyday utilities/ Packages that don't  make to Ubuntu's standard distro. Mostly it's because we need alternatives for many programs we use for everyday tasks and the many missing packages necessary for everyday use like codecs/ compression programs/ media players etc. So I installed Linux Mint 10, and the first thing I noticed was the interface. It's kinda sober looking. Not much flashy, not much glittering, but it's like a mid-range Bajaj bike that gets all the work done and doesn't costs (and looks) much. I liked their menu. The arrangement is very good. And it's one of the reasons I haven't yet touched anything of the interface. Not even the wallpaper.

Here's a great review of Image/Photo related software on Toms Hardware:  http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/image-software-linux-gimp,2801.html

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SOURCE : SOFTPEDIA NEWS. Link to Original Article:  http://news.softpedia.com/news/BitTorrent-Magnet-Links-Explained-132536.shtml Anyone following the BitTorrent scene has been noticing some interesting developments lately and three new technologies in particular have stood out. A couple of them, DHT, PEX, are new ways of finding peers (users with copies of the file you want to download) without relying on the old BitTorrent tracker system. These are very important to the actual downloads but work mostly hidden from the user who may not even now when they kick in. Magnet links, on the other hand, are a different story. They have been around for quite a few years now, yet most people have started noticing them only recently, notably since the Pirate Bay implemented them. And now that the world's first BitTorrent indexer, which relies solely on magnet links, has  showed up , more and more people may find themselves wondering how these links work and what are their advantage...

We are getting tighter controls on Tele marketing calls and SMS's, so can we say it's end to those pesky SMS's? I don't know. I don't receive as much calls for Credit Cards/ insurance/ Investment.Usually I politely say that I'm not interested. Sometimes when I'm in a mood I take them for a ride worse than imaginable and in the end they end up with wasted time and efforts. Well, that's the way it's going to be. They're paid to do the efforts.