Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1: A Faster Boot Time

Mandriva Linux 2010 Alpha 1 was just announced to be available for free download on public mirrors as DVD ISO images compatible with 32bit and respectively 64bit platforms. It comes with major new features, such as KDE 4.3 Beta 2, GNOME 2.27.3 and Xfce 4.6.1 desktops environments, the recent stable release of the kernel 2.6.30 and X.org server 1.6.

Your Photos May Still Be Online….

Did you know what is happening with your photos published on Internet when are deleted? Practically they must disappear, but in case of certain web sites or services, there are enough chances to still find your content online, even it was deleted. Practice shows that Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, MySpace and other sites will not delete your photos.

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Microsoft My Phone Service Is Free

A new service for mobile users from Microsoft, My Phone was just launched in beta stage of development. Microsoft My Phone is free to use and basically allows you to synchronize information between a mobile phone (running at least Windows 6) and a web hosted storage space associated with a valid Windows Live or Hotmail account.

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Elive Teleports Linux In Three Dimensions

Elive is a Debian GNU based Linux distribution capable to transform an old computer having just a 100 MHz processor and 64 MB RAM into a powerful work-station with an eye-candy desktop user interface. The latest Compiz Development Version, Elive 1.9.27 includes Enlightenment window manager, a fast, light and very flexible environment.

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Scoopler: Hot Internet News Delivered In Real Time

Scoopler is a new search engine which aggregates and organize content shared in real time from the most popular social networks. It constantly indexes live updates from social networking services like Twitter, Digg, Delicious and others. As a consequence, the users will get an overview about what is happening on the Internet right now.

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Prism 1.0 Beta: The Web On Your Desktop

Prism 1.0 Beta from Mozilla Labs extract the web applications to run in standalone mode on your desktop. It also has Tray icon support, so that the web application runs in a natural manner on your Windows desktop. You will no longer need a web browser for favorite websites like Digg, Twitter or other.

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First Windows 7 RC Update: Internet Explorer 8 Patch

The first update in Windows 7 RC history solves tab “hang” reporting functionality in Internet Explorer 8. Get it for free now.

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BSDanywhere: UNIX For Everyone’s Desktop

BSDanywhere 4.5, a bootable LiveCD image containing OpenBSD 4.5 has many desktop environments, practically providing UNIX for geeks. It can be used as an educational UNIX system or hardware testing platform.

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OpenOffice.org 3.1 Was Launched

Just launched, the office applications suite OpenOffice.org 3.1 will deliver to the users besides a free alternative to the commercial Microsoft Office package, new features and a better experience and work flow.It comes with improvements such as anti-aliasing technique of drawing shapes on the screen,a new file locking system and more.

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Windows 7 RC Booting Time: 16.4 Seconds

On the same machine having an Intel Celeron CPU E1200 1.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 160 GB HDD,we have measured a booting time for Windows 7 RC of 16.4 seconds, while Windows 7 Beta booting time was of 21.42 seconds(WindowsXP booting time is over 30 seconds). Windows 7 Release Candidate acts faster than any other OS when opening windows or shut down system

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