I remember 3 years ago, when I was teaching a bunch of freshmen how to use Linux, the students had a rather unpleasant experience of having their computers freeze and become unresponsive. It was...

After reading the OpenMoko soft-dev tutorial, it is now time to take a look at the newest member of the mobile development platform group, the Google Open Handset Alliance's Android. Here's...

Now that mobile devices are starting to gain more numbers compared to desktop computers, the race is on to port desktop apps and/or develop new mobile applications for these devices. With various...

Matt Hartley over at Linux Fanatics gives us a brief update on the available anti-virus tools for Linux. Whilst it is definitely not an exhaustive list, it pays to be familiar with these tools. What...

The less than USD400 Linux-based ultra-portable computer from Asus, the EEE PC, is one sleek device. Weighing in at less than a kilo but running Linux with 512MB of RAM and up to 4GB of flash-based...

Not too long ago, I wrote a piece about Recoll, a Beagle alternative. I stated that I preferred Recoll over Beagle primarily because it is not a MONO application. I missed another one, named Tracker,...

One of Apple's claim to fame with their Mac OS X version 5, aka Leopard, is Time Machine. The back-up tool that is so easy to use that your grandmother can use it. Personally, it is one of the...

After much hype over the new Google mobile phone, Google announced a platform instead of an actual device. The platform, code-named Android, will be released under the Open Handset Alliance. As...

It always good practice to have a very strong, non-dictionary-word passwords. However, most of the time, this is not the case, specially for home desktop systems. Whilst this definitely is not a good...

In an attempt to complete the coverage of this little device, the Neuros OSD, and due to the lack of opportunity to get a review unit, here's a direct link to ArsGeek's review of the Neuros...

I wrote about what the new Solaris looks like a few weeks ago and a new Developer Preview is now available. Whilst I have yet to download this new version, Phoronix now has a review of this new...

Being from the Philippines, the SMS capital of the world, we are fond of connecting our mobile phones to computers to manage it, e.g., send/read/download/backup SMS, change ringtones, upload themes...