For the last year we have had the habit of summarizing the latest release cycle of Linux distributions, and let the fall of 2008 be no different. This time around the decision was easier than ever and I must say that there isn’t even serious competition to which distro shall the award go to.
As before [...]
Good sign for the hardware vendors and bad for the film studios? The high definition AVCHD format is being adopted by the Hong Kong pirated copies producers, as is used for creating Blu-ray imitations of feature films. The AVCHD format is supported by Sony PlayStation 3 console, as well as some Blu-ray players (although not [...]
When Mark Shuttleworth, the man behind Canonical/Ubuntu, made the comment that Ubuntu should be prettier than Apple OSX in near term I got excited - the man was absolutely right. It doesn’t matter how customizable and operating is, or how good can you make it look with some effort if it does look bad out [...]
VSO Software’s ConvertXtoDVD is without any doubt the leading video to DVD conversion software. It combines unbeatable ease of use, advanced features and a great combination of video processing speed and quality. The software has matured over the years to support just about every format on the market, but VSO continues to release new versions [...]
It’s about time - finally there is a high quality replacement for the discontinued Google Browser Sync. It was a tool to synchronize the bookmarks and passwords of multiple copies of Firefox web browser. As it was a Mozilla Firefox extension, it was a multi-platform solution allowing you to keep your web browser data synchronized [...]
Or does it just simply fail? I have always rated Mandriva’s releases highly, and the past year has been especially good for them as the 2008 and 2008.1 have been awesome releases. Therefore the expectations were high when I was loading the Mandriva One 2009 edition to my IBM Thinkpad. After all Mandriva was the [...]
XBMC Media Center has an interesting history, as it originates from the Microsoft Xbox game console - thus the name XBMC (Xbox Media Center). It has a long history as the project goes back to as far as the year 2002. XBMC can be considered as one of the killer applications for the original Xbox [...]
The famous documentary movie director Michael Moore has released his latest as a free download on the Internet. The movie Slacker Uprising is available at slackeruprising.com, but for some reason the download is restricted to US and Canadien IP addresses only. I have no idea what is the idea of this restriction, which is technically [...]
Back to basics - back to buring bits! Thanks to Pioneer Europe, we have had the chance to play around with the brand new Pioneer DVR-116D recorder. The DVR-116D is a high speed burner that records DVD-R media up to 20x speed and DVD+R DL with the maximum speed of 12x. On the other hand [...]
I have been using the KDE 4.1 since it was published in late July. I have used it with both, nVidia and ATI videocards, so I think I have pretty good overview of KDE 4’s status with the modern hardware. There are many good things about the KDE 4, but there is also a lot [...]
