Ah, Linux. The operating system that all love to hate has taken big strides into the home of the average consumer in the past few years, with many distributions used on early versions of many netbooks. We even did a ‘week with Linux‘ series of posts ourselves back in February of this year.
Despite these advancements, however, there are still some major hoops that users must jump through to reach the same levels of productivity as one comes to expect from a mainstream operating system, such as Windows 7 or Mac OS X. What is it, therefore, that Linux is still missing? What can’t it quite get right? Let’s take a look at an example of mine, and we’ll figure it out.
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, on to my home theatre PC as a replacement for Windows 7. Why? I’m not quite sure, I was bored of Windows 7 after using it for over a year, and fancied something a little different. Besides, I was curious about the new version of Ubuntu and wanted to check it out.
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Right on cue! Apple has released Mac OS X 10.6.5 today, and it is now available to download for Snow Leopard users across the globe.
Geeky musicians all over the world have been waiting for this one. GarageBand ’11 was the third app announced at the recent ‘Back to the Mac’ event to have received the star treatment in the upgrade from iLife ’09 to iLife ’11, and it comes with some features that people probably won’t want to do without after using.
With another year comes another version of iLife (or something like that), and this year we’ve been treated to iLife ’11, which consists of major updates to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand.
With more and more websites demanding our attention everyday, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all our passwords, never mind our logins for each site! Luckily, there happens to be a little tool to help keep track of not only website passwords, but also software licenses and email information, called 1Password.
BitDefender has recently launched their 
This time last year, large touchscreen tablets were the stuff dreams were made of. Now, we have a lot of major players in the market ready to battle it out and get as much market share as possible. The question is, which is the best, and how do you choose between them?!
Carbonite, an online backup tool for both Windows and Mac OS X that has been around for a while now, in fact, we 
If you thought that I was excited about the CineXPlayer iPad app, the first media player allowed on the App Store that is capable of playing back non-Apple video formats, then you haven’t witnessed anything yet…Upon learning that a French developer had submitted an iPad version of VLC media player, I was immediately excited about being able to play my library of TV shows and movies on the iPad tablet without having to convert them first.
If there is one part of the software development industry that never fails to frustrate me with its lack of innovation, it is speech recognition and sufficient artificial intelligence to truly understand what I’m saying. I remember being really excited at the speech recognition system in Windows Vista, only to be disappointed by a lack of true functionality. My attention, therefore, naturally turns to third parties.