If you are like me, you have a love/hate relationship with Google Docs. You love that you can access your…
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Has Boxee Abandoned Its Linux, Mac, and Windows Users?
Boxee is an open source media center software alternative to many of the heavily commercialized, codec-light set-top boxes on the…
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What the Microsoft-Skype Deal Means for Linux Users
As news of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype begins to surface, I cannot help but ask the question. What…
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Browser Wars, My Own Observations
On a given day, I may use three different browsers for various reasons. Sometimes one browser just gets the job…
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Simulating Two-Finger Scrolling in Linux
Ubuntu (and possibly your Linux distribution) comes with support for notebook/netbook touchpads. If you are a laptop person, you probably…
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Netflix Looking to Hire HTML5 Expert
I was doing a Google search for HTML 5 video, and an ad came up for Netflix jobs. I hardly…
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Cloud Compromise: Online Software, Local Data
While some people are singing the praises of “the cloud”, and any business executive can sound cool if he says,…
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Will Charging Readers for Access Save Newspapers?
If TavisOnline.com started charging readers to view content on this site, would any of you loyal readers still visit? Many…
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AT&T Bandwidth Caps Will Ruin the Internet
I recently switched from AT&T to Comcast because the former was cheaping out on DSL customers, trying to nudge them…