Filed under: OS Updates, Linux Knoppix is a Linux distribution that's been popular for years among folks looking for a full featured operating system that can be booted from a LiveCD (meaning you can run the operating system without installing it to your hard drive - you just can't save any changes)...

Filed under: Internet, News There's a lot of news in the eBook space these days. First Amazon launches the new Kindle 2 eBook reader. Then the company follows it up with the launch of an eBook app for the iPhone. But Amazon ain't the only game in town. Yesterday Barnes & Noble announced that it ...

Filed under: BlackBerry, Mobile Research in Motion is in the process of launching an app store that will let users purchase and download software directly from their Blackberry mobile devices. You know, kind of like the iPhone App Store. But for BlackBerry. But there's at least one thing setting the...

Filed under: Windows, Browsers There have been portable versions of web browsers including Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera that you can run from a USB flash drive for a while. Basically these apps let you store your data to the flash drive allowing you to run these apps on Windows without installi...

Filed under: E-mail, Google Gmail lets you sort messages by labels, starred items, or other items like sent mail, inbox, spam or drafts. But up until now there's been no way to see all of that information on one page. You had to apply one filter at a time, or do one search after another to bring up ...

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware The Master Boot Record (or MBR) of a hard drive contains the information your computer needs in order to know how to boot any operating systems installed on your system. In other words, if something happens to your MBR or BootSector, you could be left with a...

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Beta It may not be one of the sexier changes Microsoft has made in Windows 7 beta, but the company has changed the way the operating system handles disk defragmentation. Microsoft developers Rajeev Nagar and Matt Garson have written a lengthy post on the Engineering...

Filed under: News, Microsoft Sure, Windows 7 may be getting rave reviews, and Windows Mobile 6.5 and Internet Explorer 8 launches may be coming soon. But Microsoft, like many other companies has been hit hard by the recession. According to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, the company's second quarter re...

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Beta, Web Livedrive has added a bunch of new features to its web based file storage and sharing service. The company, which claims to offer unlimited file storage, now allows you to: Use a Java based tool for drag and drop uploading using the web interface Watch video...

Filed under: Business, Adobe Just over a year after launching a program that allows publishers to place targeted advertisements in PDF documents, Adobe is ending the experiment. I'm not particularly shocked by the decision. First of all, I have to say, I didn't exactly run across many PDF files onli...