Alan Carvalho de Assis (and friends), as announced on the LinuxBIOS mailing list, has released a video of the newly released LinuxBIOS with X Server Inside.
All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)… The [...]

If you haven’t been paying too much attention to all the Open Source excitement surrounding the more recent developments to the XGL the X server video architecture then your really missing out.
Here is a quick low down:
XGL is an X server (X Windows) architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL [...]

You might remember an application written by Ian Anthony that we posted about earlier this year called MacSaber. Well in collaboration with Hiroaki of DarwiinRemote, which allows you to control your Mac OS X environment with Nintendo’s Wiimote, Anthony has released a brand new use for your Wiimote… an audio Lightsaber simulator called [...]

When it comes to owning an iPod, as over 70% MP3 player owners do, you find you’re self purchasing the majority of your music from the iTunes Music Store (iTMS). The iTMS is a great source for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and more but there is one small issue with the Apple service… Digital [...]

Software maker Novell Corp. said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell’s open-source Linux OS SuSe work with Windows.
Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow the world’s largest software maker to use its Linux [...]

The BlackBerry 8703e (Verizon Wireless edition): Release dates were/are as follows: August 28th, September 17th & September 18th. The 8703e is going to be a revised version of Cingular’s 8700c / T-Mobile’s 8700g but with EVDO (nice!)… who knows if they are going to add any other features in this revision but considering that this [...]

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers. It also allows you to restore open tabs and windows across different machines and browser sessions.
Google Browser Sync is completely automated. The settings you select at startup are [...]

Although it’s still considered a work in progress, Google’s online spreadsheet will offer consumers and businesses a free alternative to Microsoft’s Excel application. Google’s spreadsheet isn’t as sophisticated as Excel. For instance, the Google spreadsheet won’t create charts or provide a menu of controls that can be summoned by clicking on a computer mouse’s right-hand [...]

This is a demo of a brand new Apple MacBook (black) with 2GB of RAM running Virtual Machine from Parallels (beta 6) and Virtue desktop emulator.
In the video the user switches from Mac OS X to Windows XP (Media Center themed) to Ubuntu using the native Mac OS X “Fast User Switching” mechanism. This is [...]

Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.
URGE comes integrated into the newest version of Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Media Player, which users of Microsoft’s Windows will receive in coming weeks as [...]