Archive for February, 2011
The Splendiferous Array of Culinary Tools [Infographic]
If your geeking out extends from the workbench to the kitchen counter, you’ll love this swanky infographic detailing the families of utensils in your kitchen drawers and cupboards. The poster showcases everything from scissors to strainers in a retro-style poster. If you can find a culinary tool in your kitchen that isn’t on the chart [...]
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Friday Fun: Maus Trap
Friday is here once again, but today you are not the only one who needs to escape! This week your mission is to help a poor mouse named Peanut escape the dangerous lab she is trapped in. Do you have what it takes to save the day Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Enable [...]
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How to Customize Fonts and Colors for Gnome Panels in Ubuntu Linux
Earlier this week we showed you how to make the Gnome Panels totally transparent, but you really need some customized fonts and colors to make the effect work better. Here’s how to do it. This article is the first part of a multi-part series on how to customize the Ubuntu desktop, written by How-To Geek [...]
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Add a Real-Time Earth Wallpaper App to Ubuntu with xplanetFX
Are you tired of the same old wallpaper on your Ubuntu desktop? Now you can go from blah to literally spacious, real-time styled views of Earth with the xplanetFX Wallpaper App for Linux. You can conveniently access the “file type” downloads, screenshots, and jump-to links all on the front page. For our example we downloaded [...]
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This Week in Geek History: YouTube goes Public, Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, and All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Every week we bring you a snapshot of the current week in the history of technological and geeky endeavors. This week we’re taking a look at the birth of YouTube, the death of the HD DVD format, and the first mega meme. Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows [...]
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IDC Virtualisation & Cloud Conference
Canonical is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of IDC’s Virtualisation & Cloud conference.IDC speakers and industry experts will examine topics, including: – What are the real risks with cloud and what is imagined?- What is next on the virtualisation agenda?- Cloud services – what are the benefits, what are the costs?If you are responsible [...]
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Solutions Linux
Canonical’s Ubuntu for business, together with partner Alterway, will have a joint presence as Silver sponsors of the Solutions Linux event.Solutions Linux/Open Source is the premier showcase to position your business, share with decision makers, generate new leads, expand your network and be at the heart of the community. 250 exhibitors will host nearly 10,000 [...]
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Intel Developer Forum (IDF)
Canonical will be at the Intel Developer Forum event in Beijing, a premier technology event drawing professionals and companies who are actively directing where technology is going. Location: Beijing, China Time: Tue, 04/12/2011 (All day) – Wed, 04/13/2011 (All day) read more
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Texas Linux Fest
Canonical is proud to be a Platinum sponsor for this year’s Texas Linux Fest conference in Austin.Texas Linux Fest is the only state-wide, community-run conference for Linux and open source software users and enthusiasts from around the Lone Star State. Whether you use free software and Linux at home, in your place of business, in [...]
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PyCon
Canonical is proud to be a Gold sponsor at Pycon this year.PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language. PyCon is organized by the Python community for the community. Location: Atlanta, USA Time: Fri, 03/11/2011 (All day) – Sun, 03/13/2011 (All day)
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