Up until Ubuntu went public with Unity, out-of-the-box Linux has always been rather ugly compared to both Windows and Mac. (And depending on who you ask, Ubuntu’s Unity was even a step in the wrong direction!) Check this article from MakeUseOf.com
Facebook has gone down a few times recently, and though there are many things to do when this happens, they aren’t always apparent. Here’s a quick list for next time. Check this article from MakeUseOf.com.
September has been the month for companies to announce updates to their cloud storage products in order to draw business away from the competition. It’s a crowded, rough-and-tumble market, with offerings from Google, Box, Dropbox and other companies. More of this latest news from PCWorld.com
The mystery of the disappearing Windows 7 patch has been solved.
On Wednesday, a number of Microsoft users took to the company’s support forums to ask about a mysterious update, KB3877432, which identified itself as a language pack for Windows 7. Users became concerned when the patch subsequently disappeared. Check this article from PCWorld.com
There has been at least a low hum of concern around new features in Windows 10 that send information back to Microsoft. The company has mostly kept quiet about those concerns, until now. Check this article from PCWorld.com
If you write a blog or organize information for your company wiki, you no doubt need to take thousands of screenshots showing people how to do certain things on your computer. And one thing most people know from reading the sorts of documentation full of screenshots is this: It’s boring. This article from MakeUseOf.com
You can have the best of both worlds: run Linux and still have convenient access to your Windows-only applications. Better yet, instead of setting up a dual boot, you can merge the two by importing your current Windows installation with all its installed programs into a virtual machine running in Linux. How is this miracle possible? More of this article from MakeUseOf.com