Notebook sales dominate desktops in U.S.

Are desktop PCs going the way of the dinosaur?

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RealNetworks to Offer Desktop News Feed

RealNetworks Inc. on Monday launched the test version of a service that aims to provide personalized news and other information to users' computers, marking the latest effort by a technology company to establish a desktop presence.

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Google Offers Transfer Tool for Computers

Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days.

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Another for the collection!

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Apple's iPhone App Store may be a resounding success. But Google says app stores are a dead end.

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Along with the keyboard, there's one major advantage the Palm Pre has over the iPhone, and that's the fancy Touchstone wireless charger. Throw the Pre at the desktop pebble and it sticks, via magnetic magic, and charges without a plug.

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Canonical aims to improve the Ubuntu user experience by fixing a multitude of minor usability glitches.

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Google, a company revered for its ability to think outside the box, has come up with a novel way to clear its land of brush. Goats. They've hired goats to clean their brush. More Articles

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When you want to customize your desktop, one of the first things that's got to go are your operating system's default icons. There are quite a lot of free and very impressive icon sets out there for you to use, licensed for personal and/or commercial use.

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A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. More Articles

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Enough is enough!

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WindowBlinds allows you to change the style of title bars, buttons, the Start bar, toolbars and much more. Safely add thousands of new visual styles to Windows to change the look and feel of your computer.

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Thousands of hours are wasted every year waiting for computers to boot up. A Windows machine can take a couple of minutes to get going and to shut down again.

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Ubuntu should not be considered merely the desktop Linux distribution of choice anymore if a new survey conducted by Canonical and open-source analyst firm RedMonk is an indicator.

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The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes. More Articles

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A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions. More Articles

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Great and funny animation video clip! Very hilarious that you will be amazed by this animated stickman playing around your desktops!

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Virtual Linux

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Yahoo's new data retention policy is the most restrictive among major search engines in the United States and will most likely put pressure on rivals like Google and Microsoft to shorten the time they keep information about their users.

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A popular question in desktop circles is "Can anyone make money from the Linux desktop?" Canonical CEO and Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth's answer is "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop."

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I can't believe what I'm reading.

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Once the leader in the low-inventory, built-to-order model for producing PCs, Dell is now relying more on contract PC makers. As part of that shift, Dell is trying to sell some or all of its manufacturing facilities, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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This week we ran a poll asking which word processing tool you primarily use. We wanted to see if things had changed much since we ran the same poll one year ago.

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The year of the Linux desktop... *sigh*

The year of the Linux desktop has finally come! Really, this time. At least, that's what Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says. Give me a break. Read the article. Not one of the arguments is bound to this year. No concrete dates, no concrete events.

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Believe the conspiracy theories -- out of sight and without your knowledge, governments truly are filtering what you see on the Internet. More Articles

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Desktop drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop. It can randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it. It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify.

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Billionaire, cosmonaut and founder of the fast-growing Ubuntu Linux distro Mark Shuttleworth dreams impossible dreams. No, not a return to the stars. He believes in something that's far harder for mortal open source engineers to achieve.

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