A common problem many users face after installing either Linux or Windows on a system is an override of the default boootloader. Grub can come to your rescue.

Microsoft wants to award Miguel de Icaza as a Most Valued Professional! Primarily a Mono developer, Miguel de Icaza is at Codeplex Board of Directors too.

A recent post at ubuntufurums has posted a survey which asks users to vote on a survey. The survey asks for choices of software which should be available in Ubuntu by default. Surprisingly, this survey includes closed source and paid software like iTunes and Photoshop respectively.

Firefox has made changes to the way it develops the world’s most popular browser. Instead of providing incremental updates Mozilla has decided on some changes. Firefox 4.0 will now replace Firefox 3.7 as the release after Firefox 3.6.

SuperGamer is the world’s first Dual Layer Live DVD and is fully focused on games like Quake 4, UT 2004, Doom 3 besides others.

Quartics Inc. recently showcased its VPU which can render videos and apply real time enhancement and 3D conversion. This device was shown at CES.

The new Firefox version 3.6 brings many new features like Web Open Font Format and Personas. Apart from that there are major internal changes.

The latest version of Amarok, named Amarok 2.2.2 “Maya Gold” has added a new feature of Moodbar. This moodbar can be changed according to our mood. Also, editing of lyrics is now possible with a simple keypress.

Gmail has started displaying these Ninja tips for Email which offers help and suggestion depending on the volume of mail you receive everyday. The link to the tips page can be found at the right hand top-corner of your screen.

Facebook is the newest to join the list of Apache Software Foundation sponsors. These sponsors offer extensive help in organising events, expanding to a wider reach and facilitate daily running of the foundation smoothly.

Deluge, the popular Bit Torrent client has just released their version 1.2.0. Deluge is completely written in Python and uses GTK+ for the front-end. It is specially made for the XCFE and Gnome desktop environments. Deluge offers fast torrent downloads and has support for multiple trackers.

Very rarely do movies put a real computer application to do a real thing, even rarely do they actually use it correctly. But, Nmap here, seems to be the hot favourite; be it CIA or NSA or a hot good-guy’s gal, you name it.

Yes, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has passed a budget plan which proposes the inclusion of Open Source software in areas like health care, prison and many other to bring down costs by considerable amounts.

Ubuntu Tweaks has released the version 0.5.0 of the software. Ubuntu tweaks is a revolutionary software which takes customizing Ubuntu to totally new heights. This betters our experience of using Ubuntu. It has got many new features like syncing data from the web, a better UI and lots more.

The plasma desktop effect of KDE is remarkably beautiful. It not only looks beautiful, but also has a good amount of usability. But, the interface is available by default only on the KDE desktop environment.
Here is an easy way to get the effect on Gnome along with Emerald and Gnome. The tutorial works on Ubuntu Karmic Koala.