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Google’s Transformer product line is building a Microsoft-slaying open-source Optimus Prime

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If you’re a tech geek like me you undoubtedly follow Google – and you also probably know all the transformers by heart. By using Transformers as an allegory we can put Google’s transformation into context. Google has been acquiring companies, technology and people — aggressively, and now they are joining them all together to build [...]

Connecting Office to the cloud with Cloud Connect

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If Microsoft is the evil empire, then their Office Suite is their “Death Star” — a product of epic proportions. 500 million users just about qualifies the suite as epic. And just like the Death Star it has a huge vulnerability and can be taken down in a swift and calculator attack.

Open.org an Open Source for your Open queries. Is that all?

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A week ago, a question was raised by the latest owners of Open.org who go by the name Linux Fund organization, and we are still unsure if we have an answer to that question yet. The question was “What do we do with Open.org?” The question came up on the evening February 25th during a [...]

Quantity vs. Quality – The Google Algorithm!

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You can search for anyone and their uncle on Google, and it won’t disappoint you, and now with the new algorithm the search results will be cleaner and more focused. Google has updated its algorithm to remove the rankings of sites it considers “content farms” and upgrade search results. This change affected about 12% of [...]

Clustered File Systems – a handy dope!

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There exists a handful of options to choose from as far as clustered and high storage files are concerned, but in order to understand the functioning of each file system there needs to be some research conducted. Each option of storage architecture and file system is essential as each have their own limitations that are [...]

New Linux Mint 10 – Will you be lured into trying it?

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Julia – Linux Mint 10 Battling to be classified as the most reliable open source operating system is the Linux Mint team, which apparently has put its plans to action by leveraging its existing and most popular product the Linux Mint and in turn has brought out a new and updated version of the same [...]

How Facebook Scales with OpenSource tools

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As Facebook grows, it continually faces scalability challenges that no one has solved, and it is trying to engineer its way through them.

The Open Source Revolution – all you need to know!

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In the proprietary closed source model, the entire development cycle evolves within a single company. Programmers write code, hide it behind binaries and charge the customers to use the software. No one ever gets to know how bad the software really is!

Flash Decompiler and Optimizer

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More aptly suited for Flash SWFs with animations and designs, Flash Optimizer for Mac is a powerful, feature-rich SWF compression utility. It helps to reduce SWF files size with its amazing algorithms of vectors, shapes, morphing, Z-buffer, fonts and other optimizations techniques.