WHICH blogging software or service is best? This question from a reader caught me by surprise because I didn’t have a ready answer. But for most users who simply want to get their feet wet, a free public blog site is probably the best way to go.
MOST industry watchers picked up on a shift in Microsoft’s world view when the software giant filed its annual 10-K report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month. In its filing, Microsoft acknowledged for the first time that Ubuntu Linux is a threat to its Windows desktop operating system.
WITHOUT much fanfare, Google, the king of online search, has introduced its successor. Google Caffeine, as the new search engine is called, hasn’t taken up residence at the official domain just yet. For the moment, you can find it here: www2.sandbox.google.com. Be forewarned. You won’t even know it’s the new Google because it looks and behaves much like the old one. All the work has been done under the hood.
"ONE Hundred Paper Cuts” is a program that seeks to improve the usability of Ubuntu Linux by fixing minor irritants in everyday computing. It’s a great idea that illustrates how serious Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is about making its Linux distribution easier to use. The program, launched two months ago, specifically aims to identify 100 such “small points of pain” and to fix them in the upcoming release of Ubuntu (9.10 or Karmic Koala) in October. Having just recently upgraded to Jaunty Jackalope (9.04), I was curious about the kind of paper cuts other users were reporting, and to see if any matched mine.
AFTER a few hiccups, my new Jaunty Jackalope installation on my home PC is off to a good start.
Digital Life is a blog that features a technology column by the same name that appears every Tuesday in Manila Standard Today, a national daily from the Philippines. This blog gives readers easy access to the column, which started in November 2002. Copyright 2009 Chin Wong.
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