Filed under: OS Updates, Canonical

How to convince a Mac OS X or Windows user to try GNU/Linux? Installing the desired distribution in a Virtual Machine? Read them all those FAQs about partitioning your hard drive for a dual-boot system? … Continue Reading

Square is an iPhone credit card payment system from Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, and it has just entered public beta. Square lets anyone with an iPhone accept payments from a credit card using an iPhone app and a small card-reader dongle which plugs into the iPhone’s headphone jack. … Continue Reading

What can we say about you, DOS? You’ve rocked the personal computer world and changed the way we all feel about white on black console screens. … Continue Reading

Many of you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch. And as Gadget Lab readers, you probably also have a notebook of some kind. And despite the notebook being way more capable than the little handheld, we bet you use the iPhone more and more for checking e-mail, tweeting and a large part of your web-browsing. … Continue Reading

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Linux, Open Source

If there’s one thing better than a handy, free application it’s a handy, free application that runs on everyone’s computer. Looking for a cross-platform download manager? Take a look at Multiget. … Continue Reading