Category: Software

Ubuntu live CDs now boot 33% faster!

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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

The Death of Cash? Square’s Personal iPhone Credit Card Reader

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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

Ancient DOS bug gets squashed

Noble DOS's last bug gets squashed

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

5 Apps We Can’t Wait to See on the iPad

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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

Multiget is a multi-threaded download manager for any OS

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Geeker software: 9054e7b2815d95ca2bb3972e5264c474 Multiget is a multi threaded download manager for any OS

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

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