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Linux was just deemed greener than Windows Server 2008 when running as the operating system for servers — a good 12 percent more efficient. Now that might not sound like much, but the same research also drove home just how difficult it is to get servers to run efficiently. So don’t scoff, and all hail the green penguin…read the full story here on Earth2Tech. If this story interests you then you should definitely check out our upcoming conference, Structure 08. ... Read More

Just got some new niche magazines and was really cool seeing some friends on the covers. Jason Calacanis appointed the new face off Affiliate Marketing on the cover of Affiliate Summits “Feed Front” Magazine. The cover of the first ever Affiliate Summit mag reads “Close Encounters Of The Calacanis Kind” no doubt referring to all the attention Jason has brought to the affiliate industry. You can say what you want about Calacanis but very few people know how to ... Read More

When you think of Linux, you probably think of open source software and security, but not gaming. Most people think if you are into gaming, Windows is your only option. A few years ago this might have been the case but not anymore. So, if you are a Linux power user, or just prefer Linux, here are a few of your options for playing games on your Linux box. Native Linux games I was very surprised to see how many games there were ... Read More

We all love our USB drives, don’t we? You should probably be using some portable apps on your USB drive – if not, check out our huge list of portable applications for your USB drive here. In this post, I want to cover a few apps that will make managing your USB drive easier. In essence, I’ll talk about tools that can be used to make things easier if you’ve got a USB drive – not about apps that work from your drive. So ... Read More

This week on the podcast I am chatting with Travis Quinnelly, an author at Make Use Of and the blog’s Technical Editor. That is the guy who handles the technical end of things and makes sure that everything runs smoothly. This week we are talking about Wordpress, Plurk, Wikia search and other search engines, Adobe Air apps and Portable Apps and a bunch of other stuff, including the weather in Montreal, Canada and Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you look underneath the show ... Read More

Lots of websites come and go, especially when it comes to TV show and movie websites. Being a major movie, TV show, news and documentary addict made me try lots of websites over the last couple of years. While many of those sites sucked, some of them were really good. Here are my top four websites for watching my favorite stuff online. Hulu Hulu is an excellent 100% legal source for TV shows and movies. If you were looking for a website where you ... Read More

New media, social media, networking… who cares what its called? The fact is, for better or for worse, I find myself using it more and more these days. Profiles have always been a pain. Who doesn’t get sick of filling in details and interests and photos, but lately having an up-to-the-minute status message seems to be the in-thing. Networks like Facebook and of course Twitter started it, and now everyone seems to be adding them in. MySpace now has numerous Facebook-like features ... Read More

I have been working on the web for a while now, and I have actually found it easier to write every document in HTML format instead of DOC or TXT. If you use Google Docs, you are actually doing the same, since Google Docs has (thankfully) essentially become a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Creating some document templates using HTML and CSS is very easy, can be done by everyone, and if you do it right, it will look the same to everyone. Why use ... Read More

The "Beggar Robot" by Slovenian artist Saso Sedlacek is a robot for the materially deprived consisting of old electronics and spare computer parts and was tested in Slovenian malls where it is forbidden to beg, although the artist contends that this rule does not apply to robots. The second version of the bot is an open source hardware and software project (with all parts listed on the link below), runs on Linux and its software and circuit diagrams can be downloaded for ... Read More

The Scripting languages are deployed in many operative systems, either in UNIX/Linux or Windows. These languages are developed for general purpose process automation and web programming. But you can consider using them for the software development process in many ways. Among these languages, awk and Perl are suitable for automate and speed up software development for embedded systems, because many embedded systems only have cross tool chain, without powerful IDE supports for process automation. Here I will show you why we ... Read More