Cloud computing is moving some of your local computer tasks into internet via webservices, such as office application and data storage. One of the classic examples, GoogleApp, there is a set of office applications which are similar with your MS Office.… more »

There is my opensource system: OS: Ubunut 8.10 Office Application: OpenOffice 3.0 Photo Editing: GIMP Database: MySql Application Development: Mono 1.9.1 Email client: Evolution more »

I installed a program for Podcasting in Ubuntu. It calls gPodder. That is very light weight and supporting multi-downloads. But the major weakness is you cannot categorize your Podcast subscriptions. more »

I just built a VM with Xubuntu. That is design for low spec computer. I aimed to use that for my laptop. So, I only gave 512 MB and 10GB. Comparing with others distributions I got. That is much faster and the interface is nice and clean. Too bad, I have… more »

All menu shortcuts for Openoffice 3.0 will be gone after an automatic update from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Because I installed my Openoffice 3.0 manually. What I did to recover that. Uninstall openoffice 3.0 and reinstall again. more »

Gomesword is a bible study, http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/. Moreover, it supports 5 parallel versions. more »

I have a test drive for Kubuntu 8.10 this morning. I am very happy about the improvements of KDE 4.1. That is beautiful! I fall in love with it. But I think that is trade over about that. I found that is not as smooth as the VM which installed Ubuntu… more »

There are some replacements for Visio such as Kivio and OpeofficeDraw. I tried them, but I picked Dia. Firstly, it got most of the whole set of Visio objects. Moreover, the interface is the simplest one. Those are the reasons I like it. more »

At the website of OpenOffice, that is only providing RPM. Ununtu doesn't support that, and dapper has not version 3.0 yet. So it needs to do manually. 1. Go to http://download.openoffice.org/other.html 2. Download Linux DEB. 3. Untar the package. 4. Go… more »

"Cloud" will be the hottest term for next few years in IT. I found a company provide a kind of hosting calls "Cloud Hosting". That sounds interesting. There is a webcast in their website, http://www.rackspacecloudevent.com/. They said they will host… more »

That is interesting. I read an article in australian. It said a google search will provide the same amount of CO2 as boiling a kettle of water! http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,24900768-15306,00.html more »

I read the news from gOS Homepage. There is a press release about Gigabyte will put a touch screen netbook. I like to call it "Tablet Netbook". http://thinkgos.com/press-release20081201.php more »