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Google has implemented (a new feature) one of the features I badly wanted from the mapping services, drag and drop the route to get a different route than the default one. Click on the pictures below to see the difference. The first picture showed the route from Chicago to Washington D.C via South Bend, Toledo, [...]

Ubuntu has released the second alpha version of it’s next OS, Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2. Here is the list of features:
Gnash - Free flash player
XDG-user-directories - Creates a standard set of default directories in your home folder that users and applications can utilize to make user experience more consistent and convenient across sessions, and [...]

Good News!!! Google has released Google Desktop for Linux. Here is the list of features in Google Desktop for Linux:
Quick Search Box - Type a few letters or words into the search box and your top results pop up instantly. You can call up the Quick Search Box by pressing the Ctrl key twice, and [...]

Mozilla Calendar Project has released Lightning and Sunbird 0.5. Here is the list of improvements in 0.5:

More polished user interface in the calendar views
Event invitations can be sent and received via iMIP/iTIP (Lightning only)
Working hours are back
Automatic migration of data in Sunbird 0.2, iCal.app, and Evolution
Much improved printing functionality
Better integration of Lightning into Mozilla Thunderbird [...]

Microsoft has opened the Windows Live Folder (beta) to public with Windows Live ID. I registered using my hotmail login and got a taste of it. You get a paltry 500 MB of storage to store documents, music and photos. The interface is neat and simple. When you login, you can see options to personal [...]

DesktopLinux.com reports that Dell introduced a new laptop (Inspiron 1420N) with Ubuntu pre-installed. The new Inspiron 1420N is powered by a 1.5GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T5250 processor. This chip set also comes with a 667MHz FSB (front-side bus) and a 2MB cache. If you want a faster processor, Dell will let you upgrade it [...]

Google has redesigned it’s Google Doc & Spreadsheets. The documents are neatly organized with an explorer like interface and new icons. The search in Google doc now shows dynamically filtered lists as you type, similar to Google Suggest. Click the picture below to see the new interface.

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Click here to find out the time left for the launch of Oracle Database 11g.
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Google announced yesterday that they are adding mail migration feature to Google Apps Premier and Education Editions. Administrators can use a self-service wizard to easily and securely transfer existing email data from an IMAP server over to users’ Gmail accounts on Google Apps. Gmail will put messages into conversation threads, display the original sender, recipient, [...]

Linuxsucks.org runs on Linux. Click here and take a look at the hosting history at the bottom. It’ll show you the OS as Linux. If you go to their website and click on the following topics will give you NOTE: Comment XXXXX deleted message.
Linux Sucks So Much This Site Uses It
Zounds! Your server runs Linux, [...]