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Easiest Way to Have a USA IP Address

Free and Legal Method for Acquiring a Reliable USA IP Address For Testing and Surfing While Outside the USA.
Q. You’re located outside the USA and need to test what your website looks like to your USA visitors.  What’s the easiest way to accomplish this for free an without pesky and unstable ip cloaks and expensive [...]

Puppy Linux – Puppy Arcade 6 Released

More Information on the developer site.
Download Link Here
Review of Puppy Linux
Review of Puppy Arcade

Puppy Linux – Puppy Arcade 5 Super Fast Game Emulator

Puppy Arcade – Have your Puppy Linux and Play Games too (with awesome speed)!
We’ve been singing the praises of Puppy Linux (Review) for some time now. We love to hear about applications and new ways to use this great and fast linux distribution.
Scott Jarvis sent us info on his just released Puppy Arcade 5, [...]

Parted Magic 4.8 – Linux Partitioning Recovery Tool. Screenshots & Review

Overview
Ever need a quick and free tool for accessing a non-responsive computer?   Have you wanted an easy way to partition multiple drives with a simple graphical tool?  Do you like running Linux from RAM? If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you’ll want to give this nifty tool a closer look.
Parted Magic [...]

Google Chrome Beta for Linux Released

Good news for those of us who have been using Firefox as a last resort in our Linux machines. Google has announced the beta release of the mouch-touted browser for the Linux platform. Chrome is said to be faster and lighter than Firefox.
I’ve been using Chrome in pre-beta for quite some time without [...]

Programming: IE8 and PHP $ SERVER['HTTP REFERER']

IE Does Not Behave Like Firefox for Many PHP Variables
Forget it, IE doesn’t pass on the PHP referer variable.  You cannot rely on IE for the referer variable.
What’s really frustrating for LAMP programmers is that we often test in Firefox and things look great, and then you jump over to a Windows machine for QA [...]

Windows 7 Has Bigger Market Share Than All Linux Flavors Combined

Face it, we live in a Windows world.  The Windows 7 OS has been on shelves for nearly two weeks, and according to various reports, it already has taken a 2% market share of all installed OS in the world.
By comparison, Linux OS, in all its flavors and variations, holds less than a 2% market [...]

SLAMPP 2.0 Linux Server on your PC in Minutes – Review and Screenshots

An Instant Home Server
SLAMPP 2.0 is a “simple solution for home server” based on Zenwalk 6.0 and using the Slackware package repository.  Slampp is released as a Live DVD that can also be installed on your hard drive.  Slampp claims to enable users to install an ‘instant home server’.  Slampp v.2.0 – (Kalinda) was released [...]

CrunchBang Linux 9.04 (OpenBox with Ubuntu) Review and Screenshots

CrunchBang – Fast Linux with Many Customization Options
CrunchBang Linux 9.04 is an Open-Box distro based on Ubuntu with Gnome packages.  CrunchBang promises performance and ultimate customization options. Version 9.04.01 was released a couple weeks ago, and we decided to give it a test drive.
CrunchBang Standard vs. Lite

CrunchBang is offered in standard and lite packages for [...]

Linpus Linux Lite 9.4 – Review and Screenshots

Linpus Linux is a Fedora based distro that was designed to support the Asian market with Unicode support.  However, Linpus is available in English, as well as several other languages, from their website.  The Linpus Linux Lite version reviewed here is designed to be a simple to use and low memory usage for the Netbook [...]