Packt Publishing has selected WordPress as the overall best open source CMS for 2009. The thing to note here is that it is in the category of overall CMS, not just blogging. Hopefully this will make it easier to convince those executives to consider...
Topics: asides, cms, web, wordpress

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OpenOfficeMouse (via Paul Mison) does appear strange. We are not used to seeing hardware built around specific applications. Nor are we used to seeing 18 buttons on a mouse, it is almost like keyboard on a mouse. I am biased by the current tools I use...
Topics: asides, mouse, openoffice, tools

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Though we see users yearning for better products every other day, being only better is not enough for a product to be popular. Being better brings in change, and usually the resistance to the change beats down the enthusiasm for betterment. Then there...
Topics: entrepreneurship

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Though Android is an open source platform, Google adds its proprietary applications when it is rolled out. This is where some of the open source contributors who wanted to provide modified distributions are facing hurdles. So a new alliance has been put..
Topics: mobile

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I prefer ibeam cursors to the block ones, I find them less obtrusive. However, I could not find an option to modify the cursor shape in the XFCE terminal preferences; until I looked under the hood. In ~/.config/Terminal/terminalrc the value of...
Topics: cursor, tools, xfce

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