<b>Linux Planet:</b> "OpenOffice is the best cross-platform office productivity suite, but it misses a few popular features like a clipart gallery, Google Docs integration, PDF import, and more than basic templates. But they're out there if you know where to look, and Eric Geier shows the way."
Volume 2 of tips and tricks that touches on tips related to some of the new features of C# 4.0 along with other beneficial tips and tricks. In addition, it mentions some tools that are worth knowing as well.
Need specialized small business software but worried it won't work with your QuickBooks, Salesforce or other business platform? Laurie McCabe explains the benefits of app stores.
<b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "The Linux kernel includes a variety of APIs intended to help developers build simpler and more efficient driver and kernel applications. Two of the more common APIs that can be used for work deferral are the list management and timer APIs."
SeeWhy has launched Conversion Manager, an automated Web analytics service that can optimize an ecommerce retailer’s conversion rates by remarketing with e-mail and social media.
<B>Sascha's Hideout:</B> "Konsole does a brilliant job at being a terminal emulator but it doesn't follow user interface standards set by the majority of KDE apps very well. The remainder of this post is mostly about the menu bar and popup menus."
<b>LWN.net:</b> "The chief of the Unix side was Evi Nemeth. The first thing that struck most people about Evi was a general sense of distraction and disorganization; it's only later that one realized the she was one of those smart people who make things happen."
<b>Enterprise Storage Forum: </b>"CTERA Networks is giving the Linux Ext3 file system additional data protection in the form of new snapshot capabilities. The file system is also the basis of the company's Cloud-Attached Storage appliances, the C200 and CloudPlug."
Among the big news this week in green data center management: Singapore pledges to cut carbon emissions by 16 percent by 2020, and for the second year in a row, data security is the primary concern and driver of IT asset disposition compliance efforts.
Tip of the Trade: If you've ever felt the need to scribble notes on your PDFs without bringing dead trees into the equation, consider the open-source software, Okular, a KDE document reader that can read multiple document formats and allows the user to annotate files as she reads.
<b>VoIP Planet:</b> "The Ubuntu Linux distribution isn't the only open source project with a long-term-support release on the horizon. The Asterisk open source VoIP PBX (define) project is moving ahead with its own long-term support (LTS) plans with its 1.8 release."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "This article will look at running the Apache HTTP, FreeRADIUS and FreeNAS servers. We'll review the process of installing and using each inside Windows."
<b>PC World:</b> "Does your family need an extra PC? Educator, Mac expert, and Linux enthusiast Phil Shapiro explains in this YouTube video how, for less than the price of some operating systems, you can configure a useful, virus-free computer..."
<b>Info World:</b> "Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday."
<b>Phoronix:</b> "Last week we delivered benchmarks of Fedora 13 Alpha and Ubuntu 10.04 (along with testing the Fedora 11 and 12 too), but today we have a new set of comparative benchmarks that are covering the latest development versions of Ubuntu 10.04, Mandriva 2010.1, PCLinuxOS 2010, and openSUSE 11.3. Here they are."