That mysterious Optimus Z phone from the other week has been formally introduced by LG, but for now it's only getting a release in the land of kimchi and soju—Korea. A global release is expected later, however. More raquo;...
This is some of the best written code I have ever seen or I will ever see
public boolean isBooleanFalse(boolean value) {
boolean response = false;
if (value == true) {
response = false;
} else {
response [...]
Super Talent's new UltraDrive MX SSD has a feature that allows the SSD to be used as an internal drive or as an external storage device. It's because the SSD can connect to a computer with SATA II and USB. More raquo;...
We conclude our whimsical jaunt down text editor lane with a look at the KDE take on that always-necessary tool - the text editor. The KDE version is called Kate. Kate takes a different approach to the simplicity most of these tools take....
Hidden away in a bland update about terms & conditions, Google's Android Developer Blog has revealed the next phase in Google's plans to make Android a little more pleasing to the mass market—direct carrier billing for app purchases. The lack of a properly integrated way to buy apps is often...
Zemlin talks China, Windows, and Linux in our lives We got a chance to send a few questions to Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. We wanted to explore open source principles like transparency, community, and collaboration in his world. And we got a chance to ask him...
Now that Google has announced that it has received its final shipment of Nexus One phones and will be exiting its Nexus One phone business altogether, what should we make of the company's decision?
We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great...
If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition software over the years, you know that it's been a rocky road. Pundits ranging from Ray Kurzweil to Bill Gates, have, at various times, proclaimed speech recognition to be the wave of the computing future, but...
ARM has solidified its position today as master of the mobile processor universe, announcing a deal with TSMC that will take smartphone chips all the way down to a 20nm process. That means: faster, better, more efficient. More raquo;...
We continue our Linuxables series on the Linux text editor. As you might have noticed, this is one of those topics that breed much contempt. If you talk about vi, you must give equal time to emacs. If you talk about Kate, you best talk about Gedit. And that is precisely where we are - Gedit (although we have yet to talk about Kate, that comes next week).
Facebook is a big time killer. You can harvest farm without owning an inch of land, kill your buddies and still brag about it, save unknown species of zoo animals and poke any girl you know and she wont mind.
But Facebook is a case study for web developers like me. A typical Facebook page, depending [...]