Practical Technology

I have a confession to make. There’s no software on earth I can’t make dance and sing… except for photography programs. Whether it’s Adobe Photoshop CS4 on a Mac or GIMP 2.6.3 on Linux, I’m a klutz. So, when I need to make my holiday photos look halfway decent, I try my best with easy [...]

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Try as you might to get away from Windows, you might think that you’re stuck with using it because there’s this one program that you have to use and you can’t find anything on Linux or Mac OS that works for you. Well, you’re in luck. CodeWeavers the company behind CrossOver Linux Pro and CrossOver [...]

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Who says you have to give up your must-have Windows applications when you migrate to Linux? If you can’t leave some crucial Windows program behind, you can run it using CodeWeavers’ latest version of CrossOver Linux.
Though today there are many great Linux end-user applications, some people still have “must-have” Windows applications — Quicken instead of [...]

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No, I’m not talking about the iPhone. My problem was when my wife and I decided it was time to retire her slowly dying IBM ThinkPad X40 and bring in a fresh new MacBook Pro in its place.
Well, that was the plan anyway.
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Fifteen years in the making, everyone’s favorite software to run Windows programs on Linux and Unix, Wine, is almost ready for its 1.0 release.
If all goes well, Alexandre Julliard, Wine’s lead developer, says that Wine 1.0 should appear on June 20, two weeks after the program’s fifteenth birthday. While at this point there are about [...]

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