Practical Technology

Linux rules supercomputers. It’s vitally important to servers. And, Linux is making gains on the desktop. Where Linux is really going to shine in the next twelve months though is in devices: tablets, smartphones, and TVs. For example, more than a dozen Apple iPad-like tablets made their first appearance at the Computex computer show in [...]

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Facebook claims to have more than 400 million active users. In fact, according to Web analytics firm Alexa, only Google is a more popular site. So, with all that going for it, why are so many users unhappy, with one poll showing that more than half of Facebook users are thinking about leaving? The one-word [...]

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Steve Jobs anti-Adobe Flash rant is really quite a remarkable document both for what it says, and what it doesn’t say. First, and foremost, there’s the fact that Jobs spends most of his time complaining about the Flash format and ignoring the real beef Adobe has with Apple. Sure Adobe doesn’t like that Apple won’t [...]

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Firefox 3.6 has just come out and it’s great. There’s only one problem. Google has released the new version of Chrome, version 4, and it’s even better. This new version retains its speed lead over other browsers. I tested it on one of my Dell 530S desktop PCs. This PC is powered by a 2.2GHz [...]

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If you write software for the Mac, you must obey Apple’s rules. Period. End of statement. If you write software for Windows, you have more lee-way, but Microsoft pretty much calls the shots. If you write software for Linux though you can pretty much do whatever you want, except, of course, you shouldn’t. Because if [...]

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