Alex Iskold wrote the other day, that free software and the openness of the web may not be such a good thing after all.
It encourages the monopoly of large corporations, it can become a problem to traditional economics and it nourishes a generation, which wants all services for free.
Is it really so? Is openness an obstacle to the evolution

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Need a light weight media player? Grown tired of all the useless bells and whistles of Windows Media Player and iTunes? This article will show you a great piece of free software that can be as simple or full featured as you wish.

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10 Fiery Free OS Word Processors That You can Use to Write a good content and in an attempt to drop pricey Microsoft office!

Web-savvy writers are embracing the open source movement, as it provides both useful and free alternatives to commercial writing tools. As a blogger who churns out daily online content, I have come to

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Have you ever wanted to learn about Linux but could not find enough resources and books to help you. Maybe you had some questions about setting up static IP addresses on your Linux workstation. But that question was not answered in your “Linux for Dummies” book. That excuse will no longer work.

Download link to FREE e-books at TeqEdge Blo

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Now there's a new way to easily log into important blogs and social marketing websites using the same, secure ID -- Open ID.

Ever get tired of having so many different logins, and identities on the various forums, blogs, communities and social marketing sites you frequent? Most people do. To the rescue comes a Portland,

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The OLPC Initiative has just received the rights to EA's original SimCity game, to include on their laptops that they are releasing for children in the "developing world" so they can learn what it takes to "start, build and manage a city, taking

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Ever wish you could look at a web page and understand its underlying structure -- its CSS format, for example? You can. How about trying a quick change to your website(s), say a new background color, so you can immediately how it looks, without altering it for other visitors? You can do that too. All that and more is possible when you lea

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Free Web Editors. Cool. But how do you choose the best one for your job? That's what we'll look at here as I compare two interesting editors -- one (Amaya) the official W3C tool that creates clean XHTML code, and another (JEdit) that features hundreds of plugins. Which will you choose? Well maybe you already have a favorite -- but thes

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Tax season is upon us again, and I don’t know about you, but that kind of gets me thinking about my finances a bit. If you are like me, perhaps you are looking to find a better way to manage your finances, accounts and other items a little better. Maybe you just want to see where all of your dollars are going, or maybe

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This is a website accompanying the Widget Environment library. An easy to use window environment written in JavaScript to give your webpages the look and feel of a desktop. Features include: basic window behaviour (close, maximize, minize), a navigation menu with submenu's, a listing of all opened windows (navigation bar) and clickable deskt

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This tool allows you to retrieve and change passwords, find username and password combinations from the windows registry!

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Goal of this article: Provide a list of excellent, free applications that will help you get the most out of your computing experience.
Your computer can do so much, but there is always some piece of software that you need first. Lots of applications are complicated and expensive enough to stop people from taking full advantage of their compu

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Welcome to the new world of mobile phone development.
From the OpenHandsetAlliance's FAQ:

Android is a complete mobile phone software stack. It includes everything a manufacturer or operator needs to build a mobile phone. Android will be made available as open source via the Apache v2 license. Android was designed from the ground up to e

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In an article we wrote last month it was revealed that pligg had not been developed for months leaving lots of users worried about the continuation of the project. Information on this subject has been non existent over at pligg.com luckily a pligger named Dave Mackey the owner of informednetworker.com asked some questions that

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This is a list of static and interactive tools, which will reveal how the town called social web work. The static tools are mostly visuals of well-known social networks. The interactive tools are free software, which will let you study your own social networks.
Purpose of this list is to provide the instruments to help you decode the social

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During my travels across the great plains of the interweb, I came across a fantastic reference for open source (read free) software. Here you can find open source software for Mac, as well as Windows XP.

This list is two full pages of open source software, compiled into one place. You can visit the Mac or the Windows site fo

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Ubuntu Linux adoption is increasing a tiny fraction everyday. Ubuntu Tweak has now made it easy for anyone to setup Linux any way they want to. The simple menus are easy enough for everyone to follow and is geared towards new users. [...]

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