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Murphy's Law: That'll Be $5 For 45 Uses of Your Paint Brush
I'm a pretty avid college football fan, which has absolutely nothing to do with the world of open source or freeware. Or does it? I just made my yearly donation to Electronic Arts in the form of a...
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Report: Android Smartphone Shipments Skyrocket 886 Percent
According to Canalys, a technology analyst firm primarily based out of the U.K., Google has reason to gloat. That's because Google's Android platform is making enormous strides in the smartphone...
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Five Freeware Apps for Extreme File Management
It takes a special kind of finesse to manipulate the various files scattered across your system like Minority Report’s John Anderton. Was there only a piece of freeware that allowed one to transform...
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Murphy's Law: 98 Percent of Companies Use Open-Source, 29 Percent Contribute...
A recent survey hit my radar this weekend and, I must say, I’m not that surprised by the results. Contrary to my usual columns, I won’t bury the lede: Accenture polled 300 large organizations in both...
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5 Freeware Apps for Searching Thy Desktop Awesomely
This week’s Freeware Files come courtesy of podcast aficionado (and mother of the epic dream date winner from podcast #36) R. Ellen Ferare. Or, rather, you can thank her for the idea. We got to talking...
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Tricky Linux Bug Hard to Squash
If you run a 64-bit version of Linux, take note, your system may be vulnerable to attack. Red Hat recently announced an exploit that would allow a local, unprivileged user to escalate their privileges,...
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Murphy's Law: How Do You Download?
Is there a special, unwritten set of rules for downloading freeware? I’d like to think there are—for me, at least. For even though I’m “that guy” at Maximum PC, perhaps the only (former) editor to...
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Murphy's Law: Dreaming a Steamy Dream of One-Click Driver Updates
It’s hard to maintain any kind of neutrality when writing about Valve’s Steam service. Indeed, it’s hard to write anything about Steam without adopting a grin the size of a cartoon character and...
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Five Apps For Making Windows Into an Automated Robot
There are few tools more useful for the common desktop or laptop system than apps that automate some kind of system or user process that’s otherwise too tedious to do yourself. I mean, isn’t that the...
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Now You can Buy Windows with a Linux Credit Card
Linux has found a new home: in your wallet. The Linux Foundation is now offering a platinum rewards Linux credit card complete with the Tux penguin on the front.The Linux Foundation receives a...
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Red Hat and Fujitsu Tag Team Cloud Collaboration
Open-source stalwart Red Hat has announced an expanded partnership with Fujitsu to extend their collaboration to the cloud. These two have been partners for a long time, so it really shouldn't come as...
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HP Customer In Need of Warranty Service Gets the Runaround for Installing Linux
It's entirely possible for software to cause hardware damage. For instance, an overclocking utility, whether buggy or abused by the end-user, could potentially result in fried hardware. But should...
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Linux Director: Battling Microsoft is "Like Kicking a Puppy"
Depending on which market research firm you believe is the most accurate, Microsoft's total usage share for all versions of Windows ranges from about 84 percent to more than 91 percent. Microsoft is...
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Windows App of the Week: VLC Media Player
Why do I like VLC Media Player? Because it plays media. That’s pretty apparent in the title, however, so hear me out: The bane of Windows Media Player is that it straps a whole ton of accessories and...
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WebOS Lives, Goes Open-Source
When HP named Meg Whitman the new CEO earlier this year, she wasted little time in firmly reversing the course set by Leo Apotheker, her predecessor, and declaring that the company would be keeping its...
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