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Open Source – The Real iPhone Killer

The iPhone is the king of the hill when it comes to smartphones. Everyone knows that, right? Well, that isn’t exactly true – in North America RIM (the Blackberry) holds about half of the entire smartphone market. Globally, Symbian-based devices (primarily from Nokia) are the most popular, followed by the Blackberry and then the iPhone [...]

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Go Open Source or Go Home

You don’t have to be a geek to want to save your money and download programs for free. Here are 5 of my quick picks for open source software.

You may be wondering, What is Open Source?
Open source generally refers to software that is released with open code and no restrictions on downloading, modifying or advertising [...]

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12 MORE Open Source Games that Don’t Suck

 

Recently I wrote an article called 12 Open Source Games that Don’t Suck, and the response was overwhelming. Along with the positive feedback you guys made it quite clear that I didn’t mention some good games, especially first-person shooters. Many of the suggestions made were of non open-source projects, but I’m trying to stick to [...]

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12 Open Source Games that Don't Suck

Open source rocks. A year or two ago I had no idea what was available out there for free…well, except for the torrent sites, not that I ever visited any of those. From entire operating systems to just about any sort of application under the sun, you can find open source and/or free [...]

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Top 5 Free Resources to Help on Tax Day

Procrastination is a way of life. Luckily there are some open source and free (as in free beer!) resources out there to help those of us in the United States that have to meet the deadline for filing taxes on April 15th.

Those of you not from the U.S — I can only imagine how crazy [...]

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