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Windows 8 has received an initial preview, showing off HTML5-based widgets and more in action. Source: Yahoo! News

Well, folks, the wait is over: We finally have a fair fight. Since the launch of the Motorola Xoom and Google's Android Honeycomb OS, everyone's been champing at the bit to make iPad vs. Android tablet comparisons. Until now, though, the comparison had been putting a brand new device up...

Google is going to launch Android 3.0 which is new and enhanced version of Google's Mobile Operating System. It is specifically optimized for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets and introduces a brand new, truly virtual and “holographic” UI design, as well as an elegant...

The Power User's Guide to the Windows 7 Taskbar Link Removed It seems like every week we learn about a new tip to enhance the Windows 7 taskbar, and it's hard to keep them all straight. Here's the complete power user's guide to tweaking and using your...

Just for informational purposes I have been having a problem finding something that I could monitor my computer with. You know cpu, memory, hard drives and such. I am in kinda of a special group. I have extreme troubles reading widgets and gadgets. Including having troubles with white on...

Hands-on: Plasma, KWin improve in KDE SC 4.4 beta 1 The developers behind KDE have announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 beta 1. We conducted hands-on testing to see what the new version brings to the desktop. KDE was created with the goal of building a desktop environment for...

I previously had Windows XP and I was able to put a desktop "countdown" ticker on my desktop to countdown the days until our next cruise. I have tried to do this with Windows 7 but so far cannot figure out how to do it. Anyone know if one can be displayed on the desktop?

Ive just found out that you can actually create windows vista sidebar widgets or gadgets whatever you want to call them. Has anyone done this yet im interested in doing it if it aint too hard. You can create almost anything from what ive read very interesting stuff. Aparently you need to know...

So, does anyone else think that this new Vista is a copy of OSX?? I use a Mac OSX at school and Vista looks pretty damn similar. The widgets!? Why microsoft why. and the new windows layout i.e. My Documents and such look just like Mac OSX. Thats just my opinion though.