If you use Linux you will know how much easier and how much more convenient it is to handle software on it. If you ever wished that there was some way to make Windows behave the same way, Chocolatey might just make your wish come true.If you haven't used Linux, here's a comparison. In Windows, each application comes with an installer that copies the application's files to the right places, and sets up the application's settings. Every installer looks different, asks for different things and so does the uninstaller. Each application you install needs to be searched for online, downloaded and then installed. Each application has its own update mechanism, one that usually runs in the background taking up precious resources.On Linux this is all centralized and managed by the OS. Most Linux...

We spoke to Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera and spoke about the latest trends in open web standards.Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera, and creator of CSS From what we understand, CSS3 is now being developed in a modular fashion, so parts of it can become standardised while other modules are still being worked on. What are some of the CSS3 modules that are near being recommended? Yes, you're right, CSS3 is modular. And it's probably about somewhere between 20 to 30 modules. And we can't do all of them at the same time. Some are being actively developed by all browsers and they are the ones that are closest to being mature, whereas others are more experimental. Some of them may never really become a standard. So there's little bit of everything in it. I think it's due to the...

It is nice to see that the creating a new tablet version of KDE software isn't coming in the way of releasing desktop / netbook versions of the desktop environment.A great many changes have come this time around, in fact the past few releases have involved the rewriting and increasing number of widgets in QML for better performance and to make them easier to modify in the future.Here are some of the main new features you can get in the latest release: QtQuick can now be used for creating widgets, allowing for more adaptable widgets that work across form factors. The KDE Plasma Workspaces now feature six different window switchers, and it is possible to create custom ones using QML. The device widget too is now QML based KSecretService is a standard complaint way of storing...