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Ubuntu's new version 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" [http://www.ubuntu.com/]

The release news is here [http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu710]

Here is the roadmap planned for Ubuntu [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+roadmap]

Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training]

Samsung's SSD [www.samsungssd.com]

Read a review here [http://www.geek.com/review-samsung-64gb-ssd/]

The only downside here is the cost - which is ~$15/GB compared to $1/GB for conventional laptop harddisks.

Here is a video that compares Samsung SSD vs HDD

Apple Leopard's Innovations

Watch the guided tour here [http://www.apple.com/macosx/]

And here are the list of new/improved features [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/]

I'm sure you've been reading a lot of praise about this OS release. To spice things up, here is a negative review… [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2212976,00.asp]

The OX86 project - A community of users running Mac OS X on x86 hardware.

These guys have an interesting home page [http://www.osx86project.org/]

Google's Android - a Linux based mobile phone platform that is targeted at becoming the mobile OS for the future.

This is from Google's pages [code.google.com/android/]

And this is what the OHA has to say about Android [http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/android_overview.html]

Microsoft's Windows Home Server (WSH)

The features are listed here [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/windowshomeserver/features.mspx]

And here is a review for you to get a better picture [http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2189704,00.asp]

Google Ad-Sense Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

Here is a guided tour [http://www.google.com/services/adsense_tour/index.html]

Sling Media's Slingbox Solo and Sony LocationFree Base Station - two place-shifting devices for remotely viewing television and DVR content.

Slingbox Solo - $180

LocationFree Base Station - $250

Intel's 3GHz QX9650 Core 2 Extreme CPU - codenamed Penryn fabricated in a 45nm process

Recover deleted files using Restoration. This program needs no installer and it is so small that you can run it from a flash drive. [http://find.pcworld.com/59055]

EPEAT system - Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool [www.epeat.net]

Energy Star 4.0 ratings

Foxit PDF Reader - A 2MB download that's free, fast and lets you annotate a PDF with text or graphics. And it can save the PDF form you fill out too. [http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php]