Byte Into It - 31 Oct 07

Featured Windows Download: Micromanage Your Widescreen Monitor with AutoSizer
Windows only: Freeware application AutoSizer automatically resizes and moves application windows to specific, user-defined sizes and screen locations as soon as they’re opened. That means that if you’ve got a widescreen monitor with the perfect window layout that packs every last pixel with useful information, you can [...]

Byte Into It - 24 Oct 07

Google Docs Mobile Now Available | Lifehacker Australia
Google launches Docs Mobile, a slimmed-down view of Google Docs and Spreadsheets for your handheld. At the top of the narrow page is a search box, followed by a list of recent documents with links to view (but not edit) spreadsheets and documents (presentations are not viewable.) You [...]

Byte Into It - 17 Oct 07

Screenshot Tour: A Look at Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” RC1
there’s a lot that’s new (or at least now included by default) and very cool here—native support for dual-monitor setups, integrated Firefox tweaks and extensions, instant printer configuration and, of course, more of the Compiz eye candy that’s helping Ubuntu look less like the dowdy younger [...]

Byte Into It 10 Oct 07

Microsoft aims patent guns at Red Hat - vnunet.com
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property.”People who use Red Hat, at least with respect to our intellectual property, in a sense have an obligation to compensate us,” Ballmer said last [...]

Byte Into It - 3 Oct 2007

Watch High Quality Television over the Internet with Joost | Lifehacker Australia
Windows/Mac: Freeware streaming television application Joost has released the 1.0 beta of their snappy, attractive on-demand video player.
Power Up OpenOffice.org with Writer’s Tools | Lifehacker Australia
Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer’s Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office [...]