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Windows only: Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your...

Linus Torvalds has an uncomfortable pause at 44:24 in this video. The uncomfortable pause occurs when he concludes a confused critique of the GNU General Public License.

Watch the BBC getting grilled at the Parliament over its blind servitude to Microsoft, which it simply cannot defend.

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Linus Torvalds, the creator of the [Linux kernel], tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

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Some or many of you have probably heard about Randy’s Pauch’s “Last Lecture.” Randy is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He gave a stirring and inspirational talk on September 18, 2007, titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” I was emailed a link to a condensed version of this talk and I loved it, getting a bit choked up about somebody so enthusiastic and full of life and with a wife and young children, having to be “done too soon.”

Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox extension Xoopit turns Gmail into a robust, searchable media management tool for every piece of media that comes through your inbox. By indexing every attachment as well as...

Free video-monitoring site Feedky lets you keep an eye on all the major video-sharing sites for any keyword you're interested in popping up. Simply enter your search terms and you'll get either an...

Weblog ScienCentral reports that when you can't come up with an answer that's sitting on the tip of your tongue, you're best off forgetting about it altogether. That's because, according to a study...

Photography weblog Digital Photography School details how to make a fantastic time-lapse photography video like the one above using your DSLR camera. We've shown you how to do time-lapse on your...

The newly updated Google Maps Mobile, which supports tons of non-iPhone cells, has incorporated transit schedules and directions for those times you want to get around without a car. The video above...

The newly updated Google Maps Mobile, which supports tons of non-iPhone cells, has incorporated transit schedules and directions for those times you want to get around without a car. The video above...

Cooking web site The Kitchn demonstrates how to dice an onion like a pro in the video above. It's surprisingly simple, and when you're done you'll have a perfectly diced onion ready for the millions...

iPhone/iPod touch only: Freeware application iSlsk is a Soulseek peer-to-peer client for the iPhone and iPod touch which can download MP3s from the Soulseek network directly to your device. Once...

We've already shown you how to turn your point-and-shoot into a super camera with the open-source CHDK software, but if you followed our instructions and hit a "Now what?" wall, the Hack a Day blog...

The webcam that came packaged with your computer system can do a whole lot more than just let you video chat. With the right tools, you can turn your webcam into a watchful surveillance tool, a face...