Matthias Ettrich has received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contributions in the field of free software...

In this edition: two ways to browse the web, and one great way to find everything scattered across all your storage media.

Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company's most popular web applications.

Anyone using Linux (or any operating system for that matter) should know about the OpenOffice.org office suite. This suite of tools serve as the open source equivalent to Microsoft Office and does so with ease and full functionality. OpenOffice.org Writer works very similarly to Microsoft Word.