We know you've had a busy week, John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani. But now that you both have so much more free time on your hands, we thought you might want to spend some time catching up on the news you might have missed this week.Microsoft seeks to acquire Yahoo!
If you've been living under a rock for the last 24 hours, you might not know this yet, but Microsoft has put in an offer to acquire Yahoo!. It's all part of the company's grand scheme to take over the world... before Google does. Microsoft has offered $44.6 billion buyout, and while it's not exactly a done deal yet, there's a pretty decent chance Yahoo! will accept the offer. And we've been meaning to ask, how's the insulation on a rock? Does it keep you warm in the winter?
Ask DLS: Recovering photos from a corrupted flash card
It's happened to all of us. You snap some wonderful vacation photos, or record your child's first steps on your digital camera, only to realize that your flash card is corrupted and you're computer can't make heads or tails of it. Before you reformat the card, take a moment to check out our list of applications for recovering photos from a bad card. All hope might not be lost. Make sure to read the comments too, because many of our readers chimed in with their favorite applications for recovering photo and other data.
7 Ways to listen to pandora without a web browser
Pandora is an awesome streaming radio service that serves up songs based on your individual music tastes. But it's designed to run in a web browser, and sometimes you just don't want to open Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera just to listen to some music. We've compiled 7 programs for Windows and Mac users looking for a browser-free way to enjoy Pandora.
Up close with SyncTV: An iTunes video killer?
There's no shortage of places to find full length television episodes and movies online these days. But SyncTV provides one of the most flexible solutions we've seen to date. The SyncTV client runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac machines. And users can choose to subscribe to channels, pay to download individual episodes, or buy an entire season. Best of all, the plan is to have every episode of every season for as many programs as possible. The only problems are that SyncTV has a limited content library at the moment, the Linux client appears to be somewhat buggy, and the service is in private beta the moment. But we took it for a test drive this week. And you can ride shotgun.
Flipping the Linux Switch: Penguin on a (USB) stick
Unlike Windows and OS X, most Linux distributions aren't particularly fussy about where you install them. Not only can you usually install Linux to any partition on your hard drive, but you can also install Ubuntu and other distributions to a flash drive. But why hassle with all of that when there are a handful of distros designed specifically to run on a Flash drive. This week we take a look at Puppy Linux, a lightweight (like under 100MB) Linux distribution that comes complete with a word processor, spreadsheet application, and web browser among other goodies.
