The University of California at Berkeley has set an example by offering entire course lectures & special events on Youtube without any charge. The videotaped lectures includes topics such as bioengineering, peace and conflict studies, and physics. This catalogue will certainly increase with time passage.

Berkeley said that they are the first of it’s kind University that is offering
courses on Youtube & that’s too free of charge. They are also offering open source videos & podcasts since 2001.

Now, if you miss any lecture, just login to your Youtube Account, watch that video. How cool is that…!

Here comes VIXTA, the open source alternative to the much hyped Windows Vista. VIXTA is actually a Fedora based Linux Distribution. It closely resembles Microsoft Windows Vista with all the user friendly & eye catching features. The main goals behind the development of VIXTA is to “bring Linux to the Masses” & to tell people that Linux is not for computer geeks. The desktop environment is based on KDE.

Home Page | Download Here

Recently, Google has removed all the ads from there social networking site Orkut. Google said that these ads were only on 1 percent of the total Orkut pages. They said that the deployment of ads was under a ‘test run’, as these test doesn’t deliver high returns, they were removed.

But lack of revenue is not the actual cause of ad removal. Google removed the ads from Orkut after recieving complains from a Brazillian nonprofit group, SafeNet. SafeNet alleged that Google is showing ads next to the illegal content that is posted on this site, such as child pornography, this way Google is profiting from these crimes.

Don’t be amazed, Puppy 3.0 is a Linux Operating System that can run directly from the CD. There is no need to install it on the Hard Disk. The size of the OS is just 97.6 MB. Though it looks small but it has some great applications such as SeaMonkey/Mozilla Application Suite, AbiWord, Sodipodi, Gnumeric, and Gxine/xine etc.

This OS can also work as a emergency disk or as a Linux Demonstration System. Being small it can be easliy installed on a USB drive & can be used as a portable Operating System.

Puppy Goals

Easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
Booting from CD (or DVD), the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
Booting from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
Booting from USB Flash drive, minimise writes to extend the life indefinitely.
Extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
Boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
Have all the applications needed for daily use.
Will just work, no hassles.
Will breathe new life into old PCs
Load and run totally in RAM for diskless thin stations

Download it & give it a try.
Puppy 3.0 Homepage Download Live CD Here

At last Microsoft has announced the price list of the second generation Zune Mp3 Player. The new Zune will be released in Mid-November. The new Zune will have two variants a 40GB for $149 and an 80GB for $249.

The new Zune includes a Zune Pad navigation button which is similar to the Apple’s iTouch. The Zune Pad is used to sync movies, music & photos wirelessly using wifi. It can be easily synced with a PC. The software & design of the next generation Zune has been done from scratch & there is a new Zune store to purchase content.

Microsoft linked up with partners like Toshiba and MusicNet for the design of the device and the underlying software. As original Zune this one also includes a FM Radio tuner & the ability to share music with other Zune users wirelessly.