For better or worse, Adobe's latest iteration of Reader is now available for both Android and desktop OSes. From the sandboxed Reader 'protected-mode', to the new multimedia implementations, there's quite a bit in the new Acrobat X suite of software.

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Adobe Reader X now available for Android and desktop OSes originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Mozilla Labs Rainbow updated to version 0.2 -- now works with Windows and Linux as well as Mac OS X originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Let me just come right out and say it: TeamViewer is the best remote control application for Windows PCs today. I've tried numerous apps, and nothing comes close to TeamViewer's performance on a WAN. For LAN situations, Windows Remote Desktop rocks. But when you've got the whole wide Internet between you and the computer you'd like to control, nothing beats TeamViewer. I use it several times per week, for extended sessions (hours on end), and it's always a joy to use. So yes, I'm a rabid fan, and I'm not ashamed.

And now, TeamViewer has announced a new beta for version 6. If you use TeamViewer 5, you'll notice the look and feel is different. But changes are more than skin-deep:

• Custom QuickSupport is a feature that lets you connect to existing customers much more quickly, without getting their ID and password newly every time.
• QuickJoin is a new feature that lets you send the session data to participants beforehand. This is great for presentations - the participants connect to your computer, and not vice versa. You no longer need to enter the data for each of the participants manually.
• Reconnection after reboot makes sure TeamViewer will re-establish the connection even after the remote computer went down and came back up.

There are several other options; if you're not using TeamViewer yet, you really should start. But remember this is still a beta, so if you use it to control nuclear reactors or a personal army of killer robots, you may want to hold off on the upgrade.

TeamViewer Beta 6 is now out, remote control freaks rejoice originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Sleek, user-friendly Linux Mint 10 released originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

TweetDeck v0.36 released, now with real-time Twitter streaming originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Most commercial products run a fairly set course; you get Microsoft Office 1.5, then 1.6, 3.0, 4.0, all the way up to office 2010 (For Windows, at least). It's a fairly orderly progression, with version numbers rising over time - pretty easy to follow.

Open-source projects are a different beast, however. When enough developers don't like the direction a project is going, they sometimes just create a fork and go on developing their own product. Sometimes projects have to fork for legal reasons, and sometimes it's a business decision, too.

The bottom line is that if you could plot the Linux timeline, it would look more like a crazy family tree than like an orderly progression of versions. And what do you know, one Donjan Rodic has gone and done just that, in the form of the GNU/Linux distro timeline.

Since this is an SVG file, it's not just a static image, and is capable of all sorts of aweosme: you can use Ctrl-F to search for a specific distro, and when you click a distro's name, you are transported to its home page.

Of course, since this is such a nerdy project, it wasn't produced entirely by hand. Donjan created an application just for creating the map, and then went ahead and open-sourced it. So... who wants to use it to create a timeline of all Web browsers?

The Linux distro timeline is an extensive family tree of all things Linux originally appeared on Download Squad on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - Unity replaces Gnome as default shell originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Opera 10.63 is out, fixes bug after bug after bug originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

FreetuxTV lets you watch and record hundreds of free-to-air TV channels originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ubuntu One Windows sync app coming, Mobile music streaming to cost $4 per month originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

PenguSpy makes finding great Linux games easy originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The team at Ubuntu decided to make today a fun Friday, releasing Ubuntu 10.10 RC (Maverick Meerkat) for users to play with over the weekend. The full stable release is due to release on October 10th, so if you don't feel like running the outlandish risk of using a beta version, sarcasm intended, then you don't have long to wait for the real deal.

Changes and additions in this version are plenty, including an upgrade to Linux kernel version 2.6.35. For Netbook Edition, the Unity interface is now default, and desktop users get a revamped Ubuntu Software Center. Shotwell seems to have replaced F-Spot as the default photo-management tool on both. Kubuntu comes with global upgrades to version 4.5 (with a promise of 4.5.1 "soon"), and Rekonq as the new default browser. In Xubuntu, Totem's been replaced by Parole as the default media player, Xfburn is the new default burning app, and Gnome-Task-Manager got ditched in favor of Xfce4-Taskmanager.

The list of known issues is pretty decent, so be sure to go through them first to avoid surprises.

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat RC now available, full release coming soon! originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Meego flashed to Nexus One, Dell Streak, HTC Desire originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Direct3D 10 and 11 API now natively supported by Linux via Gallium3D originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

64-bit Linux kernel exploit in the wild, allows local user root escalation originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ubuntu 10.10 beta arrives, packs tons of tweaks originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Renewed hope for Steam on Linux: Valve job boards looking for engineer to port Windows games originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Valve VP: We're not working on Steam for Linux originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Meego in-vehicle infotainment remix now available for download originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

A while back, I installed Linux Mint on an old laptop I had lying around. While the system feels quite slick, it does suffer from some typical Linux woes, one of which is a complete inability to recover from Suspend or Hibernate. In other words, I can only cold boot the system; there's no way to suspend it.

After googling around, I came to the conclusion that this is a fairly tough problem to solve, and I decided to give up. Since security isn't critical for this system, I've configured Gnome to log on automatically for me (through Gnome's Login Screen Settings).

That went a long way towards resolving the problem, since Mint boots quite fast. I can now just turn the laptop on when I want to use it, and it's ready to go within less than a minute; that's not bad.

However, one more niggling problem remained: even after logging on, it kept prompting me to enter my password to the "Gnome keyring" so that it could connect to my Wi-Fi network. This was really annoying; it was almost like having to log on manually (because I still have to enter the password, wait for it to connect, etc.).

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Linux tip: How to unlock the Gnome keyring at login (and get "almost-hibernation") originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.