Tag: EVOLUTION

Linux-powered netbook users that have been missing their doctors' appointments and kids' school plays because operating a calendar application on their tiny portable is, at best, clunky and painful, can finally breathe an accurately-scheduled sigh of relief. Srinivasa Ragavan, who is one of the user interface developers for the open-source Evolution personal information manager project, has ...

Evolution is an Outlook clone for Linux that serves as an email client, calendar application, and a task and contact manager. DIP Consultants has released a version of Evolution that runs on Windows machines. If you don't want to shell out the cash on the latest version of Outlook, Evolution offers many of the same features, plus a few extras. It supports a whole slew of online services ...

Dino Run is an online flash-based time waster with a great classic arcade feel. You play the part of a small dinosaur, and you run. And run. The premise of the game is that you are running from a "pyroclastic wall of doom", while trying to find power-ups like eggs, super eggs, bones, critters, birds, and plants. Each of these things help you in different ways, such as earning you DNA which allows ...

If you've got more hours on your hands today than you know what to do with, Evolution is probably exactly what you need. Unlike some of our other Time Wasters, it plays at a slow place - you won't need to have good aim or mad clicking skills - just some patience and the will to raise bugs. The basic premise is this: you are a bug owner (the insect kind), and you raise bugs for a living. As such, ...

The TSA, that pesky (but very necessary) organization that makes us take off our shoes at the airport, has a new public face in the form of the Evolution of Security blog. By visiting the site and participating in the discussion through comments, the public helps the TSA in improving security measures. It plans to learn from its readers through the blog and will make changes to its policies ...

Evolution is a Personal Information Management program that has been popular in the Linux world for a few years. It looks startlingly like Microsoft Outlook, and in fact is intended as a replacement for Outlook. Evolution's claim to fame is the ability to connect to an Exchange server with most of the same functionality afforded to Outlook clients. And while I'm not sure how I feel about the ...

You know, the desktop hasn't really changed that much since 1984 when the original Macintosh debuted. Windows still work pretty much the same way they always have, and so do desktop icons. Now we have things like the Start menu and the dock, and widgets basically everywhere, but apart from pretty colors, rounded corners, and transparency, the desktop today would probably be pretty recognizable to ...